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...Ahmed Soliman, an expert on Sudan at the UK’s Chatham House think-tank, said “middle powers” had filled the void left by western countries....
...The memorandum of understanding signed by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has sparked tensions in the volatile but strategically important Horn of Africa region...
...Asad Rehman, director of War on Want, said UN security staff had been confiscating Palestinian headdresses and badges calling for a ceasefire from some attendees....
...Coll’s book finishes on the oft-told but no less exasperating account of George W Bush’s willing blindness to the fabrications of Ahmed Chalabi and other dubious Iraqi sources, who played to the administration...
...In India, for example, thousands of local stores have generated their own versions of ads featuring Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan urging people to shop locally in a campaign for Cadbury by WPP....
...Ahmed links the court challenge to the 2019 court ruling allowing the Ayodhya temple to be built....
...The example of Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, who encouraged the US to invade in 2003, has also made the west wary of exiled leaders....
...Among those arrested on Wednesday were former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Asad Umar, the ex-finance minister. “On Thursday we will expand our drive to other cities....
...Jay Shah, honorary secretary of the BCCI, said in a statement that both boards would “work towards finding a window to reschedule this Test match”....
...The country has been mesmerised by last month’s jailing of Aryan Khan, the 23-year-old son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has served as a brand ambassador for the opposition-ruled state of West...
...But Nafisa Shah, a parliamentarian from the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, says Khan’s “poor handling of the economy and flip-flopping on the IMF have made him very unpopular”....
...Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister who rose to international prominence by launching oil embargoes on the west and was later kidnapped by Carlos the Jackal, has died in London aged 90....
...A group of more than a dozen high-profile investors including Microsoft chief Satya Nadella and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is backing a fledgling US Twenty20 cricket tournament in an attempt to take...
...Meanwhile Samira Ahmed (FT Life & Arts, June 13) flirts with a Persian nostalgia for Nader Shah, whose career of destruction included the cold-blooded massacre of 20,000 or more citizens of Delhi in three...
...Like Nelson to an English schoolboy, Nader Shah had been his own boyhood hero....
...The acrimonious relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia spilled into the open last week when Islamabad’s foreign affairs minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi issued an ultimatum to the OIC to call a ministerial...
...and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, at the organisation’s headquarters....
...The list includes Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of India’s Paytm and Texan property tycoon Ross Perot Jr....
...“The Fed has weakened the financial doom loop that we saw last week,” said Salman Ahmed, chief investment strategist at Lombard Odier Investment Managers....
...Indeed, many Bollywood stars are IPL investors, from Shah Rukh Khan at the Kolkata Knight Riders to Preity Zinta at Kings XI Punjab....
...“We are afraid,” said Saif Ahmed, a 28-year-old financial consultant and a Muslim. “We don’t want to live in a country where we aren’t equals.”...
...His expected visit, the exact date of which has yet to be confirmed, comes as Pakistan’s finance minister, Asad Umar, said his country had “come very close to having an agreement with the IMF” following...
...“These guys promised a lot, but of course they weren’t able to deliver,” said Saad Bin Ahmed, equity head at Arif Habib Limited, a brokerage firm....
...Mr Ahmed claimed the sheikh had agreed a deal whereby the Egyptian would set up meetings with Bollywood stars such as Shah Rukh Khan at a cost of $1.5m per meeting together with a $500,000 bonus for every...
...The sheikh met four Bollywood stars including Shah Rukh Khan at the St Regis hotel in Mumbai in January 2016....
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