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Good morning from the Financial Times.
Today is Tuesday, July 28th, and this is your FT News Briefing.
A French energy company is benefiting from a U-turn on Russia sanctions,
and Aries Management wants to compete with private equity giants.
Plus, big institutional investors are scooping up homes in the UK.
I'm Sonia Hudson, in for Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.
The French company Total Energies is going to be able to keep selling gas to Asia that comes from its Russian plant.
That's because the EU last week agreed to allow European companies
to keep shipping Russian liquefied natural gas to countries outside the bloc.
Greece had demanded the carve out in exchange for an unrelated group of sanctions against Moscow.
Greece has a large shipping industry.
And now three people familiar with the matter said they expect Total Energies to benefit from the decision, too.