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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...While Turkey’s foreign ministry came out strongly against the assault by Russian forces, Erdogan himself was more cautious....
...The fund represents the first serious test of a package of sweeping reforms passed by Indonesia in October that are designed to attract foreign investors to the world’s fourth most populous nation as it...
...Karl Lagatie, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, says the government takes "this reckoning ... very, very seriously" and "awaits the recommendations of the Congo commission", which has begun its work....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow Robert Shrimsley with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this column: A global Britain needs an independent DfID / From Paul Murphy et al...
...China’s foreign ministry retorted that the Trump administration’s criticism “further exposed its wayward arrogance and selfishness”....
...The top bureaucrat in Japan’s finance ministry has been accused of sexually harassing several female reporters as a fresh scandal hit the administration of prime minister Shinzo Abe....
...Philip Booth, senior academic fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs: No....
...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....
...One of the three is responsible for the interior ministry, which has pressed the prosecution of the two Reuters journalists....
...,” says Ivan Timofeev, an assistant professor at MGIMO, the Moscow university where the foreign ministry trains diplomats....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...health ministry....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...For now, all of this remains a domestic affair....
...widows (Bloomberg) That a solution to one problem begets another problem is symptomatic of China today (Financial Times) Federalism, Chinese style (Foreign Affairs) The hard facts about momentum investing...
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...Those countries lecturing him about “healthy democracy”, as Mr Rushdie et al put it, have lately shifted power from legislatures to executives and from voters to bureaucracies....
...EU-Japan summit The European Union, at a summit with Japan, will tell Tokyo of its concern about Japan’s tense relations with China and South Korea and call for renewed diplomatic efforts....
...injections sustain China’s healthcare system New protesters arrive every couple of minutes at the unmarked gates of the Ministry of Health in Beijing, coming in the faint hope that the national authorities...
...“It’s not that we think there is something wrong with GS Yuasa, but we are investigating whether there might have been a problem with the manufacturing process,” a representative of Japan’s transport ministry...
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...has long attracted the attention of foreign commercial farmers eager to exploit its fertile heartlands....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
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