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...The emirate has shown a desire to increase its presence in financial services in recent years as the capital of the United Arab Emirates ramps up its plans to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons...
...Western states do not typically engage with the eastern administration, as the UN-backed government in Tripoli is internationally recognised. “The state is very weak,” Ramadan said....
...The “global stocktake” text was no mean feat given that summit host United Arab Emirates is one of the biggest oil and gas-producing nations — COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber’s description of the deal as...
...On Saturday, New Zealand will hold its general election. Results: BlackRock, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Financial Services, UnitedHealth and Wells Fargo all report today....
...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...A clause in the amendment states that “the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorised by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection...
...In Sudan, another unstable country, Moscow has cultivated close ties with Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemeti, the number two in the administration that emerged from a 2019 coup...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...In the United States....
...And if they want to be re-elected, then they can’t follow the ultras or the “Taliban 20”, as they’re called in the United States, over the cliff....
...This week’s edition is about the mid-term elections in the United States....
...Liz Truss jetted off to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. One of her first meetings there was with President Emmanuel Macron of France....
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
...One thing.. and Putin really united people around that....
...After decades of seeing his warnings about climate change ignored, one might expect former US vice-president Al Gore to be equally gloomy....
...In Syria, it was the necessity to prop up Bashar al-Assad to keep Russian presence on the Mediterranean and to keep Syria as a pro-Russian client-state....
...In addition, Mr Shamsi is general manager of the private office of Sheikha Fatima, Sheikh Tahnoon’s mother....
...(FT) Renaissance man Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the UAE’s national security adviser, is redefining links between the state and private sector. But you may have never heard of him until now....
...Libya is broadly split between rival administrations: the GNA, which governs the west, and an eastern-based parliament aligned with renegade general Khalifa Haftar, who wants to seize power across the country...
...“Where you find Emirati activity you often find Turkish activity directly countering it in a way Iran doesn’t,” says Michael Stephens, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank...
...On Monday, Emily Murphy, the Trump-appointed head of the General Services Administration, had not yet signed a letter that would officially begin the transition process, 48 hours after US networks called...
...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”....
...Biden was also around when the Obama administration bailed out US automakers General Motors and Chrysler in 2009, and is likely to use this to bolster his credentials as a friend to the workers....
...HA Hellyer, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London, described the Egyptian response as “a tactical move that continues alignment with DC”, probably because Egypt...
...Providers (ie Spotify, Apple et al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
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