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...and local officials....
...However, Ukrainian and western officials say sanctions banning western chip exports to Russia are limiting Moscow’s capacity to produce more sophisticated kit....
...“There’s so much shipping capacity coming on stream that in the long run the increase in rates evens out,” says Ryan Petersen, chief executive of the freight forwarding and logistics company Flexport....
...It also, says Foroohar, raises questions about America’s ability to reindustrialise in strategic sectors and its ability to continue to police global shipping lanes when it no longer has the industrial capacity...
...In July, France was rocked by a week of rioting sparked by the police shooting of unarmed teenager Nahel Merzouk, just as the government was trying to move on from months of protests over an increase in...
...EU officials say some in the president’s leftwing government are nervous of the labour and investor protections in the agreement....
...Public court documents show that, in 2023, Eshelman subpoenaed to force Google to unmask a pseudonymous online critic who’d called him a “piece of shit” and said he’d “abused police resources” in pursuing...
...Within 12 hours, the individual was released on the instruction of a very senior police official who said that there was insufficient evidence....
...He says critics of his security policies are on the side of the gangs, and that his strategies have dramatically reduced murder rates....
...Lawyers for 360 One said the company disagreed with the FT’s version of events, and that no 360 One “entity and/or its employees in their official capacity has been involved in any wrongdoing generally and...
...Extrapolating from his own research, Sabel puts paper mills’ global revenues at a minimum of €1bn a year and probably much more....
...De Ruyter was less than impressed with the official police investigation. “It was quite bizarre, actually,” he says of his encounter with two sergeants assigned to the case....
...His visit resulted in agreements to triple the capacity of an increased number of China-Mongolia border crossings and negotiations over access to the port at Tianjin, south-east of the Chinese capital....
...Part of the challenge, she says, is that law enforcement officials sometimes lack the capacity to build cases against traffickers....
...And the police can show up at any time.” Sure enough, about an hour in to the Midway job, the beams of a car approached. The lookout whistled to signal it was someone official....
...Give me an example of any country in the world where so many civilian activities, such as running airports, public security — in other words, replacing the police — customs, the ports, are run by the military...
...Samsung is said to be showing the way: in recent years its operations in Noida, near New Delhi, have doubled capacity to build 120mn phones a year....
...to tender his resignation....
...“At the start of Covid we all went to a meeting with the chancellor in his office, he took a group pic of us,” said one banking chief. “The blame game will start now....
...Cox stressed in a statement that he had represented the Virgin Islands government and not Fahie as an individual....
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s guest is President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines, who was elected president of his country last May....
...His governments have constructed 2,042km of toll roads in eight years, he says, compared with about 780km in the prior 40 years, as well as 16 airports, 18 ports and 38 new dams....
...They are the first port of call for gas for European nations....
...Warsaw has expanded an LNG terminal in the Baltic port of Swinoujscie, and a new interconnector with Lithuania will start working in May....
...warns Beata Javorcik, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which will be one of the institutions closely involved in the effort....
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