Thousands of workers at Egypt’s Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Company have won pay rises after a week-long strike.
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6 servings You will need5 oz. butter6 chicken breasts, boned (each 4 oz.)6 chicken fillets6 chicken legs without meat, boiled¾ cup flour2 egg, mixed with little milklittle bread crumbs6 white bread slices, crusts trimmedvegetable oil for fryingsaltpepper Garnish:8 tablespoons canned green peas2 medium carrots, sliced and glazed*6 small tomatoes6 lemon slicespickled cucumberlittle watercress *Carrots steamed […]
About 1.4 million people marched across Germany at the end of January against the far right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party.
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Preparation time: 5 minutesCooking time: about 12 minutesTo serve: 2 You will need 1 freshly cooked lobster, about 1 lb2 oz. butter2 oz. button mushrooms, sliced2 tablespoons brandy2 tablespoons dry Madeira or sherrysalt and cayenne pepper¼ pint (U.S. ⅝ cup) thick cream Twist off the claws and with a large sharp knife split the lobster […]
Preparation: approx. 10 min.Cooking time: approx. 10 min. Ingredients:5-6 hg fresh or frozen plaice fillets½ tbsp salt1 tbsp melted butter or margarine1 eggwhite pepper4 tbsp breadcrumbs4 tbsp grated cheese (preferably manorhouse cheese) Garnish:1 lemonanchovy filletsolives or herbs Preparation: Poorly translated from the original Swedish using Google Translate ©️Hemmets Journal AB S/K/2
The war in Ukraine has become a bloody stalemate that continues only because both Russia and the US are pouring in weapons to continue the killing.
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Fergus Cumming and Danny Walker Bank Rate has risen by more than 5 percentage points in the UK over the past couple of years. This has led to much higher mortgage rates for many people. In this post we analyse another potential source of pressure on mortgagors: the potential for falls in house prices to … Continue reading Why lower house prices could lead to higher mortgage rates
Gabija Zemaityte and Danny Walker Inflation has been high in many countries since 2021. Some have said that companies have increased their profits over that period: so-called ‘greedflation’. We use published company accounts for thousands of large listed companies to look for signs of increased profits in the data. Consistent with previous analysis of aggregate … Continue reading Profits in a time of inflation: what do company accounts say in the UK and euro area?
Joe Biden’s response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle. Immediately after he returned from his visit to Tel Aviv, where he had both literally and figuratively embraced Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden addressed the US public from the Oval Office. “You know,” he […]
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If war is supposed to be the continuation of politics by other means, Israel’s assault on Gaza seems to be the continuation by other means of the absence of politics. It does not seem that Israel understands what its endgame is. Without a clear sense of an ending, there can be no answer to the […]
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