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...The results for the first time show the financial scale of what has been described by Washington as a “transnational criminal organisation”....
...Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, visited Columbia on Wednesday afternoon to meet Jewish students....
...Palmer Hayden, another southerner by birth, made his way to Greenwich Village via Washington, the circus, the army and the Philippines, before decamping for a five-year stint in Paris....
...(Washington Post)...
...Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic Books) A detailed and damning account of Boris Johnson’s rise to power and period as prime minister....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Washington intended to conclude a crucial part of its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework trade pillar at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this week....
...The US’s Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq was targeted by rockets earlier this week as well as the Al Tanf garrison in Syria....
...The contract was first reported by the Washington Post....
...RedBird IMI is 75 per cent owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s International Media Investments despite being run by Zucker....
...US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington was pressing Israel “to make sure to distinguish between Hamas and the Palestinian people”....
...Columnist Edward Luce praises US president Joe Biden for soothing tensions between Washington and Beijing....
...Someone hoping not to be yesterday’s man, and in with a decent chance of fulfilling this wish is Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi....
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...As out of favour as the Washington consensus has become, not least in Washington, it is at least an identifiable programme. What is the Brics or global south alternative?...
...Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of the PIF, will be chair and the fund will retain right of first refusal for any future capital investments in the company....
...The two senators have invited tour commissioner Jay Monahan, PIF governor Yasir al-Rumayyan and LIV chief executive Greg Norman to testify on Capitol Hill next month....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting are due at 2pm ET/7pm London time today and should reveal the reasoning behind the further quarter-point rise earlier this month....
...But it also comes against an increasingly grim geopolitical backdrop, with tensions rising between Beijing and Washington particularly around technology....
...His account of the Washington mindset 20 years ago bears a disturbing similarity to the Johnson administration’s assumptions about Vietnam in late 1964-early 1965....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...Letters in response to this article: Future of human-machine collaboration looks bright / From Pikria Saliashvili, Washington, DC, US Does N Ireland protocol have a ChatGPT solution?...
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