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...Last year, Aramco acquired a 10 per cent stake in Shenzhen-listed Rongsheng Petrochemical for $3.6bn and entered a venture with two other Chinese companies to build a 300,000 b/d refinery and petrochemicals...
...“The question for the Biden administration is whether they have any incentive to utilise the sanctions architecture that the Trump administration used to take down Iran exports by 1mn b/d,” said Helima Croft...
...d this year and 1.8mn b/d in 2025....
...My daughter wants to be the girl, Mabel – but Madame B steals the show for me....
...Curbing exports from Tehran will be difficult: the country is exporting more oil than at any time in six years, our energy editor Malcolm Moore reports....
...Newcomer Giorgio Bulgari used coral cabochons in his Giorgio B collection that launched in 2023. “It’s a deep red Mediterranean coral,” he says....
...People say, “What’s plan B?” But you need more than just a plan B. Having more options makes you feel more confident and secure....
...One we missed: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore is the story of young women who painted radium on to watch dials in the early 20th century....
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...As we walk through the historic centre of Antwerp to the diamond bourse, I cannot rid my mind of Dame Shirley Bassey bawling out “diamonds are forevaaaah”....
...General B Chance Saltzman, commander of the US Space Force, told Congress last month that Beijing was aggressively pursuing counter-space capabilities in an effort to realise its “space dream” of becoming...
...In Rob Howell’s set the chintzy B&B bedroom becomes a hellish prison, a humble cushion a horror....
...However, the widespread view in Africa is that, 23 years on from Cairo, “little in the relationship has changed for the better”, Moore and Eguegu write....
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...During this, he notably invoked another Brooklynite — rapper Notorious B.I.G. “If you don’t know, now you know,” Jeffries responded to a Trump defence attorney asking, “why are we here?”...
...And it begins with one of the company’s founders, an engineer named Gordon Moore....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Every day, announcements arrive boasting about how start-ups a, b and c are applying the technology to industry x, y and z....
...We both cough, prompting Dr Jessica B Harris, matriarch of African-American culinary history, to subtly move her plate of whitebait out of the way....
...Chocolate also contains the cannabinoid anandamide and is rich in magnesium and B vitamins....
...He donated tens of thousands of dollars to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, continuing to support the Republican candidate even after he faced multiple allegations of sexual assault, which Moore denied...
...Smart reads Plan B Rightwing tycoon Peter Thiel’s political donations have yet to spark the change he’d hoped for....
...“What I Like” reverts to the tone of their debut with a B-52’s-style party tune featuring Sugar Bones on lead vocal....
...Its ragged mix of country-blues, R&B and Memphis soul had a lukewarm reception when it came out, but it is now recognised as their masterpiece....
...In contrast to the sexual hedonism common in 1970s rock, he remained with his wife Shirley Ann Shepherd, who he married in 1964....
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