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...Global defence spending hit a record $2.2tn last year, while it rose to $388bn in Europe, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies....
...Electricity generation capacity soared from 5.5GW in 2009 to 23GW currently, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a think-tank....
...“When you give roses to others, their fragrance lingers on your hand,” Xi Jinping told guests at the 10th anniversary celebration of his Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing last week....
...The Philippines’ and Vietnam’s consumer price indices rose 5.3 and 3.6 per cent year on year in August, for instance....
...Foreign direct investment into non-fossil fuel energy last year rose 40 per cent to $2bn from a year earlier, according to government data....
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...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
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...Today’s top stories Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled Israel’s plans for Gaza after hostilities end in the enclave with a formal proposal that directly contradicts the objectives of the US....
...The value of retail sales rose by an annual rate of 2.7 per cent in November, well below the 12-month average of 4.1 per cent....
...His approval rating among Republican voters rose from 14 per cent to a still paltry 21 per cent over the past year, according to Morning Consult....
...Tetsuya Inoue, a former BoJ official who is now a senior researcher at Nomura Research Institute, said the move was akin to policy tightening....
...His reputation has only grown in the years following his death, with major exhibitions staged at the Hayward Gallery in London (2004), Art Institute of Chicago (2012), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2013) and...
...The national stock of coins rose steadily since 1970, but has fallen sharply on a year-on-year basis for 18 straight months, according to Bank of Japan data....
.... £58, hermes.com Re/Done wool-mix 50s V-neck cardigan Vertical stripes are going to be big news for SS23. Huge! Start on it now with this plum-hued cardigan by Re/Done....
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...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...He added that the Saudis have felt “let down” by Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the most rightwing government in Israel’s history....
...She also contacted Madeleine Couture, a custom shop she had previously worked for, whose owners, Benjamin and Ione Stoddard, hired her immediately....
...Benjamin Nabarro, UK economist at Citi, says he fears the government’s attention is “increasingly torn between meaningful reform on the one hand and electorally expedient personal tax cuts on the other”....
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...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...After years without much movement, housing loans as a share of GDP rose in 2022 to their highest level since the 1990s....
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