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...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 gulf kingdom’s sporting ambitions are at odds with its treatment of Saudi women’s rights activists, Amnesty International’s Kate Allen told the Guardian....
...Now: imagine you are the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America. For "cobalt-rich ore," substitute "dollars," or "dollar-denominated assets," or perhaps just "Treasuries."...
...A one-off payment of €1.2m was made by Georgian authorities as a “travel fund” to Henninghall Ltd, also set up in Ras Al Khaimah....
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...On Tuesday, Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, the oil minister of the United Arab Emirates, said the first six months of 2016 would be tough but there would be a gradual recovery in the oil market....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Casa Al Mare, Casey Key Road, Nokomis, Florida, US, $9.4m Where: On the shore of Casey Key, an eight-mile island off the west coast of Florida, 20 miles south of Sarasota international airport....
...Kuwait, Qatar, The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all figure on the list of the world’s top ten most obese nations....
..., British et al) dream....
...A price of $6,000 for the use of a track-view apartment on race day alone is not unusual. Not all locations have been so successful....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...Bankers say budgets of ministries and state-backed companies have been tightened across the board....
...Sulaiman al-Fahim, the Portsmouth owner, said he was nearing a deal with a Saudi investor to sell a stake in the Premier League club as he seeks to shore up its troubled finances....
...But Michel Madie, who runs an upscale services company that handles castles in France and $21m apartments in New York, is not so sure....
...www.cassina.com 5 TV Sofa Bokja One of my personal highlights from December’s Design Miami was a preview of the Al-Sabah Art & Design Collection, the new design venture from Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah of Villa...
...America’s subprime real estate loans might have started this mess, but where else would you find what could be called a submarine real estate crisis – the steep drop in prices of villas and apartments in...
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...apartment towers his company has built....
...It warned that “Arab interests will now have inordinate sway over America’s largest bank”, since Prince al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia already holds a 3.9 per cent stake....
...Kingdom Holding also owns the Hotel George V, Paris, and has real estate and banking interests across the world....
...The conversion of the Darat was designed by the artist and architect Ammar Khammash, whose work ranges from restaurants to apartment buildings dotted across the city and country....
...And in doing so, he knowingly cast a gob of bitter spittle in the face of our constant ally, and disgraced the United States of America. Why didn’t President Bush visit London?...
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