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...Chief executive Ana Cabral Gardner is a regular at high-profile international conferences attended by the corporate world’s great and good....
...Hundreds came to the opening, including Robert Redford, Ava Gardner and Charlie Chaplin; Chaplin enjoyed the food, which included dishes such as soufflé Suissesse and poached duck, so much that he returned...
...Here’s the rest of today’s news — Gordon More news on Ukraine Military briefing: The Donbas is where the Russian invasion of Ukraine began eight years ago and it could prove decisive in how it ends as...
...There is a sense that things might finally be shifting in Israel, writes international affairs editor David Gardner....
...Far-right groups in Israel are endangering the country’s security, writes David Gardner....
...Lebanon is held hostage by its politicians Lebanon could sink like the Titanic with no survivors, unless its feuding politicians form a government able to deal with its collision of crises, warns David Gardner...
...(FT) Erdogan’s tantrum is a sign of weakness Cocooned by courtiers after pushing aside independent aides, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has almost lost the ability to set coherent policy, writes David Gardner....
...The US’s weak response to the report’s findings will embolden Iran and may also push the Gulf Arabs, including Saudi Arabia, into a military alliance with Israel against Tehran, argues David Gardner....
...The Jordanian intrigue points to outside meddling, says David Gardner....
...(FT) Europe’s other major headache: Turkey The European Council has big problems to deal with this week, such as Brexit and the EU budget, writes David Gardner....
...(FT) Biden’s Middle East test Joe Biden is likely to rethink much of his predecessor’s Middle East policy, writes David Gardner, and his plan to re-enter the Iran deal will strain relations with Israel’...
...David Gardner reviews two new books on the vision and reality of the Saudi crown prince’s rise....
...Following the devastating explosion in Beirut, David Gardner examines Lebanon’s multiple crises. (FT)...
...The tragedy might seem a prelude to a new start, writes David Gardner. A pity it won’t happen in Lebanon....
...David Gardner writes that it took 15 years to rebuild Beirut after the sectarian carnage of 1975-90 — and barely 15 seconds to lay it to waste....
...culture wars Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decree that the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine cathedral-turned-mosque-turned-museum will once again be a mosque is about more than religious chauvinism, David Gardner...
...The west’s halfhearted interventions have made a bad situation worse, David Gardner writes....
...(FT) MBS strikes again Saudi Arabia’s rash but ruthless heir looks out of his depth, writes David Gardner, launching another palace coup at home and an oil price war with global consequences....
...But it is always unwise to count Mr Netanyahu out, David Gardner writes....
...David Gardner writes that a war of attrition in north-west Syria is spiralling out of control....
...ProPublica) Trump’s Israel-Palestine non-deal Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, which met a muted response from fatigued Arab states, is a real-estate deal no Palestinian authority could accept, David Gardner...
...But it is too early to write-off the Likud leader, who faces a fight for his political life, says David Gardner....
...The standoff between the US and Iran is beginning to resemble nuclear roulette, writes David Gardner....
...The loss marks a tectonic shift in Turkish politics, writes David Gardner. The lira rose on Monday....
...David Gardner, our international affairs editor, says the bellicose tone coming from the White House towards the Iranian regime probably increases the risk of war, While our deputy editor and former Middle...
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