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...“When Mr Genta unveiled the original at the 1984 Montres et Bijoux exhibition in Basel, the organisers asked him to leave because it was not considered a serious enough watch for the show,” says Jean Arnault...
...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...The United Kingdom has another rain bomb alert just today. We saw a third of Pakistan under water....
...Sultan al-Jaber, the president of this year’s COP28 in Dubai....
...Hello from Dubai’s sun-baked Expo City, where the United Arab Emirates’ leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has just announced that his nation will put $30bn into a new fund that will invest in “global...
...UN climate body chief Simon Stiell said the Dubai “outcome is the beginning of the end” for the fossil fuel industry....
...The perception of higher masculinity as indicated by a high [dominance] score violates the female stereotype, which Oh et al. [2019, 2020] suggest dominant-looking female analysts are perceived as less likable...
...The Saudi proposal quickly garnered messages of support, including from the football federations of Gulf neighbours Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as from Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa...
...“Failure to abide by the terms of this arrangement will lead the United States to reverse steps we have taken,” said US secretary of state Antony Blinken. Read the full story here....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Eurostar narrowly dodged bankruptcy in 2021 after being bailed out by shareholders including French state railway SNCF, Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Hermes...
...All this had implications of course for an increasingly multiracial United Kingdom....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...What followed was mulhoe, a Korean ceviche that could rival the best from South America: sweet, sour and fresh, hints of lime, with raw sea bream from Japan, served so cold that it was flaked with ice....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...With offices in Dubai, London, New York and across Asia, Africa and Latin America, the company raised billions of dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US administration of Barack Obama,...
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...“[We] invested some money in China because we could get more value in terms of the strength of the enterprise on the price of security than we could get in the United States,” Munger said at the Daily Journal...
...In cinema at least, it is a symbol of good times and uncertain motives — the place a story gets to at the edge of America....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Proprietor Simon Kim of Cote told me that the meal boxes “have blown up” and the product will be part of the business after Covid has passed....
...Read Simon Kuper’s “Person in the News” profile of Pep Guardiola here....
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