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...Abba....
...“DJ Play a Christmas Song” is a generic retread of her dance-pop apotheosis “Believe”, while chintzy duet “Home” is an odd-couple pairing with the voice of yuletide himself, Michael Bublé....
...Speculation points to a possible hologram comeback, inspired by Abba’s triumphant move into the virtual realm with their Abba Voyage show....
...And finally, discard Abba’s advice: the winner doesn’t take it all. An agreement will only last if it benefits both sides. No zero-sum game, but “win-win” in the jargon....
...One assumes that the live performance will take the form of a hologram, as with the Abba show Voyage....
...Michael Milshtein, a former intelligence official in the Israel Defense Forces, said an agreement without releases of high-security prisoners such as Barghouti was not on the cards....
...Investcorp has named Abbas Rizvi as its chief financial officer, replacing Jan Erik Back, who will retire in April....
...The president also spoke with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, the White House said. Additional reporting by Simeon Kerr in Dubai...
...By far the most thought-provoking discussion of this I have seen since last week’s summit comes courtesy of Björn Ulvaeus of Abba....
...But a spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas branded the assault on the densely populated camp, which killed 12 Palestinians, injured more than 140 and forced around 500 families to flee, “a new...
...The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left by Hassan Abbas (Yale) After a 20-year war, the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan....
...This year’s event includes a concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl by Abba tribute act Björn Again....
...The duo came to attention 14 years ago, with a story that compelled attention: teenaged Swedish sisters making music that sounded out of time and out of place: they were in the lineage not of Abba or Robyn...
...behind the scenes of films being made by Martin Scorsese, with whom she has a longstanding friendship, Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Lynne Ramsay, Michael...
...At the hour point — usually just after an appropriately awful mangling of Abba — this cringing chrysalis will miraculously gestate into diva form and blast Beyoncé at a quality and volume that test the window...
...It has faced simmering infighting as rival factions position themselves to succeed its 87-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas....
...“Credit, like equities, is a simple animal,” said Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Global Research....
...One former colleague described him as someone who “liked to portray himself as a bruiser” with little hinterland beyond a love of football and music by Abba....
...The Palestinians were outraged, with President Mahmoud Abbas arguing that the plan “detracts from Palestinian rights and denies all agreements and resolutions of international legitimacy”....
...A dance remix of Abba’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” blasts out of the sound system. The crowd goes wild....
...The brainchild of Michael Tilson Thomas, former conductor of the San Francisco and London Symphony Orchestras, the New World Symphony is “America’s Orchestral Academy” — and with Michael’s global reputation...
...Early in her career at Universal, she staked her capital on getting the Abba musical Mamma Mia! produced. “There was some pushback.” Was it sexism? “I’d say people didn’t like Abba as much as I did.”...
...“Iran will add 1,000 more centrifuges which are 50 per cent stronger than the existing machines to the Natanz site on top of replacing the ones damaged [in the incident],” said Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy...
...Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said on Thursday that nuclear deal talks were still “far from getting to a concrete conclusion but I can say we are progressing well”....
...President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to cancel planned elections, 15 years after his people last went to the polls, has sparked a revival of Palestinians’ demands for their democratic rights which deserve to...
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