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...Once it began its own testing, the state only had capacity to run 200 tests a day....
...“If you had told me by the second half of this decade, for four to five years in a row, solar and wind would be the first and second largest sources of new generation capacity in the United States, I would...
...According to two former US officials, the Gulf states stepped up their overtures to Beijing and Moscow last summer after a visit to the region by Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state....
...the kingdom’s biggest diplomatic crisis in years, as well as his backing for the war in Yemen....
...Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two of its oil tankers were among the four commercial vessels that were attacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates over the weekend....
...Campaign focus Celebration lies in the heart of one of the most unpredictable and fiercely contested parts of the state — the so-called I-4 corridor, a stretch of highway including Tampa on the state’s...
...“I was not trying ‘to finish what my father had begun,’ as some had suggested,” he writes in 41. “My motivation was to protect the United States of America, as I had sworn an oath to do.”...
...But the real story is in the footnotes, in which Franzen laments the state of modern media and confesses his sins as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin....
...Officials say he harbours few doubts about his capacity to square the most stubborn of diplomatic circles. European foreign ministers are investing a lot of hope in his interest in Middle East peace....
...Bernanke’s academic training as a monetary economist, particularly as a scholar of the Depression, hadn’t come up in his interview with President George W....
...For years they felt unloved by the Americans. George W. Bush’s divide-and-rule (remember Old versus New Europe) was followed by Barack Obama’s reinvention of the US as a Pacific power....
...Armed members of the state’s National Guard manned some New Orleans intersections in military vehicles. Residents said they welcomed the heavy police presence....
...But one, Mike’s Discount Store in nearby suburb Marrero on the west bank of the Mississippi River, was open to customers, who patiently waited in a line outside in the rain as they waited to be let inside...
...The president begins the day in Florida before flying up the east coast to Virginia, then home to Chicago to cast his own (early) vote before hopping to Ohio, two states to the east, for an evening rally...
...Whenever a Japanese coast guard patrol close to the Senkaku Islands scans the horizon these days, Chinese ships are likely to appear in the lens....
...US Coast Guard....
...Ghana remained one of Mr Gbagbo’s few allies almost until the end; within weeks of the installation of Alassane Ouattara as his successor, Ivory Coast made territorial claims on offshore waters already licensed...
...The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, by David Gilmour, Allen Lane, RRP£25 Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Italy’s creation as a nation state, Gilmour...
...Here, the consequences of bad strategy were disastrous for Lehman, the United States, and the world. In 2003, President George W. Bush authorized the U.S. military to invade and conquer Iraq....
...“While these actions might delay the effort to kill the well for several days, the safety of the individuals at the well site is our highest concern,” retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said in a statement...
...Tropical storm Bonnie, which has weakened to a tropical depression, has delayed work on a relief well at BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill by at least seven to nine days, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen...
...Admiral Thad Allen, the US official in charge of the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, is the boot that the administration has pledged to keep on the throat of BP....
...Thad Allen, the US Coast Guard admiral in charge of the disaster response, said that the battle lines are getting longer, in effect diluting federal and state resources....
...Admiral Thad Allen, of the US Coast Guard and the admiral in charge of the federal response, warned on Monday that even after two relief wells designed to plug the well are completed – scheduled for August...
...Admiral Thad Allen, the US official in charge of the Gulf of Mexico crisis this week stepped off a fishing launch after a tour of the oil-polluted Louisiana wetlands and pledged to speed up the clean-up...
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