Hints and tips:
...It would have been easy to play to a liberal crowd by just focusing on the Bush and Trump administrations’ coziness with the industry....
...After all, as I said the other week, the EU tried bypassing former US president Donald Trump’s sanctions on Iran by setting up a quasi-barter system called Instex and it’s had almost no impact....
...The fact that Trump could become president again, possibly through “election subversion”, also makes America’s partners wary of signing up to a US freedom agenda that may have a limited shelf life....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...It's a bit like the Trump effect, where people say about Trump that Trump is what, like, people who don't know any rich people think rich people live like Trump....
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...An administration official says advising Trump is like “bringing fruits to the volcano” – Trump being the lava source....
...The global community should be looking to rest, adjust or trim the ways things are, on a regular basis otherwise there will be imbalances allowing Trumps et al to garner support to deal with greater accrued...
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...The US is also planning to announce a new forum for dialogue with China in a throwback to the engagement strategy pursued by previous administrations....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...But in an editorial, the FT argues the Trump administration must resume talks to end the longest war in US history. Do you think Mr Trump should resume talks with the Taliban? Vote in our latest poll....
...Mr Lauder, who in 1989 ran against Rudy Giuliani in the Republican party’s New York mayoral primary race and is close to members of the Trump administration, wants to keep the test....
...But the military operation was called off around 7.30pm ET (12.30am BST), the report said. It is not clear why the president reversed course or whether the attacks might still go forward....
...al) is history....
...The split Congress is set to deepen divisions (although gridlock may not be all bad news for investors) and House Democrats could now be emboldened to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump...
...(FT) Uighur children fall victim to China anti-terror drive As the Trump administration struggles to reunite migrants and their children separated at the US border, on the other side of the world, China...
...Nero et al did not simply grab power for themselves. They appealed to ordinary citizens over the heads of Roman patricians....
...Iran and Russia back the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has called for him to be ousted and has supported Syrian rebels....
...More modern models, such as that by Enders et al, confirm that these results are likely in interest rate markets after a big fiscal shock....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...More and more Americans, meanwhile, view FB et al etc as the new Big Tobacco....
...US president Donald Trump has already proved a good friend of Saudi Arabia, and his administration is reported to have been in close contact over the arrests....
...It might be argued that all the above was aimed at pulling the attack dogs off Mr Trump and his difficulties with Russiagate, Flynngate, Comeygate, et al, by demonstrating the president’s mettle on Russia...
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