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...I recently spent time at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America union training headquarters in Las Vegas, which was vast, sparkling and filled not only with the traditional union workforce...
...chief executive of UBS Americas....
...Cluss emigrated to the US after the failed 1848 revolution, during which he had been a member of the workers’ council of Mainz, and after a period working on navy yards and engineering projects he slowly...
...“These have been the worst three-and-a-half years in the history of the GCC [Gulf Co-operation Council].”...
...Stephen Ross, chairman of The Related Companies, and Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, agreed to end a fight over the unions’ influence in the Hudson Yards project...
...His crowning glory is now rising on a site on the western edge of Manhattan that is the biggest in North America — the $25bn Hudson Yards development....
...from the Gulf Cooperation Council, the regional trading bloc....
...The sheer velocity of its escalation, powered by Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, respectively the crown princes and de facto rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, without any viable regional or...
...Abu Dhabi and Riyadh led the embargo on Qatar, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism, meddling in regional affairs and backing political Islamist groups, despite it being a key US ally and host to America’...
...What solidified the connection were the figures of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, two great black, Muslim icons who, having embraced Islam, were inextricably connected to the “brotherhood”, and so the black...
...“The Church has the right and duty to send messages of brotherhood and equality,” she says....
...The new governor’s desire to make formal notes reduced the colony’s ruling council to panic. Binding was possible: a carpenter could chop down a tree for boards....
...Sheikh Mohammed warns that a failure to mediate the stand-off could disrupt the stability of the world’s mother lode of energy resources and rupture the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council....
...Fyodor Lukyanov is editor of Russia in Global Affairs and chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defence policy in Moscow...
..., joiners, plasterers and site managers....
...More than seven out of 10 contractors reported difficulty finding carpenters, 60 per cent for electricians and 56 per cent for roofers....
...In return, it appears one of the world’s leading investors has been retained to pay the carpenters....
...“You can see a certain set of interests and visions of the future recurring in the Netherlands, UK, America, Japan and Korea,” McGetrick says....
...America’s allies in the region fear that the influx of funds Iran will receive under a nuclear deal will embolden its push for greater regional influence....
...At the same time, a regional proxy war is playing out....
...One of the chief sources of tension in the Middle East is Ankara’s support for Egypt’s elected-then-ousted Islamist government and for the broader Muslim Brotherhood movement, which Saudi Arabia and the...
...Oil from big producers such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq has to travel into the Gulf of Aden in order to pass through the Red Sea and Suez Canal to Europe....
...But it’s the latest example of the transformation of the UAE from a shy state that favours quiet diplomacy to a hawkish regional player....
...GCC seeks to heal rift Western focus on Isis is bringing together Qatar and its Gulf Cooperation Council neighbours after months of discord over the role of the pan-Arab Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood...
...to Turkey and Qatar, the group’s allies and regional rivals of Egypt...
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