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...in provincial elections in March....
...On trade, Trump plans to renew his trade wars — floating the idea of introducing a 10 per cent across-the-board tariff on imported goods, a 60 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, as well as a separate levy...
...year of boss Bernard Looney in a scandal over his past relationships with colleagues....
...This could be an ideal time to book a spring break — mine is going to be a long weekend in the delightful English county of Suffolk. But don’t just take my word for it, read the HTSI holiday guide....
...As the FT’s Sujeet Indap reported on Wednesday, a Delaware decision last week striking down how much decision-making power Ken Moelis has at his boutique bank Moelis & Co, may prove pivotal in the Crown...
...Trump will be criminally convicted in at least one of his four trials, probably two, before the election, and will present it as political persecution by the “Biden crime family”....
...Bank of England watchers are expecting a rate cut. The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June....
...US President Joe Biden said he was hopeful a temporary Gaza ceasefire could begin as soon as next Monday, as American officials pressed hard to revive a stalled diplomatic process....
...plains of Carbon County, in southern Wyoming, in the great American West....
...Gou, who handed Foxconn management to a successor chief executive four years ago, resigned his seat on the board in early September after announcing his presidential run, but retains a 12.5 per cent stake...
...Progressive politicians as well as officials and experts say that there is a disconnect between the public outcry over migration and the actual number of arrivals....
...ahead of the November presidential election....
...BBC in crisis | The BBC has suspended a male member of staff after allegations about the personal conduct of a presenter....
...China has frequently leaned on Taiwanese businesses to support the Kuomintang, the opposition party that views Taiwan as part of a greater Chinese nation, in past elections....
...Chart du jour: Packed European prisons are increasingly at capacity, according to a survey of 48 prison administrations in Council of Europe members....
...What I’ve been reading and watching The wind of change is blowing through the ECB. In an interview on Tuesday, executive board member, Isabel Schnabel, now says inflation is “on track”....
...At his press conference, he sang Taiwan’s national anthem, bowed to a picture of Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China — as Taiwan is formally called — and tried to persuade the public...
...In an apparent concession of defeat, an official from the prime minister’s party on Monday said Move Forward should “be given a chance to form a government”....
...Western officials hope to seal the deal on Stockholm’s accession at a Nato summit in Vilnius in July....
...Sir John Kingman, an ex-Treasury official who oversaw the bailout of the British banking system during the financial crisis, will join Barclays as chair of its UK retail division in June as part of a board...
...He receives more than €10,000 per month as a board member of Sofina Group, a Belgian investment company, and between €1,000 and €5,000 sitting on the advisory board of Planet First Partners, another investment...
...In the run-up to the next general election, his allies have produced a list of unideological or centrist candidates to run for parliament, purging those suspected of holding radical left views, as they seek...
...Monetary policy: Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve board of governors, participates in a moderated conversation on the US economic outlook and monetary policy hosted by the University of Michigan...
...His visit resulted in agreements to triple the capacity of an increased number of China-Mongolia border crossings and negotiations over access to the port at Tianjin, south-east of the Chinese capital....
...As for Gilbert, the judge said his “unauthorised pay increase smacks of self-dealing”. He concluded that Gold had in fact quit the board....
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