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Russia bond sales allow payment in alternative currencies Unusual terms in the prospectus for Russia's $4bn issue of eurobonds, which closed on Friday, have left analysts wondering whether financial markets really are — in the words of the Russian embassy in London — operating "business as usual". The embassy tweeted its confident message on Thursday ...
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Why sexism is rife in Silicon Valley And that shows in the numbers. Women-led companies get just 2% of venture capital funding. That is egregious, especially in an industry that prides itself on being a meritocracy where anyone can succeed. We need people of all backgrounds to be making these products, because people everywhere ...
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Skripals may have received nerve agent in liquid form, says expert De Bretton-Gordon suggested earlier in the week that the nerve agent, a novichok, may have been delivered in a powder form. Having observed how counter-terror police and military were dealing with it and examined the timeline of the day the pair collapsed, de Bretton-Gordon said he believed it was ...
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Barbra Streisand Talks #MeToo at PaleyFest LA: 'We're in a Strange Time' Those who turned out for PaleyFest's first event of its 35th season were also treated to many clips of Streisand's TV work dating back to her first appearance on TV in 1963 on "The Jack Paar Show." In addition, there was outtakes from her performances on CBS that won her many Emmys, including "A ...
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Taliban suicide bomber targets foreign contractors in Kabul A Taliban suicide car bomber has detonated explosives near to a compound for foreign security contractors in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials said. At least three civilians were killed and two others wounded, with no casualties among the security contractors, when the bomb exploded in Kabul's Police ...
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Manzoor Pashteen: The voice of Pashtuns for many in Pakistan The 26-year-old then gave the worker his brand new hat and took the worn red-and-black one in exchange. "I gave him my hat without any hesitation. Why not?" Pashteen told Al Jazeera. The hat has become something of a symbol: the design is now worn by those who support Pashteen's cause, to fight ...
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'The climate is disturbing': Russians in London unsettled by Skripal affair But the impact of the escalating diplomatic crisis between Russia and the UK over the poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, has unsettled Russians living in London. While ramping up the rhetoric against Vladimir Putin's regime, Britain's foreign secretary, Boris ...
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This Week's Mister Miracle Changed the Game for the Fourth World, in a Beautiful Way Mister Miracle, DC Comics' haunting, beautiful series about the small lives of Scott Free and Big Barda being swept up in the enormous scope of Jack Kirby's Fourth World (soon to be seen in live-action), is all about contrasting the banal with the fantastical, the drama of real life amid the drama of scifi ...
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