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...Clown car maker Aston Martin is up nearly 9 per cent having got its 2019 figures wrong, because why not....
...His attorney, Martin Stolar, said his client had no comment. “He will make public statements if and when he is called to be a witness at trial,” said Mr Stolar....
...(FT) The day ahead Barr won’t bar Mueller William Barr, Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney-general, will promise to let Robert Mueller complete his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election...
...(USA Today) Listen to our top stories every morning from your smart speaker....
...A former Trump campaign aide has refused to comply with a subpoena issued by Robert Mueller’s office, saying “let them arrest me”....
...Think of Turkey's Erdogan, Russia's Putin, and of course the USA's president Donald Trump. These all strut around the world stage projecting national power....
...(FT) Trump v the global community Martin Wolf on Donald Trump’s America First world view and how human affairs are too interconnected to be the product of purely national decision-making....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...No fascist USA.”...
...Priorities USA, an outside group supporting Hillary Clinton, released the first in a series of political attack ads that will air on television in the swing states of Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Nevada....
...When the EPA first revealed the affair in September, VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn apologised and then resigned within days....
...(USA Today) Food for thought Asia’s alarming debt mountain Emerging Asia has witnessed the world’s sharpest increases in corporate and household debt since the global financial crisis....
...Senior Volkswagen directors are poised to meet to discuss a growing scandal over the company’s cheating in diesel cars’ emissions tests and decide whether Martin Winterkorn should continue as chief executive...
...Liz Martins, UK economist, HSBC We see growth slowing from 2.1% to 1.2%....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...In FCC v Fox Television Stations, the high court will rule on whether a policy governing the airing of “fleeting expletives” on broadcast television, enacted by the Federal Communications Commission, is...
...This is already permitted in both Eire and the USA....
...The story is woven around the riots that erupted the night Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968....
...“Europe and the USA continue to treat Russia as a third-rate state”....
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