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...He has become a close adviser to Saudi Arabia, including on the initial public offering of its state oil company Saudi Aramco....
...After several hours in the blistering heat and sandy winds of the Kuwaiti desert, I and my companions could hardly believe that we had reached the frontier and escaped our uncertain fate in Iraqi-occupied...
...its purchase of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis, helped to broker the deal between mining groups Glencore and Xstrata, worked on the huge Dow-Dupont merger and has built close ties in Saudi Arabia...
...They have powered entire empires, cross-fertilising the cultures of China, India and Arabia along the east coast of Africa since ancient times....
...On Tuesday, an international team announced that they had identified a potential new antibiotic lurking in the sandy soil of North Carolina....
...BNP Paribas has hired former Société Générale banker Jalal Al Marhoon as a managing director in Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg reports....
...Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1bn over Sandy Hook claims A Connecticut jury has ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1bn in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims as a result of his claims that the...
...Between clusters of glittering skyscrapers, congested highways and older, sandy-coloured residential areas, it was hard to know where the building stopped and the desert began....
...The first two are on the south coast: Ahu Bay stands on Ahungalla Point between two sandy coves from which it’s safe to swim (not a given in Sri Lanka) and has four ocean-facing suites and three three-bedroom...
...In summer, we would hop along the sandy verges because the sticky tarmac would get so hot it would start to scald your soles....
...We walk from a sandy beach into the water. We step in. It is not warm. But it is good....
...His often delicate buildings (such as Saudi Arabia’s Dhahran Airport, now King Abdulaziz Air Base) frequently employed decoration (even the WTC had its ogee arches) and he attempted to humanise the scale...
...You go to this go to the Central Valley, and they're flat, sandy fields. It's been laser-levelled with heavy equipment. The reality is we live in an unnatural world....
...For Dimon, who has sat at the helm of the lender since 2005, the dealmaking marks a return to his roots on Wall Street, where he served as chief lieutenant to Sandy Weill during a series of acquisitions...
...And a thousand years before Timbuktu even existed Socotra was trading incense and medicinal plants with the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Arabia and the Mediterranean....
...Oil producing nations' persistently lower prices will put pressure on government finances, while some economies, such as Saudi Arabia, have large foreign currency reserves to lean on, others, such as Venezuela...
...A 12-second video clip of the end of Whitcher’s burial, filmed by Kareen’s nephew, who also works at Jizan, shows a sandy site covered in track marks....
...Somewhere east of Mirbat, where the barren shoreline is punctuated by remote, sandy inlets, Sean’s team had made good headway in setting up camp before our arrival....
...BlackRock has hired Sandy Boss, a former McKinsey senior partner and member of the Prudential Risk Committee at the Bank of England, as global head of investment stewardship. More here....
...Over a picture of a sandy desert island, surrounded by turquoise sea, was the strapline “This is not the Maldives”....
...“The results may have been in line with expectations, but little else was,” said Sandy Morris, aerospace analyst at Jefferies....
...Is corporate governance in Saudi Arabia that much better than in Russia?...
...The group’s support business in Saudi Arabia is worth about £2.5bn a year....
...A blown-up model of a desert rose, made of sandy-coloured gypsum discs the size of flying saucers rather than pennies, it is as literal as it could possibly be....
...Sandy Morris, analyst at Jefferies, said the update “essentially shows BAE is ploughing its way through a year of transition, likely into a year where momentum builds in some measures”....
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