Hints and tips:
...“This isn’t the result of the storm....
...Recovery efforts are likely to be complicated by the weakness of the state....
...By not going ahead with [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], he deprived the United States of presence in the economic sense.” Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”....
...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...
...The government separately said its diplomatic affairs were in an “orderly” state despite the disappearance and sudden removal from office of foreign minister Qin Gang....
...According to her, the actor was dreaming of becoming president of the United States as early as 1973. “That was always his goal. He was going straight to the top from the very beginning.”...
...Abu Dhabi, the wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, has also consolidated funds over the past decade after two of its vehicles — Aabar and Ipic — got sucked into Malaysia’s 1MDB fraud, which became...
...That global macroeconomic movements this year have been in large part due to the United States Federal Reserve is so obvious that this paragraph is pointless....
...“We hope that this investigation by the United States will be truly independent, credible, and thorough, following the evidence where it leads, up and down the chain of command,” the family said in a statement...
...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....
...As part of a 2020 peace deal that paved the way for the US withdrawal, the Taliban agreed that al-Qaeda and “those who pose a threat to the security of the United States and its allies have no place in Afghanistan...
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...They believe “more than 90 per cent of DRC gold is smuggled” to states including Rwanda and Uganda, where it is refined and exported mainly to the United Arab Emirates. Gold is Uganda’s top export....
...Half a century ago, the Yom Kippur war between Israel and Arab states put a new cartel of oil producers at the centre of global politics....
...Just a year later, Sheikh Hamad’s growing ambition led him to fund Al Jazeera, a satellite television network that bucked the Gulf’s status quo of sycophantic state media....
...It also ruffled feathers when it chose to be among the first Arab states to restore diplomatic relations with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad....
...Barclays’ economist Philippe Gudin de Vallerin et al explain the evolution of public debt as . . . ... the sum of the primary balance as a percentage of GDP and the debt-to-GDP ratio for the previous period...
...cut off supplies to the United States and other countries supporting Israel during its war with Egypt and Syria....
...Senior Palestinian Authority minister Hussein al-Sheikh on Tuesday said the Israeli government, “under its protection, allows Jewish extremists to storm al-Aqsa on a daily basis . . . the so-called ‘status...
...The EU is also facing questions about its package of aid for households and businesses, funded by a €140bn windfall tax on energy companies, as member states demand more flexibility on how the plans are...
...And that would be, I think, in the case of Trump, if he were to become president again, it would be to create an Orban-style authoritarian regime in the United States....
...Skadden has hired John Kocoras, former first assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, as a partner in its litigation group, based in Chicago....
...That the Russians wanted to teach China a lesson. But Russia could not conceive that China and the United States could get together....
...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....
...“The president of the United States and other allies also made it very clear that if [the Russians] use chemical weapons, there will be a high price to pay,” said Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg...
International Edition