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...than double its high estimate, when it was offered by Sotheby’s last April, while in July a c1970 collaboration between Yves Piaget and Salvador Dalí, another gold bracelet style featuring a gold Dalí d’...
...“Five years ago we’d have one or two quirky enquiries for something like that; now there would be dozens of enthusiastic bidders.” It is the same with vintage Rolex....
...Unsurprisingly, he’d like a better job. “This is dangerous. It’s all electricity! Once I got shocked when I was touching the board and thrown against this wall.”...
...After the fall of Mosul, the first priority of the US was the removal of Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s authoritarian prime minister....
...The Sunnis blame the US for failing to back the rebellion by Syria’s Sunni majority against Bashar al-Assad’s regime and for supporting for so long the sectarian Shia government of Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq...
...Iraq’s political crisis intensified on Monday after the country’s president named a new prime minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki, raising fears of a power struggle amid the battle with Islamist insurgents...
...The change of government in Baghdad — after Tehran withdrew its support for Nouri al-Maliki, the former prime minister and backed Haider al-Abadi to replace him in August — has helped strengthen Iran’s position...
...So the new project is bringing in a mix of businesses, from the performing arts venue Jam Jar to Nostalgia Classic Cars, design store M.A.D. Gallery and architectural firms....
...squabbling political class defied expectations and forged a new government proposed by Prime Minister Haider Abadi, the Shia political activist and UK-educated engineer installed to replace the divisive Nouri...
...The rift erupted under the premiership of Nouri Maliki, former prime minister, and its resolution follows a preliminary arrangement forged several weeks ago....
...This should happen “not next week, not next month, but now”, Mr Kerry said at the heavily fortified US embassy in Baghdad, where he held talks with Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Shia prime minister, and other...
...Haider al-Abadi, the Shia politician recently nominated to replace Nouri al-Maliki as Iraqi prime minister, shares the outgoing Baghdad government’s opposition to unapproved Kurdish oil sales....
...has been steadily trying to put pressure on the Iraqi government to create a political and social structure where you can rebuild the Iraqi security forces, which were nearly destroyed by prime minister Nouri...
...Friday that it would be “several days” before he made a final decision about any new military intervention in Iraq and insisted that US help would be partly dependent on the Shia-dominated government of Nouri...
...Iraq had counted on producing 3.4m barrels a day of oil this year, but output sagged to 2.3m b/d in August, excluding Kurdish-controlled oilfields, according to the latest IEA monthly report....
...“I’d like to see all the province part of the Kurdish Region,” said Omar, a gruff, mustachioed grocer. “I’d like to see Kirkuk not having any relationship at all with the rest of Iraq.”...
...In a television interview aired last week, Nouri Abusahmain, the speaker of parliament, warned that Libya was “on the verge of bankruptcy” because of the blockade....
...I’d be shocked if we didn’t see this alliance break down, particularly with regard to who these actors are, how they operate and how they conceive themselves.” There are already signs of tension....
...Nouri Abusahmayn, president of the GNC and Libya’s head of state, has described the events of recent days as a coup attempt....
...As Isis launched an attack on the Baiji refinery on Tuesday night, Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, sacked four military commanders....
...About 200,000 b/d of exports have also been lost from Iraqi Kurdistan since the start of the year because of a revenue-sharing dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government....
...Nor is there any love lost between Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and the government in Syria, which harboured him during his years in exile....
...(Financial Times) “American International Group named longtime banker Peter D....
...Border security debate A UN Security Council meeting will discuss Côte d’Ivoire, which has been relatively stable in recent years but punctuated by violence with deadly raids near the western border with...
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