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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...A recommendation is then submitted to the government’s culture secretary, who decides whether to delay an export licence to allow museums the chance to buy the item in question at a fair market price....
...Active measures such as violent provocations require authorisation by a committee of the Kremlin’s national security council, led by hardline secretary Nikolai Patrushev....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...“It’s not just a question of responding to China, it’s a question of addressing long-standing global challenges,” Janet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, told reporters on Friday in New Delhi....
...Zahawi, who was promoted to education secretary in an autumn reshuffle, is thought likely to run for the Tory leadership if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is forced out by MPs over the “partygate” scandal....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...His coach, GM John Emms, has this year captained England’s over-50 teams to gold medals at the world and European championships....
...For some Vatican-watchers, these missteps stemmed in part from Benedict’s appointment in 2006 of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as secretary of state, the Holy See’s number two job....
...On Sunday, Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg warned of “severe consequences for Russia”....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...A protracted power struggle between, for example, the current foreign secretary and defence secretary might not be conducive to good policy, despite the broad consensus on the war....
...Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will give a sermon, and Truss and Baroness Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth secretary-general, will read lessons from Corinthians and St John’s Gospel....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The west is right to call China’s bluff on Taiwan / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Before Zelensky’s announcement that the Donbas assault was under way, John Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary, said Moscow had been preparing the ground for the offensive, moving troops, heavy artillery...
...Jim PickardSo I’m starting to think that this phrase of Rishi Sunak’s is a bit like the great John Major phrase “back to basics”....
...But then you saw others like Suella Braverman, the home secretary, and Simon Clarke, the levelling up secretary, actually saying, you know what, it wasn’t the policy. It was the timing wrong....
...Two secretaries were nominated: John Chartres, a civil servant who had Griffith’s confidence, and Erskine Childers, an Englishman, who had not....
...He had been brought up a Democrat — his parents were Roosevelt New Dealers — and was known to have voted for John Kennedy in 1960 and Jimmy Carter in 1976....
...The message due to go out from the Queen’s private secretary was “London Bridge is down”: code for the death of Elizabeth II....
...To Tories such as Sir John Hayes, leader of the so-called Common Sense Group, it has fed “an almost obsessive interest in slavery”....
...Additional reporting by John Burn-Murdoch in London...
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...If there is one lesson from John Maynard Keynes for Schäuble it is “look after employment, and the budget will look after itself”....
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