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...While ETFs tracking the S&P Global Clean Energy Index received an A+ score from TrackInsight, others, such as those replicating the MSCI USA Extended ESG Focus index, were given a C+ (D is the lowest score...
...I ask if the staff address him as C. Absolutely, he says, and that goes for the prime minister too....
...Hamid Baeidinejad, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, described the US policy in an Instagram post as a “delusion” and one that could not be realised....
...We invented hip-hop,” she said, an act of Macronisme so Macronique it deserved the Légion D’Honneur....
...From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C Dennett, Allen Lane, RRP£25/Norton, RRP$28.95 A philosopher sets out his theory of how human consciousness developed....
...Three years on, they installed Hamid Karzai as president, planted a western-style democracy in the unpromising soil of Afghanistan’s tribal politics and set about trying to modernise the country’s economy...
...Mr Abdullah boycotted the run-off of the 2009 election against Hamid Karzai, the incumbent president, after evidence of fraud in the first round emerged....
...Mr Hamid said the change in policy “had been a matter of degree”....
...Mr Kerry’s last-minute visit en route from China to Austria is due to include talks with Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the two rivals for the presidency, as well as Hamid Karzai, the incumbent...
...On a day of fast-moving events, Mr Abdullah’s supporters took to the streets of Kabul and tore down a large portrait of Hamid Karzai, the outgoing president, whom they see as backing Mr Ghani....
...Jay Carney, White House spokesman, said that the nomination of Hamid Aboutalebi to be Iran’s ambassador to the UN was “extremely troubling”....
...Hamid has lived in London, New York and California and is now based in Lahore, where he was born in 1971....
...Not so long ago Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, was feted as a champion of a new democracy. Now it is said Barack Obama can scarcely bear to speak to him....
...Mr Rhodes’ remarks came before a visit to Washington by Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and critics argued it was a negotiating ploy with both Mr Karzai and the Pentagon, which has constantly pushed...
...Speaking at a press conference on Friday with Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart, President Barack Obama said the US would move to a “very limited” mission in the country, focusing on training local forces...
...He was speaking ahead of the visit this week to Washington by Hamid Karzai, Afghan president, when the two leaders will discuss the long-term US presence in the country....
...Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered his aides to institute the “full Afghanisation” of the US-run prison at Bagram Air Base, charging that US forces are continuing to detain Afghans despite a bilateral...
...The handover marked a victory for President Hamid Karzai, who has considered US control of the prison a violation of national sovereignty, and fulfilled an agreement he struck six months ago with the US....
...“Egyptians want to be proud of their country,” said Shadi Hamid, an analyst at the Brookings Doha Center. “They feel their country should take a place on the world stage.”...
...Above all, they stressed the Taliban will never accept Hamid Karzai as a legitimate interlocutor, or participate in a grand national assembly or national elections while he is president....
...Hamid Behbahani, chief executive, wrote on NITC’s website that the company “emphasises its commitment to transparency”....
...The agreement was finalised on Sunday after months of fraught negotiations dogged by disputes between Hamid Karzai, the president, and US officials over night raids on insurgents and control of military...
...Both countries have reached an agreement to give Afghan authorities greater oversight over night operations to kill or capture insurgent commanders, long a source of rancour between Hamid Karzai, the Afghan...
...In 10 years of war, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, has grown wearily accustomed to navigating the fallout from tragic blunders by the US military....
...Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, gave voice to the anger of the nation when he described the killings as intentional “terror”....
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