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...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...In 2022, the US tracked down and killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in downtown Kabul, fuelling western suspicions that the Taliban was harbouring him....
...But he insisted to the FT’s Claire Jones that “all of the Republicans running would do better than Joe Biden” in November....
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...Cartography by Ian Bott, Cleve Jones and Steven Bernard in London...
...Additional contributions from Emily Goldberg and Gary Jones...
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Additional reporting by Sam Jones in Berlin...
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones...
...But it takes short-sighted self-interest to a whole new level for Poland et al to threaten to smash apart the mechanisms of the single market and the EU’s common trade policy because of the short-term impact...
...Biden travels to Kentucky US president Joe Biden will travel to Kentucky today to tout his administration’s economic agenda, including the bipartisan infrastructure bill....
...Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Annie Jonas...
...They have since fallen, but remain more than 60 per cent higher than when Biden took office amid robust oil consumption and constraints on global supplies. Do you agree with Joe Biden?...
...US takes custody of man charged with making Lockerbie bomb Former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody yesterday by the US for allegedly building the...
...Shares in other banks considered to have some degree of asset-liability mismatch (Western Alliance, Zions et al) only saw their shares wobble a little bit yesterday....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...The Yesh Atid party of Prime Minister Yair Lapid and several smaller allies were forecast to win 54 to 55 seats between them, while the non-aligned Arab Hadash-Ta’al grouping was predicted four mandates....
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...Tim Wu, the White House adviser on competition policy and a key player in the push by Joe Biden’s administration to increase antitrust, stepped down from his role last week....
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...A lack of pipelines and restrictions on seaborne shipping within the US under the Jones Act means that getting fuel from refineries on the Gulf Coast to the East Coast would be tricky....
...Need to know: business Vaccine makers have lost billions in market value after Biden declared “the pandemic is over” on Sunday night....
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