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...The PGA Tour policy board, whose majority is now comprised of players including recent addition Tiger Woods, will have to approve any transaction....
...When hotelier and co-owner Imshan Jamal appointed Paris-based Israeli designer Raphael Navot to give it a full overhaul in 2019, Navot pointed out that the facade did in fact have some redeeming features...
...Rory McIlroy, who once claimed LIV was “dead in the water” but later rowed back on those remarks, was among the highest-profile stars to side with the PGA, while Tiger Woods also resisted approaches to join...
...But Endeavor founder Ari Emanuel backed out after Saudi agents murdered veteran journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
...Top players such as McIlroy and Tiger Woods remained loyal to the PGA as the golfing world endured a toxic split....
...The kingdom was one of the most avid users of Pegasus, including, a lawsuit in Israel alleges, on associates of Jamal Khashoggi before he was murdered....
...LIV chief executive Greg Norman, the former world number one, sparked controversy last month when asked about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in 2019....
...There’s more to it than Saudi Arabia’s poor record on human rights, the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and accusations of “sportswashing”....
...With appearance fees and the ease of private jet travel, the best players in the world were already globetrotting 12 months a year (Tiger Woods’ last official US PGA tour win in 2019 happened to be in Japan...
...This includes James Maddison to Leicester City, Ben Godfrey to Everton and Jamal Lewis to Newcastle United. The money has helped balance the books. That doesn’t mean the entire team is for sale....
...(NYT) The case against Bretton Woods Seventy-five years after the Bretton Woods conference, the multilateral system it established has become too bureaucratic for purpose....
...Saudi Arabia has turned to India after a series of crises engulfed the kingdom in a wave of international censure following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018, just as it seeks to...
...Separately, Mr Johnson received a £50,000 donation from Jon Wood, founder of hedge fund SRM, to pay for his office and staffing costs....
...“I think at this stage a conservative cut is most likely,” said Ann-Louise Hittle, a consultant at Wood Mackenzie....
...By the way, here’s a great timeline of the pound since the demise of Bretton Woods by the FT’s Roger Blitz....
...“This work of destruction is not as simple as people might think,” Qudratullah Jamal, the Taliban information minister, was quoted as saying....
...He now works in “Jamal Mobile City”, an ambitious name for a repair shack created from the spaces in between aid tarpaulin, wood boards and metal sheeting. “Here there’s no life,” he says....
...By burning wood more completely, it will roughly halve the amount of fuel she uses....
...“There is a Middle East regional gas crisis brewing,” says Rajnish Goswami at Wood Mackenzie, the Edinburgh-based energy consultancy....
...Natural gas production will remain “crippled for months” with no relief in sight, according to a report yesterday from Wood Mackenzie, pushing record high prices to an even higher plane....
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