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...PDT argued that the action was aimed at forcing a distressed sale and, when that failed, securing a ransom payment for access....
...The decision is a blow for Kenya’s President William Ruto, as well as the US and Canada, which had supported an international mission while ruling out leading it....
...Spotting an opportunity, chief executive Andy Ransom sold over 1mn shares on April 21 for a grand total of £6.34mn. This represented roughly 15 per cent of his total stake....
...They impose ransoms on all kinds of activities. They kidnap. And they are linked also to money laundering. They are linked to the illegal trafficking of small weapons....
...“As a businessman, I feel we are being held to ransom,” he said....
...The bandits had no idea of Aldrich’s identity or the size of the potential ransom that she represented....
...On a day of increasingly angry recriminations, Shapps accused the unions of holding the country to ransom and threatened to curb their powers by enforcing minimum service levels and banning “strikes by different...
...“So, if you can cause a disruption, manufacturers are perceived to be more prone and therefore more likely to pay a ransom. Companies don’t run dual manufacturing processes.”...
...“I think what happened last week is the most likely model for what is ahead of us,” said Chris Williams, cyber solution architect at Capgemini North America....
...Rather, the duo are alleged to have helped abduct western hostages between 2012-2015 and co-ordinated ransom negotiations....
...Unlucky individuals will find themselves singled out and held to ransom in an almost medieval fashion....
...But so far, the biggest story has been from Brazil, where the nation’s environment minister drew the ire of green advocates by announcing a climate plan that reads more like a ransom note than a decarbonisation...
...Details William Dalrymple was a guest of Wild Frontiers (wildfrontierstravel.com)....
...Fans of Michael Symmons Roberts will have Ransom in March (Jonathan Cape), while Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition is based on themes of inheritance (Chatto & Windus, April)....
...We’ll see below how the EU is trying not to let itself be held to ransom by the member states’ parliaments when it negotiates the Brexit deal....
...He is also married to Serena Williams, arguably the greatest tennis player of all time. Less well-known is his cultural identity: half-Armenian....
...- FT AlphavilleThe Sovereign Individual, by William Rees-Mogg - available at the sovereign state of Amazon...
...Elsewhere, Michelle Williams is excellent as Paul’s desperate mother, while Mark Wahlberg exhibits his knack for crowbarring his no-nonsense Boston schtick into any scenario....
...Their ransom demand was that she resign on television. She did not. Soon after, she was warned of a plot to attack her personally....
...That 40 percentage point gap is, to borrow William Shakespeare’s apt phrase, the “pound of flesh” that the IMF demanded for Jamaica to pay down its debt by 30 points to 110 per cent of GDP....
...“This is a headwind the economy doesn’t need,” said William Jackson, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics....
...The backers wanted a just ransom for their costly hostage, as well as a resolving of more complex proprietorship issues. Liberation finally arrived....
...Those who like their hedonism in period costume and pulled along in horse-drawn carriages will no doubt be revelling in the new television adaptation of Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray’s frothy...
...skim through the setting-up scenes — abduction in Rome of hippy-tressed teenager Paul (Charlie Plummer, no relation), expositional montages about Getty Senior’s Saudi-oil-based wealth, entry of Michelle Williams...
...One of the attendees was Ransom Cook, the chairman of Wells Fargo, at the time a venerable but sleepy regional bank of little consequence....
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