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...In the 1970s, a teenage Xi led the development of biogas-generating facilities in a rural village, replacing burning wood for lighting and cooking — an early example, it said, of leveraging “new quality...
...parts of the former German Democratic Republic, creating prosperity and jobs in the process....
...“We just hope our village won’t change, because we like it the way it is.” As seen from my window in the morning light, the sea was as shiny like a pool of olive oil, becalmed, as if barely awake....
...His name is also forever associated with the term “Potemkin village”, which means something created to make a situation look better than it really is, often to please a ruler and dupe his or her subjects...
...Though Biden beat Trump by more than 7mn in the popular vote in 2020, his electoral college victory boiled down to margins of a few thousand here and a few thousand there in states such as Arizona and Georgia...
...The governors of New York and New Jersey, the mayor of New York and sundry transit bosses gathered in a rare show of unity to announce a roughly $7bn overhaul of Pennsylvania Station, the western hemisphere...
...In Barcelona, one of Europe’s most visited destinations, politics had fostered a deep sense of malaise.The city’s present mayor, Ada Colau, a leftwing former activist running for re-election this year, had...
...His replacement, Stuart Machin, has already set out his stall in terms of accelerating the overhaul of the store estate and redoubling cost-cutting efforts so the focus is likely to be on current trading...
...“You dance with whoever’s in the room — that applies to world politics just as much as the village disco,” he famously noted in 2018....
...Eric Adams, the city’s new mayor, who began his career as a transit cop, has made tackling crime and safety on the subway in particular one of his top priorities....
...Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, on Thursday joined the chorus of criticism of the prime minister for breaking his pledge to deliver high-speed rail links to northern...
...Labbé, the mayor of Erquy, recalls how residents’ fears quickly subsided in a nearby village where he used to live after they watched the installation of three wind turbines over a decade ago....
...It was in his capacity as a lawyer that Tolentino appears in the final, frenzied months of Wirecard’s existence....
...Edward White in Seoul 76....
...That sounds like a huge lift, but as Kaplan points out, “we have the capacity to do that” in terms of production, technology, research and development, and even buy-in from governors and mayors....
...That is, the recent US presidential impeachment proceedings in which Mr Giuliani — in his capacity as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer — was shown to be criss-crossing Ukraine in search of possible...
...“The vigour of Edo was in its Low City,” writes Edward Seidensticker, the late translator and long-time Tokyo resident, in his 1970 classic Low City, High City....
...As a former waitress and one-time food writer, I can attest to the truth of this line from the piece — “the word ‘family’ is thrown around in restaurants for good reason”....
...In addition to more than 500 heritage properties encompassing country houses, ancient monuments and industrial sites, it owns 780 miles of coastline, 56 villages, nine lighthouses and a gold mine....
...But for now, residents of Harmondsworth, which under Heathrow’s plans would see large parts of the picturesque village knocked down to make way for the runway, can raise a toast to Mr Grayling and his legal...
...(Reuters, FT) The FT’s Edward Luce shares the role he intends to play in bringing the global pandemic to an end in our Swamp Notes newsletter....
...The lawyer, Edward MacMahon, noted that Mr Parnas was both a client of Mr Giuliani and also worked for the former New York mayor in his current capacity as Mr Trump’s personal lawyer....
...I am in the village of Imlil, about 40 miles south of Marrakech, living in a compound with four generations of one family....
...Mr Johnson, accompanied by a team of former allies from his days as London mayor and battle-hardened veterans of the Vote Leave referendum campaign, set about dismembering Mrs May’s administration and charting...
...We congratulate him on his new role as Finance Adviser for COP26 and welcome his successor Andrew Bailey, who takes up his post on Monday....
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