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...One senior council official in a deprived northern area says that his authority’s bid to the first round of the levelling up fund in 2021 was more like a “thesis”, totalling more than 30,000 words, which...
...Up until the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act, receivers had the power to bear arms with which to “kill, maim or hurt” anybody obstructing their official capacities....
...The EU has proved nimble too, providing more than €5bn to help buy weaponry for Ukraine or to compensate member states who send arms from their own stocks....
...Additional reporting by Ben Hall in London and Andy Bounds in Brussels Data visualisation by Keith Fray...
...Our chart below lays bare the steep falls in the prices accepted by developers at each auction since 2015, and the growth in capacity secured....
...EU mutual defence In fact, the EU’s Lisbon treaty already contains a mutual defence clause (Article 42.7) under which member states are obliged to come to each other’s assistance if one of them is attacked...
...“It seems there’s a tendency to try and pit different members of the supply chain against each other, which isn’t our experience,” says Avara....
...Heather Boushey, a member of the White House council of economic advisers, says there have been encouraging signs that the strategy is working on the ground....
...In April 2020 his security forces lined up hundreds of gang members stripped to their underwear and forced them to sit on the floor in long lines as a punishment for a jump in violence....
...The proposed 21,500-capacity venue in the UK capital has attracted fierce local opposition, including from West Ham MP Lyn Brown and Newham Council, as well as rival entertainment group AEG, which owns the...
...(Half point for each) Deputy governor Ben Broadbent is the longest-serving member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. In what year did he cast his first vote?...
...And the battles have been fought not in the public square, but in election campaigns for seats on the trust’s council, and in vigorous polemics about the interpretation offered to visitors real and virtual...
...Each time he has tailored the message to the audience, often appealing to the hearts and minds of the people over their governments....
...With “very manageable changes to risk tolerance” they could boost their lending capacity by “several hundreds of billions of dollars over the medium term” while still maintaining their credit ratings....
...Boniadi tells me that, in the past, the diaspora was deeply polarised and many members of it were too centred on an “anti-imperialist narrative”, meaning they were tempered in their criticism of the republic...
...Bintou Keita, the head of the UN’s stabilising mission which is known as Monusco, told the UN Security Council in June that M23’s capacity now appeared to be that of a “conventional army” after rebels seized...
...Fixing the protocol “requires a change in the way we talk to each other, both ways, and it requires a rebuilding of trust.”...
...Such a strategy needs to recognise that we are a services superpower and boosting services growth in our second cities will benefit their wider regions; focus on increasing investment rather than living...
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...As she dropped the soiled bundle to the ground, the dogs fled in horror, according to an account by the author Ben Macintyre....
...Rather than ease this approach, Yanzhong Huang, a public health policy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, says the arrival of Omicron may cause officials to be even more severe in rural...
...Acevedo says he was dismissed for investigating corruption in the city council and is suing in federal court....
...EU member states were taking their defence capacities seriously enough....
...Germany’s carmaking trio, which usually avoid commenting on international politics, each issued carefully worded criticisms of the war. Their decisions were not excessively painful....
...Buoyant opposition officials say their stunning defeat of the AKP in municipal elections in Istanbul and Ankara in 2019, when they banded together behind a unity candidate in each city, show that Erdogan...
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