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...Sultan al-Jaber, the president of this year’s COP28 in Dubai....
...Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, son of one of Qatar’s richest men who had been the only party looking to buy 100 per cent of United, withdrew from the bidding on Saturday....
...The US group, for so long the dominant force in golf, has lost some of the biggest draws in the sport, from Phil Mickelson to Cameron Smith....
...Bank of America boss Brian Moynihan and Standard Chartered’s Bill Winters....
...The move has raised concerns about potential misuse of the technology by the oil-rich states’ autocratic leaders. Here’s more on the Gulf states’ AI ambitions. 2....
...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...
...Bank of America is advising Sheikh Jassim on the Manchester United bid. Sheikh Jassim has long been in his father’s shadow....
...“When we, as the United States, walk into those rooms around the world, we have had the honour and privilege historically of holding our head up as a defender and an example of a great democracy,” she said...
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...ownership changes, famous tenants (among them Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, Jasper Johns, Betsey Johnson, Patti Smith and Bob Dylan), notorious film and photography shoots (Warhol’s Chelsea Girls; Madonna...
...This is literally about the fundamental constitutional and human rights of every single woman in the United States.”...
...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....
...state....
...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...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
.... — Nessi Erkmenoglu, head of US revenue, luxury & B2C advertising The Smith At Home The brimming box from The Smith, a popular American brasserie, landed on my doorstep like an aid package for a family...
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...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...
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...(FT) The humbling of the Anglo-American world Some scholars have likened America and Britain’s premature relaxation of social distancing to a failure of Stanford University’s marshmallow test....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...and Latin America....
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