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...By the end of the year OCI had agreed to offload two fertiliser holdings for about $3.6bn apiece, to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Koch Industries of the US....
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...The short seller also took issue with Soho House’s “mountain” of debt maturities, with $607mn coming due in 2027 and its decision to pull forward millions of dollars of revenues by introducing a credits...
...In “The Kakhetian Train”, redolent of Magritte, hawkers offer wineskins to night-train passengers amid surreally moonlit mountains....
...It was created from leftover scraps of fabrics and antique ties Carzana had collected, which he then hand-dyed with plants, fruits and therapeutic oils....
...To this micro-empire he’s just added Suffield Lodge, a cosy four-bedroom cottage inside Gunton deer park....
...In 2022, the oil empire struck back. War in Ukraine triggered a surge in oil prices. Super profits for Big Oil and fears of growing energy insecurity lifted the defensive mood in those boardrooms....
...CVC plants its flag on a €26bn peak CVC Capital Partners managing partner Rob Lucas has climbed some of the world’s tallest mountains....
...Russia said it would cut its oil output by 5 per cent or 500,000 barrels a day in response to the price cap imposed by the west....
...The figures underscore the struggle Berkshire faces in putting its mountain of cash to work at a time when Buffett and his longtime right-hand man Charlie Munger regard valuations as unappetising....
...A supply of homes can be found in and around Vathy, Ithaca’s capital, which stretches around a narrow-mouthed bay, with mountains rising steeply behind....
...He owns a property empire valued at more than £58mn, according to accounts filed at Companies House by his company Zahawi & Zahawi....
...The Empire State Trail proves, in short, an unexpected delight....
...Shearman & Sterling has hired Michael Mountain as a partner in its M&A practice in London. He was previously a partner at law firm White & Case....
...Petrópolis sits a little more than an hour’s drive outside Rio de Janeiro, nestled among lush green mountains that provide refuge from the heat and hubbub....
...He is wearing a pale pink V-neck jumper under a suit, with a Burberry scarf and a large watch....
...Indeed, sherpas who guided the nuclear diplomacy up the mountain to 2015 point out that the turning point came when the White House insisted it was not seeking the overthrow of the Tehran regime....
...Further along the route, in Raunheim, you’ll ride over Olhafenbrücke, an award-winning bridge that was built for cyclists and pedestrians in 2014 and crosses an oil-tanker port....
...The committee will be led by Jeffery Stein, a former executive at US oil group Whiting Petroleum, as chief restructuring officer....
...But in the mid-2000s he suddenly decamped to the oil-rich Emirate, according to two of his employees at the time, largely winding down his UK operations....
...It wasn't all that was part of the Russian empire, even. It was Dnipropetrovsk, now Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine, right next to the Donbas....
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...Tristram Hunt, head of the V&A Museum and a former Labour MP, was roommates with Mr Kwarteng when the latter was writing his PhD at Cambridge university on the recoinage crisis of 1696....
...Some hope a bigger fillip to Britain Inc will come from lower oil prices, but that is a vain hope....
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