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...Groups affiliated with Isis and al-Qaeda were responsible for most of them, with Burkina Faso, which had two coups in 2022, suffering more deaths from terrorism than any other country, with 1,900 recorded...
...Proscribing Wagner would put it in the same legal category in Britain as al-Qaeda, Isis and Hizbollah....
...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...In 2018 the US government sanctioned Evro Polis, a Prigozhin-controlled company that was awarded energy concessions by the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in return for Wagner mercenaries liberating oilfields...
...Well: they weren’t. He wrote them down in a list, displayed here, and crossed them out when he used them....
...However, even more interesting (and counter-intuitive) is Rogoff et al’s failure to find a statistical correlation between real rates and fundamental economic trends....
...The capitalist system can flourish in very different social contexts and under very different political regimes — democratic as well as authoritarian....
...“In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, special operations are no longer driven by Communist ideology, but they still use the same tools and methods,” said one of the report’s authors, Oleksandr V Danylyuk....
...Of course, O’Neill et al were mostly talking about these countries as burgeoning economies with tons of potential. And many of these countries have indeed subsequently done well....
...Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster. Bunzl’s revenues, for example, have increased from £2.7bn to £11.8bn over the past 20 years....
...Overall, the block trading probe has turned out as well as it could have for Morgan Stanley....
...and Sukhoi Su-25 attack planes• Wagner fighters have been implicated in civilian massacres Sudan • Wagner advised former president Omar al-Bashir on how to quell protests that eventually toppled him in...
...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...Governments in the Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as well as Guinea have been toppled in recent years by military juntas....
...Designs for continuing and returning productions of the long-playing classics – Miss Saigon, Les Mis et al – are widely available, but discerning fans will be able to distinguish between a Cats T-shirt from...
...Naturally, we are told by the likes of Google, Meta, Microsoft et al that using AI to help solve the planet’s warming crisis is a wonderful idea....
...They found that the standout stocks today are at much cheaper valuations than the stars of the 90s were, and while the valuations of the Magnificent 7 et al do look a lot like the “Nifties,” they tend to...
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...The presence of Russia has been a growing Sahel feature, with the Wagner mercenary group, founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, embedded in the Central African Republic and Mali....
...Bored of words, Ma et al. then tried numbers — roughly recreating the ratio of earnings revisions deployed above, but utilising forecasts of “earnings and other metrics” instead of just rating labels: We...
...Social media noise can push token prices around (Tandon et al), but not as effectively as mainstream media coverage (Coulter)....
...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...Daniel Barenboim has not been well....
...Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals....
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
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