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...Such concerns were heightened by the news last weekend that a six-year-old boy, Wadea al-Fayoume, was stabbed to death in the US, reportedly because he was a Muslim....
...Adnoc, under the leadership of Sultan al-Jaber, who is also in charge of UAE’s hosting of the COP28 climate summit, has sought to maximise the value of the Gulf state’s resources by expanding in downstream...
...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...But Patricia Bullrich, the centre-right coalition’s candidate in Argentina’s upcoming presidential election, said she opposed the move because of Russia’s war in Ukraine....
...Gálvez worked on the 2019 equality legislation but, in running for the National Action party, is standing for a party that is anti-abortion rights....
...Patricia Astley, managing director at Julius Baer International, says: “International families often travel through or own properties in the UK....
...The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, in a US drone attack in Kabul in July shows that the game is still on, she says....
...Schwarzenegger notes that popular actors of the 1970s – Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen – were not big men. Nobody wanted to cast a man like him. “People were turning me down,” he recalls....
...Patricia Espinosa, the Mexican diplomat who stepped down from her role as the UN climate chief this year, said generalisations were unhelpful because countries had specific needs and resources....
...When I go, I always stick to lamb chops followed by tiramisu so I’ve yet to try the signature spaghetti al cartoccio, which comes in a greaseproof paper bag....
...Caring recently sold a further 25 per cent of his business to Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jassim Bin-Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar, making them 50/50 partners, the Financial Times can reveal....
...Impeccably dressed, part of a ménage à trois with antique-collecting guano baron Arturo Lopez-Willshaw and his wife Patricia, he entertained on a gargantuan scale....
...The banking system, the health system . . . education, water, sanitation — all of these systems are falling one after the other,” says Abdallah al-Dardari, the UNDP’s Afghanistan head....
...“I had to leave Afghanistan in order to prevent bloodshed, in order to make sure that a huge disaster is prevented,” Ghani said, according to a translation provided by Al Jazeera....
...A few hours later, another helicopter arrived with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghanistan’s acting first deputy prime minister, who brought cash with him....
...It was fear of history repeating itself that prompted Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s former president, to flee the country as the Taliban entered Kabul....
...By late Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani was said to have left the country....
...He was also accused of close association with al-Qaeda....
...An adviser to ousted Afghan president Ashraf Ghani said al-Qaeda “are strong, they are present in this region and they have close and even stronger relations than the Taliban in the past”....
...Ghani swallows his pride Ghani, a former World Bank official and author of a book on fixing failed states, was elected president in 2014....
...Patricia Espinosa, the head of UN Climate Change, praised Saudi Arabia’s move on Saturday, calling it “bold and courageous”....
...Observers warned that the Taliban would extinguish rights for women and could once again turn Afghanistan into a haven for international terrorism — with groups such as al-Qaeda and Isis already present...
...Afghanistan’s presidential palace in Kabul came under rocket attack on Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani attended prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha....
...The official added that it would take al-Qaeda between one or two years to reach a similar culpability to do the same....
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