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...Read more on the plans to upgrade the US-Japan security alliance....
...“We don’t have much faith,” said Ana Mahe of Farmers’ Alliance Ireland, at a protest outside the EU parliament in Brussels on Wednesday....
...Belgian interior minister Annelies Verlinden and EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson launch the European port alliance in Antwerp to tackle drug trafficking....
...Offshore Alliance, a group representing two labour unions, said on Thursday that talks spanned the whole week but no deal was reached....
...The comments by Salvini — a longtime Putin admirer — have triggered fresh scrutiny of the League’s alliance with Putin’s United Russia party, formalised in a co-operation agreement signed in 2017....
...Now Sunak has rowed back on some of the measures designed to stoke demand. The government’s target of 600,000 heat pumps per year being installed by 2028 also remains in place....
...Jacob Stokes, an Indo-Pacific expert at the CNAS think-tank, said the statement on Monday further clarified when the defence commitment would be triggered....
...If you look at what the leader in Stoke said after the Conservatives lost in Stoke, the point she was making was that actually the independent vote there had gone back towards Labour....
...However, rapidly changing technology makes picking winners increasingly difficult as new developments stoke demand for different metals....
...It fears Kurdish autonomy across the border could stoke separatism among its own, far larger Kurdish minority....
...George Parker I’m gonna go for someone listeners may or may not be familiar with — it’s Jonathan Gullis, who’s the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North. He is toast at the next election in that seat....
...A volley of insults then ensued and was lapped up by the pro-Erdoğan media, which is eager to stoke splits in an alliance that is seen as the best chance to oust the man who has ruled Turkey for almost 20...
...Cranking prices up too high would also stoke inflation and risk a recession that could undermine Opec+. What’s clear is that this is Opec’s oil market again....
...More than a third of the Arts Council’s grant budget will still be spent in London, but 78 “levelling up for culture places” areas, such as Stoke and Wigan, deemed by government to have been historically...
...But the fact that they do have something resembling an alliance — if not quite a full-fat pact between parties — explains why Conservative losses were so large....
...Nato and other leaders gathering at the summit aim to discuss support for Ukraine and long-term reform of the alliance....
...Letters in response to this article: Reading of history stokes fears of a third world war / From Kitty Bryant, Fort Valley, VA, US Will sanctions mean Africans are left to starve?...
...with the knock-on effects on consumer spending, have got a degree worse with the additional damage caused by trade embargoes on Russian energy — although not all believe that oil price rises could further stoke...
...A Russian-led military alliance has sent in paratroopers as “peacekeepers”....
...That, he argued, showed the need for stronger alliances in the Indo-Pacific to curb China’s rise. Australia’s defence spending is expected to rise to 2.1 per cent of gross domestic product this year....
...In many poorer countries, China’s vaccines were critical to saving lives early in the pandemic after a Covax vaccine initiative under Gavi, a UN-backed alliance, struggled to hit its distribution targets...
...In May, the world’s third-richest man attacked the US president’s failed Build Back Better bill for threatening to stoke inflation above its already four-decade high....
...Polls show the centre-right opposition alliance is about 10 percentage points ahead, a result that could cost Alberto Fernández, the country’s Peronist president, his majority in the Senate....
...When Putin arrived on the scene he had little need to stoke them, though he has certainly exploited them for his own purposes. Ukraine could never have avoided getting caught in the crossfire....
...Part of the problem, analysts say, is that Scholz had only been in the chancellery for a few weeks when Russia’s military build-up on the Ukrainian border in December began to stoke fears of an imminent...
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