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...The United Kingdom has another rain bomb alert just today. We saw a third of Pakistan under water....
...Though the lease agreement is binding, the state treasurer, Dereck Davis, told local media that the younger Angelos had “categorically denied that the [Orioles] were for sale” in December....
...By not going ahead with [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], he deprived the United States of presence in the economic sense.” Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...But that blurring of state and royal interests could become a concern for foreign investors....
...And let’s not forget the horrifying human rights record of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who seized power in a 2013 coup....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...We’re doing something new, trialling an experiment with audio newsletters read by Microsoft Azure Al....
...That actually is undergoing a big review right now in the United States....
...up the international financial community and the international economy in ways well beyond the United States....
...As the first senior United Arab Emirates official to visit the Biden administration touched down in Washington, the message the Gulf state sought to promote was “the strength and continuity” of the partnership...
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...In 1996, senator John McCain, a huge boxing fan, had railed against the UFC on the floor of the US Senate, calling it “human cockfighting”, and sent letters to the governor of every state asking them to...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Bernie Sanders, the leftwing senator from Vermont, said on Sunday: “When you have the United States of America putting almost $4bn a year into Israel, we have the right to demand that they respect the human...
...What happened to the rest of it, I want to know. He ate it, he says. Another man at the table is younger, fresh-faced, with a look of bland good humour....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...And then, after two months of holding squares across the United States, Occupy was hit by the authorities....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...News of Dean’s resurrection comes with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman already in international cinemas, featuring digitally “de-aged” versions of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci....
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