Hints and tips:
...Collapsed Middle Eastern hospital operator, NMC Health Plc, has been found by the UK Financial Conduct Authority to have committed market abuse by understating its debt by as much as $4bn....
...Some of its obligations, such as capacity building and diplomacy, require working with member states....
...And in transparency news, a fresh fight is brewing over what constitutes official communication, as the European Commission is routinely rejecting calls for the release of instant messages exchanged, for...
...capacity and reinforce the UK’s current status as a failing state....
...UK health secretary Matt Hancock told the FT he “can see an end” to the Covid-19 crisis....
...Politicians as far apart as Australia, India, Europe and Brazil have pinned the blame for this on Mr Xi’s administration....
...In 2015, the independent Airport Commission backed the scheme and it became the official policy of the subsequent Conservative government in 2016....
...As Guy Warren, chief executive of ITRS, a UK trading technology provider, explained: “Without the right capacity planning tools it is extremely difficult to identify what the pinch point is for an IT system...
...As experts from the Rand Corporation noted in a testimony to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2019 “official propaganda has relentlessly promoted Xi in a manner that many have compared...
...In other grim news for the government, the FT finds that actual coronavirus related deaths are likely twice as high as official figures at around 41,000....
...well as subnational executive government heads including governors and mayors....
...Mr Moro has repeatedly denied that he broke any rules surrounding judicial conduct. “I have always said there is nothing to fear in this material,” he told the Financial Times....
...The Charity Commission, the government body that regulates charities, opened an urgent probe into the conduct at last Thursday’s dinner, which was revealed by the Financial Times....
...“The singular aim of state capture,” says Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, “is to facilitate the plunder of state resources for the...
...The 86-year-old is likely to keep his more powerful position as first secretary of the Communist party, as well as de facto control of the armed forces....
...Wandsworth, which is another area under the flghtpath, and four other local councils look set to seek a judicial review of the decision....
...However, the government will appoint an Investigatory Powers Commissioner and judicial commissioners as independent judges to oversee any warrants....
...One might as well propose a royal commission into rape, or into substance abuse by rock stars....
...These come in their capacity as Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which still hears appeals from 31 Commonwealth countries, territories and slivers, some of which, notably Jamaica and Trinidad, are...
...We commit to conduct robust, transparent stress tests as needed. We call on banks to retain a greater proportion of current profits to build capital, where needed, to support lending....
...Officials say Mr Mbeki cannot be more outspoken because, as the region’s official mediator, he has to keep open lines of communication to all parties....
...it as much as possible....
...The military tribunals, which denied defendants the right of judicial appeal and permitted “hearsay” as evidence, were deemed unconstitutional and in breach of the Geneva Conventions....
...The European Commission, which offers one of the most generous programmes, claims that to “bind” the deal in a WTO agreement would violate the equal-treatment principle at the heart of the WTO, as it would...
...The agency would like to see a “code of conduct” to reduce what Mr Witney sees as “covert forms of protectionism” in the EU defence market, a push he believes will complement an effort by the European Commission...
International Edition