Sir Keir Starmer met a senior member of Bangladesh’s ousted ruling party last month, despite the Awami League facing accusations of embezzlement and of allowing its security forces to kill protesters. The UK prime minister met Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, the ousted mayor of the city of Sylhet and a key party figure, at a dinner held
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John Miller joined the boutique firm First Eagle Investments in late 2023 where launched a high-yield fund that climbed to $5 billion the first year with returns of almost 12%.First Eagle First Eagle Investment’s new high-yield municipal bond fund ballooned from scratch to more than $5 billion in its first year — and generated market-beating
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When bond markets get sticky, it is unhelpful to be the ugliest horse in the glue factory. Sadly, that is the role now performed by the UK. It has been a grim start to the
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East High School in Denver. Moody’s Ratings upgraded Denver Public Schools’ general obligation ratings ahead of an $806 million bond sale later this month.Adobe Stock Denver Public Schools will sell more than $800 million of bonds later this month, buoyed by a ratings boost from Moody’s Ratings, which cited the district’s strong management for the
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off criticism that his new policy that does away with third-party fact-checking and censorship will alienate users — insisting that anyone who quits company platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads would be “virtue signaling.” Zuckerberg responded to a post on Threads that criticized him for Tuesday’s decision, with many calling him
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Here in the U.S., the House of Representatives voted to sanction the International Criminal Court after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former military chief Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Forty-five Democrats joined 198 Republicans to approve the “Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act.”
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Patty Burns, a 93-year-old with a sparkling memory, has lived in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles for more than 60 years. She always kept a black suitcase filled with important documents at the ready, in case of a fire.  On Tuesday, she needed it. Her daughter, who lives just up the road, arrived
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is a technology entrepreneur and investor. In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood
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With Bitcoin’s increasing presence in traditional financial systems and speculation around a US BTC strategic reserve, some experts foresee a major supply shock during this cycle, potentially disrupting the 4-year cycle theory with extraordinary price growth. However, a new report indicates that such a supply shock is unlikely to happen in 2025. While Bitcoin’s halving,
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Last week, President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Morgan Ortagus, a longtime State Department official, to serve as a deputy special envoy for Middle East peaceand immediately undercut her. Early on Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson, Trump wrote when he announced her hire on Truth Social. These things usually dont
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When wildfires began ravaging Los Angeles yesterday, the story was familiar in many respects: In dry and windy weather, a small blaze can spread so fast and so far that no one can do anything to stop it, especially in terrain dense with brush and hard for firefighters to reach. Pacific Palisades, where the first
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