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...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...Firstly, the landmark criminal trial of Donald Trump, former US president and likely Republican candidate for this November’s election, will begin with opening arguments on Monday....
...He is running against Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician endorsed by former president Donald Trump. Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.”...
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...The decision by the Biden administration marks a decisive break from Donald Trump’s government which left the migrants in legal limbo....
...Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab. The west should heed Moscow and Beijing’s use of vaccines to court poorer nations, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...‘MAGA’ M&A: investors target TV for Trump fans After 14 seasons of The Apprentice, Donald Trump is no stranger to the small screen....
...India, which passed 5m cases, will buy 100m doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine candidate. Eli Lilly’s antibody treatment reduced hospitalisations....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...Boycotts, beans and the danger of alienating Hispanic voters When salsa legend Willie Colón tweets “Black Beans Matter”, you know that US politics has truly degenerated into a food fight....
...James Smith, developed markets economist at ING, said the UK’s recovery “looks set to stall in the fourth quarter as fresh virus measures loom” in response to a rise in infections....
...(FT) The risk of a US double-dip depression With the US economy in effect already in depression, the temptation to go for a V-shaped recovery before the November election looks too great for Donald Trump...
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Intelligence officials warned US lawmakers that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to support Donald Trump’s re-election....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...(FT) Irish chief of British Airways to retire Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways’ parent company, is to retire....
...For Marcella Nunez-Smith, who heads up the Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force, the size of the challenge is clear....
...(FT) Coaching v commanding Andrew Hill recounts how industrial group Linde won over sceptical staff in 2017 with a safety drive based on “active listening”....
...Ben Smith has an important — and very plausible — account in The New York Times of the burgeoning overlap of interests between Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Donald Trump’s re-election campaign....
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...“Investors are jittery,” said Nela Richardson, investment strategist for Edward Jones....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...The other quarter-final matchups on Saturday pit Italy v the Netherlands and Germany v Sweden. The tournament has revealed which countries are most welcoming to women’s sport....
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