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...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Wagner has also manoeuvred its way into the Central African Republic, where it protects the president and runs lucrative businesses, including in gold mining....
...While the US and southern European blazes captured most of the headlines, fires were raging in the remote Siberian republic of Sakha....
...As head chef to schools, offices and gyms, Compass was admittedly bang in the line of fire. Half the canteens it once filled with the heady aroma of battered fish and chips are now empty....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...And for Facebook, too, a tie-up with Jio could be vital; the company has more users in India than in any other single country. Mercedes’ top 10 China’s Huawei is a casualty of the coronavirus....
...Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
...“The Islamic Republic of Iran has no trust in America,” Mr Khamenei said....
...Apple, Google and Microsoft were sued (alongside Dell and Tesla) by a human rights group on behalf of families of children killed or injured in the Democratic Republic of Congo while mining for the cobalt...
...The next morning we embark on a whistle-stop tour of Lucknow: the East India Company’s Residency, battered by cannon fire and muskets in the 1857 uprising/revolutionary war, followed by the North Korean-style...
...Mr Shmakov’s school has been a casualty of President Vladimir Putin’s squeeze on Tatarstan, one of the Russian ethnic “republics” that have been targets of his desire to restore centralised control since...
...“If the world ends tomorrow and the Lord brings the fire, there won’t be the water to extinguish it,” says Rachel Erasmus, a resident of Villiersdorp, a nearby town....
...Dercon wants to turn a repertory theatre with its own permanent ensemble of actors into a “kind of production studio and festival venue for visiting artists and companies”, he says....
...(FT) It's a big day for The People’s Republic of China, which celebrates its 66th birthday with a giant floral display in Beijing and a televised speech by President Xi Jinping....
...Photos of Peski on his mobile phone show huge craters from mortar fire and Grad missiles, and blocks of flats damaged by shell fire....
...The trigger for this was the growing number of casualties in ambushes of normal supply lines, either convoys of trucks felled by roadside bombs, or manned helicopters coming under heavy enemy fire....
...On Friday, clashes between Russian separatists and Ukrainian paramilitaries left seven dead and 39 injured’s casualties after rebels seized the city’s police headquarters and were driven out by Ukrainian...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Italy V Ireland....
...Over the last year, we understand that a number of AIG’s 100,000+ employees have left A.I.G. to join the company’s direct competitors in the global property and casualty and life insurance businesses....
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...Abstracting from the issue of skilled v unskilled labour, profits as a percentage of GDP are at a 50-year high in the US, and multi-decade highs in Germany. To what do you attribute this?...
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