Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, June 2nd, and this is your FT news briefing.

The former head of Apollo Global Management, Leon Black, is being sued for rape and harassment.

And oil prices are up as OPEC continues to gradually release more crude into the market.

We'll look at why Germans have fallen a little out of love with their country's green party,

plus the African nation of Djibouti wants to be the new Singapore.

Djibouti's main asset is its location. This is a choke point where about a third of the world's

maritime trade passes through, so both location and stability.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

A lawsuit is claiming that Leon Black, the former chief of Apollo Global Management,

raped and sexually harassed a Russian model. The complaint was filed yesterday and alleges

Black then manipulated the woman with promises of money and sham job interviews at Goldman Sachs.

The lawsuit comes weeks after Black stepped down as Apollo CEO amid scrutiny of his ties to the late

pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. A spokesperson for Black said his relationship with the Russian woman

was holy consensual and called the lawsuit nothing more than wholesale fiction.

We've been talking about a future where there's less demand for oil. But for now, oil prices are

up on expectations of more demand. Yesterday, Brent crude reached its highest price since the

beginning of the pandemic. This was after OPEC and its allies agreed to stick to a plan of

gradually releasing more barrels into the market. Here's our senior energy correspondent,

Angelie Revall. Markets at the moment are focused on the recovery post COVID, and this is largely

a short term sort of focus that people are having. Angelie posed a long-term question to Saudi

Arabia's oil minister at yesterday's OPEC press conference. She asked him what he thought of

the International Energy Agency's warning about the need to restrict investment in new oil

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