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...Events: President Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr for trilateral talks in Washington....
...President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. heads to Australia for his first official visit....
...Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr concludes his first state visit to Vietnam. Economic indicators: Japan publishes its December unemployment rate and jobs-to-applications ratio....
...Republican lawmakers, including JD Vance of Ohio, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marco Rubio of Florida, have written to Yellen to demand the deal is blocked....
...Gisela Williams consulted the Crete travel specialists SteMa Journeys; founders Maria Passarivaki and Stefanos Gogos connect travellers to lesser-known parts of the island....
...By the time of Marco Polo, a decade later, Mongol rule had splintered into several Khanates, of which that of Kublai Khan, feted builder of the Xanadu of Coleridge’s poem, was only the primus inter pares...
...“In terms of narratives and forward momentum, China has stolen a march on the US,” said William Choong, a senior fellow at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, a Singapore think-tank....
...One of my favourite maps of medieval Asia traces the routes taken by three travellers — Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, William of Rubruck and Marco Polo — in the 13th century....
...In between, it passed through the hands of Ferdinand Marcos, the late dictator of the Philippines, and his wife, Imelda, served as the home of the ill-fated Trump University, and was struck on a foggy night...
...The two-story space is in the city’s fast-developing Zetland area, and opens with a show of new silkscreen paintings by Marco Fusinato (US$35,000-$45,000)....
...Marco Grasso, professor of political geography at the University of Milano-Bicocca, said California’s suit was a bold move that would further shift attention towards the financial duty owed by the fossil...
...The opening cast included William Bracewell (an impressive debut as Dante) and seven other principals, but the soloists shone just as brightly....
...Technip Energies, a French energy transition-focused firm, appointed Loïc Chapuis as chief operating officer and Marco Villa as chief business officer....
...Initially, Russo sought the input of his cousin Marco DeLuca, one of the owners of the stunning boutique hotel La Minervetta in Sorrento....
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr agreed in January to handle maritime disputes through “friendly consultations”....
...William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, warned that EU companies’ readiness remained a “significant unknown” for traders in agri-food products....
...Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, Philippines’ president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are also reportedly coming....
...Japan: Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will hold talks with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Tokyo....
...Since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr took office last year, the Philippines has been discussing a resumption of joint patrols in those waters with the US, its traditional ally....
...When I returned from the trip, I designed the ring and had it made by a Scottish jeweller, William McBride....
...Marco Rubio, Republican vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, said Biden should have spoken to the US public during the week, but that the administration was focused on trying to salvage the trip...
...A book Blasi and two colleagues wrote a decade ago, The Citizen’s Share, sheds light on the history of this perk, highlighting William Cooper Procter as one early advocate....
...“Energy prices were probably the only source of downward pressure on inflation, mainly due to a base effect,” said Marco Valli, chief economist at UniCredit....
...“The new framework is unquestionably worse than the previous one when it comes to debt sustainability,” wrote Marcos Casarin, chief Latin America economist at Oxford Economics....
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