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...“On one level this is a tragic story,” said Chambers....
...UK business sentiment: The British Chambers of Commerce publishes its quarterly economic survey....
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...A last-minute budget deal in the US, struck this week to avoid a government shutdown, stripped out further help for Ukraine despite strong support in both chambers of congress....
...(Smoking in Tokyo is still a factor; more bars than before are non-smoking, though some offer the dreaded cigarette chambers....
...Yet Johnson’s task is harder than most, given the exceedingly narrow margin by which his party controls the chamber....
...Bank of England: Andrew Bailey, the central bank’s governor, will give a keynote speech at British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference in the morning....
...Chambers UK, a legal guide, this year described Parkinson as a “widely respected figure in the financial crime market with notable experience in large-scale SFO investigations”....
...Although divided government is a possibility, the momentum from a Trump victory for the presidency would probably result in Republican control of both chambers....
...In Arizona, Democrat Mark Kelly currently holds a five-point lead over Republican Blake Masters with 68 per cent of the vote counted....
...Democrat Mark Kelly has won re-election to the US Senate in the battleground state of Arizona, bringing his party a step closer to holding its majority in the upper chamber of Congress....
...(A good Jemima Kelly column on that, albeit one that made this particular centrist splutter into his cornflakes.)...
...Holmes contested a claim from HM Revenue & Customs, first heard at the First Tier Tribunal Tax Chamber in June 2018, that contracts held between his personal services company, Red White and Green Limited...
...Kelly Anthon, Republican Senate Majority Leader of Idaho, said the state still has an office in China to help promote Idaho’s exports and attract foreign direct investment....
...particularly enjoyed Owen Walker and Stephen Morris’s brilliant account of the birth, life and death of Credit Suisse, Simon Kuper’s weekend essay on whether it is time for a sixth French Republic, and Jemima Kelly...
...The battle for control of the US Senate has come down to a handful of swing states, with Republicans so far failing to live up to expectations that they would win a majority in the upper chamber....
...Mark Kelly, the other Arizona senator, won re-election as a Democrat last month over Blake Masters, a Republican backed by Donald Trump, by a fairly comfortable margin....
...“This legislation is not needed . . . and it is not in Georgia’s best interest,” said US ambassador to Tbilisi Kelly Degnan yesterday....
...Democrats officially secured another majority in the Senate at the weekend, following victories in Arizona and Nevada for incumbent Democrats Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto, respectively....
...It came after Democrat Mark Kelly won re-election in Arizona over Trump-backed Republican candidate Blake Masters....
...The metaverse never really began — and yet it’s already over, writes Jemima Kelly. Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away, and so is investment....
...increasingly isolated due to China-based staff, both foreign and Chinese, being unable to travel to European headquarters for information exchanges, networking, training and the sharing of expertise,” the EU Chamber...
...From a Raffles hotel in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, Joe Biden broke from the business of a regional summit to hail the Senate victory that maintained his party’s hold on the US upper chamber of Congress...
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