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...In a statement the CIA said: “CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an agency....
...His view is widely shared in police ranks and among prison officers....
...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...
...One expat couple in Puxi, south of the river, were released after just 11 days because their building met the requirements of an official directive....
...In it, he referred to Fly Bridge as “our official partner in Moscow”....
...John Lee, a former career police officer, was targeted by US Treasury sanctions in 2020 when he served as the city’s security minister because of his involvement in “coercing, arresting, detaining, or imprisoning...
...The next day, the state department issued an unusual endorsement of the voting system, saying that “Brazil’s capable and time-tested electoral system and democratic institutions serve as a model for nations...
...This enabled the IJM to open an office in Bangkok and to train police officers in how to build strong cases that have the best chance of securing convictions....
...The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty to hiding $1.76mn from tax authorities in August....
...With gang-related crime sending homicides to an all-time high of almost 2,000 a year, Riordan’s promises to put thousands of new police officers on the streets resonated with a fearful public....
...The stereotype of an MI6 officer is, according to civil service legend, an upper-class white man in beige chinos and desert boots. Kathy initially baulked at the poshness of the office....
...So he left the study with Harri and Adams to call up Gove. Gove had spent the rest of Wednesday in his department, avoiding a Commons vote at 7pm....
...Tens of thousands of Russians responded by braving sub-zero temperatures, an often violent police response, and official warnings of a harsh crackdown to flood the streets in 107 cities across the country...
...In May, an official identified only as “Dean” from the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of the UK’s GCHQ signals intelligence agency, made rare on-the-record comments about the risk of smart city...
...Although the police can levy fines of as much as £1,000 for breaching quarantine requirements, the system largely relies on the willingness of those involved to register their address and contact details...
...The president has slipped in opinion polls as an increasing number of Americans disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic....
...Mr Gove said government surveys showed that less than a quarter of businesses were “fully ready”, despite more than £80m available in grants to increase the capacity of the customs brokerage industry....
...When the LA Surge Hospital closed its doors on June 1 — just nine weeks after it was opened as an emergency facility to treat coronavirus patients — it was a bittersweet moment for Chad Ricks, an associate...
...“America is first in the world in deaths, first in the world in infections and we stand out as an emblem of global incompetence....
...One former Downing Street official observes that there is “an almost colonial mindset” among some ministers and officials, especially in those departments less used to the devolved structure....
...For Johnson, it has been a searing experience: in six months, he went from election triumph and the delivery of Brexit to a slump in his approval ratings and near-death in an intensive care unit....
...The clashes came after a senior Chinese official in Hong Kong said at the weekend that it was an “urgent task” to strengthen security legislation in the territory as a lack of such laws was partly to blame...
...Officials named the killer, who was shot dead by police, as 24-year old Connor Betts, and said his sister was among his victims....
...When that didn’t work, a top Iran official at the US Department of State turned to making threats. (FT) No middle ground Making it big in Hollywood is no longer reserved for wannabe stars....
...The 15-year-old — an aspiring cartoonist — was just yards from his house when an attacker in a hooded tracksuit ran towards him, arm outstretched, and stabbed him in the chest....
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