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...Additional reporting by George Hammond in San Francisco and Mary McDougall in London...
...Crispin Simon Chief Executive, UK Trade and Investment (2013-14), HM Trade Commissioner, South Asia (2017-2020) Combe Hay, Somerset, UK...
...The outlook has been complicated by a surge in oil prices, with Brent crude topping $92 a barrel for the first time since October on Friday amid rising fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East....
...WhatsApp to George: I’m sad to hear that George. You’d have been great. But good news you feel able to come into the London office more often. WhatsApp to Stephen: How much does Cameron want?...
Stocks fall and gold rises as Middle East tensions push investors to haven assets
...“There has been a flight to safety as conflict unfolds in the Middle East,” said Andres Sanchez Balcazar, head of global bonds at Pictet....
...The waiter suggests a Bloody Mary to start. I assent. Iacobescu prefers a Campari soda. “Just that much Campari, that much soda. One cube of ice. Some lemon juice to the side,” he explains....
...Mary McDougall...
...Additional reporting by Mary McDougall...
...Tim BaleProfessor of PoliticsQueen Mary University of LondonLondon E1, UK...
...Henry James meets George Orwell. This woman edits the New York Times style magazine by day and writes the Great American Novel by night....
...Two fellow cryptanalysts, Norbert Biermann in Berlin and George Lasry in Tel Aviv, noted the post....
...Dead cat bounce catches out hedge funds Hedge funds betting on a decline in US and European stock markets have suffered an estimated $43bn of losses in a sharp rally over recent days, writes George Steer...
...Coincidentally, the East German city of Dresden was at the same time home to a KGB officer called Vladimir Putin....
...Liberia elections: Current president George Weah seeks a second term as voters in the African country head to the ballot box. Five more top stories 1....
...Canary Wharf Group has submitted plans for a vast “vertical” life sciences campus, as the owners of the east London district look to break their reliance on financial services as demand for office space...
...And actually, broadly speaking, they are the reason why there have always been 10,000 Tory voters in the East End of London....
...(People agreeing) George ParkerYes, Mr Davey there, speaking shortly after using a tractor to demolish a wall of blue-painted hay bales to illustrate his plans to take down the Tory vote on May the fourth...
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...Soon, avenues of planes were sprouting all over the place, from Chiswick in the west to Mile End in the east....
...In a break from recent tradition, Camilla, Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after...
...Elizabeth I appointed the Earl and Countess custodians of the captive Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569....
...Mary is hoping to complete her purchase as soon as possible, after bringing forward her decision to buy in the hope of beating ever-rising costs....
...In contrast, inflation of 6 per cent seems not too unlikely given the possible short term shocks (War escalation — Ukraine, Near East, Far East — climate shocks to key resources etc.)....
...“There’s been a lot of work done in the past two years,” says Leigh, citing the effect of the George Floyd protests and BlackLivesMatter movement in 2020....
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