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JPMorgan Chase, the world’s biggest investor in fossil fuels, may have misled investors and the public by backtracking on its already weak climate and environmental commitments, six US senators have warned in a letter to the CEO Jamie Dimon.Although a climate-disrupted world demands stronger action by the financial sector to reduce emissions and protect nature, the Wall Street firm is heading in the opposite direction, say the upper chamber legislators, who include Senate banking committee member Elizabeth Warren.They have demanded clarification about the intentions of the world’s biggest bank. Senator Warren said: “If JPMorgan Chase has misled investors and the…

Visma Lease-abike’s Jonas Vingegaard started his fightback against UAE rider Tadej Pogacar on the toughest stage of the 2024 Tour de France so far, narrowly beating the leader to take the stage win.The Le Lioran stage is considered by many to be the most testing stage of the Tour de France and in a thrilling finale, Pogacar, Vingegaard, Puri The big four of Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel battle it out on some of the steepest and most rugged roads in the Central Plateau.The four Grand Tour champions lived up to their expectations in the pre-race stages, with Pogacar betting…

If you thought £1.35 for a first-class stamp was pushing the envelope, then brace yourself: a postage stamp described as the most valuable in the UK has been put up for sale for £650,000.The Penny Red is coveted by collectors as an extremely rare example of an imprint that should not exist.The Penny Black was the world’s first postage stamp, launched in the UK in 1840. The Penny Red replaced it in 1841 and was issued until 1879.Billions of the stamps were printed in sheets of 240, and philatelists are unlikely to get into a flutter about most of them,…

This is Dortmund!Euro 2024 changed dramatically in the semi-finals in Munich. The Spanish team played well and defeated the French team. Although they did not play badly, they were worse than their opponents. It was a kick against the orthodoxy that had guided Gareth Southgate’s dysfunctional England side to the semi-finals. From the moment they stopped after 30 minutes against Serbia, this should be a tournament where you don’t need to perform well to advance. England spent most of their time playing heavy mandrakes like a pick-up band, and it’s fair to say that this England side didn’t quite play…

Concerns about Joe Biden’s fitness for re-election on the left may have been muted over the last year. But they were not absent.“There’s a lot of people, especially on the left, that have been talking about this,” said Alex Johnson, an IT worker in Atlanta.Democrats in the center of the party would chastise critics on the left as ageist or radical when bringing up the president’s age before the disastrous debate, he said. “They’re telling everybody that they were crazy. And then one thing happened, and all of a sudden, all of the people who have been calling progressives crazy,…

timeThe stop-start story of Afghanistan’s women’s cricket team has been on the ICC’s to-do tray since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021. At the top, governing bodies rely primarily on procedures to explain their lazy movements.A brief history: The Taliban’s violent takeover immediately wiped out the development of the nascent women’s team – the players were only awarded contracts in November 2020 and have yet to play an official game. Players and their families faced immediate intimidation – many went home to burn and hide their gear to avoid detection. They fled across the border to Pakistan, and…

A man has been caught trying to smuggle more than 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country’s customs authority.The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of semi-autonomous Hong Kong and into the border city of Shenzhen, China Customs said in a statement on Tuesday.“Upon inspection, customs officers discovered that the pockets of the trousers the passenger was wearing were packed with six canvas drawstring bags and sealed with tape,” the statement said.“Once opened, each bag was found to contain living snakes in all kinds…

Seven-time champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the semifinals at Wimbledon on Wednesday after his scheduled opponent, Australia’s Alex De Minaur, withdrew with a hip injury.De Minaur, the ninth seed, was injured at the end of Monday’s win over Frenchman Arthur Fels. At the time, he thought he was fit to play, but he lasted less than 10 minutes of practice Wednesday morning and said the risk of further injury was too high.”I’m very sad,” he said. “I had to pull out because of a hip injury, a little tear in the end or the fibrocartilage that connects to the adductor…

Detectives believe a triple-murder suspect may have gone on the run armed with a crossbow, after the bodies of three women were found in Bushey in Hertfordshire.Police have launched a search for Kyle Clifford, 26, and warned he may have a weapon.Hertfordshire police say they were called to a home in Ashlyn Close in Bushey just before 7pm on Tuesday and discovered three women who had suffered serious injuries.The women are believed to be related and all three died at the scene.Police named Clifford in connection with the deaths and said they believed he was from Enfield, north London, about…

They may be more accustomed to Rachmaninov and Brahms, but on Wednesday night the London Symphony Orchestra musicians will demonstrate their perfect crescendo in Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain.”The band played American hip-hop trio Cypress Hill’s critically acclaimed Black Sunday album at the Royal Albert Hall, finally turning the 1996 Simpsons joke into reality.A joke from The Simpsons episode will be repeated tonight, with Cypress Hill speculating that they mistakenly booked the London Symphony Orchestra “probably while drunk”.After years of fan pressure, the orchestra has struck a deal for a one-night London performance in which the London Symphony Orchestra…