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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...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....
...Paul Marshall, a barrister who represented victims during the landmark Court of Appeal case that overturned 83 sub-postmasters’ criminal prosecutions in 2021, known as Hamilton v Post Office, said lawyers...
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The 76,500-tonne M/V Glory, registered in the Marshall Islands, was grounded while joining a southbound convoy near Al-Qantara, according to a shipping agency....
...The only unqualified success in US democracy promotion was the Marshall Plan for postwar Europe....
...According to Graham Allison’s so-called “Thucydides trap”, a rising hegemon usually clashes with the existing one on its way down....
...“There’s a sweet spot between 20 and 30 miles, where there is a lot of congestion and car trips can take a long time,” says Eric Allison, head of product for Joby, the American eVTOL start-up....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Puzzle 2447 Mark Hebden v Chris Baker, British championship, Eastbourne 1991. Can you find White’s winning move?...
...Professor Keith Hayward London SW20, UK Letter in response to this letter: Defence mandarins failed to predict the globalisation threat/ From Derek Marshall, Former Managing Director Policy and Public...
...Liberty Steel also announced that V Ashok, currently chief financial officer of GFG, would be stepping down “for personal reasons” at the end of May....
...General George Marshall, architect of the plan that revitalised Europe after the second world war, was like Powell tapped to be secretary of state....
...The OECD turns 60 this year, having been formed out of the Organisation of European Economic Cooperation, which was set up after the second world war to help distribute Marshall Aid money....
...Perhaps it will be a V-shaped recovery after all, where V stands for vaccine....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Naushad Forbes, chairman of engineering company Forbes Marshall, called the GDP data “the worst performance in our history.”...
...Early signs of improvement in other portions of the global economy along with US “political considerations” could place further pressure on the dollar, said Allison Nathan, a strategist at Goldman Sachs....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Gap” announcements (Lunch with Richard Thaler, FT Weekend, August 3), they do employ one tried and tested technique from the world of bird song: on train announcements have a different voice for station v...
...Chris Allison’s Midori mixer helps keep his cocktail swampishly green. The whisky base reminds him of the smoke-filled rooms of old....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...Gert-Jan Segers, leader of the Christian Union party that serves in the government with Mr Rutte, has called for a “Marshall Plan” for the south....
...● Least preferred: Our least preferred names are those where valuation remains elevated despite cyclical risks and a lack of geographic diversity, such as Marshalls (Hold) and Howden (Hold)....
...And in the V&A collections we have discovered rare documentary evidence of the suit’s past....
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