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...The kingdom shares a border with the Jewish state and is the custodian of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which necessitates regular co-operation with Israeli authorities....
...Biden, who was on his first tour of the region, partly aimed at persuading Gulf states to pump more oil, was speaking at a summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah where heads of the Gulf states, Egypt and Jordan...
...Six billion dollars that was about to be released by the United States in return for a prisoner exchange was blocked. There was a hint of irritation at Hamas in public comments by Iranian leaders....
...Amazon is investing $115mn in exchange for a minority stake in the television networks that screen some of America’s biggest sports....
...“Failure to abide by the terms of this arrangement will lead the United States to reverse steps we have taken,” said US secretary of state Antony Blinken. Read the full story here....
...A day after Biden left the region, Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi released a forceful statement warning against the collective punishment or forced displacement of Palestinians...
...The trouble is that the rest of football can’t exactly laugh at the drawn out Man United takeover saga....
...Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, son of one of Qatar’s richest men who had been the only party looking to buy 100 per cent of United, withdrew from the bidding on Saturday....
...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE: financial markets closed for Eid al-Adha....
...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....
...These guys will argue that the Constitution does not protect that kind of speech.” — Mark Jordan, United States...
...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....
...Jordan also worries about the threat of Isis remnants and Iran-backed militias in southern Syria....
...up the international financial community and the international economy in ways well beyond the United States....
...“I hope that the United States does its part in supporting the people of Ukraine,” he said....
...Warren is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts Mary Barra Chair and CEO, General MotorsBY JANE FRASER What kind of car should Mary Barra drive?...
...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...
...Washington helped broker a deal, announced this month, in which the United Arab Emirates recognised Israel, only the third Arab state to establish full diplomatic ties after Egypt and Jordan....
...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....
...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...
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