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...Trump’s return to the White House would test the core foundations of America’s democracy, says Diamond — although he believes on balance they would survive intact....
...The case, bead-blasted using Bamford’s industrial Diamond Like Carbon technique, is dark grey and matte....
...is said to have recorded members of Angola’s political and business elite without their knowledge, including Carlos Saturnino, the chair of Sonangol, and relatives of such powerful political figures as Manuel...
...“People don’t really know Scholz at all — he’s just a blank canvas they’re projecting all their wishes and desires on to,” says Manuel Hagel, a senior CDU official....
...José Manuel Ganga Junior, head of the Endiama group that controls diamond mining concessions in Angola, said it was looking for international investment and exploration as part of “radical change”, including...
...Barclays has hired Manuel Esteve as head of European equity capital markets. He joins the London office from JPMorgan....
...In Japan, authorities said they had discovered a further 70 cases on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in the port of Yokohama, taking the total to 355 out of the 1,219 people tested....
...But the shutdown has already ground the global diamond industry to a halt....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received a blunt warning earlier this month: a crude hand-painted sign strung across a bridge in the border city of Tijuana....
...It took place as Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vowed to rein in spiralling violence that claimed a record 30,499 lives in 2018, and US President Donald Trump clung to promises to build...
...Manuel Marcia de Gomar started mining emeralds in 1955 and became a wholesaler in the 1960s, as well as a court-recognised “emerald expert”....
...José Manuel Barroso’s decision to become chairman of Goldman Sachs International just after his 18 months of purdah expired has provoked fury....
...One of those officials, Manuel Vicente, was head of Sonangol at the time that the rights were granted. He is now the country’s vice-president....
...Jamie Dimon: Sorry I’m late — I couldn’t get Manuel Valls off the phone. So remind me, is this a Treasury select committee? They can be tough. You’re that politician Shrieky aren’t you?...
...With gentle shepherding from him, the players thought themselves into the “diamond” formation — with Pirlo at its base, the Brazilian Kaká at its tip, and Seedorf and Manuel Rui Costa, a lavishly gifted...
...If diamonds are the king of gemstones, then South Sea pearls are the pearl equivalent. Imagine if diamonds disappeared.”...
...“Sex, diamonds, glamorous women”....
...Even though José Manuel Barroso, the then European Commission president, had come into office in 2005 with environmental policy as a priority, officials say that focus gradually changed as the eurozone fell...
...But since the discovery that the “black diamond” could be grown in the meagre soil of Teruel, the province has experienced a production boom....
...After three decades of on-off civil war fuelled by oil, diamonds and superpower rivalry, Angola lay in ruins....
...Adjusted operating profit hit £25m thanks to sales of items such as a rare blue diamond that fetched £6.2m at an auction in London last year....
...(Financial Times) Bob Diamond re-enters world of banking: Atlas Mara, Mr Diamond’s London-listed cash shell, said it had agreed to buy BancABC, which is listed in both Botswana and Zimbabwe, and its controlling...
...The icing on the cake was the £19.6m paid for legendary racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio’s Mercedes, a new world record price for a car at auction....
...It is white gold with approximately 900 diamonds covering every millimetre of surface from band to face....
...It’s a homecoming for Manuel Legris. The charismatic Paris Opera Ballet étoile left a sizeable gap on his retirement four years ago, at the mandatory age of 42....
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