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...Lisa Curtis, an Indo-Pacific expert at the CNAS think-tank in Washington, said Manila was “wary of getting stuck in the middle of increasing US-China competition” but the new Marcos government seemed realistic...
...Powell said the Chinese move was probably a reaction to last week’s first-ever US-Japan-Philippines summit in Washington, when President Joe Biden, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Japanese Prime...
...Lisa Curtis, an Indo-Pacific expert at the CNAS think-tank in Washington, said the Philippines’ position in the first island chain off the Asian mainland was critical to the entire US alliance system in...
...The Washington Post’s always sage EJ Dionne Jr captures the stakes — and utter recklessness — and points out that “the cruelty is the point”....
...Then Gold and Gilbert were invited to speak at a rally for “health freedom” in Washington. It was scheduled for 1pm on January 6 2021. Washington was teeming with angry conservatives....
...“Push The Button” – Sugababes “Bounce It” – Juicy J “1979”– The Smashing Pumpkins “Anywhere”– Rita Ora “Eternal Spring” – Grazhdanskaya Oborona “Your Loving Arms” – Billie Ray Martin “Les and Ray”...
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...The pointed arms of the star dazzled in direct line of the sun’s rays. I’d hung the trinket up earlier that morning. My Epiphany star....
...In Asia, Chinese stocks were steady following the signing of a preliminary “phase one” deal last week by Beijing and Washington that has eased trade tensions between the economic powers....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...“I don’t really see how that adds up to much,” Mr Ray said. “It doesn’t strike me, in and of itself, being a bombshell revelation.”...
...Rockefeller, who led Chase Manhattan throughout the 1970s and presided over an international expansion of the bank, held influence far beyond New York and Washington....
...City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr, who represents a predominantly black part of north Philadelphia, says Mr Trump’s strategy — and that of the Republican Party — amounts to “urban voter suppression” and hearkens...
...Meanwhile, Barney Jopson in Washington reports Uber has made clarifying the expenses rules a lobbying priority in the US capital....
...Ray Barrell, emeritus professor, Brunel University, National Institute of Economic and Social Research We have long known about the difference between insurable and unknowable risks....
...In the 1970s he lent his jovial screen authority to Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players and Otto Preminger’s The Human Factor....
...He shows how world war, bureaucratic skulduggery in Washington and early cold war espionage shaped the global monetary order in the 1940s....
...Ray Barrell, Niesr Small open economies are never likely to be masters of their own destiny, but domestic demand remains more important than exports to the UK....
...The Bangladeshi girl threatened with deportation after a school essay defending the 9/11 terrorists; the visa adjudicator (Ray Liotta) buying sex from an Australian girl (Alice Eve) with the promise of a...
...When Cynthia McKinney speaks the words of Martin Luther King Jr, they resound through the church with some of King’s cadence....
...The Hotline, a Washington newsletter, includes them in the two dozen seats most likely to change hands....
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