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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...Accelerating the take-up of clean energy was “only half the solution” to keeping the global temperature rise to within 1.5C, said Tina Stege, climate envoy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, one of...
...There were no injuries and the ship, the Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned and operated M/V Genco Picardy, sustained some damage but was “seaworthy and continuing under way”, Centcom said....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The only unqualified success in US democracy promotion was the Marshall Plan for postwar Europe....
...On Wednesday the committee said that Vanguard no longer needed to attend the hearing in the small city of Marshall, Texas....
...On Wednesday the committee said that Vanguard no longer needed to attend the hearing in the small city of Marshall....
...They said it will not recover — it recovered in V-shape. They said it will not grow — it’s growing 5 per cent this year.”...
...“I am not bragging about Brazil, I am just saying you have consistently underestimated us.”...
...Puzzle 2447 Mark Hebden v Chris Baker, British championship, Eastbourne 1991. Can you find White’s winning move?...
...Foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard told a news conference that “Mexico is about to approve … the first Indian-origin vaccine … very soon, this is very important to us”....
...General George Marshall, architect of the plan that revitalised Europe after the second world war, was like Powell tapped to be secretary of state....
...The day before, Sputnik V, a Russian vaccine made by the Gamaleya Institute, showed 92 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid, according to preliminary data published in the Lancet....
...Liberty Steel also announced that V Ashok, currently chief financial officer of GFG, would be stepping down “for personal reasons” at the end of May....
...The OECD turns 60 this year, having been formed out of the Organisation of European Economic Cooperation, which was set up after the second world war to help distribute Marshall Aid money....
...Perhaps it will be a V-shaped recovery after all, where V stands for vaccine....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Bryan Harris, the FT’s Brazil bureau chief, visits expansive frontier territory....
...Meanwhile, lawmakers and even fellow ministers have reported Mr Guedes is hesitant to dig deep with a broad “Marshall Plan” to aid an economy that the IMF expects to shrink 5.3 per cent this year....
...Naushad Forbes, chairman of engineering company Forbes Marshall, called the GDP data “the worst performance in our history.”...
...Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music suited up in Humphrey Bogart drag and retro GI gear, and kids recreated those looks with flea-market finds....
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...The songs, from Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, create a suitable rock vibe, best suited to belters such as Vivian’s defiant “I Can’t Go Back”....
...Gert-Jan Segers, leader of the Christian Union party that serves in the government with Mr Rutte, has called for a “Marshall Plan” for the south....
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