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...“Basically, what we’re hearing from Biden is very much in line with what we’re seeing across the world,” said Paasha Mahdavi, a professor at University of California Santa Barbara....
...Comprising four historic townhouses on Valletta’s St Barbara Bastion, it’s a five-minute walk from St John’s Co-Cathedral, famed for its Caravaggios....
...The S&P/ASX 200 Energy index was up 0.7 per cent, with Beach Energy increasing 3.3 per cent, Woodside Petroleum up 1.3 per cent and Santos 1.0 per cent higher....
...“This is a way of signalling that they are prepared to hedge their bets with the freer trade option, should Mercosur falter,” explains Barbara Kotschwar of the Peterson Institute for International Economics...
...“We are an economic not a political initiative,” says Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president....
...“Last year was very tough and at the beginning of this year we were expecting more robust demand and better prices . . . but so far I don’t see anything to support a major recovery,” says Barbara Mattos...
...“Our growth has to be increasingly dependent on improving productivity,” added Mr Santos, a former foreign trade minister....
...The New York-listed suitor, which was founded in 1897 and is one of the biggest commercial insurers in the US, plans to allow Barbara Merry, Hardy’s chief executive, to carry on leading the London business...
...Both passionate food lovers, they also exchange food and wine: freshly picked porcini for a bottle of vin santo; barbequed meat for moist chocolate cake. “Of course, it’s mutual,” Kiros adds....
...Santo Loquasto’s casual all-white costumes look contemporary and if Barbara Bilach couldn’t quite match the keyboard pyrotechnics of “The Lion”, as transcribed by Dick Hyman, she was not far off....
...Heading further south, near the Lazio boarder, is Saturnia, the oldest Etruscan site in the region and “a real jewel of the Maremma countryside”, says Barbara Mazzieri at Montemerano Immobiliare....
...The production – staged by Elijah Moshinsky in 2001 and designed by Santo Loquasto – framed the concert-in-costume innocently....
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