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...Gaza’s public library has been shelled into rubble, along with the Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Centre....
...“India does not have one single [outlet] to compare to Financial Times or Al Jazeera.”...
...In a video published online last month, the movement’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, celebrated attacks on ships it described as “American” and “British”....
...“I would welcome anyone who is bringing more money into the system,” says Curtis Ravenel, senior adviser to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, a coalition of financial institutions....
...Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein is at Tate Modern, London, until 2024....
...This was just a few months after Pasricha and Bhushan inked a $400mn, tripartite agreement with the Saudi-based Tourism Development Fund and Al Rajhi Capital to roll out its lifestyle brands across the Kingdom...
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...John Travolta published a weird short fable about flying, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, in 1997; fellow actor Jamie Lee Curtis kicked off a 25-year career as an enthusiastic children’s author with When...
...BNP Paribas has hired former Société Générale banker Jalal Al Marhoon as a managing director in Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg reports....
...And here is a 2014 paper by Ankur Pareek of Bucknell University and Roy Zuckerman of Rutgers that looked at hedge fund managers and discovered that “trustworthy”-looking ones on average do worse but attract...
...And check out the smart read from Roy Swan of the Ford Foundation about why the phrase “patriotic capitalism” is needed today. Happy holidays (for those in America)!...
...One member of their political bureau, Izzat al-Reshiq, said on X: “We remain in our land, homes and cities . . . There will be no displacement or evacuation.”...
...photographer, artist, teacher and civil rights activist was arrested, imprisoned and tortured for 107 days by the Dhaka police after criticising his country’s Awami League government in an interview on Al...
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Take a break from the news Unlike Logan Roy, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong knows when to call it a day....
...We have Salman Rushdie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alice Waters, Pati Jinich, Daniel Boulud, tons of people....
...Hassan Al-Wakeel, an analyst at Barclays, said: “Roy’s background at Philips was as chief business leader [of personal health] as well as market leader for the broader Middle East business and we would also...
...Richard Curtis had yet to transform the ’hood into the star of its own Hollywood movie....
...sanctions imposed in April by the US Treasury on the family and several associates, plus the $5mn bounties placed on the three Kinahans’ heads, have made them a “liability” in underworld circles, said Roy...
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Letter in response to this article: Here’s the rationale for working from home / From Roy A Massey, London NWI, UK...
...“I was listening to my mom’s Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin LPs. To me, those artists were some of the very first rappers....
...Then there is Neil Young’s Harvest, Steely Dan’s debut Can’t Buy a Thrill and Al Green’s I’m Still in Love with You. The ancients of 1972 have set the moderns of 2022 a high bar....
...They created a massively exaggerated fear of al-Qaeda as a hidden “global network” that was planning to destroy “western civilisation”, and a fear of weapons of mass destruction hidden in the desert....
...I am thinking here of the demise of Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned highly effective Democratic senator from Minnesota....
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