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...More than 20 so-called village banks, which mainly serve farmers, in central Sichuan, western Xinjiang and northern Hebei provinces have been merged or absorbed by larger banks in 2023, according to regulatory...
...When we finally made it to the Falklands, at around 1am, the immigration queues were long, the strip lights aggressive and the airport’s name, RAF Mount Pleasant, seemed deeply ironic....
...Ukraine will look to mount a new counteroffensive in 2025 after receiving a $61bn infusion of US military aid to help it stop Russia from making additional gains this year, Jake Sullivan, the US national...
...An eerie silence hangs over the village that was home to one of Mexico’s most infamous drug clans, broken occasionally by the buzz of a passing motorbike along the deserted streets....
...At one polling station in Mount Pleasant, a Charleston suburb, Elizabeth Warren — no relation to the Democratic US senator — said she had voted for Biden in 2020 and would vote for him again in November...
...During the Events, an estimated 5,000 Christians were killed — 2,500 Damascenes, and another 2,500 from neighbouring villages who had sought refuge in Damascus....
...The strikes had targeted the villages of Stanislav and Shyroka Balka, located on the Dnipro river’s delta south-west of Kherson city, he added....
...In 2003 Ivanishvili returned from Russia to his native Georgian village of Chorvila....
...The skies are vast, the views empty, and the sea a couple of hundred yards away. vipp.com, from €545 Rustic luxury over Lofoten The summit of Mount Rønvik, in Bodø on Norway’s north coast, has long been...
..., Mount Pleasant Mail Centre....
...The floor-to-ceiling glass windows at the front of the hotel look out across the water to the village of Erlenbach with chalet-esque houses dotted on the green hillside, and to the right down to Rapperswil-Jona...
...The evacuation took place from 12 villages and several hotels, with no casualties....
...The Pacific runs along the length of the fairway, which slopes towards the water. Mount Baker looms above the pin across the strait but there is no time to enjoy the view....
...In the village of Randazzo, the vivacious Giovanna Musumeci, an award-winning pastry chef, is telling us about the origins of one of the island’s culinary obsessions....
...On Friday, Ensall’s team put the word out that they needed help cutting a piece of metal for the disco ball mount, and a local leapt to the rescue....
...To ascend Mount Epomeo was to enact a Ferrantean what-if. In the second novel of the quartet, the mountain is a promise — the young man Lenù adores proffers it to her....
...President Xi Jinping, who was himself forced to labour in a rural village during the Cultural Revolution, has little sympathy for graduates reluctant to do low-paid jobs....
...Tensions bubble up instead from the family drama: pleasant parents who are drifting apart, a headstrong teenage son and a daughter mourning the loss of a friend and — much to the dismay of the ghost — pursuing...
...It stands in the woods of Mount Desert, the green island off the coast of Maine. My lecture was in honour of another doyenne of American style, Beatrix Farrand....
...Phillippa Dalby-Welsh says Savills has buyers waiting for homes in the West Sussex villages of Lindfield, Balcombe and Horsted Keynes — ideally “a Georgian house on the edge of the village with 10 acres”...
...I didn’t grow up in the local of a pit village or have my first pint of “heavy” with my father the shipbuilder....
...At the heart of these legends is that of Prince Kibogo who, struck by lightning on top of Mount Runani, rose to heaven and brought the rains. Mukasonga’s novella is made up of four parts....
...The victims found near the village of Avantas may be migrants as there have been no reports of disappearances or missing residents amid a large-scale evacuation of the region, according to Yannis Artopios...
...We had an amazing moment in the East Village in Manhattan. We were trying to use a cash machine and the guy who helped us was wearing a pair of Cubitts glasses!...
...Lebanese residents of border villages told the FT that Hizbollah had repeatedly tampered with the cameras near Metula this summer, as part of its increasingly brazen tactics....
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