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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...After Ghana gained independence from the British in 1957, a number of public buildings such as the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre in Accra — by Ghana’s Victor Adegbite and Polish architects Jacek...
...That match is one of the most nerve-racking occasions in sport, in no small part due to an estimated £170mn financial boost to the victors....
...When Sargon Yelda’s starchily correct Victor attempts to pat her on the head, you fully expect her to hurl him over the railings....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...The springy Anna Ol and a playful, expansive Victor Caixeta led the way, while Nina Tonoli and Kira Hilli energetically bent and stretched ballet’s vertical axis....
...Marais is more vibrant and inclusive than that of the city’s more expensive residential areas, such as the so-called golden triangle — the 8th arrondissement area bounded by the avenues Montaigne, George V...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...This small lead earned the victors 75 per cent of the £100,000 prize fund....
...In 1881, Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales arrived in Japan, a visit commemorated in the show by a leather-bound photo album open at views of Mount Fuji....
...Since the 1990s, Transnistria’s economy has been monopolised by one company, Sheriff, which was co-founded by ex-KGB agent Victor Gushan and which owns everything from a supermarket chain to the eponymous...
...Puzzle 2444 Gao Rui v Victor Shen, Reykjavik 2015. Can you find White’s winning move? He has a strong attack, but Black hopes to turn the tables by Qf1+. Click here for solution...
...“Commissioner [Thierry Breton] is clearly biased against the Sputnik V vaccine just because it is Russian,” Sputnik V’s developers said in a post on Twitter....
...Finally, Victor Mallet’s Big Read about the worrisomely good chance of a victory by Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential elections provided excellent analysis of why populism isn’t going away...
...“You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours,” Joe Biden said when he was declared the presidential election victor....
...To my eyes the Shackleton looked like the Airfix Lancaster, whereas the V Bombers shook the whole base when they took off....
...In American terms a showdown between those two would be like Eugene v Debs, the turn of the century US socialist battling it out with JP Morgan, the king oligarch of his era (an analogy from David Rothkopf...
...But experts say a clear victor has not emerged, despite both companies constantly citing research declaring themselves the winner. “Nobody has got a conclusive winning position,” said Mr Laungani....
...Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, why have you asked us here today?...
...(FT) Copyright special: France v Google France is looking to win the war of words with Google....
...Newmont says it sends gold concentrate from CC&V to a mill in Nevada because it has a high sulphur content, which provides fuel for a processing technique called roasting....
...The judge has refused to say he would vote to uphold the Roe v Wade ruling that gives women the right to abortion....
...Through history art has followed power — the victors have accrued the spoils....
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