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‘Brexit’ concerns are getting pronounced

As time ticks for the UK’s June 23 referendum — to stay or exit the European Union — rival sides in Britain are making their strong cases, amid global concern over Brexit. While those campaigning to leave the EU say the country would be better off by focussing on new markets, those in favour of remaining in the bloc argue ...

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Is the TAPI pipeline ‘doable’?

Catherine Putz SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS The Asian Development Bank this week oversaw the signing of an investment agreement among the four partners in the much-discussed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-India-Pakistan pipeline. The four agreed to invest an initial budget of more than $200 million. As has been frequently discussed in these pixels, the TAPI project is impressive in its ambitions and massive in ...

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A battle to save a battlefield

PRINCETON, N.J. — One of history’s most important battles happened here on a field you can walk across in less than half the 45 or so minutes the battle lasted. If George Washington’s audacity on Jan. 3, 1777, had not reversed the patriots’ retreat and routed the advancing British, the American Revolution might have been extinguished. Yet such is America’s ...

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