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...“Mr Robinson did not present and was there in his own private capacity as a potential future investor,” it added....
...Up until the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act, receivers had the power to bear arms with which to “kill, maim or hurt” anybody obstructing their official capacities....
...In the middle of Hong Kong’s business district, on the site of a former car park, an unusual addition to the city’s famous skyline is nearing its opening date....
...Lord Peter Mandelson, the former EU trade commissioner and Labour cabinet minister, outlined in a keynote speech the party’s approach to Europe if it was to win power....
...The archives of the pandemic also ground to a halt; a vast apparatus that had in 2020 been created to record every individual case was suddenly disassembled....
...Danny Broberg, associate director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joins the US Department of Energy as a senior adviser in its office of fossil energy and carbon management....
...Whitehall officials had praised a previous application from the north-east authority, which includes some of the UK’s poorest former mining communities, as an exemplar of “what a bid should look like”, recalls...
...“The conflicts in Europe and currently in the Middle East have repeatedly proven the importance of maintaining a robust manufacturing capacity and ample inventory.”...
...Behind the scenes, his camp is at pains to reassure the hedge fund’s investors that he is fronting the bid in a personal capacity....
...She says that the framework, if adopted, would undermine parliamentary authority, concentrate power in the hands of a single individual and undermine delicate checks and balances....
...A former mid-level manager attributed the frequent course corrections to Li’s preoccupation with technology rather than making money....
...“As secretary of state responsible for his appointment, we as a department went around the appointment process well....
...Letta is set to present his report in March during the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU that begins in January....
...Lee’s office said in a statement that the US was “obliged to fulfil its basic responsibilities as a host” and invite Lee to the Apec meeting “in his capacity of the leader of Hong Kong, China”....
...Chris Ham, co-chair of the NHS Assembly which advises NHS England, and a former director of strategy at the Department of Health, said that while the Letby case was “an extreme example”, there had been other...
...A German business executive, however, expressed his frustration with how many participants, particularly Chinese executives and academics, seemed to stick closely to the Chinese government’s official narrative...
...And it doesn’t work in the end because a single individual based in London is never going to have the knowledge, capacity to do that properly. What you have to do is build systems, structures.”...
...Separately, figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions showed a record number of foreign nationals entered the UK in the year to the end of June for work or study, with the majority from non-EU...
...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....
...The former US president skipped the event and tried to steal the spotlight, dismissing his challengers in a social media interview with ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson....
...The initial probe concerned allegations that a key confident, Thomas Schmid — a former senior official in the ministry of finance — had directed ministry funds to pay for adverts in the online news portal...
...More than 4,600 people have been killed in Israel’s bombardment of the coastal strip, according to Palestinian health officials....
...The King, who has visited Germany more than 40 times, in both an official and private capacity, used the trip to underscore his commitment to sustainability and fighting climate change....
...“The risk that it doesn’t go through at all is pretty slim,” says Lorenzo Codogno, a former senior Italian Treasury department official. “There is an alignment of interests . . . to make it work.”...
...Donald Trump’s lawyers will move to dismiss the charges against him as the former president said he planned to deliver a speech after his arraignment tomorrow....
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