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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Britain intends to take advantage of upcoming summits this year to persuade its allies to adopt a tougher political line toward Russia in light of the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK and…
Global stock markets fell back on Thursday amid the threat of a trade war between the US
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has signed a currency swap deal worth about $2.5 billion with the People’s Bank of China to provide adequate local currency liquidity for transactions between national businesses, The Punch newspaper reported…
What if McDonald’s had come up in the Facebook age? The other day, Jonathan Neman, the C.E.O. of the fast-casual chain Sweetgreen, called a meeting at the company’s Los Angeles “treehouse” (headquarters, in the parlance of Ray Kroc) to finalize…
Nashville is booming, and so is its real estate, and so is its income inequality. In one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods, East Nashville, the James A. Cayce Homes, a sixty-three-acre tract of aging, run-down public housing, are about to…
In 1960, Gerry Goffin and Carole King were toiling in a Brooklyn basement apartment. The couple, married the year before, had written dozens of songs but hadn’t scored a hit. Then they caught a break: Florence Greenberg, a record producer,…
