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...Night was falling when sergeant Pa Wen-shan rode his motorcycle up the steep, narrow road that leads home. It had been a long journey....
...The performative aspects took the shape of a breathless press release from the Home Office on Wednesday announcing: “Detentions under way as government prepares for first flight in nine to eleven weeks”....
...Their detention was widely seen as retaliation for Canada detaining Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms company Huawei, in connection with a US extradition request....
...Ferdinand Marcos JrA cross-strait unification, as the Chinese like to refer to it. Gideon RachmanYeah....
...Strait of Hormuz....
...Iran continues to hold a UK-flagged vessel, the Stena Impero, which its Revolutionary Guards seized in the Strait of Hormuz two weeks after the detention of the Grace 1 in apparent retaliation....
...Greek officials are concerned that Ankara could increase the stakes by allowing many more migrant boats to cross the east Aegean strait....
...I watched market traders, government officials and on-duty police officers chew khat....
...“You’ve got professional police officers suggesting one thing and elected police commissioners doing another,” he said....
...This idea of sham trials – professional military officers never bought into that. This is not our system.”...
...It sank as it was being towed to the Greek island of Farmakonisi, used as a temporary detention point for migrants picked up by coastguard patrols....
...“They burnt through $2bn and got another $1bn into debt,” says a person familiar with the dire straits of the company....
...who would arrange detention....
...Just before my detention, officers had been making similar points to the youths gathered on Sohar roundabout earlier that night, while insisting that traffic be allowed to pass through this intersection....
...‘They were withdrawn …after a serious misunderstanding about their role, leading to their temporary detention’ ………………………………………….....
...“We don’t have any sergeant-major figure who is seen as God. If anyone behaved on board the way an infantry RSM traditionally does, someone would lamp him one....
...I’m just starting a series of books about an officer.”...
...To US eyes, a bizarre element of this scandal is the attempt to scapegoat speaker Michael Martin for not having instructed the sergeant-at-arms to demand a search warrant from police....
...The officers bought him a ticket and helped him through immigration – and to freedom. Mr Ching said he planned to take a month off before going back to the Straits Times....
...But Judge James Pohl limited the testimony after Mr Archambault admitted that he knew of no manual on detention methods that included using human pyramids....
...What becomes of the venture depends on how many will join the call for what is, in effect, a trial of the prime minister, preceded by his detention by men in tights....
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