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...Eurostar narrowly dodged bankruptcy in 2021 after being bailed out by shareholders including French state railway SNCF, Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Hermes...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...The country has the world’s biggest resources, according to the United States Geological Survey, but is the missing member of Latin America’s “lithium triangle”, where Chile and Argentina have done more...
...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....
...I don’t think we need to burn the document or anything....
...Liz Truss jetted off to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. One of her first meetings there was with President Emmanuel Macron of France....
...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...
...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...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...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....
...Nick Burns, a former senior state department official who advised Mr Biden during his campaign, said supporting democracy and human rights would be “early priorities” for the incoming administration....
...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...
...Among these are Bill Burns, the former deputy secretary of state; Nick Burns, the former number three at the state department; Tom Donilon, Obama’s national security adviser; Susan Rice, who was Donilon’...
...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...
...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....
...Yet a former offshoot of al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, toppled Turkey-backed rebels and over-ran Idlib last year....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...To feel the burn from a Pilates session, head to Solidcore, SLT or Physique57....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...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....
...“Trump’s handling of the pandemic at home and abroad has exposed more painfully than anything since he took office the meaning of America First,” says William Burns, who was the most senior US diplomat,...
...If money and the absence of political correctness will defeat Trump et al, so be it . . . The means will justify the outcome....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
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