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...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 kingdom shares a border with the Jewish state and is the custodian of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which necessitates regular co-operation with Israeli authorities....
...Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign trade, says that it is pursuing “government to government” engagement on minerals and that there is “a lot of focus on the African continent...
...Six billion dollars that was about to be released by the United States in return for a prisoner exchange was blocked. There was a hint of irritation at Hamas in public comments by Iranian leaders....
...“The reason is they all follow one leader, Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei.”...
...“It’s not even in the realm of possibility right now,” he said. “There is no break glass plan. We’re staying in the United States.”...
...boom in North America....
...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...
...“The idea that Saudi Arabia would do this to harm the US or to be in any way politically involved is absolutely not correct at all,” Adel al-Jubeir, minister of state for foreign affairs and a former ambassador...
...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....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator familiar with the leadership’s thinking, said Saudi Arabia was interested in a good relationship with America “but it wants to be treated with respect”....
...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....
...The United Arab Emirates had taken a temporary seat on the council this year and US secretary of state Antony Blinken called his Emirati counterpart, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, to reiterate the...
...As the first senior United Arab Emirates official to visit the Biden administration touched down in Washington, the message the Gulf state sought to promote was “the strength and continuity” of the partnership...
...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...
...He’s introduced a bill that would extend the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act to mixed martial arts....
...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....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Flanked by former vice-president Al Gore, New York governor Andrew Cuomo last year signed what he called “the most aggressive climate law in the United States of America”....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...Ali Sharif al-Emadi, the country’s finance minister, said the $320bn Qatar Investment Authority’s “main focus” would be on its international investments as it used the market volatility and plunging asset...
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