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...Lunate was launched earlier this year under the patronage of UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a brother of the Gulf state’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan....
...COP28 president-designate Sultan al-Jaber said the meetings “must deliver clear, clean, and strong” outcomes....
...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....
...The host nation has already come under scrutiny over its appointment of Sultan al-Jaber, head of Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil company Adnoc, to the presidency of COP28....
...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...
...In 1222, Frederick made the decision to move all the remaining Arabs from Sicily to the hilltop town of Lucera, a day’s march across the Puglian plateau to the north of Castel del Monte....
...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran...
...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...US climate envoy John Kerry said after emerging from a meeting with the COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber on Tuesday night that “a lot of good work was being done” to improve the draft text....
...Mohammed Hassan al-Suwaidi, the new investment minister, was also among those on tour, meeting with Egypt’s prime minister Mostafa Madbouly to discuss the UAE pumping more money into the north African country...
...“People have the perception that Mingei is just brown pots,” says Roisin Inglesby, a curator at the William Morris Gallery in London....
...“We should not allow anything to get between the fact we have all decided to keep our focus on our north star . . . of keeping 1.5[C] in reach,” Jaber said....
...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...
...David Boies, the litigator who represented Al Gore in the Supreme Court in the fight over the result of the 2000 presidential election, and who has donated to several Democrats, including President Joe Biden...
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...In a video published online last month, the movement’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, celebrated attacks on ships it described as “American” and “British”....
...Also, William Shakespeare’s birthday celebrated Wednesday North Macedonia: presidential election first round UK: former Democratic Unionist party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson appears in court in Newry...
...The Metropolitan police confirmed it had “attended an address in north London” in response to reports that a man was “planning to go to a war zone”....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president-designate of the UN climate summit, hit out at rich countries for failing to support the fund....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, courted dozens of diplomats and ministers overnight on Tuesday to back the compromise deal....
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams...
...The perception of higher masculinity as indicated by a high [dominance] score violates the female stereotype, which Oh et al. [2019, 2020] suggest dominant-looking female analysts are perceived as less likable...
...Off-season at Château La Coste, a few miles north of Aix-en-Provence, and the rows of vines are bare tendrils, entwined....
...All this might be an entertaining blast from the past, if Pravin Bankers Assocs., Ltd. v. Banco Popular Del Peru or Allied Bank Int’l v. Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago is your idea of fun....
...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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