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...A group of Silicon Valley executives received a personal invite from the office of Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of PIF, the $620bn Saudi sovereign wealth fund, to be his guest at last month’s Formula...
...Amazon is investing $115mn in exchange for a minority stake in the television networks that screen some of America’s biggest sports....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...Spirits have been gaining market share for 13 years and overtook beer in 2022, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States....
...The name of the firm and the scale of the assets it will manage were not disclosed, but its structure reflects the blurred lines between state and private assets in Abu Dhabi....
...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....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...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....
...As for watering holes, I don’t tend to go out much because of my work, but when I do I head to Sweet Liberty. They make killer cocktails and it’s been named one of the best bars in America....
...And vintage shopping there is in a league of its own. My favourite spots are What Goes Around Comes Around and Lily et Cie — the owners are like curators of their own amazing fashion museums....
...All this had implications of course for an increasingly multiracial United Kingdom....
...Blackbird is known for serving excellent cocktails, but its drinks menu also features an extensive selection of craft beer and spirits....
...To take advantage of the landscape we’ll get up early and hike in the Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve....
...The interview appeared to please the government of the United Arab Emirates, a wealthy Gulf state whose citizens were exempt from Trump’s sweeping travel restrictions....
...In a video that went viral on social media last week, an unnamed golf partner introduced Trump as “first on the tee, the 45th president of the United States”....
...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 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...
...Issuing is mostly operated out of Germany, Dubai and the United States while payment acceptance services are mostly operated out of Germany, Ireland and Dubai....
...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....
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