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...Last week, CIA head Bill Burns got directly involved....
...“They were screaming, burn the ambulance, burn the bodies,” he said....
...Yet it is struggling to shake off its image as a rapacious sector with a slash-and-burn business model....
...Western countries have called on Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies to raise oil production to help address the cost of living crisis, but Riyadh has responded cautiously, not wanting to burn through limited...
...But while Ukraine burns, crude prices inflate, and western governments plead for more energy supply, American shale producers remain fixed on winning back shareholders by resisting the urge to drill....
...Seven weeks later, Sullivan travelled to Saudi Arabia to repeat the plea — another pivot for Biden, who had promised to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” for its murder of Jamal Khashoggi....
...“Responding to those attacks using those kind of interceptors means that they’re going to have a burn rate that is faster than they may have anticipated before,” the official said....
...The International Energy Agency says the world will burn 100.6mn b/d this year, a new high....
...But where the democratic flame still burns, however feebly, it should be shielded and fed....
...And Mr Biden promised to reassess Washington’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, which he called a “pariah” after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents two years ago....
...Meanwhile, our Due Diligence newsletter asks whether Uber can find a solution to its endless cash burn....
...The FT’s Murad Ahmed and John Burn-Murdoch have the full story here....
...As the global business elite deserted a Saudi Arabian investment summit a year ago, after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, the founder of Japan’s SoftBank slipped into Riyadh for...
...we go again with . . . you’re guilty until proven innocent’ President Donald Trump has accused critics of rushing to judgment over allegations that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the disappearance of Jamal...
...The literary critic and two-time Man Booker Prize judge John Sutherland suggests that the award of this year's prize to Anna Burns' Milkman, a somewhat recondite novel about the Northern Irish Troubles,...
...Hopefully by now you’re somewhat up to speed on the dramatic fallout from the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and how that has upended global relations with Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince Mohammed...
...Uber would retain operational control of the unit, but external partners could share the cost of developing the costly technology and ease concerns over the $500m in cash it burns each year....
...“The Syrian regime burns alive dozens of Syrians each day with its rockets,” wrote one opposition activist from Isis-controlled Deir Ezzor, Karam Jamal, in a Facebook post....
...International officials and other observers warn that Libya could burn through its considerable wealth if it remains at war with itself....
...Power plants burn more than 66m barrels of oil a year. Not only does this waste oil that would otherwise be exported or kept in reserve, it also damages the environment....
...But his particular joy is the centre’s throbbing 350-seat jazz hall, which has attracted many of the world’s most legendary musicians – including Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and Ahmad Jamal....
...It is the social potential of projects such as this as well as their environmental impact that attracts western investors, says Jamal Gore, managing-director of Carbon Clear, a London-based company that...
...The gang meets an American political exile, whose bittersweet experiences in Cuba burn some of the dew off their ideological naivety....
...Pointing at the scorched earth in the valley, he says Turkish flares set the fields on fire: “They burn our fields and don’t let us work the land.”...
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