Hints and tips:
An HTSI series celebrating creatives who strike a chord
...The issue brings together some of music’s most dazzling proponents, among them the blisteringly brilliant Irish band Lankum, jazz prodigy Samara Joy and the Nigerian sensation Burna Boy....
...Peter Dutton, leader of the main centre-right opposition party in Australia, called for a boycott of the retailer....
...Its Togliatti plant, one of the world’s biggest car factories, is so large that it used to operate its own hospital and remains a key source of employment in the surrounding Samara province....
...Samara Cohen, co-head of iShares markets and investments at BlackRock, says that recent discounts in bond ETFs do not reflect a problem with the ETF structure itself....
...Mahfouz is joined onstage by singer Laura Hanna, who delivers some sections as ballads, and by musician Kareem Samara, who provides an atmospheric live score....
...Was Picnic At Hanging Rock really begging to be remade, when Peter Weir’s dreamy, suffocating film version of Joan Lindsay’s Australian classic could scarcely be bettered?...
...The batteries will German, however, and as Peter Campbell reports, the UK has some catching up to do on electric motors....
...Earlier last year, Greece’s Antonis Samaras suffered a similar fate at the hands of leftist Alexis Tsipras....
...Almost every country under siege was there, too, including Portugal (Pedro Passos Coelho), Ireland (Enda Kenny), Cyprus (Nicos Anastasiades) and of course Greece (Antonis Samaras)....
...Antonis Samaras, Mr Tsipras’s immediate predecessor, descends from a family so prominent that the street running into the entrance of his Athens prep school was named for his maternal grandfather....
...Mr Mitsotakis has backed many of the free-market reforms urged by EU bailout monitors, and has a strong record fighting corruption as a minister under Mr Tspiras’ predecessor, Antonis Samaras....
...That heavy-handed move ultimately cost Mr Samaras the trust of the country’s creditors....
...For sure, Samaras was more cooperative when it came to the substance of this cooperation on assistance and reforms....
...At that time, then-prime minister Antonis Samaras reversed course and agreed to abide by a new €172bn bailout....
...Yannis Stournaras, the central bank governor, served as finance minister under Mr Tsipras’ predecessor, Antonis Samaras, and is known to have fallen out with the current finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis...
...“I asked [the other leaders]: do you expect me to . . . go through this evaluation and implement measures that Mr Samaras was not able to implement? The answer was no.”...
...The ECB argues that Mr Samaras was committed to a bailout rescue aimed at turning round Greece’s finances, while Mr Tsipras has openly repudiated his rescue programme....
...When Antonis Samaras, the previous prime minister, closed ERT in a deeply unpopular move, he called it a “haven of wasteful spending.”...
...There were indications Mr Samaras’ efforts were bearing fruit....
...Mr Samaras must find 180 votes in parliament to elect a new president but his governing coalition has only 155 MPs....
...The plan, which will be discussed at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Thursday, would allow Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, to declare an end to the quarterly reviews by the...
...The trigger for the plunge was prime minister Antonis Samaras’ announcement of a snap presidential election....
...“Further volatility cannot be ruled out given the event risk over December,” said Peter Goves, an analyst at Citi....
International Edition