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...Here’s a look at the financier who’s at the heart of GAM’s recent troubles. (FN) + (FT) Fix it, genius Can Apple’s new retail chief Deirdre O’Brien return the Apple store to its former glory?...
...Behind centre, S Joseph, in brown, right, a woman with a basket in a doorway; dark sky and angel with scroll above....
...That's the busiest start to a year since 2001 and eclipses the entirety of 2017's haul. Woof....
...Having been shortlisted for 2012’s Man Booker for his debut Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil has written a second novel, The Book of Chocolate Saints (currently published in India, and published in the UK next year...
...Moritz Kraemer, S&P’s head of sovereign ratings, said in a statement that this would be a default. “There is no ambiguity here . . ....
...FN leader and harangued and insulted Mr Macron in a vicious television debate....
...“There’s a risk that this campaign is polluted by the FN,” she said. “One must not borrow themes from the FN.”...
...Moritz Kraemer, head of sovereign ratings at S&P, said if the country converted its euro-denominated obligations to new francs, the rating agency would consider the move a default....
...the far-right National Front (FN) made sweeping gains across France in a first round of voting on Sunday....
...Ms Le Pen and the FN have denied wrongdoing....
...Based in the greater Liège area, FN Herstal is an undisputed giant in the arms market....
...Surveys suggest that Marine Le Pen, the FN leader, will qualify for the second round of the presidential run-off in May — and then be defeated by the centre-right candidate....
...Pharmaceutical companies such as GSK and the maker of the M4 assault rifle, FN Herstal, call the region home. In short, Wallonia’s economy is quite diverse....
...In fact, the FN has evolved from a far-right protest group into a no less noxious national-socialist party....
...The FN has denied wrongdoing....
...“This is a moment when the FN is facing two ways,” says Jim Shields, professor of French politics at Aston University....
...The other day I sat in on a gathering of the French elites in Paris. The FN was at once conspicuous in its absence and present in almost every conversation....
...What Belgium adds to the mix, analysts say, is a long, troubled history of lax gun laws and a pedigree of gun manufacturing, led by FN Herstal in the Wallonia region....
...In May’s European parliamentary elections, the FN won a nationwide vote for the first time, easily defeating both Mr Sarkozy’s UMP party and the socialists with a score of 25 per cent....
...elections by the far right National Front (FN)....
...No doubt about it, Sunday’s European parliament elections have produced a political tremblement de terre – an earthquake – in France, with Marine Le Pen’s National Front (FN) claiming victory in the poll...
...Activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen raise their fists during a “Fascist’s epidemic” protest in Paris, to disturb a press conference of French far-right National Front (FN) party, marking the...
...Mr Sarkozy’s pitch was a clear attempt to reconcile splits within the UMP between eurosceptics and europhiles that have undermined its campaign against the FN....
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