Hints and tips:
...Sirajuddin Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani network who is wanted by the FBI for “cross-border attacks against the United States” and has a $5m bounty on his head, will be interior minister....
...But it doesn’t feel like a V or a W.” Three factors are critical to any recovery....
...But even though the Mayweather v Pacquiao fight of the century has failed to command much pre-fight attention outside the boxing press (if it still exists), it will still generate big money....
...The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service has begun deploying specialist advisers to six countries including the United Arab Emirates....
...finishing facility in Jebel Ali free zone that is expected to reach a capacity of 100,000 tonnes of basmati rice this year....
...However, after decades of a state-led equality agenda, enshrined in personal status laws, they also have the most to lose....
...And the relatively short time difference between the UK and the United Arab Emirates, where the matches will take place, also suits the marketmakers....
...Ali Tarhouni, the former finance minister, took over as the country’s interim prime minister, replacing the controversial Mahmoud Jibril....
...person died in the attacks in the city of Houta, capital of Lahij province, security officials said, amid fears among foreign powers that a political vacuum left by civil conflict and the departure of Ali...
...“At the moment there is no state functioning at all,” said Hassan Zeid, an opposition party leader....
...“Especially since the language of United States, the European Union, and the Gulf Co-operation Council is almost identical at this point on the need for an immediate democratic transition.”...
...The emirate had to borrow more than $20bn from oil-rich Abu Dhabi as Dubai’s real estate sector crashed and state-linked companies could not repay debts....
...It has been ruled for more than 30 years by Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, under a system of patronage that utilises state resources to placate different factions....
...Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, also faces a collapsing economy, a rebellion in the north and a southern secessionist movement....
...Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, has ruled for three decades through a system of patronage in the highly tribal country and analysts say an absence of effective state institutions is at the core of many...
...“If there is one thing that will break the country, it’s going to be the southern secession,” said Abdul Ghani al-Aryani, a Yemeni analyst....
...The move came as Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, held talks with Pakistan’s military leadership in Washington about how to exert more pressure on Taliban forces fighting US and Nato troops in...
...Abdul Ghani al-Aryani, a Yemeni analyst....
...While the US has welcomed Gen Kiyani’s participation as reflecting a united civilian and military leadership, his increasingly public role carries risks for Pakistan....
...President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a military man and wily political tactician, has been at the helm throughout, ruling through a system of patronage that utilised the state’s resources to placate different factions...
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...But Mr Saleh said the Dubai government would not sell assets to support the state-owned holding company....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
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