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...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...It was part of a $55mn spending plan to shore up resilience in the north....
...May 18 to 19; further information for this year’s event here soon Summer on the Hudson A free festival of music, movies, and wellness events takes to the shores of the Hudson; think riverside yoga and...
...The US justice department, along with Washington DC and the states of New York and Massachusetts, has sued to block JetBlue’s proposed $3.8bn takeover of Spirit Economic data: US consumer confidence is...
...Some bad bets come with the territory and are easily overshadowed by lucrative investments,” says Robert Mogielnicki, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington....
...It famously came crashing down in that 1988 race, when in an effort to shore up his working-class credentials, he appropriated the life story of former UK Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who had waxed poetic...
..., is at risk of being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...A deal with Saudi would also indicate a warming of relations after the 2018 killing of Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post and critic of Prince Mohammed, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul set...
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...Camps include the shores of a glacial lake, and the edge of the Russell Glacier....
...In Washington yesterday, Congressman Sean Casten highlighted Chris Flood’s article about Federated Hermes’ withdrawal from the State Financial Officers Foundation — a Republican group that has lobbied against...
...It makes sense Saudi Arabia would pursue this,” said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...Bashar al-Assad in Syria in 2015....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...The Gulf states were rattled not only by the attacks but by what they saw as Washington’s tepid response, analysts said....
...That would be a tsunami that would hit a lot of different shores. And I'm not sure that they're going to be able to avoid it....
...It has also left the world — and much of Washington — in confusion. What does Biden mean by “America is back”? To which America is he referring? The answer is not obvious....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...Afghanistan is again a Taliban state. Without a lead from Washington, Europe has fallen to paralysis....
...Trump et al v....
...Guyana was a champion of climate action until Exxon discovered oil. (NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...The competition is not just between state space agencies....
...A former secretary of state under the Obama administration, Kerry was an architect of the Paris climate accord junked by Donald Trump in 2017....
...It is slightly more realistic to hope that Facebook et al will be forced into more equitable revenue sharing with the media. Such platforms are a huge part of the problem....
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