Hints and tips:
...December’s UN climate conference, COP28, is at risk of being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...Cuts to oil production meant Gulf states faced a big slowdown in growth, the IMF said....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...In the 33 remaining states, spouses can file for a no-fault divorce or choose to apportion blame for a variety of reasons, which vary from state to state....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...Trump et al v....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...It is slightly more realistic to hope that Facebook et al will be forced into more equitable revenue sharing with the media. Such platforms are a huge part of the problem....
...to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Washington....
...“You are being asked to remove a duly elected president of the United States. You are being asked to do it in an election year,” he said....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Sincerely, the United States.” Bolton may have gone but, as I set off — mask and sanitiser in hand — to meet Bensouda face-to-face in The Hague, US animosity towards her is very much alive....
...Like other leaders, MBS has used Covid-19 to tighten the state’s control, while casting aside the opportunities to build bridges with Iran that have been taken by other Gulf states....
...The chief beneficiary of Mr Bolton’s removal is Mike Pompeo, Mr Trump’s secretary of state. The two were apparently no longer on speaking terms....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...The contagion had been spreading for weeks in New York, Washington state and other clusters. The curve was pointing sharply upwards. Trump’s goal in Atlanta was to assert the opposite....
...There was a time in Washington where it appeared there was no man more influential on Donald Trump's foreign policy than John Bolton....
...Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Trump said Robert O’Brien, the state department’s envoy for hostage affairs, would become his fourth national security adviser following the departure of John Bolton....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...We are all forever blowing raspberries at the Washington Beltway....
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey in Washington...
...Mr Trump’s sacking of John Bolton, his notoriously hawkish national security adviser, fuelled speculation of a potential breakthrough. Then the missiles and drone barrage struck....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...on New York and Washington....
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