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...Lochner, a 53-year-old carpenter, is not a member of the AfD but stood as the party’s candidate....
...The Inter-Religious Council of Tigray said more than 1,000 members of the clergy were among those slain as the conflict engulfed holy sites, including some in a massacre at Dengelat, north of Tigrayan capital...
...The UN Security Council this month approved a three-month extension of the force until the end of March....
...The UN Security Council has finally woken up to the tragedy unfolding in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country....
...The Ethiopian government has previously said it was committed to investigating human rights abuses carried out during the fighting by an assortment of national, regional and neighbouring forces....
...The celebration fell in the midst of conflict — the culmination of a power struggle between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, a regional party that ruled the country...
...MFG won 6 per cent of the ballot in regional elections in September — drawing a large proportion of its support from former FPÖ voters. A new populist wave?...
...Gabriel Negatu, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, sees criticism of the prime minister as misplaced and coverage of the war as exaggerated....
...Most of those victims were from Amhara, the regional rival that took over as the centre of Ethiopian power when the Aksumite empire faltered in the 10th century....
...Cuneyt Coke, chair of the Turkey-Ethiopia business council of the Turkish trade group DEIK, said Turkish businesses remained ready to invest in agriculture, health and energy....
...In Mr Abiy’s version of how this plays out, TPLF leaders will be apprehended and brought to justice and an interim regional government imposed — at which point the country can revert to “normal”....
...On Wednesday, the federal council of ministers in Addis Ababa declared a six-month state of emergency in Tigray. Diplomats in Addis Ababa called the fighting a “civil war”....
...“Any decision by the House of Federation to stop or interrupt the election of Tigray will be tantamount to a declaration of war,” read a statement from the Tigray State Council, referring to the upper house...
...Midlands; Dore and Totley in Yorkshire and the Humber; and Ponteland in the Northeast....
...The results show that the regional gap in the attainment of top grades, particularly between London and north-east England, is continuing to widen....
...The most prominent target is Abd al-Rahman al-Milad, head of a regional coastguard unit that a UN panel of experts says has been “directly involved in the sinking of migrant boats using firearms”....
...“Instead of forming an effective national security council and inclusive army the institutions are fighting among themselves,” he says....
...The war has been exacerbated by a struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran, rival regional powers....
...Councils vary in their willingness to help self-builders: a report on the sector by Research found local authorities in the Northeast and West Midlands were most helpful to self-builders....
...However the Northeast, the UK region with the highest unemployment, fears it could lose vital funds because of political resistance to a mayor....
...Julie Dore, leader of Sheffield City Council, said the funds were “a priority”. “We will judge the government by its actions, not its words,” she said....
...Paul Watson, leader of Sunderland council, said the project was becoming “more Manchester-centric”. He is also the chair of the Key Cities group of 26 midsized cities....
...If the Riigikogu cannot elect the president in two attempts plus a run-off, the task will pass on to an electoral college made up of all 101 members of the parliament and representatives of municipal councils...
...The sultanate of Oman appears set to play a key role in Iran’s efforts to reintegrate into the regional and global economy....
...But John Longworth, chair of the business council of Vote Leave, said the call was an “anti-democratic abuse of power by the EU-funded CBI” and accused bosses of “plotting to gang up on their staff and lecture...
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