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...Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, is set to become the third country to own a Thaad system after the state department approved a $15bn deal for 44 Thaad launchers in 2017....
...Gayle Smith, head of global Covid-19 response at the US state department, told the Financial Times she wanted US vaccine makers — which include Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson — to share technological...
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...A study in the medical journal The Lancet last month found Sputnik V to be effective, but Vucic acknowledged that he “took a political risk” in deploying Sinopharm’s jab, for which headline figures only...
...“Myanmar could easily become a failed state within a matter of months, with violent urban unrest, a fast escalation of ethnic-based armed conflicts, and a widespread humanitarian emergency,” said Thant Myint-U...
...Of particular concern will be the end of two facilities created to buy corporate debt, including some junk bonds, and one to give access to credit to state and local governments at a time when they are increasingly...
...Dr Bright said he worked with Janet Woodcock, a director at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, to push the “compromise position” of an emergency use authorisation, which meant the drug could only...
...Likely more U-shaped than V-shaped, as governments (and consumers) will be very cautious around the potential for secondary waving of infection; Scale of the recovery....
...Here’s a brief recap from Barclays: The cruise companies continue to face unprecedented uncertainty as fear of travel, concerns of quarantines, State Department warnings, social distancing and most recently...
...Born at the University of California, Berkeley, RISC-V is a research collaboration that develops free-for-use designs for the basic architecture used in microprocessors — potentially meaning the end of reliance...
...That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta....
...For the sake of reference, a retrospective cohort of 173 severepatients from China (with 38% mechanically ventilated; Guan et al....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...The new blacklist was published last week as the US Commerce Department extended a 90-day grace period for the world’s largest telecom equipment maker to continue buying certain products and services from...
...Goldman explains it all with the simple transfer of money from the state to the private sector....
...A recent US Department of Defense report said an “effective clandestine Isis organisation appears to be taking hold” four years after the group controlled swaths of Syria, as much as a third of Iraq, and...
...Brian Hook, the Iran lead at the state department, told the Financial Times at the time: “We are very focused on a path to zero as quickly as possible.”...
...Robert Danin, a former senior state department official who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the administration’s problems boil down in part to a lack of clarity on its objectives in the...
...Crude hits $80 The most effective way to improve fuel economy is to put up the price of fuel....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Deripaska’s application for a visa to enter the United States, the most recent of which occurred in 2015. Mr....
...We know that he is not a Roosevelt, who turned Wall St. from master to servant of the US economy. Instead he has placed critical government economic departments under the control of financiers....
...One is that Isis, however much we may dislike it, now displays many of the attributes of an organised and effective state....
...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...
...Efforts to ease policy are running into the wider message from Li et al that there will be no “large scale short term stimulus”....
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