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...It also means that doing business with Iran, it can land you in extremely hot water. But that’s exactly what Kobeissi is hoping Angel might be willing to do....
...It’s where the sort of brackish waters of the underworld and the murky waters sort of percolate and mingle with the freshwater of the rules-based international financial system....
...It’s a hot summer’s day at the Burj Al Arab, one of the most expensive hotels in the world. It’s a skyscraper shaped like the sail of a ship, rising up from the glittering water of the Persian Gulf....
...Miles Johnson So this story, it begins with a wedding, which is in Dubai in 2017. And it’s in this hotel called the Burj Al Arab, which is one of the most expensive and luxurious hotels in the world....
...You cannot go around like Al Capone. You can, but you’ll only last so long....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...The party will also pledge to clamp down on water companies polluting the sea, rivers and lakes by expanding the powers of industry regulator Ofwat....
...Some of these surprises have been depressing: take note of our discussion below about UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to water down Britain’s green commitments....
...Someone hoping not to be yesterday’s man, and in with a decent chance of fulfilling this wish is Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi....
...“These aren’t the normal levels [of water for Gaza],” he said, “but it answers basic humanitarian needs.”...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...The Exogenic Series (Aqua) (2017) evokes the luminous fluidity of water with almost transparent washes....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision today at 2pm ET/7pm London. Check back on FT.com for details and reaction....
...The two senators have invited tour commissioner Jay Monahan, PIF governor Yasir al-Rumayyan and LIV chief executive Greg Norman to testify on Capitol Hill next month....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Saudi-backed LIV Golf, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lure top golfers such as Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to join its breakaway league, will also slot into the new...
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...The head of Boeing poured cold water on hopes for new climate-friendly biofuels, saying they would “never achieve the price of jet fuel”....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
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