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...Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Apple supplier Foxconn who announced his intention to run in September, dropped out of the race on Friday....
...As former Assistant Chief Constable Stephen White summed things up: “It’s not good whichever way you look at it.” Could litigation follow? Maybe — and that’s another problem....
...John’s the assistant commissioner in charge of serious organised crime. Ever since his meeting with US officials three years before he’s been working on a single objective....
...In the border towns of northern Benin, sporadic attacks on civilians and police outposts are a constant threat....
...In July, France was rocked by a week of rioting sparked by the police shooting of unarmed teenager Nahel Merzouk, just as the government was trying to move on from months of protests over an increase in...
...Within 12 hours, the individual was released on the instruction of a very senior police official who said that there was insufficient evidence....
...Public court documents show that, in 2023, Eshelman subpoenaed to force Google to unmask a pseudonymous online critic who’d called him a “piece of shit” and said he’d “abused police resources” in pursuing...
...Police investigators would later find draft documents in the possession of Bolsonaro’s justice minister, Anderson Torres, and one of his closest aides, army Lieutenant-Colonel Mauro Cid, which outlined steps...
...In contrast to his early period in the media spotlight in the US, Li doesn’t actively court new investors, having found a steady stream of high-net-worth individuals and pension funds to back Himalaya....
...De Ruyter was less than impressed with the official police investigation. “It was quite bizarre, actually,” he says of his encounter with two sergeants assigned to the case....
...Part of the challenge, she says, is that law enforcement officials sometimes lack the capacity to build cases against traffickers....
...“At the start of Covid we all went to a meeting with the chancellor in his office, he took a group pic of us,” said one banking chief. “The blame game will start now....
...Although he had interviewed all of the subordinates, he had not interviewed the chief of police. And he had made his report in public....
...They work in the most important and rapidly evolving areas of spycraft. Kathy is director of operations. Rebecca is the chief’s deputy, who oversees strategy....
...And literally every single person in individual conversations looked at me and said, Where are you on abortion?...
...warns Beata Javorcik, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which will be one of the institutions closely involved in the effort....
...The TIU was led by a former detective chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police in London, and had the ability to impose fines and sanctions on players and umpires....
...Beyond Lagos and a few oil-producing states, many are in perpetual budgetary crisis, with much of their officials’ time taken up in Abuja lobbying for resources....
...While long Covid is taking a heavy toll on the individuals affected, it also represents a disaster in the making for businesses and economies — potentially pushing significant numbers of people out of labour...
...“On at least one occasion, he passed on documents he had obtained in the course of his professional activities to a representative of a Russian intelligence service,” Germany’s chief federal prosecutor’s...
...That was in part because governments had offered companies and individuals hundreds of billions of euros of pandemic-related support....
...Xiao, who is also founder and editor-in-chief of the China Digital Times, a news website....
...officials are nervously watching the spread of a variant first identified in India....
...Steven Sund, the force’s outgoing chief, submitted his resignation in the aftermath of the attack....
...Facebook and Twitter have been ordered to remove content critical of Modi’s government, while Uttar Pradesh police authorities have filed criminal complaints against hospitals and individuals publicly complaining...
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