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...On Wednesday, Washington imposed sanctions on Macías and Los Choneros....
...Washington and Ottawa have pledged $260mn in funding between them. The west African country of Benin has offered 2,000 troops....
...Benin last week offered 2,000 troops for the mission, while Washington has promised to back it with $200mn. Canada has pledged $60mn....
...T V Narendran, Tata Steel’s chief executive, told the Financial Times the status quo was “not sustainable”....
...If both measures are taken, the central bank predicts growth of around 2 per cent this year. Growth slipped from 4.2 per cent in 2021 to 2.9 per cent in 2022, according to the World Bank....
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...“This reinforces our view that the ECB has finished raising interest rates,” said Jack Allen-Reynolds, an economist at research group Capital Economics....
...David Hockney’s current show (to January 21) is pure joy. 2....
...Companies from hoteliers to food manufacturers “feel they have a responsibility to their employees and consumers in Russia”, said Constantine Alexandrakis, chief executive of Russell Reynolds....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The White House has formally asked lawmakers to provide $2.25bn to the World Bank, which with leverage would allow for the $25bn expansion in lending....
...Additional reporting by Richard Milne in Oslo and Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...If they cut by 250bp, that brings the fed funds rate down to 2.75-3 per cent. They have told us that the neutral rate is about 2.5 per cent....
...Since then, Anduril has raised about $2.8bn. Thiel’s venture firm, Founders Fund, put in $400mn, its single largest cash investment into any company....
...Bangladeshi will cast the first vote in their country’s fraught national elections and set in motion the most intense and cacophonous 12 months of democracy the world has seen since the idea was minted more than 2,500...
...Relations between Washington and San Salvador have frayed with Bukele trolling the Biden administration via Twitter....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Semico estimates that Risc-V only accounted for $80mn of the total $2.2bn IP market for computer processing unit cores in 2020....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...Even the branding being used by ministers of a “big bang 2.0” does not sit well with those who remember the first one....
...They also deplore his decision last year to treat Nordstream 2, the contentious and now-paused gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, as a fait accompli....
...They said it will not recover — it recovered in V-shape. They said it will not grow — it’s growing 5 per cent this year.”...
...Brazil exited its IMF programme in 2005 but the resident representative was “justified” since its economy is difficult to understand from Washington, said a person familiar with the matter....
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...“We think of our forests as healing and learning centres,” she says, pointing to another site some 10,000km away in Yakama Nation, Washington....
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