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...Judges could also make more use of the “margin of appreciation” which allows room for manoeuvre to national governments....
...Supporters of Minnesota’s “uncommitted” movement said they expected to send at least one delegate to the Democratic National Convention this August....
...Sunak said in a statement on Wednesday that there was a “growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule”....
...Among the “energy sources” of Barth’s own fiction were old literary conventions, such as the epistolary novel (he was an admirer of Henry Fielding) or classical myth, which he repurposed for his own ends...
...Depending on their performances, Biden and Trump could earn the Democratic and Republican nominations in mid-March — and officially accept them at conventions this summer....
...This year’s Democratic convention will also be in Chicago — an echo of the 1968 race that has not gone unnoticed....
...Many fear that recent chaotic pacts in some of South Africa’s biggest cities will be replicated at a national level....
...“The network has been all but stripped bare,” Hill-Lewis, a rising star of the main opposition Democratic Alliance, said of the state-run rail system that now carries a fraction of the passenger numbers...
...Makolo said Kigali wanted to offer asylum seekers the chance of a new life and would offer training in Kinyarwanda, the national language, and job skills....
...A House of Commons vote on the Israel-Hamas war descended into chaos on Wednesday night as Conservative and Scottish National party MPs walked out of the chamber in protest at the Speaker’s handling of the...
...The results in the primary are highly unlikely to trouble Biden’s official nomination at the party’s national convention in August....
...The president was forced to mount a write-in campaign after a squabble between the Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic party, which has long prided itself on running the country...
...Then as now, few national newspaper commentators understood working-class culture, let alone young people....
...For the first time, the Democratic National Committee has set up a team dedicated solely to squashing third-party candidates, and has accused American Values, a super Pac backing RFK Jr, of violating campaign...
...Colum Eastwood, an MP from Northern Ireland’s small nationalist Social Democratic and Labour party, called Badenoch’s decision “highly irregular” and demanded an explanation....
...Next week government lawyers meet in New York to decide whether to start formal intergovernmental negotiations on a UN convention on crimes against humanity, to supplement the Genocide Convention....
...In response to “Democrats are too scared of a contested convention”: “Policy infighting at the Democratic convention would not only be a welcome relief from Trump/Biden personality wars....
...“We are a group that upholds democratic conventions. Personal attacks, insults, threats, coercion or violence are simply not on.”...
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