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...European banks found to have breached US sanctions on Iran have been hit with large penalties, with Standard Chartered paying more than $1bn and UniCredit $1.3bn in 2019....
...Former president Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s White House race, also urged a swift resolution to the war....
...(NYT) It appears UK foreign secretary Lord David Cameron did not convince Trump to support more aid for Ukraine....
...(The New Yorker) Jane Coaston puts important questions to polling expert David Byler, among them: should voters and readers trust polling?...
...Terence Blanchard: A Career Retrospective in Jazz will be performed at the Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, featuring guest musicians, on 1 and 2 March at 8pm, jazz.org...
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired Adam Shapiro as a debt finance partner from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He joins in New York....
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...1.5 degrees and our policies,” said Biden....
...This has been echoed in a study by economists Douglas Bice and David Hemley, who concluded that “a 1 per cent increase in the price of handguns lowers the quantity demanded by 2-3 per cent”....
...Typifying the new cohort are newcomer donors such as David Frecka, the former owner of an Ohio-based packaging company, Next Generation, and his wife, Brenda, who gave $1.5mn to House Freedom Action in the...
...DeSantis “would be a very good nominee”, David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, told the FT....
...Avatar has grossed about $2.3bn at the global box office, while Top Gun — which didn’t benefit from a China release — brought in $1.5bn....
...Oz was declared the victor on Friday night after McCormick conceded the race following more than two weeks of wrangling over the result — they were separated by about 1,000 votes....
...The latest IMF forecast issued last week projected that the US economy will grow at a rate of 1.4 per cent this year, and 1 per cent in 2024, which would be consistent with a soft landing....
...Black may choose to designate a nominee on his behalf, according to a person familiar with his thinking....
...The renovation project received £1.2m in public funding, with the London art world making up the rest....
...That sense of caution may have been reinforced by a huge £1.5mn legal bill incurred by the National Crime Agency in 2020....
...It marks the second time in as many months that a Biden nominee has been torpedoed for having strong views about how financial regulations can steer climate action....
...Lord David Frost, the UK Brexit minister, had embraced the ultimate capitulation and resigned....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index ended the day up 1.4 per cent in New York to a closing record, adding to the gains it enjoyed on Tuesday when Janet Yellen, Treasury secretary nominee, urged Congress to “act...
...Janet Yellen, the former Fed chair and Mr Biden’s nominee for Treasury secretary, argued that “the smartest thing we can do is act big”....
...Usually guests are tech entrepreneurs, but he’s not the kind of guy who is going to turn down David Beckham, Magic Johnson, Marc Anthony or conservative pundit Ben Shapiro....
...Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill, and vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Doug, at an election rally in Wilmington, Delaware, after the media announced that...
...The EU’s planned “rule of law” conditions on its next long-term budget have sparked a crisis that risks delaying the adoption of the bloc’s €1.8tn pandemic recovery package by the end of the year....
...vet possible nominees for the top job at the World Bank, following the surprise announcement by Jim Yong Kim, the sitting president, that he would be stepping down for a job in private equity on February 1....
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