Word: heir
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...Treasury Department has named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, prompting the territory's regulators to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Amid that crackdown it may have been a bit embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...
...Lebanon's political fault lines today tend to follow sectarian boundaries, with the Shi'ites overwhelmingly following the Hizballah-led opposition, while the majority of Sunnis back the government and the Future Tide movement of Saad Hariri, Rafik's son and political heir. The tension between the two camps also mirrors the broader Shi'ite-Sunni political rift throughout the Arab world that has been rekindled by the Iraq conflict. The chief protagonists in this new "cold war," as some analysts describe it, are Shi'ite Iran and Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Sunni Arab world...
...TIME: You mention the cartoon of Margaret Thatcher. You've deliberately avoided claiming you're her heir or recalling that era. Then, this week, you invoked her name...
...DAVID CAMERON: You should see the Guardian cartoon of me this week. It's actually very funny. It's a picture of me saying "I'm the heir to Thatcher. I've the neck for it and the tits...
...things people were saying and getting wrong. To me, Mrs Thatcher, it's all a long time in the past. People are voting at the next election who were born after Mrs. Thatcher left office. It's an important thought. So I'm not trying to be the heir to anybody in particular. I'm just trying to do the job. But there are some important things to learn from Margaret Thatcher's success...