Hints and tips:
...“It gets easier for us to deter them as more forces flow into the theatre and Israel gets stronger every day,” said retired general Frank McKenzie, who led US forces in the Middle East from 2019 to 2022....
...He also visited Riyadh overnight to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler....
...The receivers have appointed agents Knight Frank and Beauchamp Estates to handle the high-end sale, said two people with knowledge of the matter....
...on Thursday while China’s growing interest in the Middle East was underlined by President Xi Jinping’s summit in December with Gulf leaders in Riyadh, including Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
...Interested by his father, bored by his mother (“My mother was the most boring person I have ever met”, he tweeted on Thursday, in his customarily frank tone), Kureishi grew up in Bromley, a mixed-race kid...
...On that note, I’m generally in agreement with conservative pollster Frank Luntz on what the next candidate should be saying and thinking to make Trump go away....
...shines a spotlight on the decades-long love affair between Saudi money and the UK capital, as well as the financial pressure on senior members of the Saudi royal family after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
...Finally, for the sheer virtuosity of it, do read Frank Bruni’s dissection of Ivanka Trump in the New York Times: “Ivanka is pained”. I confess to laughing noisily at more than one passage....
...He’s surprisingly frank about the dilemma the Philippines would be in if war breaks out over Taiwan....
...Donald Trump, meanwhile, is lauded for phone diplomacy that resolved the 2020 Opec price war and for being close to King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with whom he shared “similar opinions...
...Since 1941, the two countries’ spooks have been exchanging information in a manner so frank that Henry Kissinger once described it as “matter-of-factly intimate”....
...The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption — Endangering Our Democracyby Frank Vogl, Rowman and Littlefield £25/$32 Frank Vogl has been a campaigner against the evils of corruption for...
...Let’s be frank: the Biden administration was more fixated in recent months on making petrol cheaper than the climate cleaner....
...The increase in demand has contributed to a rise in villa prices in Riyadh by 18.6 per cent, and apartments by 20 per cent, the fastest growth in five years, according to a Knight Frank report....
...Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi energy minister, said he wanted to be that sure the glimmers of light seen in oil demand were not the lights of an onrushing train....
...Mohammed bin Salman wants Saudi Aramco and other companies to diversify his kingdom’s economy....
...Karen Frank joined Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on Thursday as senior managing director of its C$47bn equities division....
...Quichotte , by Salman Rushdie, Vintage, RRP£20 /Random House, RRP$28, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Stories are also being swapped about those who were barred from speaking in meetings or on conference calls for being too frank about their valuation expectations....
...Ultimately we believe quotas end up penalising efficient production,” said Frank Macchiarola, an API senior vice-president. He urged diplomacy from the US instead....
...Andrew Frank, founder and president of Karv, could not be reached for comment....
...Forensic experts hired by Jeff Bezos have concluded with “medium to high confidence” that a WhatsApp account used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly involved in a 2018 hack of the Amazon...
...To the extent that the Trump administration had a Middle East strategy, it centred on Saudi Arabia and the mercurial figure of Prince Mohammed bin Salman — or MbS, as he is always known....
...And they are important partners of ours so there are some frank conversations ahead,” he said....
...But the worst setbacks involved bigger investments, such as a 2007 deal with Frank Fertitta, the casino heir best known for turning Ultimate Fighting Championship into a global mixed martial arts empire....
International Edition