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...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...These visits come after their traditional North American and European backers contend with an economic downturn that has forced them to rein in private investments....
...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...That included acting as a conduit for the flow of money linked with child abuse, drugs, financing to designated terrorist groups such as Hamas and al-Qaeda, and violating US sanctions on countries like Iran...
...Bakr al-Naji, 29, one of the cooks, said his group of 25 volunteers used donated ingredients to make 10,000 meals each day....
...Transporting aid from southern Gaza to the north is particularly dangerous....
...“This COP is even more of a trade show than we saw in Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh [in 2021 and 2022],” said Alex Scott, climate diplomacy and geopolitics lead at the climate-focused think-tank E3G....
...Off-season at Château La Coste, a few miles north of Aix-en-Provence, and the rows of vines are bare tendrils, entwined....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...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....
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...The perception of higher masculinity as indicated by a high [dominance] score violates the female stereotype, which Oh et al. [2019, 2020] suggest dominant-looking female analysts are perceived as less likable...
...February 3 to May; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Doubt: A Parable’, American Airlines/Todd Haimes Theatre Starring Liev Schreiber and Tyne Daly, with director Scott Ellis at the helm...
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...She was followed, moments later, by Scott Bok, the board chair who had been a staunch Magill defender....
...Exxon’s Pioneer deal: Scott Sheffield built Pioneer into the biggest oil producer in Texas and sold it for $60bn. The Permian oil man speaks to the FT....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...The Royal Bahamas Police Force said that officers from its financial crimes investigation unit had arrested Bankman-Fried shortly after 6pm ET at his apartment complex in Albany....
...Scott Roecker, vice-president of nuclear material security at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a US-based non-profit, said that to his knowledge this was by far the largest quantity of uranium ore ever to...
...Saudi Arabia is far from hanging up its jersey Yasir al-Rumayyan has had a busy few seasons....
...Barring any plot twists, Ratcliffe has triumphed over Qatari businessman Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, who declared he was out of the race this weekend....
...say Jonas et al. Yes it can! Look! And look! And look! That’s Tesla on an EV of 28.3 times 2025 ebitda, per Morgan Stanley forecasts, which is more expensive than Nvidia’s 25.3 times ebitda....
...North Korean-state sponsored groups have been particularly active, stealing around $1bn from DeFi protocols....
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