Henry Kravis and George Roberts to step down as KKR chiefs
Henry Kravis and George Roberts, whose swashbuckling leveraged buyouts of the 1980s made them the face of the private equity industry, are stepping down as...
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‘The next domino to fall’: Donald Trump increasingly hemmed in by plea deals
In the span of just one week, three former lawyers flipped on Donald Trump in a sweeping criminal case alleging a conspiracy to overturn the...
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TikTok/US curbs: Biden widens fight against China’s spies
No ice bucket challenge on social media could be quite as chilling to Chinese tech entrepreneurs as news from the White House. The Biden administration...
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Interest rate rises are ‘working’, says Bank of England economist
Receive free UK interest rates updates Successive interest rate rises by the Bank of England are starting to take effect, cooling the labour market and...
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Rifts widen in Labour over Starmer stance on Israel-Hamas conflict
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Divisions within the Labour party over Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war deepened on Friday after two...
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Asian stocks extend slide as China growth fears rise
Asian stocks sold off sharply on Tuesday with investors growing increasingly nervous about the extent of China’s recovery and potential US restrictions on investments in...
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U.S. stocks close lower on worries over recovery, corporate tax hikes
NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Wall Street lost ground on Tuesday as economic uncertainties and the increasing likelihood of a corporate tax rate hike...
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Historic Timbuktu endures weeks-long jihadist blockade
Receive free Mali updates Increasingly fearful residents of Timbuktu are enduring acute shortages amid a weeks-long blockade of the historic Malian city by Islamist jihadis....
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The looming succession battle over the Dalai Lama
On a rainy Thursday morning in July, many thousands of people gathered at the Namgyal monastery in McLeod Ganj, northern India, to mark the 14th...
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How Christmas pudding became an unlikely icon of free trade
In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words. This was seven years after the publication of...
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Miles from Gaza, fear and death stalk the West Bank
Ibrahim Wadi and his 26-year-old son travelled to Qusra, a village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday for the funeral of four...
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Tesla, AMC, Southwest and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Tesla (TSLA) – Tesla gained 1.6% in the premarket in a volatile session, following a seven-day...