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...This acronym appears to have been coined by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Robert Ward, and has some overlap with the MIST/MIKT/MINT countries (Turkey and Indonesia are in both)....
...Doctors in Michigan said the people filling up their wards were younger than during earlier waves....
...But in March, as the pandemic hit hospital wards around Pfizer’s Manhattan headquarters, the two companies announced a collaboration....
...Washington DC correspondent Kiran Stacey explains US plans....
...During a visit to Japan earlier this month, Mr Trump declared that the US-Japan alliance “has never been stronger” but said Mr Abe was constantly trying to flatter him in an effort to ward off attacks about...
...Mr Concannon, along with Stacey Cunningham, head of the New York Stock Exchange, and Tom Wittman from Nasdaq, sought to portray the battle as a Wall Street dispute, arguing that retail investors can trade...
...Pakistan plans to tighten curbs on luxury imports to ward off a foreign currency crisis without devaluing the rupee, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the prime minister, has said....
...This year, India’s Supreme Court attempted to ward off the worst of the post-Diwali pollution by banning the sale of fireworks within the capital region....
...“This is a hugely difficult decision, and we’ve delayed the date this takes effect until after the coldest months of the year,” said Simon Stacey, Npower’s managing director of domestic markets....
...The FT’s Andrew Ward summed up the message from this round of results as showing that Big Oil was “on the road to recovery”....
Critics argue British government deal was far too generous with price guarantees over first 35 years
Lévy alleged to have presented colleagues with 2,500 pages written in English ahead of vote
Workers protest at pay cuts as 120,000 jobs go from industry struggling with lower oil prices
...Its second quarter results, which were weighed down by ongoing weakness in oil and gas prices, were worse than expected, as the FT’s energy editor, Andrew Ward reported earlier....
...Mobil owned Montgomery Ward, the US retail chain from the mid-1970s to 1988. Exxon had a big nuclear power business from 1969-86, and was a leader in solar power research in the 1970s and 1980s....
...In response, Dave Ward, head of the Communications Workers Union, has branded Blairites such as Mr McTernan a “virus” for which Mr Corbyn is “the antidote”....
...In many places, however, Lib Dem MPs are sufficiently dug-in to ward off any threat....
...Mr Farage spent several days in the Kent constituency, addressing voters at a ward meeting on Friday, before giving a speech on Saturday and addressing them from an open-top tour bus on Sunday....
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey...
...Nigel Farage, the anti-Europe party’s leader, said Ukip had become “serious players” after winning scores of council wards....
...The junior coalition party lost all its councillors in Manchester, most of its wards in Liverpool, and saw big reverses in London in Lambeth and Brent – all Labour areas....
...Ukip took so many votes from Labour in the ward of St Mary’s that it enabled the Tories to make an unexpected gain....
...The Lib Dems kept all 12 of their wards being contested in Eastleigh, which they will seize as proof that they are holding out in key areas where they also have MPs, but suffered at Tory hands in Kingston...
...Ward’s trajectory to his place as a pillar of London’s luxury establishment was unusual....
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