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...Up until the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act, receivers had the power to bear arms with which to “kill, maim or hurt” anybody obstructing their official capacities....
...And I think in his resignation speech, actually, he talked about how he didn’t enjoy the trappings and the luxuries and the show of office. And he found that very awkward....
...Some, like the former GRU agent Volodarsky, suspect Navalny was the victim of a second poisoning attack in prison, given his seemingly normal appearance in court the day before his death and during a family...
...Within the Church, Opus Dei members have been in charge of the Vatican’s press office and its bank....
...I think we mentioned this on the podcast, in fact, that he said that he’s stepping down because he cannot tolerate the threat to his personal safety after his constituency office was arsoned in December...
...As the industry consolidates, Ardian recently met with investment banks to review whether to pursue a deal to buy another firm. “Size is important in this business,” one board member said....
...“‘Just because I’m so and so’s son, therefore I’m entitled.’ That is something we, as a nation, are moving away from.” Pathak began leaving his mark on the club....
...“Medical reasons,” a member of his team offered meekly. “Shame that he left the room as it would have allowed him to understand that the consequences were grave,” Bonnet said....
...Everyone could see that Credit Suisse was in a perilous state by the middle of 2022, when the board promised a dramatic restructuring....
...During these long spells in office, Kreisky established Austria as a bridge between east and west and as the site of dozens of UN and other international organisations....
...Reverend Vanessa Rush Southern tells me in her airy office in the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, whose early members included the essayist and abolitionist Ralph Waldo Emerson....
...“Spending a lot of time in the States and with American politicians [before 2010] was part of the problem . . . Their civil service is much more open to outside ideas.”...
...In the populist vernacular, “deep state” is the second-biggest insult, after “paedophile”. In March, Jenkins appointed Aaron Lewis, a pastor in Connecticut, chair of the board....
...By the age of 10, he’d survived a catastrophic earthquake in Tangshan, which official records show killed 240,000 people, including all the members of Li’s adoptive family....
...Palestinian people and supportive of the state of Israel....
...And we also saw his invasion of Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of two sections of that country....
...“If Mike is no longer in the picture — but no one can swallow a $80bn business — you might see his successor peel some parts of it off or that Big Tech tries to buy parts of the core.”...
...She entered regional politics by winning election to Lower Saxony’s parliament in 2003, as a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, and joined the cabinet of Christian Wulff, a successor to...
...Well, he may leave office, but he’s going to do something that Mexico hadn’t witnessed in 30 years, which is he’s going to handpick his successor....
...Four years later, Oleg was sure he could speak for his team. Since the start of the war, he had been in a state of horror and shock....
...There are monthly check-ins with the oncologist and fortnightly check-ins with his probation officer....
...I’m just proud that I was able to come on board to captain the vessel a bit.” And he stared out at the limitless grey of the North Sea....
...And so later that day, he, with his family, sailed to England, where they survived. Every single one of his wider families’ members was killed, more than 30 of them....
...He’d invited me along with several Ukrainian journalists to one of the official presidential residences, deep in a forest outside of Kyiv....
...To prove it, “you go on Zoom with a procurement officer to show him you are in Armenia and you have people in the office”....
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