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...Rebecca Pincus, director of the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center, said the criticism was probably driven by competition over seabed resources such as minerals and also undersea cables....
...In a report published on Monday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank said the Zhu Hai Yun was capable of conducting civilian and military survey work....
...under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea....
...This would keep him on track to clinch a comfortable early victory in the nomination battle and avoid an extended internecine fight heading into the Republican convention to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...As US navy ships sailed to the coast off South Carolina to recover the debris for analysis, Beijing said the use of force was a “clear overreaction and a serious violation of international conventions”....
...This year, it took place in the cavernous Los Angeles Convention Center, among the eclectic jumble of residential and commercial buildings that makes up downtown LA. The venue was largely empty....
...US president Joe Biden approved emergency declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi and federal agencies were deployed to set up shelters and support recovery efforts....
...Hurricane Ida wiped out power in New Orleans as winds of up to 150mph and a storm surge battered the US Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1m households in Louisiana without electricity....
...Some have taken shelter in one of the state’s “warming centers” — large facilities like convention centers or mega churches that still have power and are open to the public....
...The US National Hurricane Center said Laura was an “extremely dangerous hurricane” with “extreme winds and flash flooding” expected in coastal areas of Texas and Louisiana....
...hanging over the ruins of the World Trade Center, still succumb to optimism....
...That is the radical message of The Pencil is a Key, a potent and timely exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York....
...When the fair opens next week, 33 installations will be presented in the new Grand Ballroom of the Miami Beach Convention Center....
...Other southern states, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky all now host Chinese factories....
...For this year, Art Basel’s Americas director Noah Horowitz talks of the fair’s “new chapter”, finally marked in the updated walls of a renovated Convention Center....
...On July 2 1932, Franklin D Roosevelt broke with precedent and flew to the Democratic convention in Chicago to accept in person the party’s nomination to be its presidential candidate....
...Plus the ongoing reconstruction of the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel Miami’s venue, has proved challenging, to say the least....
...On Saturday evening, Hurricane Nate made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, according to the National Hurricane Center....
...“The 17,000 islands figure is a source of pride and concern at the same time,” says Evan Laksmana, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Jakarta think-tank....
...In an analysis of activity on Subi, Mischief and Fiery Cross reefs, each of which has an operational runway, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said the hangars could accommodate up to 12...
...By 1968, after years of racial rioting from coast to coast, 43.4 per cent of Americans voted for the Republican winner Richard Nixon and 13.5 per cent for the third-party segregationist George Wallace, the...
...He attended the Democratic party’s presidential convention last summer as a delegate for Bernie Sanders....
...The second mistake was to carry out oil exploration on the coast of Vietnam in May 2014. Tensions between Hanoi and Beijing ran high....
...The storm washed away thousands of homes along the Gulf Coast stretching from Grand Isle, Louisiana, near the mouth of the Mississippi river, through the state of Mississippi towards Alabama....
...Details Graham Boynton was a guest of British Airways, the Amador Council of Tourism, the El Dorado County Visitors Authority and the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau....
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