Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Headed for a time by former president Hu Jintao’s son, Hu Haifeng, Nuctech has long been criticised for its close links to Beijing and has been red-flagged by the US over potential risks to national security...
...He was the latest casualty in a years-long corruption crackdown led by Communist party secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong....
...Dora Henry Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK...
...Sonja Hutson Henry Foy is the FT’s Brussels bureau chief. Thanks, Henry. Henry Foy Thanks a lot....
...The members of the presidential council had “a long and rocky road ahead to forge a new functional government”, said Diego Da Rin, who researches Haiti for the International Crisis Group....
...Henry ManceYeah, I suppose....
...Israel has begun preparations to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of a long-expected assault on the city in southern Gaza where the bulk of Hamas’s remaining forces and more than 1mn displaced people...
...Policymakers are keen to reverse the long-standing practice of countries purchasing US-made equipment....
...In the grounds, Moore’s sculptures — Large Reclining Figure (1984) is more than 9 metres long — loom over visitors. But the bronzes’ bulk has not deterred sticky fingers....
...But the question is how long this breathing space will last, writes Lex....
...It would also have to deepen and link its capital markets, he argued, in another long-promised but unrealised EU reform....
...Short-term visitors outnumber long-term residents: more than 20mn people last year visited the city centre, where the residential population is less than 50,000....
...Henry Foy So the evidence includes news reports, one even dated back to 2005, which of course is a long, long time before the invasion took place....
...But that has come with brutal costs for its long-suffering population, writes Valentina Romei....
...Kyiv also operates long-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the former Soviet Union, including the S-300 and S-200 systems....
...In the long run, the forces pulling Britain apart are greater than the forces holding it together, unless something is done about it.”...
...“The embrace by the establishment didn’t last for very long because I continued to be critical of Israel,” says Shlaim, now emeritus professor at Oxford university....
...Henry Mance Yeah. And people will know that Israeli Jewish men are faced with very long military service by international standard. Two years, eight months. Women serve for two years....
...“To make it more predictable, to make it more robust, because we strongly believe support to Ukraine should be less dependent on short-term voluntary offers, and more dependent on long-term Nato commitments...
...They can affect the long run by restricting leases for long-term oil and gas production. But in the near term, what happens to oil and gas companies’ bottom lines is dictated by the oil price....
...The US, alongside Germany, has long harboured concerns about an escalation that could drag Nato into the conflict, and resisted attempts to give the alliance a more direct role in supporting Kyiv....
...More than a dozen smaller EU states fought back against efforts to unify Europe’s fragmented capital markets, highlighting the torturous politics around the decade-long financial reform effort....
...Nguyen Phu Trong, the current secretary-general, has spearheaded the years-long corruption purge, which critics say has also targeted his political rivals....
...Turkey has long called for a non-EU candidate to succeed Norwegian Stoltenberg. Romania has its own candidate — President Klaus Iohannis, Rutte’s only official rival....
Rearmament and green transition prompt rethink of long-stalled integration of Europe’s financial markets
International Edition