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...In 2018 the US government sanctioned Evro Polis, a Prigozhin-controlled company that was awarded energy concessions by the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in return for Wagner mercenaries liberating oilfields...
...Wagner fighters were dispatched to Syria to fight on behalf of Bashar al-Assad, whose regime Putin had vowed to defend from a bloody civil war....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...He gently criticises Carter for being too focused on details and Obama for not responding with cruise missiles to Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria....
...The UAE’s invitation to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has further sparked discontent in western capitals opposed to his diplomatic rehabilitation....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...It also upset Washington by hosting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last week, the first Arab state to do so since he launched a brutal war to crush the 2011 popular uprising....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...President Putin joins a very small group that includes despots such as Kim Jong Un, Alexander Lukashenko, and Bashar al-Assad,” the Treasury said, referring to the leaders of North Korea, Belarus and Syria...
...Putin kept a full public schedule on Monday, including a visit to military exercises with Belarus, a meeting with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and a meet-and-greet with Russia’s Paralympics team in the...
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...He was sanctioned by the US in 2015 and barred from entering the country for his financial support of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria....
...Trump et al v....
...Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and first lady Asmaa have tested positive for coronavirus....
...The Syria operation was launched after it became clear that the Obama administration would not intervene to topple Bashar al-Assad....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
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