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...Lula’s inauguration on January 1 in Brasília will take place against heightened security concerns, following the arrest last weekend of a man whom police said planted a bomb on a fuel truck near the city...
...Additional reporting by Michael Stott in London...
...Job moves Fashion retailer Asos has named chief commercial officer José Antonio Ramos Calamonte as its new chief executive....
...Much like Michael Phelps or the Kalenjin runners, 10 Foot’s body is perfectly suited to his sport. His long limbs let him reach over walls and stretch for faraway handholds....
...As for Wolverhampton, it’s been earmarked for housing secretary Michael Gove’s “levelling-up” project....
...“The truth is that the state of Amazonas today is living a drama,” Mr Ramos said on Friday....
...Additional reporting by Michael Peel in Brussels...
...Decisions to close local hospitals and magistrates courts, cut bus routes and shut unprofitable shop branches are made in isolation, and too bad if these axes all fall in the same places....
...Felipe Alessandri, the mayor of one of Latin America’s most prosperous cities, was surveying the burnt-out wreckage of the 170-year-old church of Veracruz in the centre of Chile’s capital, destroyed in a...
...Michael Camina, the city’s chief legal officer, told Nikkei that the municipality has observed upward pressure on both commercial and residential prices....
...The top entry was a sweeping “smart city” plan where people’s movements would be tracked so that a municipal government can better regulate how it uses energy....
...The result is a handful of cities that are like “luxury products”, in the words of former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg....
...Michael Gomez, head of emerging markets at Pimco, sees the energy sector as Mr López Obrador’s “litmus test.”...
...But the then Seigneur, Michael Beaumont, refused, reportedly saying: “The whole thing is ridiculous.”...
...Foreign fighters inspired by Isis are part of a terrorist invasion of a south Philippine city, President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has claimed....
...Follow Michael Peel on Twitter: @mikepeeljourno...
...Many civilians had already fled the mainly Muslim city of 200,000 people on the large southern island....
...The Marawi crisis is a serious blow to Mr Duterte’s image as potential peacemaker in Mindanao, where he grew up and was mayor of the city of Davao for more than 20 years....
...use of similar special powers under the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and promised a crackdown of his own after Isis-aligned extremists battled security forces, took hostages and occupied part of Marawi city...
...Geoff Andres, property president of nearby City of Dreams Manila, says he believes Entertainment City could grow in step with a national economy that expanded 6.8 per cent last year....
...It’s enough to see his face emblazoned on a “Shop a Looter” billboard and have him up before a magistrate. But there’s more to come....
...His victims in the southern city of Davao included a journalist and his own brothers, all murdered by a death squad he claims operated under the authorisation of then mayor, Rodrigo Duterte — now the country...
...US troops are near a southern Philippine city held by Islamist militants, the national army has said, as questions mount about the government’s handling of the three-week crisis....
...In the city’s handsome baroque cathedral, a red, yellow and blue Venezuelan flag is draped over the altar and a priest leads a mass calling for peace....
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