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The famed Michelin Guide has degraded the three-star Restaurant Guy Savoy at Hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris to two stars, as reported in the latest edition of the worldwide food guide published on February 27. Gwendal Poullennec, the director of the guide, told Agence France-Presse that such “difficult” judgments are thoroughly evaluated through many inspection visits per year. “For …

In A Coruna, Spain, two conflicting fashion business models meet, pitting the rising need for the garment sector to become more environmentally friendly against the ongoing need to promote sales. This gloomy, windy, Atlantic coast city is the odd home of Inditex, the world’s largest fast fashion store and owner of Zara. It also features tiny stores selling high-quality, long-lasting …

In the same week that she surpassed Kylie Jenner to become Instagram’s most followed user, Selena Gomez has once again decided it’s best for her mental health to remain away from social media. The pop sensation declared during her Thursday TikTok Live, “I’m going to take a break from social media because this is a bit ridiculous. I am 30 …

Friday, February 24, the World Bank announced an additional $2.5 billion in grant funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist Ukraine’s budget and sustain key services. The latest financing under the World Bank’s Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance in Ukraine (PEACE) project brings the total to $20,6 billion and will support salaries in core …

Many environmentalists laughed when the United Nations announced that the United Arab Emirates would host its 2023 climate summit, known as COP. A climate summit in an oil state? The laughter grew louder when the UAE announced that Sultan Al Jaber, the chairman of its national oil firm, would become president. Al Jaber is precisely the type of ally the …

US President Joe Biden chose former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to run the World Bank, with the expectation that the India-born executive’s ties to the private sector and emerging economies can accelerate the 77-year-old institution’s makeover to better handle climate change. Banga, now 63 years old and a citizen of the United States, was nominated by Vice President Joe Biden …

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Coca-Cola trucks cross the border into Russia, holidaymakers return home with the latest Zara designs, and local internet marketplaces snap up IKEA’s furniture stockpiles. Although Western brands have departed the nation, their products remain. Despite European, North American, and Japanese corporations leaving Russia as a result of its actions in Ukraine, the impact on Russian consumers is limited, despite longer …

The corpse of Ghana winger Christian Atsu was returned to Accra on Sunday evening (Monday, February 20, Manila time), a day after he was discovered dead beneath a collapsed building in southern Turkey. Atsu has been missing since the earthquake on February 6 that caused the collapse of a Hatay apartment building. He was 31. Atsu’s casket, draped in the …

Russia announced on February 21 that three astronauts stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) due to a leak in their return capsule will return to Earth in September on a Soyuz MS-23 replacement spacecraft. Two months ago, the cooling system of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin as well as American astronaut Francisco …