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...This week’s edition is about the mid-term elections in the United States....
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...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...“Five years ago we had zero solar power, and now we are the third-largest utility company owner of solar in the United States and very soon we will be the second-largest,” Mr Farrell told the Financial Times...
...Lo and behold three and a half years later — Mr Trump president of the United States. The only way for a Democratic sweep is if all demographics go to the polls....
...If adopted, the overall number of black and Hispanic students at specialised schools would rise from 10 per cent a year to about 45 per cent, according to New York’s independent budget office....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Mr Perry’s reasoning, which was persuasive enough for the Supreme Court to review the ruling, is that the US constitution considers judges “officers of the United States” and as such they must be appointed...
...(Guardian, Mail on Sunday) New York sues Weinstein The state’s attorney-general has sued Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company....
...Does Corbyn believe firmly in a two-state solution? “As far as I know, yes. We’re all signed up.”...
...“I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well...
...Florida’s vote-tallying fumbles were pivotal in the 2000 election, in which George W Bush beat Al Gore after the count went to the Supreme Court....
...Even at the George V hotel’s legendary three-star restaurant, now directed by Christian Le Squer, hostesses are quick to tell you that at lunchtime, you can be in and out in under an hour....
...“I think you can probably watch Bridge of Spies at home, but I wouldn’t want to watch ET there,” says Obst. “I wouldn’t want to watch The Revenant at home....
...As a governor of Florida, he ran a big state that alongside Ohio is one of the two critical swing states on the path to the Oval Office....
...The name of his game, already evident in all the earlier Whitewater et al investigations which he encouraged, was to delegitimise Mr Clinton....
...The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service has begun deploying specialist advisers to six countries including the United Arab Emirates....
...In many states, businessmen fear that they will be laughed at for trying to sue over any transgressions....
...“He used his position to persuade others to swear loyalty to al-Qaeda’s murderous cause,” said George Venizelos, assistant director of the FBI’s New York office....
...“He used his position to threaten the United States and incite its enemies.”...
...In the FT George W. Bush ordered about 50 drone strikes during his eight years in office....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Mike Leonard is an attorney in North Carolina and the descendant of a German family who immigrated to the US in 1750....
...The financial and political capital splurged on military and intelligence by President George W....
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