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...the city’s biggest challenges: “the urgent need to strengthen the relationship between its people and its police . . ....
...The government has said repeatedly that it has no intention of going back on the pensions reform, which it says is needed to shore up the finances of France’s costly and complex pensions system as the population...
...In recent months, following tenacious representation from the Hon Members for St Austell and Newquay, North Devon, Cities of London and Westminster, Torbay and Truro and Falmouth, I have been looking closely...
...But marches and walkouts organised by the unions gave way to more spontaneous nightly demonstrations and clashes with police in cities like Paris and Bordeaux, as protesters set fire to piles of uncollected...
...On Tuesday, some protesters set uncollected rubbish on fire in Paris, and in Lyon and Bordeaux small groups clashed with police, who responded with tear gas....
...and city halls were targeted by fires and buses and cars were set ablaze....
...— Taiwan shows the way / From Stephen Vines, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK City-twinning is how Taiwan wins recognition / From Randhir Singh Bains, London IG2, UK...
...In the town of Lorient, masked people set fires and broke windows at a police station and nearby government building....
...Related: The Federal Reserve unveiled emergency measures yesterday to shore up the financial system and took control of another bank....
...Hexagonal whitewashed cabins along the shore date from the ’60s; the gardens flit with birds and butterflies and the hotel swims in a lovely feeling of peace (unless you seek reggae, which bathes the children...
...The visitors, a man and a woman, wore the thousand-yard stare that is the unofficial uniform of New York City police detectives. One of them flashed a badge, and the doorman let them inside....
...that they were saying the only way you deal with this is by trying to empower the cities of the north to actually sort of have a functioning city region and communicate between the two....
...Even though there’s weird groups of rebels on the right who call themselves the “Five Families” in that weird kind of Mafia language, they did sort of melt away and agree to do as the police required them...
...At the end of last month, office attendance in San Francisco stood at 40 per cent, compared with the 48 per cent average of the 10 major US cities tracked by Kastle Systems, a US property security business...
...Its location along the shore of Lake Ontario seems somewhat arbitrary today....
...Within a few months, the pressures of the system boiled over. News clip 1Dozens of protests erupted on university campuses and in cities across China on Saturday....
...It’s in the city of London, which is, of course, the heartland of British capitalism....
...Thomas Pugh: Significant reform of the planning system....
...The venue is the Vale do Anhangabaú — a spartan plaza ringed by iconic structures like the 1920s Martinelli Building, the city’s first skyscraper, and the somewhat older St Benedict’s Monastery....
...I mean, it’s a crazy system. So just by removing the by-elections, you would just basically see that old rump of hereditary peers sort of die or retire and disappear over time. That’s one thing you do....
...who take this as their best option to secure a comfortable retirement?...
...Actually, you know, I think this year has shown the full gamut of the strengths and weaknesses of the British Constitution and of our whole system of public life, really, because if you think about it, I...
...The group saved Tramway and went on to save Frey’s 1955 Fire Station No 1 and 1959 North Shore Yacht Club, with preservation campaigns. But not every effort was successful....
...And that's something Britain simply doesn't have. There are key aspects of our legal and financial system that makes the city of London a great place to bring dirty money and launder wealth....
...“The scene is still fluid, and the investigation is ongoing,” city authorities in Waukesha, Wisconsin, said in a Facebook post, adding that police had apprehended “a person of interest”. 2....
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