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...“The feeling from locals has always been that we lost the city centre to tourism and foreigners,” says Alberto Román, a freelance data analyst....
...What did the Romans do for us? Scheidel does not give the usual answers. Their empire fell....
...Mohammad Fazeli, an Iranian sociologist, said people might forgive human error but “how about days of denials and efforts to cover up” the truth....
...That included wresting $33m from Mr Sargeant on behalf of his former business partner Mohammad Al-Saleh. Burford booked a $12.1m profit but that sum flowed into the core litigation finance division....
...(Nikkei Asian Review) The rise of New York’s ‘pencil towers’ The Romans built great domes, Victorians erected majestic bridges and Chicago created the first skyscrapers....
...A third round of talks to form a government in the Roman palazzos this week has done little to clarify Italy’s political future....
...In the last Energy Source, I wrote about Mohammad Barkindo, secretary-general of Opec, and his appeal for more allies to help manage the oil market....
...Mixing iconographies, they show the figure of Jesus and the Roman custom of the bride and groom uniting right hands....
...Likewise, the 1953 coup against the elected Iranian government of Mohammad Mossadegh, orchestrated by the CIA and MI6 after Tehran had nationalised the oil industry, was a conspiracy....
...Joseph Hazboun, a Palestinian from Bethlehem in the West Bank who works in Jerusalem at the Roman Catholic pontifical mission to Palestine, married his Jerusalemite wife 20 years ago....
...Overhead the midday sun is glaring down on the dunes, a sea of golden desert in what was once the ancient Roman province of Fezzan....
...“It can be challenging because you are converting from Roman letters to Arabic and sometimes you have letters that won’t work.” Calligraphy is an obvious choice for companies targeting Arab consumers....
...The luxury spice – which is traded at about $2,500 a kilo – has been cultivated in Iran since the fifth century BC, when it was exported throughout the Roman Empire....
...Achaemenid empire, and in turn influenced Romans with imperial ambitions from Pompey to Elagabulus,” writes Axworthy....
...The city is often dubbed “Londongrad” because of the number of Russian residents, including, of course, billionaire Roman Abramovich....
...Resting after the tour at a seaside café called the Philadelphia, I meet Mohammad Lias and share a cup of thick, sweet Turkish coffee....
...“It was the largest empire the world had known, about the size of the Roman empire, depending on how you look at it....
...Moshe Katsav, the Israeli president, shook hands with the leaders of his country's bitter enemies, Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Iran's Mohammad Khatami....
...Brazil The world’s largest Roman Catholic country declared seven days of mourning....
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