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...Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips December purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for manufacturing and services UK: November insolvency figures and GfK Consumer Confidence Survey Results: Darden Restaurants Q2, H&...
...Pax Syriana conveniently put an end to 15 years of war in Lebanon as George H W Bush declared a new world order....
...In March, after the US, EU and UK imposed sanctions on China over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Beijing accused H&M and Nike of “boycotting” cotton produced in Xinjiang....
...New traders have risen through Syria’s war economy to challenge Rami....
...Mohammad and Ali are the sons of Syria’s richest man, Rami Makhlouf, who also happens to be the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s cousin and childhood playmate....
...As customers browse the latest fast fashion at an H&M store in Riyadh, a voice blares over the loudspeakers urging them to finish their shopping quickly....
...Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, responded on social media by saying: “Whenever/wherever US interferes, chaos, repression and resentment follow.”...
...With greater resources and deeper official connections, “the Rami Makhlouf networks have access to a much deeper tool kit to get around sanctions,” he says....
...H ardliners in contrast are offering to treble monthly payments to the poor, while providing cheap housing and marriage loans....
...“It may have to do with the public persona of the hosts themselves,” says Mohammad Hamid, Two.42.Solutions chief technology officer. “Colbert is more popular than Seth Meyers....
...Mohammad Borkot, 20, began studying at the madrassa seven years ago when his father, an engineering professor, returned from the UK in order to put his children in religious schools....
...Hamas ejected the West Bank’s ruling Fatah movement from Gaza in 2007, but Rami Hamdallah’s unity cabinet is due to travel there on Thursday for the first cabinet meeting to be held since the rift....
...The announcement came two days after the assassination of Mohammad Chatah, a top aide to former prime minister Saad Hariri, who grew up in Saudi Arabia....
...… History by Tony Barber Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, OUP, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was one of...
...Andrew Hill ——————————————- ECONOMICS Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W Calomiris and Stephen H Haber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35...
...Last November, Benetton bowed to Vatican pressure and withdrew from its latest advertising campaign a doctored image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing Mohammad Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo’s Al Azhar...
...“If the Syrian regime can control Homs, they can control Syria for the next six months,” says Rami Abdulrahman from the London-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory....
...“We assured him that the regime is already gone in many cities, and was just keeping control by force of arms,” said Mohammad Ali Amer, a Syrian activist now in Cairo....
...Bennett, who also uses the Muslim name Yasin Mohammad, is from a working-class area in Queens, New York. Bennett works on Ground Zero, mostly manning a jackhammer....
...bought a nine volt battery at W.H. Smith at King?s Cross railway station....
...the former general bought Kiani Kertas, a Borneo pulp mill built by Suharto golfing buddy Mohammad ?Bob? Hasan, from the government following the crisis....
...Rami Makhlouf, an Assad cousin, has emerged as perhaps the most powerful businessman and is said to have input into political decisions....
...The only native Iraqi among them is Mohammad Said al-Hakim....
...Mohammad A. Foghi I have been in London for nine months and I went back to Italy 20 days before the terrorist attack....
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