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...“The arbitrariness around civil liberties has increased and is signified in the loss of independence of the Supreme Court and the judiciary,” he says....
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...Jill Abramson is an author, a lecturer in Harvard University’s English department and the former executive editor of the New York Times Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...But the sheer audacity that newly-public court documents reveal about the actions of V Ashok, the chief financial officer of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, is something else. Here’s the backdrop....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...In southern Tamil Nadu state, where the family’s roots lie, giant billboards with Ms Harris’ face appeared, proclaiming “P.V. Gopalan’s granddaughter is victorious”....
...Meanwhile, protesters say stay-at-home orders threaten civil liberties....
...The appeal of such stalwarts is not lost on Atighetchi, who had bespoke stationery created by a local engraver while at university....
...(FT) The move is the most striking crystallisation yet of the civil liberties fears raised by restrictions imposed on citizens in many European countries since the pandemic began....
...Fries says that there are alternatives for Liberty Global beyond Sunrise....
...I think a gradual chipping away of the right is more likely,” said Melissa Murray, a New York University law professor....
...Yet it has worked less well in recent years for black and Hispanic students, according to a 2015 New York University study....
...Giuseppe Conte, a law professor, claims to have “perfected and updated his studies” at New York University....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...Following a further move to test the ruling, in 2013 the Supreme Court finally voted in a 5:4 majority to declare Section 3 of Doma unconstitutional “as a deprivation of the liberty of the person protected...
...Ultimately, Liberty University split over Trump. Its current president, Jerry Falwell Jr, endorsed his candidacy....
...During the campaign, Mr Trump vowed to appoint justices who would overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade abortion rights decision....
...However, in an interview with the FT last week, Mr Dell denied that his new Class V stockholders would be second-class citizens....
...Leaders such as Jerry Falwell Junior, head of Liberty University and Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, have preferred to keep their pact with the devil....
...Selten is, however, currently at liberty while he appeals his two-and-a-half-year sentence — the longest ever given in the Netherlands for this type of crime....
...I remember reporting, in the 1980s, on a campaign by university lecturers to improve their conditions of work....
...And that oddly gives you the liberty to do anything. You can switch from serious scenes to knockabout in the twinkle of an eye.”...
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