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...Biden’s reference to Egypt’s leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as “president of Mexico” did not help his case....
...(NYT) Vice-president Kamala Harris has been cast as the leading player to court young, minority voters that have soured on Joe Biden....
...Harris is about as good a politician as she will ever be, which mightn’t be quite good enough....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...This includes beIN sport, the Doha-based broadcaster owned by Nasser Al-Khelaifi who is also president of French club PSG....
...Reverend Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, responded by organising a rally of black pastors outside the courthouse last week....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...At the end of January, Novavax, a US vaccine company, and Johnson & Johnson, whose one-shot vaccine is ideal for developing countries, both posted promising phase 3 data....
...Andrew Edmunds, Soho 46 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LP Good for: Channelling the spirits of old Soho through the medium of wine Not so good for: Al fresco....
...But Kamala Harris has been critical of the Modi government over Kashmir and other issues....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...In their astute article on the much heralded reform of the British civil service (“The smashing of the British state”, Magazine, FT Weekend, October 10), Sebastian Payne et al. asked perhaps the most pertinent...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
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