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...Washington has also used financial levers to push Baghdad to help curb Iran’s sanctions evasion and funding for militancy; this week it imposed sanctions on the owner of Iraq’s Al-Huda Bank....
...A veteran member of Hamas, Arouri helped establish the group’s military wing in the occupied West Bank. He had close ties to Hizbollah....
...“It feels like a game of chicken and the question is who swerves first,” said an Arab diplomat....
...Private credit groups instead are waiting in the wings....
...“This is something that shouldn’t damage the state of the real economy,” he predicted in the summer of 2007....
...In the dying days of Boris Johnson’s government, he even held one of the great offices of state, serving as chancellor of the exchequer for two months....
...“Otherwise they would have wired the money to offshore bank accounts,” says one person....
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Additional reporting by Asmaa al-Omar in Istanbul...
...Some Democrats even began to swoop in, wanting to usher the occupiers into the progressive wing of the party....
...Barring accident or assassination, Mohammed bin Salman is destined to become king of Saudi Arabia, the first monarch of the third generation to rule the country founded by his grandfather Ibn Saud in 1932...
...That would be “Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v Humphrey”, which says “the exchange rate from the date of domestic judgment should be used”....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Next up was Sudan’s embattled president, Omar al-Bashir, who chose Qatar as his first foreign trip after a wave of protests erupted last month against his autocratic rule....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Thamer al-Sabhan, Saudi minister of Gulf affairs, told the Al Arabiya regional news channel late on Monday that Lebanon had to choose between “peace and moderation and remaining under this party of evil...
...The relationship is a symbiotic one of aligned interests. China wants to lead in tech, so having two players chasing the market caps of Facebook et al is a plus....
...al Jazeera’s BeIn Sports....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Velvet Garrick Theatre, LondonReturn of this excellent play by Lolita Chakrabarti (first shown at the Tricycle Theatre) about Ira Aldridge, the black American actor who played Othello in 1833....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...“We have never set a goal like that,” said Al Cardenas, the former chairman of the Republican party in Florida....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...paying NML et al, and without the stay in place....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
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