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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...The eastern Libyan administration said more than 3,000 victims had been buried by Thursday morning, with a further 2,000 being processed, the Associated Press reported....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...A gunman and a US consulate guard have been killed in a shootout outside the mission in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah....
...A recent Associated Press-NORC poll showed that nearly half of Democrats disapproved of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, although some White House officials point out that the president’s approach...
...Drawing parallels with the highlife music that plays throughout the video, Turner points to the words of Ghana’s “king of highlife”, ET Mensah....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...There was sniffiness in some quarters that they sounded too much like The Strokes, Television et al. Others were just grateful for the affinity. 3D Country is the follow-up album....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...Putin on Monday held calls with the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, and the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who both “expressed full support” for his actions, the Kremlin said in a statement...
...shift of the kind that we saw in the seats that the Tories took off Labour, where young families moving, priced out of the cities, moving to smaller cities, smaller towns, commuter belt places....
...But a growing appreciation of the country’s poorer regional cuisines in the UK and the US has rehabilitated much of the cucina povera, like the Emilia region’s gnocco fritto, Tuscany’s pappa al pomodoro...
...What else we’re reading Killing of al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri deals setback to Taliban The assassination of the al-Qaeda leader has revealed Washington’s ability to conduct extensive surveillance and...
...suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda....
...The Houthis’ health minister told the Associated Press that more than 70 inmates at the detention facility were killed....
...At least two people were killed in the eastern city of Asadabad, where the Taliban fired on the crowd and a Taliban fighter was stabbed, according to Al Jazeera....
...Then take some home; they even make capsules now. idealcaffe.it Maria Shollenbarger Coffeewerk + Press, GalwayA Galway institution on Quay Street, the city’s main thoroughfare, Coffeewerk is a calm, minimalist...
...The Associated Press reported last month that satellite imagery showed that the US had pulled its Patriot air defence system out of Saudi Arabia....
...The fire was set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder, ripping through the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital within minutes, the Associated Press reported....
...The bombing of the 11-story Al Jalaa residential and office block, used by US news agency Associated Press, and Al Jazeera was broadcast live by Al Jazeera, the Qatari satellite television network....
...In August, the Associated Press quoted a Chinese woman as saying she was held in a secret detention centre in Dubai with at least two Uyghurs....
...Many of these entities were associated with the company’s owners or executives....
...In Gaza, Israeli strikes destroyed a six-story building that housed bookstores and educational centres on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported....
...The Associated Press put the death toll at 22 people and said dozens were wounded....
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