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...Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded as high as $92 a barrel on Friday after breaking above $90/b last week for the first time since October....
...“On factory floors across the nation, our autoworkers are making cars and trucks that give American drivers a choice — a way to get from point A to point B without having to fuel up at a gas station,” said...
...Chalmers is recruited by “B”, head of British intelligence, and parachuted into Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938....
...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...It was essentially a new-sheriff-in-town Western retooled as a pumped-up B-movie — in this case, B for brawn, booze and breasts. It has now been remade in a more sophisticated variant....
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...William Wade, a credit analyst at JPMorgan, warned earlier this month that haircuts of 15-25 per cent on the ringfenced debt were now a “plausible” outcome that investors should be wary of....
...Crude oil accounts for almost all Angola’s export earnings, but production fell from 1.5mn barrels a day in 2018 to just over 1.1mn b/d last year, straining the country’s finances....
...Sunak quickly moved in with a plan B, but will it work? The FT’s William Wallis has been following the case. Hello, William. William WallisHello, Lucy....
...Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would keep its 1mn barrels a day reduction in place until the end of the year, while Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said the country’s 300,000 b/d export reduction...
...With the first pick in the 2024 NFL draft, the team nabbed the much-touted Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from the University of Southern California, Caleb Williams....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...Ayon Audio Orion II, $3,910 The last music I bought was “Paid In Full” by Eric B & Rakim....
...its 1mn-barrels-a-day production cut for July into August, state media said, while Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would make a “voluntary” supply cut of an additional 500,000 b/...
...Asked if ministers were preparing a Plan B in the event that the government’s scheme to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was struck down in the courts, Downing Street said: “We consider all options to stop...
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...Additional reporting by Amanda Chu in New York and Aime Williams in Dubai...
...There had been amazing black designers, a thousand per cent, but there hadn’t been musicians, and specifically the R&B, rap world, being able to come in and not just wear something, not just use something...
...Yes, even Venezuela, which Platts believes is now producing almost 800,000 b/d....
...Chief financial officer Alan Williams said the company would seek to mitigate costs by reducing headcount....
...That makes Taming the Street, a new book by Diana B Henriques about the founding years of America’s primary securities regulator, particularly timely....
...Ukraine, Eurasia 2012-15 Tom MalinowskiSenior Fellow, McCain Institute, US Congressman 2019-23 Amb Douglas LuteUS Ambassador to Nato 2013-17 Amb Marie YovanovitchUS Ambassador to Ukraine 2016-19 Amb William...
...Long before that, medical papyri show that the ancient Egyptians were working on an elixir of eternal youth (mummification was merely Plan B)....
...Its most recent work was B.O.T. and the Beasties (2021), shown on the BBC’s CBeebies channel....
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