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...In 2022, the US tracked down and killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in downtown Kabul, fuelling western suspicions that the Taliban was harbouring him....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals....
...But he insisted to the FT’s Claire Jones that “all of the Republicans running would do better than Joe Biden” in November....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president-designate of the UN climate summit, hit out at rich countries for failing to support the fund....
...Their gorgeous, luminous singing hit a peak with Morley’s sensuous “Et incarnatus est”....
...For those for whom yule rules, your time has now come. St Nicholas Eve, the primary occasion for gift-giving in the Netherlands and other countries, arrives on Tuesday....
...Tesla served legal papers to an office administrator for the head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Yasir al-Rumayyan, on December 19, according to court documents filed in a California federal court...
...Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Annie Jonas...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The game is on Friday at 2pm ET. Apologies for the error — Gordon....
...(This idea, inspired by then US Treasury secretary Nicholas Brady’s attempts to make sovereign debt safer and more liquid for private investors, was put forward by Boston University professor Kevin Gallagher...
...The bill passed the upper chamber of Congress by a vote of 61-36....
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
...The president said his administration would work with Congress to formulate potential policy responses....
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
..., US Debt solutions require more stick, less carrot / From Tim Jones, Head of Policy, Debt Justice, London E2, UK...
...The company paid law firm Sidley Austin $2.8mn since 2021 for lobbying members of both houses of Congress over its efforts to acquire Grail among other issues....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...Indeed, the national character has been shaped by the management of aflaj — according to Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout’s A History of Modern Oman “aflaj . . . has given Omani culture a strong material...
...As for the bill itself, it is — to quote Jonathan Jones QC — an “extraordinary” piece of legislation....
...“Justice Thomas was the sole member of the Supreme Court who would have allowed records from Trump, Meadows, et al to be withheld from House Jan 6 Committee,” Kaine said on Twitter....
...“If I think of the amount of pressure I’m under as a deposit taker and the care and attention I have to take when providing unsecured lending to younger people, it is staggering me that Klarna et al are...
...We’re doing something new, trialling an experiment with audio newsletters read by Microsoft Azure Al....
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