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...Could CEOs learn a few tricks from the steady commitment and humble objectives of local parish councillors?...
...But Cercius pointed to the detention and arrests late last year of lower-level officials with ties to the Rocket Force as an indication of a wider probe....
...Putin’s rhetoric about the uprising quickly caught on, said Denis Volkov, head of the Levada Center....
...Were he to be denied bail, Bankman-Fried would then be transferred to a pre-trial facility, such as the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell...
...Among 440 county and deputy county party secretaries, Aspi found that in recent years the “vast majority” of county party secretaries — such as Yao — have been Han....
...James Wilson, deputy director of Detention Action, one of several bodies that have challenged the removals through the courts, said: “The ECHR rarely intervenes in the legal matters of member countries....
...Melinda Quintos de Jesus, executive director at the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, finds that problematic....
...The $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure bill that Biden signed into law on Monday provides $6bn in grants for struggling reactors....
...After proposals to put a price on carbon were shot down, the focus has shifted to a system of grants for states to support efforts to go green....
...Such loyalty impressed Yeltsin’s deputy chief of staff, Alexei Kudrin, who had worked for the mayor as well and knew Putin....
...One of the ideas under discussion is a state grant scheme tied to federally-set emissions reduction benchmarks....
...He has been accused of helping to fund risky research at the Wuhan lab through a $600,000 grant given by the US National Institutes of Health for work on bat coronaviruses....
...Doran Fink, deputy clinical director of the FDA’s vaccine division, kicked off Thursday’s meeting by saying Covid-19 continued to worsen in the US and worldwide....
...After UK officials refused to believe his account and grant him asylum, he felt he had no option but to stay on, unauthorised....
...“They got off to a fantastic start,” said Dr Tom Frieden, a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank, said it appeared to be the first time China had imposed sanctions on US officials....
...“Economic problems have been the main concern of Russians for many years,” said Denis Volkov, deputy director of the Levada Center, an independent pollster that has surveyed Russian public opinion since...
...Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern, acknowledged that Facebook and other platforms had been “much more aggressive” in this election in labelling posts...
...The US drugs regulator will grant emergency approval to a second coronavirus vaccine in the coming days, a decision that will make it the first country to have authorised two inoculations against the virus...
...Otherwise there will be questions about their effectiveness,” says Chesnakov, who was deputy head of Putin’s domestic policy department from 2001 to 2008....
...More recently, the US has turned up the heat on China over its detention of an estimated 1m Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang region....
...“It is not so much the pandemic itself that affects [ratings], but the resulting economic problems,” says Denis Volkov, Levada Center’s deputy director....
...Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity Climate Law Institute, said the move was “unprecedented” and would trigger years of litigation....
...Paul Barrett, deputy director at NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, says the unrest stems from the fact the company is caught in a bind....
...Tokyo prosecutors immediately appealed against the court decision to grant bail, but the court rejected their claims late on Thursday....
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