Hints and tips:
...“Hundreds of thousands of civilians and displaced people are now in great danger in El Fasher.”...
...She was persuaded by another woman in a similarly influential situation: “It was meeting Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani [the sister of Qatar’s ruling emir], who commissioned the M7 building...
...With hostilities declared, few see the other backing down. Which of them triumphs will decide the future of Sudan and its 46mn people. “They’re locked in a kind of pitched battle to the death....
...A city state with a population of just under three million people, it lacked the infrastructure to host hundreds of thousands of visitors at a time....
...Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the 38-year-old sister of the Emir of Qatar, has an official title: chairperson of Qatar Museums....
...Tribalistic, impoverished and blighted by a corrupt, weak state, it was awash with arms and a base for one of al-Qaeda’s most active branches....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Candidates for the inquiry include assessing the cyber security risks of the Internet of Things or a deep look at how Google, Facebook et al gather data to potentially disadvantage rivals....
...that killed 176 people....
...And in the centre of that ring, we have the state of Illinois, where Chicago is....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...The futuristic, rocket-shaped Dubai Creek Tower will be a “notch” higher than the Burj Khalifa, the current holder of that title, just down the road....
...Power players: Khalifa Haftar The dominant military force in the east of the country since 2014 as head of his Libyan National Army....
...Mian et al also found that the states to deregulate first weren’t more volatile than the rest of America back in the 1960s or 1970s, nor can their findings be explained by the big drop in the oil price in...
...Today, the tallest building is Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 828m, followed by Shanghai Tower (632m) and Abraj Al-Bait Clock tower in Mecca (601m)....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Images broadcast on Libyan television on Friday showed part of the el-Sidr oil export terminal, in the east of the country, in flames and spewing black smoke....
...After years of political turmoil, investors are returning to the Arab world’s most populous state....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...“But I don’t think these guys are the ones to cut a deal at the end of the day. These are not the real people with the real decision-making authority.”...
...“These assets belong to the people of Bahrain and need to be returned to the state budget,” Bahrain Watch said....
...call it somewhat grandiloquently Om el Donia or “mother of the world”....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
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