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...It was the direct result of President Biden’s guidance to me and his cabinet to intensify our diplomacy with China and put a floor under the relationship.”...
...“The scale of subsidies just dwarfs what we see in OECD economies,” a Treasury official said during the trip, noting that the excess capacity was having “global spillovers”....
...In a stunning reversal after protests against Xi’s zero-Covid policy, Chinese officials have begun dismantling the pandemic control system of lockdowns, mass testing, state quarantine and electronic contact...
...His comments were published in the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s most powerful military force....
...“People take notice [of the US position] everywhere, it’s the biggest banking centre in the world,” says one senior banking official....
...“[W]e have never suggested that the president, or any other official, has an immunity that extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity,” the justices wrote in 1997....
...Additional reporting by Sam Jones in Berlin...
...The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June. Our expert Chris Giles has much to say about this, and other central bank matters, in his excellent newsletter....
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones...
...allies and officials within his administration to press for a pause in the military operation in Gaza....
...Reporting by Andrew Hill, Emma Jacobs, and Michael O’Dwyer in London, Joshua Chaffin in New York, Sarah White in Paris, Sam Jones in Berlin, Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli in Milan, Leo Lewis in Tokyo, Namrata...
...“Culture can do this because it can connect with human habits, needs and intuitions in ways that expose the inhuman hollowness of official propaganda,” he writes....
...the FT’s Sam Jones reports....
...Visual journalism by Cleve Jones...
...His comments come days after the oil and gas producers, including ExxonMobil and Chevron, reported enormous profits, and a week before crucial midterm elections in which the price of petrol has put fellow...
...Much of the country’s power-generating capacity is in the west and travels through high-voltage lines to reach the centre and east....
...While some focus groups have described him as “boring”, “bland” and “weak”, he has been ruthless in his efforts to remould the party in his own image....
...A €200bn plan unveiled by Berlin in recent weeks led to accusations from outgoing Italian prime minister Mario Draghi and his counterpart in Hungary, Viktor Orbán, that Germany is undermining unity and the...
...Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1bn over Sandy Hook claims A Connecticut jury has ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1bn in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims as a result of his claims that the...
...Take this for a plot: Prime Minister Mario Draghi, widely admired at home, across Europe and among policymakers in Washington, tendered his resignation after one sinking member of his 17-month-old national...
...Some countries, such as the UK, are confident they have reduced Russian capacity significantly, with agent numbers in Britain in the low single digits, according to one senior Whitehall official....
...capacity....
...Sunak’s Tory leadership campaign video with his shredder is one of the cringe moments of 2022, a perfect example of how Brexit has a strange capacity to reduce apparently sensible people to absurdity....
...Germany and Austria have taken the first formal steps towards gas rationing as officials rushed to avoid a potential halt in deliveries from Russia because of a dispute over payments....
...“We are waging total economic and financial war against Russia, Putin, and his government, and let’s be clear, the Russian people will also pay the consequences.”...
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