Private equity companies are increasingly showing an interest in hotels, resorts and restaurants, in an attempt to convert them into higher-performing assets for a successful exit.
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Why are more private equity companies entering the travel sector?
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Ghana Wanted a Cathedral. It Got an ‘Expensive Hole’ Instead.
The walls surrounding Ghana’s national cathedral are aging plywood. Its spires are yellow construction cranes, which have not moved in years. It frequently reverberates with singing — the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever the…
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How Trump Dismantled His First-Term Policy on Crimea
After more than three years of war, President Trump proposed a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine in late April that would have the United States recognize Moscow’s 2014 takeover of the Crimean peninsula. Michael D. Shear, a former White House correspondent for The New York Times in London,…
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Message From the Russian Military: ‘We Lost Your Son’
For months, Elvira Kaipova had not heard from her son Rafael, a Russian soldier deployed in Ukraine.
Military officials responded to her repeated questions about his whereabouts by saying he was on active duty and therefore incommunicado. Then, late last November, two days after they again made…
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Social security minister latest to quit in major pensions fraud scandal
Brazil’s Social Security Minister, Carlos Lupi, has resigned nine days after police unveiled a major corruption scandal which defrauded pensioners of $1.1bn (£829m).
Federal police allege that over the past decade, the National Social Security…
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What must Ukraine give up for peace?
As Putin looks back to 1945, a deal that formalises the loss of Crimea could project Russian power into the heart of Europe
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Ukraine’s border guards engage Russian assault troops, post raw footage
Border guards from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit with the Revenge brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine employed drones to engage a Russian assault group that used 10 motorcycles and two quadricycles in a failed attempt to approach Ukraine’s positions in the…
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U.S. drafts new sanctions against Russia
U.S. officials have finalized a new package of economic sanctions against Russia to increase pressure on the Kremlin to stop the war against Ukraine.
Reuters reports this with reference to sources in the U.S. presidential administration, Ukrinform saw.
The new…
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Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv, injuring nearly 50 – DW – 05/03/2025
Nearly 50 people were injured in a drone strike launched by Russia on Ukraine’s second-largest city late Friday, officials said.
“Nearly 50 people have been wounded because of the massive attack by the invader” on four districts, Kharkiv…
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