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...Ali Zaidi, Biden’s national climate adviser....
...The character’s original rival, Apollo Creed — Adonis’s father — was a flashy proxy for Muhammad Ali....
...“If there’s a Trump school of thought, then everything would be terminated; plan A, plan B, the JCPOA, [everything] but coercion or war,” Mousavian says....
...Among the happy throng at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium was George Weah, father of Timothy....
...Renaissance adds dance music to her usual palette of R&B, soul, pop and hip-hop. It is the first of a trilogy recorded during the pandemic....
...There is no plan B. You can feel there is something febrile. We are expecting something to spark and it will be economically driven.”...
...Ali said Guyana’s oil production could exceed 1mn b/d in three years, increasing revenue for the government of almost $4bn this year to $10bn a year from 2025....
...“What Saudi Arabia promised was to do its best to stop oil from going to $200 and it did that by increasing production in the summer,” said Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator close to the royal court....
...Iran has the ability to break out, have capacity to produce enough fissile material for a weapon, undetected,” said Ali Vaez, Iran analyst at Crisis Group, a think-tank....
...As one senior EU official said, “there is no plan B” for the energy crisis that Europe faces. Case in point, Gazprom’s announcement yesterday that it would again cut supplies to Germany....
...Ali Salajegheh, head of Iran’s Department of Environment, told the BBC that Iran would ratify the Paris Agreement if all sanctions were lifted....
...“You need a plan A, plan B, and plan C to be agile,” Quy said. “It honestly feels like these two weeks have been a year.”...
...It can take up to 10,000 years for a raised bog to grow, according to Ali Morse, water policy manager at the UK’s Wildlife Trusts....
...Victoria Miro has a new painting by the Iran-born Ali Banisadr, “The Changing Past” (2021), that charts how, throughout history, cultures have toppled to accommodate new beliefs....
...Israel is pushing for an aggressive “Plan B”.Raisi said on state TV on Monday night that his government was “serious” about chasing nuclear negotiations....
...Ali Vaez, analyst at the Crisis Group think-tank, says the west’s options range from “unattractive to outright ugly”....
...All this is happening at a sensitive time for the regime’s leadership as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 82-year-old supreme leader, hopes to lay the foundations for an orderly succession upon his eventual death...
...She’s currently starring alongside J Lo, Megan Thee Stallion, Michael B Jordan and Paris Hilton in Coach’s Holiday Is Where You Find It campaign, and was shot for us in pieces from the pre-spring collections...
...It now expects consumption to rise by 5.7m b/d in 2021 to 96.7m b/d. That came a day after Opec boosted its own consumption outlook by 190,000 b/d, predicting growth just shy of 6m b/d this year....
...B globus.ch The Highlanders Bakehouse, Crathie, Scotland “The best butteries – aka ‘roadkill croissants’.”...
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has refused vaccines from the US or UK, voicing suspicions about western drugs being trialled on Iranian citizens....
...Pets at Home has joined B&M, Aldi and Asda in the rush among retailers to repay business rates relief granted by the UK government during the pandemic....
...The limited-edition prints – all 22cm x 30cm and $85 – range from Sam Taylor-Johnson’s theatrical Bram Stoker’s Chair to Walter Iooss’ image of Muhammad Ali in the ring with Ernie Terrell....
...Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039: Kallirroi Kapetanaki, Luxembourg Crossword 16,266: Wilbur Heenan, Ireland; Dr Mike Ewart, East Lothan; Ali...
...Kuwaiti minister Khaled Ali Al-Fadhel indicated a provisional deal had been reached, however, without giving details....
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