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...Here the penthouse ($65mn) not only has a striking interior but also offers 360-degree views of the Mediterranean and the ancient port....
...Part recipe books, part armchair-travel, this season’s cookbooks offer a mezze of delicious foods....
...Kozyrev without hesitation goes for the three-course business lunch: a mezze platter to start, followed by the dorado and a Mediterranean dessert....
...You can find brined vine leaves in just about any Middle Eastern or Mediterranean store....
...A bowl of lemons on the kitchen table is a joy to behold too, a bright reminder of the Mediterranean which, for so many of us, will remain tantalisingly out of reach for some time....
...Putting Oscar de la Renta on the map Designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia had mapped a new Oscar de la Renta Silk Route while holidaying around the Mediterranean this summer, journeying through Morocco...
...Roughly 550,000 barrels a day of Kurdish oil flow to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan....
...package up loans and equity stakes in Greek companies into securitisation vehicles and sell them to international investors — providing a channel for foreign funds to invest in a potential recovery of the Mediterranean...
...The hardest thing is to hold back on the bread and mezze....
...Petroceltic’s activities are focused in north Africa, the Mediterranean Basin and Black Sea....
...New data have highlighted the extent to which smuggling, bogus shipping logs, unusual coastal stop-offs and inexplicable voyages are increasing across the Mediterranean and Atlantic for ships passing through...
...Yet only two aspects of the commission’s agenda received immediate support: a military mission targeting smugglers in the Mediterranean, which launched last month, and a robust effort to return migrants...
...“I cannot read fiction or sci-fi,” he says, in perfect English with Mediterranean inflections. “It stems from an emotional antipathy for lies. I like history. I watch documentaries....
...The financial implosion of a small Mediterranean country would be the kind of shock required to dampen animal spirits in the US....
...If you are unable to get hold of Palamós prawns, ask your fishmonger for another type of wild prawn, preferably from the Mediterranean, or Scottish langoustine, as these will have a much better flavour....
...From catwalks to urban sidewalks, the Mediterranean sandal, with its artisanal feel, vegetable tanned leather and stitched sole redolent of vacations spent in the Greek isles, Capri or the south of France...
...Karam Upon entering Karam one sees large groups of diners being served beautiful selections of mezze, resplendent in colour against white tablecloths....
...But I think the focus on parts of the Mediterranean also obscures a much more interesting story of Dolphin’s big projects in the Dominican Republic and Panama, both relative hotspots in a much more positive...
...business From The Sunday Times, - A former Conservative peer who is poised to bag a £138 million windfall from the sale of the London Metal Exchange (LME) has moved a key part of his business empire to a Mediterranean...
...Intense speculation about the future strategy of Vivendi, the French media and telecoms group, has turned a normally discreet annual corporate get-together on the Mediterranean island of Corsica this weekend...
...Turkey has already struck a deal with Russia’s Atomstroyexport to build the country’s first nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast. CNNC and CGNPC did not respond to requests for comment....
...He stressed that the eurozone crisis had “settled down” and that GSK’s own debts in the Mediterranean countries had fallen over the past year, but he had no plans to stop the practice “just in case”....
...Interest has been expressed by LVMH, the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Qatar Holding LLC and China’s HNA Group, but no deal has yet been sealed....
...Carrefour found it hard to absorb a chain of relatively small Promodès supermarkets that stretched from the Mediterranean to South America and Asia....
...The bank’s 1,000 branches are concentrated on the Mediterranean coast, where the Spanish property bubble was particularly inflated, and its bad loan ratio was put at 20.8 per cent of assets on September...
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