Hints and tips:
...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...Six billion dollars that was about to be released by the United States in return for a prisoner exchange was blocked. There was a hint of irritation at Hamas in public comments by Iranian leaders....
...But if Hizbollah is in danger of destruction, Iran could send in troops from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fight alongside its ally....
...Well, it’s already actually caused a military response from the United States. So talk us through what the tensions are there....
...There is talk, say, of the UAE subsidising the latter from its own coffers, and its team features two women: Shamma al-Mazrui, UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs, and Razan al-Mubarak, President of...
...But there’s another royal tycoon that tends to slip under the radar: MBZ’s brother Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirate’s national security adviser who also controls some of the country...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...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....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
..., et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...a Russian information effort to sow chaos in the United States....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...American soccer cartel The owners of America’s Major League Soccer have been in “full investment mode”, according to the league’s commissioner, for some time....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...Now: imagine you are the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America. For "cobalt-rich ore," substitute "dollars," or "dollar-denominated assets," or perhaps just "Treasuries."...
...Some Democrats still blame Ralph Nader, the consumer rights campaigner, for Al Gore’s loss to George W Bush in 2000....
...The evacuations “put Iraqis in a state of apprehension”, said Hamed al-Mutlag, a former MP. “If the escalation between the two countries continues, we are all going to be harmed”....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Johnson saw an opportunity, reviving a planned resolution authorising him “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression...
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