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...chief executive of UBS Americas....
...I recently spent time at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America union training headquarters in Las Vegas, which was vast, sparkling and filled not only with the traditional union workforce...
...“There’s a big gap between what the United States says is essential, and what the Netanyahu government is prepared to do,” he adds. “And when you see these big gaps, the United States looks feckless.”...
...This week’s podcast is about Russia and the west. My guest is Fiona Hill, who’s been a senior adviser on Russia in both the White House and for America’s National Intelligence Council....
...The Midwest is bearing the brunt of the heatwave, just as a storm knocked out power for thousands of residents in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia....
...Cluss emigrated to the US after the failed 1848 revolution, during which he had been a member of the workers’ council of Mainz, and after a period working on navy yards and engineering projects he slowly...
...Armando Reyes, owner of Carpenter Bros Hardware in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said his tank inventories now last two weeks instead of four, even after he increased his typical order from to 90 tanks from 70....
...“These have been the worst three-and-a-half years in the history of the GCC [Gulf Co-operation Council].”...
...Stephen Ross, chairman of The Related Companies, and Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, agreed to end a fight over the unions’ influence in the Hudson Yards project...
...His crowning glory is now rising on a site on the western edge of Manhattan that is the biggest in North America — the $25bn Hudson Yards development....
...from the Gulf Cooperation Council, the regional trading bloc....
...The sheer velocity of its escalation, powered by Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, respectively the crown princes and de facto rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, without any viable regional or...
...Abu Dhabi and Riyadh led the embargo on Qatar, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism, meddling in regional affairs and backing political Islamist groups, despite it being a key US ally and host to America’...
...What solidified the connection were the figures of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, two great black, Muslim icons who, having embraced Islam, were inextricably connected to the “brotherhood”, and so the black...
...“The Church has the right and duty to send messages of brotherhood and equality,” she says....
...The new governor’s desire to make formal notes reduced the colony’s ruling council to panic. Binding was possible: a carpenter could chop down a tree for boards....
...Sheikh Mohammed warns that a failure to mediate the stand-off could disrupt the stability of the world’s mother lode of energy resources and rupture the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council....
...Fyodor Lukyanov is editor of Russia in Global Affairs and chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defence policy in Moscow...
...However, Jason Furman, chairman of the council, says Mr Obama made repeated attempts to get more money into infrastructure and was rebuffed....
..., joiners, plasterers and site managers....
...More than seven out of 10 contractors reported difficulty finding carpenters, 60 per cent for electricians and 56 per cent for roofers....
...In return, it appears one of the world’s leading investors has been retained to pay the carpenters....
...“You can see a certain set of interests and visions of the future recurring in the Netherlands, UK, America, Japan and Korea,” McGetrick says....
...America’s allies in the region fear that the influx of funds Iran will receive under a nuclear deal will embolden its push for greater regional influence....
...One of the chief sources of tension in the Middle East is Ankara’s support for Egypt’s elected-then-ousted Islamist government and for the broader Muslim Brotherhood movement, which Saudi Arabia and the...
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