Morning Brief, Friday, February 2
MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP Global Warming We did it (global warming, that is). Some people think the new climate change report is too upbeat. Paris turned out the lights on the Eiffel Tour in recognition of the danger of global warming. As you can see, it made a huge dent in Paris’s energy use. Iraq and Middle ...
MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP
Global Warming
We did it (global warming, that is). Some people think the new climate change report is too upbeat. Paris turned out the lights on the Eiffel Tour in recognition of the danger of global warming. As you can see, it made a huge dent in Paris’s energy use.
Iraq and Middle East
The exodus from Lebanon has begun.
Outgoing National Intelligence Director John Negroponte presented the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to President Bush yesterday. It’s grim.
Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering the creation of a “gas OPEC.”
Going to Siberia? Don’t eat the orange snow.
Everybody knows that there’s a place called “Kosovo.” But do they know it’s going to be an independent state soon?
Whether Ségolène Royal or Nicolas Sarkozy wins the presidency, one loser is already clear: the French establishment.
Elsewhere
2006 was a good year for ExxonMobil, actually the most profitable year ever for any U.S. company. But Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants to take away some of the energy giant’s oil fields.
Quality may be “Job 1” at Ford, but the automaker is now No. 4 in the United States.
The president of Gambia says he can cure AIDS in only three days.
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