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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...It will invest alongside a £200m British government fund and will also look at sectors such as clean energy, tech and infrastructure....
...The transformation of Adnoc, founded in 1971, the year of the formation of the United Arab Emirates, aims to speed oil-dependent Abu Dhabi’s diversification efforts as the government prepares for a post-oil...
...Nabeel al-Khatib, project director for Bloomberg Asharq, was last week named general manager at a sister station of MBC, the government-owned news channel Al Arabiya....
...That was the message delivered by Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, as more than 2,000 bankers and executives tuned in to a virtual conference in April....
...This time the impact is broader and, in a worst-case scenario, could result in a slimmed down version of Dubai Inc....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...(Daily Star Bangladesh) US health chief confirmed Alex Azar was confirmed by the Senate as health and human services secretary....
...Mr Al Baker’s target of American Airlines for its next investment has clear “industrial logic”, according to Andrew Lobbenberg, aviation analyst at HSBC....
...Less than two weeks later, Mr Al Baker and executives at the other big carriers that route international long-haul air passengers through the Middle East are facing perhaps the most serious setback since...
...In 2006, the UK was reducing its troop numbers, even though basic services were not being delivered in Basra and the department of international development had withdrawn from the city....
...Yes, that does mean the tax pot shrinks a bit so services are squeezed and the burden of funding public services falls on ordinary workers — but that is only fair since they do not have any better ideas...
...Fattah al-Sisi, a former army chief....
...The International Air Transport Association is calling for a review of airspace management in war zones, saying governments must consider whether better procedures can be drawn up....
...But Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, this month said his airline was not interested in buying the Bankia stake....
...The deal, for an estimated $300m-$500m, transforms the distribution for Al Jazeera, whose English language service has attracted online viewers in the US but struggled to win over cable and satellite operators...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...He has also run a textile plant in Germany, been head of the Government Accountancy Service and was a managing director of the UK Treasury....
...The writer is a professor of international political economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author of ‘The Globalization Paradox’...
...… Power Player: Tony Isaac, Schlumberger Taking on the role as Schlumberger’s chairman from Andrew Gould in April next year, the oil services group’s senior independent director Tony Isaac will help...
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