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...“I had to open yoghurt in front of customers before selling it to them to make sure it hadn’t soured,” 39-year-old Hashem said at his shop in Hasbaya al-Metn, a village 20km east of Beirut....
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...In Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza, Mohamed al-Najjar, 45, stood in a long queue in front of a water distribution point....
...Noha al-Hassady, a teacher now with her family in a Red Crescent shelter, saw the front of a car being pushed by the water through her window when her husband opened it....
...Faisal Arale Afrah, a senior official at Mogadishu’s municipality, was sitting at his desk when the building was shaken to the core by the blast....
...“Everything that happens between an Arab and a Jew will become a national dispute rather than a conflict between two people,” says Mohamad Abu Shreki, who works for the municipality in Lod....
...After years of ignoring a region that is among the poorest in Brazil, the far-right populist elected president in 2018 is seeking to hoover up support with a programme of infrastructure work and cash handouts...
...What real rates are telling you, Al-Hussainy argues, is how close monetary policy is to the neutral rate of interest, which economists call R*....
...The Beijing version of tagliatelle al ragù or spaghetti Bolognese is “fried sauce noodles” (zhajiang mian), chewy strands of hand-pulled pasta tossed with a few fresh vegetables and a shiny-dark braise of...
...The group has recently added funerals and crematoria to universities, schools, and municipalities as places it claims it will never attack....
...As one lobbyist for the National Rifle Association tells Osnos, the al-Qaeda attacks were a giant windfall for the US gun lobby....
...“Our efforts helped to prevent severe disruptions in the financial system and unlocked trillions of dollars of private lending to households, businesses, and municipalities at a moment when the economy needed...
...the Knesset for the Arab Ta’al party after this year’s elections....
...Since March the US central bank has rolled out 13 credit facilities to ensure that businesses and municipalities of many sizes have easy and cheap access to credit throughout the pandemic downturn....
...Orlowski, 36, has long admired Al Gore’s 2006 call to arms on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, and wants The Social Dilemma to be the “Inconvenient Truth of tech”....
...Beirut’s southern suburbs filled with mourners in early March, after the death of Hizbollah militants in neighbouring Syria. Hizbollah’s military wing is supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime....
...quantities of debt and set up a slew of credit facilities to shore up financial markets, struggling businesses and municipalities....
...Additional reporting by Asmaa al-Omar...
...The largest companies are Saudi Basic Industries, Saudi Telecom and Al Rajhi Bank....
...President Vladimir Putin’s decision to throw Russia’s military weight behind Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad helped turn the eight-year civil war in the regime’s favour....
...Mr al-Hibbu has accused governor Nawfal Hammadi al-Sultan of corruption and interfering in municipality projects, without providing documents to substantiate this claim....
...Perhaps only J Edgar Hoover, the infamous head of the FBI, stayed in his job for longer. As a political appointee, Marshall’s job ought to have been up for grabs with each administration....
...The Anadolu agency report said two rubbish trucks belonging to the local municipality had entered the garden of the consulate through a back gate to pick up a soil sample before leaving with a police escort...
...1 — Tulum, Mexico Judge by the magazine spreads or the Instagram feeds of hipster travel influencers and you’d be forgiven for thinking that this municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo is all...
...the West Bank into the municipality of Jerusalem or the state of Israel....
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