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...It was a bond, issued in 1648 by a group of Dutch landowners, who managed the dikes on a stretch of the river Lek....
...These included cutting royal budgets and abolishing the lèse-majesté or royal insult law that jails those convicted of defaming the royal family for up to 15 years....
...Compounding their problems, the river has become a focus of regional tensions since Ethiopia began to construct a $4.8bn hydropower project on the Blue Nile, the source of most of the water reaching Egypt...
...The strongmen of Egypt and Turkey, presidents Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are busily eliminating their political middle ground and filling the jails....
...Sanusi believes that, with a man as intolerant of corruption as President Buhari, some at least will wind up in jail....
...And the party’s anti-corruption purges have been accompanied by jail sentences for activists such as Xu Zhiyong, who called for government officials to disclose assets....
...“There is a place close to the Yauza river where I walk where the air is thick with culture and energy. Moscow is wonderful for energy....
...Michael Peel is the FT’s Middle East correspondent...
...When he was busted for performance-enhancing drugs and ended up in jail, he knew he would lose it all....
...The fact is, a growing number of Palestinians live west of the Jordan River. Technology will make it harder for Israel to defend itself....
...Madoff is in jail but, with investigations ongoing, this is a first draft of history. It is an engaging one despite that....
...Similar representatives of Russia’s expanding middle class crowd the resort....
...In the Middle Ages, the Kingdom of Aragon set the price of wool in Anso, which boasted a flock of 55,000 sheep....
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