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...Up until the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act, receivers had the power to bear arms with which to “kill, maim or hurt” anybody obstructing their official capacities....
...After the populist shocks of the Brexit vote and Trump’s election, he carried the hopes of pro-Europeans and aspired to fill a leadership void in Europe created by Angela Merkel as she entered her twilight...
...“But, as I told my colleagues on the council: this is in your hands. I need a national decision.”...
...By the age of 10, he’d survived a catastrophic earthquake in Tangshan, which official records show killed 240,000 people, including all the members of Li’s adoptive family....
...Many other Fed officials are with her on that but are shy about changing their inputs into the quarterly summary of economic projections so far, although in a speech on Friday, Logan indicated she would...
..., in a paper for the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think-tank....
...She came under instant criticism from lower-level EU officials and some national governments, which disliked the perceived lack of balance in her public statements and the fact that she appeared to be asserting...
...Letta is set to present his report in March during the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU that begins in January....
...The debate, says van Middelaar, is being framed in Brussels as one of “absorption capacity” — which sounds like a scientific concept regarding the EU’s ability to expand....
...in the interest of its members and the purpose of the association”....
...Now, I think all of those questions are about right. But essentially, I don’t think there is anyone else left standing in her bit of the ecosystem, as it were....
...Irish-born, she was awarded the title of Dame of the British Empire last year — an honour that Higgins implied made her biased in favour of official British views on security....
...to get her officials to go the extra mile....
...Western officials hope to seal the deal on Stockholm’s accession at a Nato summit in Vilnius in July....
...“As soon as you start losing capacity, it is very difficult to rebuild.”...
...But when Covid-19 cases began to creep up in the industrial city of Wuxi, near Shanghai, the 40-something worker was redirected from her office job to one of the thousands of testing booths that line the...
...The Minerals Council, whose members include Anglo American and De Beers, calculates that mining companies lost between R50bn and R150bn in potential revenue last year....
...Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council for Foreign Relations think-tank, noted that officials had quietly confirmed the country’s top leadership was vaccinated only in recent months...
...In the paper, the commission says that if the parliament and council want the commission to take on more of the administration “in light of the already difficult budgetary situation”, it will be “impossible...
...You know, we had a pretty solid set of conclusions, as we call them, where the foreign ministers come together and agree a common position, council conclusions that were very straightforward and from my...
...Her remarks stood in stark contrast with those made last year by another of America’s most senior economists: David Malpass, president of the World Bank....
...China’s patchy vaccination campaign has left half of its elderly population exposed to a higher risk of severe Covid-19, just as the country tackles surging outbreaks of the infectious Omicron variant in...
...“They know how to work the system to their advantage.” The OHCHR itself has a conflicted mandate. Some of its obligations, such as capacity building and diplomacy, require working with member states....
...group in the European parliament — isn’t planning to abandon her Brothers of Italy party’s nationalist tendencies....
...“There’s a lot of people I meet who say things like, ‘Oh, I would have voted for you but I’m not a member of the party’. And I’m like: it’s your choice not to be a member of the party....
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