The funds were sent through trade finance, a distinct type of funding meant to speed up cross-border operations.
The World Bank provided around $3.7 billion in trade finance in 2022, according to Urgewald, a campaign organisation that monitors global fossil fuel financing. This money was likely used to support oil and gas development.
The study’s author, Heike Mainhardt, urged for changes to the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), its private finance subsidiary, in order to increase the transparency of such transactions and bar money for fossil fuels from its loans. They are unable to claim to support the Paris Agreement because there is little openness, she said.
The US district judge Tanya Chutkan is the target of a recusal motion that faces significant legal obstacles. In order to prevail, Trump must demonstrate that a “reasonable person” would draw the conclusion that Chutkan was unable to rule impartially based only on her words, rather than any of her actual judgements.
According to two people with knowledge of the discussions, Trump has long claimed that the judge assigned to the case is biassed against him due to her prior remarks about him in other January 6 riot defendant cases. His legal team debated whether to file the request for weeks.
The nine-page motion cited two instances in which Chutkan expressed her opinion regarding Trump’s role in planning the attack on the Capitol, which Trump’s attorneys claimed suggested potential bias or prejudice towards the former president.
According to an unknown Russian official source, the train landed at Khasan station, which serves as North Korea’s primary rail connection to Russia’s Far East, on Tuesday.
Kim may meet Putin on Wednesday in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, where Putin has already arrived, reportedly accompanied by senior military and arms industry personnel.
According to the Kremlin spokeswoman, Kim’s travel to Russia and meeting with Putin will be a comprehensive effort to bolster relations. Dmitry Peskov stated that following the negotiations between the two delegations, “the leaders will continue their communication in a one-on-one format, if necessary.”