March 7, 2024
As a result of the ongoing carnage, Washington’s long struggle to exclude Iran from regional influence is visibly failing.
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In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in
If you work in the sports industry but have not been invited to one of Jimmy Worrall’s events, it’s a message: you haven’t made it yet.
One of life’s great networkers, Worrall is the founder of Leaders In Sport, a conferencing and publishing business based in London but with a global outlook.
Sir Dave Brailsford, the man tasked with the job of making Manchester United a feared and revered team once more, has been invited to lots of Worrall’s events.
On a warm night this past November, members of Los Angeles’s political and business elite gathered in the backyard of a $12 million Beverly Hills estate to launch a campaign targeting a group of progressive officials who have upended local politics by promoting renter protections, affordable housing, workers’ rights, unarmed crisis response to many public-safety calls, and campaign finance reforms.
Headlined by Rick Caruso—a billionaire real estate developer and Republican-turned-Democrat who ran an unsuccessful campaign for mayor in 2022—the event … Read more
UAW President Shawn Fain, speaking to Automotive News earlier Thursday, did not specify how much the union was seeking aside from the “double-digit” figure he quoted earlier in the week, but did specify the double-digit gain would come over the course of the contract, not each year of it.
“The companies talk about being competitive all the time,” he said in an interview. “It’s odd to me that anytime it reflects on the members, they want to talk about competition.
If it does not realize its plan, Toyota risks missing out on a rapid shift to electric vehicles in especially China, where the rise of local competitors and price cuts by Tesla and others are squeezing its market share.
Toyota said competition in China had become “extremely severe,” adding that foreign exchange rate fluctuations and its response to price cuts in the world’s top car market hurt its results there.
The automaker did not specify the measures it had taken,
However, Meghan now has “powerful” new friends, including Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, head of talent agency William Morris Endeavour who signed Meghan in April.
His wife Sarah Staudinger is a fashion designer whose clothes the Duchess has worn before, notably a pink linen suit she wore to an LA Lakers game earlier this year.
A Hollywood agent said: “Ari and his wife are part of Meghan’s new friendship group. Meghan has a close-knit circle of friends who are very protective
Battles raged in southern Ukraine on Thursday, as Kyiv’s stepped-up offensive against the Russian occupation made small gains, according to Russian, Ukrainian and Western analysts and officials, but the scope of the assaults and their toll remained unclear.
A day after U.S. officials said the main thrust of Ukraine’s counteroffensive appeared to have begun, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said, “We confirm that hostilities have intensified and in a significant way.”
But there was minimal, and sometimes contradictory, information
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RIGA — If you want to get an abortion in Poland, Kinga Jelinska is happy to help.
Legally terminating your pregnancy is almost impossible in the Eastern European country. Abortion is only allowed in the case of rape or incest, or when it threatens the life of the woman.
That’s where Jelinska comes in. She’s the co-founder and executive director of Women Help Women, an Amsterdam-based nonprofit that helps provide women with the
The Russian lines in the east of Ukraine are crumbling as Ukrainian forces make stunning gains to liberate their homeland, with the Russia Ministry of Defence admitting the scale of the collapse.
The offensive south of Kharkiv, which began on Tuesday, took the thinly defended Russian lines by surprise, leading to reports of mass retreats, mass surrenders and mass casualties that the Russian MoD has dressed up as a ‘re-grouping.’
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Saturday that troops
