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The Time has come for Manchester City to make a #Premier League Statement

by Paul Wilson | Jan 21, 2017 | Sports

Less than a fortnight ago, the day after Manchester City’s 5-0 demolition of West Ham United away from home in the FA Cup, the Sun produced one of the more inspired back pages of the season in honour of the performance. “MC Hammer!” the main headline screamed,...

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President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman walk together to a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 20, 2016.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Offers Condolences to Italian, Mali President

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 21, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Riyadh – Saudi leadership offered condolences to Italian President Sergio Mattarella following the earthquake that left many victims and to also condoled Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta after the terrorist attack that occurred in Gao. Custodian of the Two...

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Mary T. Barra, the chief executive of General Motors, at a news conference in Detroit in December. The company said on Tuesday that new investments would add or retain a combination of 1,500 jobs at plants it did not identify. Credit Rachel Woolf/Getty Images

By Announcing New Jobs, Corporations Help Themselves Too

by NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and BILL VLASIC | Jan 21, 2017 | Business

Donald J. Trump won’t be sworn in until Friday but big business has already thrown him a veritable inaugural ball. A series of blue-chip companies, among them Ford, Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Sprint, have all announced plans in recent weeks to hire and invest in the...

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John Kerry: What We Got Right

by John Kerry | Jan 21, 2017 | Opinion

With a new administration taking office this week, it is natural to assess the inheritance it will receive from the old. There are some who see nightmares wherever they look and insist that the entire global system is unraveling and that America’s position as world...

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Bye-bye single market?
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Theresa May’s Brexit was Always Going to be Hard

by Mark Gilbert | Jan 21, 2017 | Opinion

In February 2015, economists at HSBC Holdings in London coined the terms “hard” and “soft” Brexit. The latter would maintain “much of the status quo” if the U.K. voted to quit the European Union; the former entailed “huge risk...