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On today's podcast:

(1) World leaders head to Turkey today for the UN's COP31 climate conference amid growing concern over extreme and erratic weather. This year is on course to become the hottest in modern history and a record-breaking El Niño is amplifying global warming.

(2) Across Europe, governments, industries and citizens are in a second major energy crisis in less than five years, having never fully recovered from the first — 2022’s brutal gas price shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

(3) CoreWeave eased fears about its debt-laden business during a high-stakes quarterly report, indicating that sales growth remains strong despite challenges facing the data center industry.

(4) Andy Burnham’s government won’t accept so-called dynamic alignment of the UK’s financial services rules with those of the European Union, a stance that raises questions about the premier’s wider ambitions for closer ties.

(5) British police have arrested a US Army soldier on suspicion of being involved in a Russian espionage operation in a case that involved both UK and American authorities.

(6) Secretary of State Marco Rubio touted a productive first day of US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine to end their war, now in its fifth year, saying that President Donald Trump’s administration and Europe have the same goals in mind.

(7) A hotter than expected US inflation print has traders around the world ramping up bets on rate hikes. A US Core CPI rose by 0.3% last month, topping estimates.

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