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...On Tuesday, Trump complained that he may be forced into a fire sale of assets to postpone enforcement of a $464mn fraud judgment against him in New York....
...Russia has sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties in its war with Ukraine. The Chinese economy is struggling. Iran faces internal unrest and North Korea is a nuclear-armed basket case....
...Art Pope, chair of a North Carolina-based retail chain and a Haley donor, says he will never vote for Biden, but is undecided on Trump....
...One armoured vehicle appeared to have caught fire after being hit; another was left with a hole in the roof about half the width of the vehicle....
...Rescue officials told local media that at least seven people had been pulled into the water, with a fire department spokesperson calling the incident a “mass-casualty event”....
..., whose Supreme Court victory over Harvard and the University of North Carolina last year effectively ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions....
...Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel’s co-ordination and liaison administration to Gaza, called reports of a siege and strikes on al-Shifa “lies”....
...It should be focused on militarily defeating its armed opponents, rather than collective punishment of a wider group of people for casualties inflicted....
...One official in the enclave said its hospitals were running at full capacity because of the number of casualties they had received since Saturday....
...Since October 7, Arouri helped co-ordinate Hamas operations with the so-called Axis of Resistance, the constellation of Iran-backed militant groups, in a war room in Beirut, according to Lebanese officials...
...“I would walk through fires for him,” she tells me, bursting into tears. We are told to go inside the ballroom, where there is a sense of great excitement ahead of the very special guest’s appearance....
...Hamas’s brazen dawn assault began with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel....
...Many business schools offer slots on their regular courses for veterans, who receive generous financial aid: they range from Duke University’s Fuqua School — which is close to a military base in North Carolina...
...“That was the spark that all this needed, just adding fuel to a fire that was already there,” said Cecilia Farfán Méndez, head of research at the Center for US-Mexican studies at the University of California...
...A second Israeli military official said Israel had targeted only military targets and “regretted” any civilian casualties....
...“So many companies have really benefited greatly from the zero cost of capital,” says Greg Peters, co-chief investment officer at PGIM fixed income....
...The roll-call of oil and gas producers reporting sharp drops in profits continues this week, with Pioneer Natural Resources, Devon Energy and Occidental Petroleum all posting 50 per cent-plus slides in their...
...Gaza under fire Fighting a ground war in the narrow streets of Gaza, where Hamas has spent years building a network of tunnels known as the Gaza Metro, is likely to involve huge casualties — both Israeli...
...North Korea’s increasing tendency to fire intermediate-range missiles over the Japanese home islands has raised the threat posed by Pyongyang in the eyes of Japan’s security establishment — more closely...
...“So without co-ordination with the PA we will find ourselves again in the same story — and very soon.”...
...It is one of the reasons Ukraine didn’t have the same trajectory as Russia,” says Silviya Nitsova, an expert on oligarchs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
...No casualties were reported on either side....
...Contending that the firm was hostile to fossil fuel, Republican states have pulled more than $3bn in funds from BlackRock and North Carolina’s treasurer has called for the ouster of founder Larry Fink from...
...“Ukrainian soldiers are known as fast-learners,” says Oleksiy Melnyk, co-director of the Razumkov Centre think-tank in Kyiv....
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