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...Monday Germany: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II on a state visit to Berlin South Africa: five-day Africa Energy Week conference begins in Cape Town, where business executives...
...Job moves Billionaire Charles Koch has named Dave Robertson, the chief operating officer of his Koch Industries, as his co-chief executive....
...Certainly His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani thought so when he bought it in 2007 and tasked celebrated decorator Alberto Pinto to cram it full of precious antiques....
...The contents were sold by Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani and family, who had bought the house in 2007 and oversaw its serious restoration before the hôtel particulier sold on earlier this year...
...The portrait, which shows Diana looking introspective two years after her official separation from Prince Charles, sold from Shanks’ collection earlier this year for $201,600, 10 times its auction estimate...
...The Daily Mail mocked health fears: “Sunny day snowflake Britain had a meltdown,” it thundered on July 19, praising Prince Charles (as he was then) for wearing a jacket and tie....
...The repertoire is American — compositions by Kenny Burrell, Charles Hodges and Duke Pearson — but the sensibility audibly owes as much to Sophiatown as to Harlem....
...Blair, who advises NSO on human rights issues, had alerted Shackleton, previously divorce lawyer for Prince Charles and Sir Paul McCartney, about the phone hacking after receiving a call from a senior NSO...
...She is being represented by a top legal team that includes Fiona Shackleton, who is renowned for her expertise in high-profile family cases, including representing Prince Charles in his 1996 divorce from...
...Sandwiched in between, the festival’s headliner, the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, played a spellbinding solo set. There was continuity, of sorts....
...Now at Payne Hicks Beach law firm, Baroness Shackleton went on to become solicitor to Prince Charles during his 1996 divorce from Diana, Princess of Wales....
...The princess, who is the half sister of Jordan’s King Abdullah, is embroiled in court proceedings with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and prime minister of the UAE, over the welfare...
...Still, Charles Santiago, a Malaysian politician in the ruling coalition, said there would be a lot of public support for the trial no matter who became prime minister....
...Abdullah Al Marzook’s “Untitled (Windows)” (1985) went for £18,000 (£22,500 with fees), and Hussein Madi’s “Untitled” (2012) for £16,000 (£20,000 with fees)....
...Kazem Abdullah ably presides over the City Opera orchestra in a reduced orchestration prepared by Wuorinen for Salzburg. ★★★☆☆ nycopera.com...
...Other attendees included King Abdullah of Jordan, Prince Charles, John Major, the former UK prime minister, former Mexican president Carlos Salinas and Lech Walesa, the former Polish president....
...Both works belonged to King Charles I so were included in the inventory of the Royal Collection, slated for dispersal after the monarch’s execution....
...Commissioned in about 1500 by a French king, it probably came into the English royal collection when Henrietta Maria of France married Charles I in 1625....
...Bullard argues core inflation is a faulty measure compared to the headline rateLegislation to raise the US government debt ceiling without conditions is overwhelmingly defeated on May 31Yemeni President Ali Abdullah...
...A second Isis official, known as Abu Abdullah, who the US said was involved in co-ordinating media activities for the group, was also killed in the same air strike....
...French president François Hollande and Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev met the new king and his entourage on Saturday while David Cameron, the UK prime minister, and Prince Charles, heir to the throne in...
...David Cameron will travel to Saudi Arabia on Saturday to show his respects to the former king, as will Prince Charles. Tony Blair, the former prime minister, said the king was “loved by his people”....
...Mr Obama will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to pay his respects following the death last week of King Abdullah....
...Burton’s boss in India was the ruthless general Sir Charles Napier, who conquered Sindh (now part of Pakistan) for the Empire....
...“Within three days, Abdullah al-Faisal had convinced him to undertake a martyrdom mission,” the inquiry was told....
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