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...Monday Web Summit, the annual technology conference that will this year bring together over 1,000 industry speakers, begins in Lisbon, Portugal OPEC November Oil Market Report EU: economic forecasts...
...US president Joe Biden is meeting House speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top congressional leaders to address the threat of the nation defaulting on its debt....
...The House of Representatives narrowly approved House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bill to raise the debt ceiling yesterday....
...Speakers include a “senior cabinet minister”, John Lewis Partnership chair Sharon White and BT Group chief executive Philip Jansen. Oh yes, and there is some more football being played....
...Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei....
...Queen’s children hold vigil King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward will hold a vigil at 7.30 tonight to mourn the death of their mother, Queen Elizabeth II....
...The US edition of the FTWeekend Festival returns to Washington, DC, on May 20 with speakers including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alice Waters, Darren Walker and several FT writers....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss....
...Delphine Strauss looks at wider labour relations at Heathrow....
...Thanks to the producer Anna Sinfield, executive producer Joe Wheeler and mix from Chris O’Shaughnessy....
...US drugmakers Moderna and Pfizer, which are also trialling vaccines, both plan to enrol 30,000 participants in Phase III studies they started in July....
...The office is currently headed by Audrey Strauss, a veteran prosecutor who also spent many years in private practice....
...That wouldn’t normally be her job, but she almost alone has been able to bridge her party’s daunting divide between House progressives and key Senate centrists like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin III....
...Born on January 12 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to a family filled with lawyers, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was a child of radio....
...Ed Markey, a 74-year-old US senator, staved off a challenge from Joe Kennedy III, a 39-year-old grandson of Robert F Kennedy and great-nephew of John F Kennedy....
...If Joe Kennedy III comes up short this week, he will be the first in his family to lose a primary in Massachusetts....
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, said Congress would create an independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the insurrection....
...Mr Sharpton addressed the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial, alongside Martin Luther King III....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, said earlier this week that Mr McConnell and the Republicans “will have hell to pay” if they fail to act....
...On paper, it is Andrew Strauss, director of England cricket. But even Strauss would probably rate his old job (England captain) as more influential than his new one. The coach?...
...Photographs: Jonathan Frantini; Joe Schildhorn/BFA/REX/Shutterstock...
...“As we focus on destroying Isil, over-the-top claims that this is World War III just play into their hands,” Mr Obama said....
...A year later, the trio reached the summit of Annapurna III, another Himalayan titan, via an unclimbed route....
...The north has not been a single administrative entity since the Council of the North, established by Richard III, was abolished in 1641....
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