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...First, British whaling ships pillaged the north Atlantic, launching from London to colonies in North America. After the American Revolutionary War, the whalers of the British empire moved southward....
...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...I met the selector of those lines, the hunters’ lawyer Semerad, in Wheatland, a small town 80 miles north-east of Elk Mountain, past fields of cattle, pronghorn and little else, and through a mountain pass...
...The promise of a municipal job in the fire or police department is the gift of a local politician that can change the trajectory of an immigrant family seeking a foothold in the middle class, the operative...
...The bomb blasts have mainly targeted state facilities, including administrative offices and police stations....
...Regional governments in Wales and Scotland have also removed objects, with little outcry....
...Twice Breivik called police to surrender. But their response was chaotic and plagued by mistakes. Crucial information wasn’t shared between departments....
...What are the police doing? Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, which has 3,800 officers in the capital and has deployed throughout the city, reports to mayor Muriel Bowser....
...Police forces in the north of England spent more than £13m in less than two and a half years providing security at shale gas sites when only one well was fracked, according to the UK’s public spending watchdog...
...Credit police. March 11, 2005....
...A 62-year-old with an ageing rock star’s mullet hairstyle, Martinez polices 944 square miles of parched brushland from a wood-panelled office decorated with a cactus statue and a rifle cabinet....
...More law firms now have criminal departments and one London firm is largely devoted to private prosecution....
...Doing business in Xi’s China When Peter Humphrey was arrested by Chinese police in July 2013, the world still knew very little about China’s new president and Communist party general secretary, Xi Jinping...
...In 1867 Hume was appointed commissioner of customs for the North-West Provinces, and in 1871 he was promoted again, as secretary to the Department of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce....
...Tuesday's big announcement was a $500bn plan to create a vast economic zone in the kingdom’s north-west, called Neom....
...Chicago, America’s second city, needs little introduction....
...Even the most popular beach, at Little Bay, is busy with diving pelicans, not swimmers, when I visit....
...(One in 100 Americans experienced violent crime in 2014, according to the Department of Justice.)...
...He was in US government counter-intelligence and spent five years “sleeping on rocks in Iraq”; she was a police officer working in the organised crime department in Sacramento....
...In 1996, a landmark ruling in the case of Bernstein v. Department of Justice established that computer code was free speech, protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution....
...In a little tray on the lab worktop, the green flakes look perfectly innocent....
...Ms Lynch said her department was investigating the “tragic death” of Gray and that the department was conducting a review of the Baltimore police....
...George Osborne quoted Shakespeare’s Henry V as he delivered the last Budget of this administration....
...A contemporary guide remarked that “Balham has very little antiquity and no history worth speaking about”....
...Hawkish members of the US state department and the British Foreign Office feared that he was going soft on communism because of his repeated call for a “summit” with Soviet leaders....
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