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...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...“We wanted to know if they still wanted to punish us over Brexit,” said one Cleverly ally....
...Maybe it can save the rest of us from climate change? (The Verge) — The baby-formula blame game. (New Yorker)...
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...And if we went a bit further north, the seat that was Dominic Raab's almost certainly going to fall to the Liberal Democrats....
...Last month, US senator Steve Cohen urged the Biden administration to place US travel bans on senior British lawyers he claimed were “foreign enablers of Russian oligarchs”....
...George ParkerThey’re serious allegations which Dominic Raab, of course, denies....
...This has led to arrests and, in one case, asylum in the US....
...Another flashpoint has been how to classify vaccines not yet approved by EU regulators — such as Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...The move from Budapest to order the Sputnik V vaccine is being seen by some as an attempt to curry favour with Moscow....
...A final push on the UK is under way: Reuters reports that US secretary of state Mike Pompeo is to press his opposite number in the UK, Dominic Raab, on the matter in Washington on Thursday....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
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...Sterling fell as much as 0.5 per cent from its highs of the day against the US dollar on the news, to $1.3020....
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...But the comments from UK Brexit secretary Dominic Raab were played down by diplomats in Brussels....
...(FT) Italy v EU All told, 55 per cent of Italian voters supported Eurosceptic, anti-establishment parties in elections at the weekend....
...Smart reads Dumb pipes v bright lights Is AT&T savvy enough to understand the mischievous world of media?...
...As for “Apple v Apple”, The Beatles’ record label has already fought legal battles with the US tech giant. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...While Elliott may have built a professional campaign, it was another political strategist, Dominic Cummings, who led Vote Leave to success....
...And, however far she goes or how well she succeeds, let us hope no one ends up fighting a duel over the matter. The writer is an FT theatre critic...
...the nine days, the V&A is the festival’s official nerve centre....
...Dominic Rossi, global chief investment officer for equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, says the combination of weaker oil prices and a stronger US dollar has traditionally been supportive for US equities...
...They were also considerably less robust, especially in the early stages of the recoveries, which tended to be shallow L-shaped affairs, rather than V-shaped....
...Farmers v supermarkets The Campaign to Protect Rural England releases a report calling on the big supermarkets to stock more locally sourced food....
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