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...Israel-Hamas war: Israel’s second raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital is stretching into its ninth day and shaping into the biggest battle of the nearly six-month war....
...Analysts are turning to artificial intelligence to glean the truth behind executives’ soothing words on earnings calls....
...After calling for the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Riyadh has led a successful push for Damascus to rejoin the Arab League....
...The ousting of Sudan’s dictator, Omar al-Bashir, in April 2019 followed a popular uprising that made the country ungovernable under his rule....
...Ebrahim Raisi and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping....
...Chinese president Xi Jinping will be notably absent from the G20 world leaders gathering in Delhi this weekend to discuss global economic, security and climate issues....
...The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung (OUP) With “Xi Jinping Thought” now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist party, this book by UK-based experts gives a detailed...
...Depression set in with the realisation that the bargaining really wasn’t working anymore — not with Putin’s Russia, Xi Jinping’s China, the mullahs’ Iran nor with Donald Trump’s America....
...“The code red [is] blinking, both in the science but in real life,” said Ali Zaidi, the White House national climate adviser....
...The UAE’s leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has for years deployed his small state’s military prowess and financial firepower to ensure it punches above its weight....
...Some leaders use trusted insiders, others rely on “professional critics” to tell them uncomfortable truths. Oliver Balch spoke to a range of chief executives to hear their stories....
...International pressure could still make a difference: the lives of juveniles Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoun and Abdullah al-Zaher were spared after interventions by the UK government....
...He and Giorgi, his former assistant, were filmed on CCTV heading into a meeting with a Qatari delegation led by labour minister Ali Bin Samikh al-Marri at the five-star Steigenberger Wiltcher’s hotel in...
...I mean, Xi Jinping, is he there right at the moment? Simeon KerrHe’s probably finishing up his trip around about now and it’s been a huge moment for them....
...Television We need to talk about Squid Game The hit Korean series is on track to be Netflix’s most popular show but it exposes hard truths about human behaviour, writes Fani Papageorgiou....
...“More and more is going to be done with China for obvious reasons,” says Ali Shihabi, a Saudi analyst....
...In the rubble of Syria, their satrap Bashar al-Assad cannot even feed loyalists, let alone conciliate refugees and the internally displaced....
...During the three-day visit the pontiff also held a historic iconic interfaith meeting with the most eminent Shia Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
...In fact, discussions began in 2016 when Chinese president Xi Jinping visited Tehran and met Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
...Indeed, many Bollywood stars are IPL investors, from Shah Rukh Khan at the Kolkata Knight Riders to Preity Zinta at Kings XI Punjab....
...“It’s very important to know the truth and it’s very important that responsibilities are clarified,” he said....
...But instead of Muhammad Ali, who was funny, beautiful and articulate, and instead of the long letters from Martin Luther King from prison, we get social media slogans.”...
...On Wednesday Chinese president Xi Jinping met Ali Larijani, Speaker of Iran’s parliament, and said “China’s resolve to develop a comprehensive strategic partnership with Iran will remain unchanged” no matter...
...For Lawrence Abu Hamdan, art is a “process of truth production”, rather than a playful game with multiple truths....
...The PMU militias were born after Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shia cleric, issued a call to arms in June 2014 following the humiliating collapse of the Iraqi security forces that the US had...
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