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...Rishi Sunak made falling waiting lists one of his pre-election promises to voters....
...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
...Marchevskyi acted as Medvedchuk’s “puppet on a string”, Belgian officials said, and carried out the influence campaign on his behalf....
...However, the continent remains ill-prepared for large inflows, and its anti-migrant parties are making gains ahead of EU elections due in June....
...fodder to nationalist parties ahead of June’s European parliament elections....
...With polls predicting big gains for far-right and populist parties in European parliament elections in June, lawmakers and member-state officials are racing to adopt reforms to the EU’s migration and asylum...
...They added: “Presidential immunity for official capacity crimes would create an untenable dilemma for every member of the military chain of command ordered to execute an order, particularly if officers disagree...
...“We have engagement [with Hungary] and that is a positive,” said one of the officials involved in the negotiations. “Our aim is to always have all 27 on board.”...
...On trade, Trump plans to renew his trade wars — floating the idea of introducing a 10 per cent across-the-board tariff on imported goods, a 60 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, as well as a separate levy...
...The US Supreme Court on Thursday wrestled with how to define the scope of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution as Donald Trump fights charges of interfering in the 2020 election....
...But in a sign of flexibility, president-elect Lai Ching-te said during his election campaign that nuclear power could be considered as a back-up option....
...“As we have done previously following a Taiwan presidential election, the US government has asked former senior officials to travel in their private capacity to Taiwan....
...Israel election news: Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz has called for early elections, piling pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his increasingly unpopular rightwing coalition. 3....
...Friday 70th anniversary of the first hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 40th anniversary of the UK’s National Coal Board announcing the closure of Cortonwood Colliery in South...
...But it requires Israeli approval and the installation of a temporary harbour in Gaza, after Israel bombed the physical port as part of its air assault on the territory....
...cent as the president tries to shore up support among union workers in Pennsylvania ahead of November’s election....
...In July 2020, Trump triggered the formal process to pull his country out of the WHO; the following January, Joe Biden reversed that decision in one of his first acts after becoming president....
...Iran: The Islamic republic holds tightly controlled elections to choose members of parliament and the assembly that will appoint a successor to the 84-year-old Supreme Leader when he dies....
...A barrister called Julian Wilson, instructed by board members to investigate claims against Tripathi, produced a report on the allegations last July....
...the general election....
...But there is “frustration across the board” with the programmes in parliament, according to Hillier....
...Bank of England watchers are expecting a rate cut. The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June....
...The Case-Shiller index of house prices across 20-cities is also published and the Conference Board is expected to report consumer confidence edged up in February....
...Trump will be criminally convicted in at least one of his four trials, probably two, before the election, and will present it as political persecution by the “Biden crime family”....
...China has frequently leaned on Taiwanese businesses to support the Kuomintang, the opposition party that views Taiwan as part of a greater Chinese nation, in past elections....
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