Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN, called Russia and China’s veto “petty”....
...“Demanding an immediate unconditional ceasefire without an agreement requiring Hamas to release the hostages will not bring endurable peace,” US ambassador to the UN Linda-Thomas Greenfield said....
...D’Aniello, were very much in evidence....
...“This was tough, but we got there,” US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. “Today’s vote . . . lends support to our direct diplomacy.”...
...The US and Russia both abstained, while 13 other members voted in favour of the measure, which Washington’s ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield described as “humanitarian-focused”....
...“You’d have one ship on patrol like you saw in [the Tom Hanks movie] Captain Phillips and so when there was some kind of problem, they’d come respond,” says Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute...
...The USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier, is in the area. Greece and Denmark have said they will also send warships....
...Smart reads London Underground After Zac Brettler plummeted into the Thames his grieving parents found that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son....
...Baghdad recalled its ambassador to Tehran over the attack, according to Iraqi state media, and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires....
...“The legislative path is murky for sure but I’d never say never given the stakes involved on both issues,” said McGuire. But many Republicans are increasingly dismissive of the merits of Ukraine aid....
...“The only thing I’d say in response to that is, President Biden is my president as well,” he said....
...“I’d question the judgment of any brand — any brand — that is still advertising on X,” he added....
...“When you don’t have your own raison d'être, no ideology, industry, money, or anything of your own, then you don’t have a future....
...More than six months had passed since he’d bought Twitter, later renamed X, for $44bn....
...“When we would try to recruit people early on in Detroit, we’d talk to somebody in California and they would just laugh,” said Schwartz....
...He added: “I’d like to see a Security Council that functions but that is very challenging in a time when you have the antagonisms that we have with Russia and the competition that we have with China.”...
...Marc FilippinoFelicia Schwartz is the US foreign affairs and defence correspondent. Thanks, Felicia. Felicia Schwartz Thank you....
...Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN, said one of Russia’s attacks this week destroyed 60,000 tonnes of grain, enough to feed more than 270,000 people for a year....
...A National Security Council official said the Biden administration “continue[d] to be in regular communication” with Israeli counterparts “across the spectrum, from government officials to opposition leaders...
...Much of the diverging fortunes stem from Carlyle’s fumbled succession from its three billionaire founders, David Rubenstein, William Conway and Daniel D’Aniello, who founded the New York and Washington-based...
...“If you and I, 10 years ago, were talking about normalisation with Saudi Arabia, I think we’d look at each other like, ‘who’s been drinking what?’,” Biden said....
...At the Grammy music awards in February, singer Taylor Swift wore a vintage timepiece refashioned by jewellery designer Lorraine Schwartz as a choker, following in the footsteps of Rihanna, whose neck was...
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...In total, the group will now produce almost 6mn b/d less than it could in the first quarter of 2024....
...Today’s big read Harvey Schwartz, a former Goldman Sachs banker who took the helm of the private equity firm a year ago, after a fumbled succession from co-founders David Rubenstein and Daniel D’Aniello...
International Edition