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...The attack came after the USS Mason had responded to a distress call from the M/V Central Park, which had been boarded by unknown assailants, Centcom said....
...There were no injuries and the ship, the Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned and operated M/V Genco Picardy, sustained some damage but was “seaworthy and continuing under way”, Centcom said....
...A Gulf official said the Saudis were not happy with the way the UAE was handling the discussions in Dubai. Here’s the latest on the talks as they near their conclusion. 4....
...In an otherwise dismal year for M&A, Adnoc has been able to attract Wall Street talent with the promise of a bevy of transactions....
...“Everywhere you look in Saudi Arabia, you can see growth and progress and I’m excited to be part of that,” Nadal said....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...I’m an outsider. I’m too young. I’ve never been a front office manager in my entire life.”...
...(David Pilling) Power Points Petrochemical factories lining the US Gulf coast have earned the region the nickname “Cancer Alley”....
...There's the union v independence tactical voting, and then there's the anti-Tory tactical voting. And the two do not necessarily align. So the question is, what is the emotion, which is......
...And if Trump is their nominee — which I think he is — and he runs on a promise to pull out of Ukraine, I actually think that’s going to hurt him politically....
...“My father always said, ‘I’ll never do a retrospective while I’m alive because I’m not done working.’”...
...“I’m just going to go to lawyers . . . I’m dying to talk to other people about it. I’m dying to talk to the press.”...
...I’m staying in a lower-middle-class South Asian neighbourhood, where a dosa meal costs about €2.50, and where all the soaps in the Loyal City supermarket promise “whitening”....
...I’m all the happier to fill in for Tony Barber this week....
...One of the fund’s own investors — Gulf Investment Authority, say — then covers the remaining 30 per cent....
...Multiple books promise to help women to say no to more of these burdens, but will things ever change?...
...I don’t think I’m alone in regarding him as something less than a model of democratic purity....
...Letter in response to this article: Gulf state ‘gold rush’ is no more than fleeting mirage/From Zaid M Belbagi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...
...“I’m not interested in revolution,” he says. “I’m a capitalist. It was his capitalist aptitude that attracted me, not his revolutionary history.”...
...Some were beaten; all were made to sign a promise to “cease immoral activity”....
...“I’m intrinsically sceptical . . . but this is not philanthropy, this is purely in their economic and political interests.”...
...“I’m from this walk, even though I’m not from San Francisco....
...“I promise you that when I come to Greece, I’m not coming empty-handed....
...Meanwhile, UK bankers’ counterparts in the Gulf had no shortage of cash to throw around....
...And it’s this huge breakthrough, not directly yet with Saudi, but with the Gulf states, with the promise that at some point MBS might even normalise with Israel. I mean, how big a step is that?...
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