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MOSCOW – The brother of a prominent Russian opposition activist has been transferred from jail to prison. Alexei Navalny’s brother, Oleg, was convicted in December of defrauding a French cosmetics company and handed a 3 ½ year-sentence. Oleg Navalny’s lawyer Kirill Polozov said Wednesday he was transferred from a Moscow …

STOCKHOLM – The European Union has formally submitted its planned contribution to a U.N. climate pact, pledging to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030. The cuts are relative to 1990 levels. The EU’s emissions since then are already down by almost 20 percent. The …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Orascom Construction, the global engineering and construction business, has begun trading on the Dubai stock exchange this week and will be dual listed on Egyptian stock exchange Wednesday. Under the symbol “OC,” the company, which recently demerged from OCI N.V.’s fertilizer and chemical business, has …