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EPISODE · Jun 8, 2021 · 9 MIN

Abu Dhabi’s creative pivot away from oil

from FT News Briefing

US officials say they have recovered $2.3m worth of ransom payments made to hackers who shut down the Colonial pipeline last month, investors pile into Biogen after the US Food and Drug Administration approves the company’s Alzheimer’s treatment, and Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador loses his congressional supermajority. Plus, the FT’s Gulf correspondent, Simeon Kerr, explains why Abu Dhabi is shifting away from oil and investing more into arts, media and culture. US says it has recovered majority of Colonial pipeline ransomhttps://www.ft.com/content/43dab2dc-a7aa-4102-9779-d1b6ced2985bAlzheimer’s drug from Biogen wins US approvalhttps://www.ft.com/content/6f48610b-ec86-4deb-a89c-fc0a0f332bb0Mexico’s president loses congressional supermajority in electionshttps://www.ft.com/content/36e737a9-ae48-4ff8-8e6c-88f54344b372Abu Dhabi plans $6bn culture spend to diversify from oilhttps://www.ft.com/content/c0ae0344-280b-40f0-a67f-7edc24033caf?Jeff Bezos to go to space after stepping down at Amazonhttps://www.ft.com/content/defbe912-ceb9-4017-a215-16d214484597 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US officials say they have recovered $2.3m worth of ransom payments made to hackers who shut down the Colonial pipeline last month, investors pile into Biogen after the US Food and Drug Administration approves the company’s Alzheimer’s treatment, and Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador loses his congressional supermajority. Plus, the FT’s Gulf correspondent, Simeon Kerr, explains why Abu Dhabi is shifting away from oil and investing more into arts, media and culture. US says it has recovered majority of Colonial pipeline ransomhttps://www.ft.com/content/43dab2dc-a7aa-4102-9779-d1b6ced2985bAlzheimer’s drug from Biogen wins US approvalhttps://www.ft.com/content/6f48610b-ec86-4deb-a89c-fc0a0f332bb0Mexico’s president loses congressional supermajority in electionshttps://www.ft.com/content/36e737a9-ae48-4ff8-8e6c-88f54344b372Abu Dhabi plans $6bn culture spend to diversify from oilhttps://www.ft.com/content/c0ae0344-280b-40f0-a67f-7edc24033caf?Jeff Bezos to go to space after stepping down at Amazonhttps://www.ft.com/content/defbe912-ceb9-4017-a215-16d214484597 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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