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...More than 400 inmates have died in the past four years, with many massacres taking place within the Regional complex where Macías was being held....
...“Faced with the threat of Iran — we will build a regional coalition and [exact] a price from Iran, in the way and at the time that suits us,” he said....
...13 intruders and liberating the hostages, but across the country similarly harrowing scenes were playing out, triggered by the escape of jailed drug-lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías from his cell in the nearby Regional...
...In the meantime Malaysia must focus aggressively on growing high-end investments or “lose out” to regional rivals, Zafrul adds....
...Only with clarity and unity can Tehran’s hostage-taking — domestic, regional or nuclear — be mitigated....
...The resulting supply glut, he argues, is likely to drive down prices — and western companies’ profits....
...But talks resumed this year as western fears mounted over the rapid progress of Iran’s nuclear programme....
...France’s ostensible aim in sending troops into western Germany’s industrial heartland was to enforce its claim to war reparations....
...And Israel’s enemies and friends will watch and wonder whether this formidable regional power has succumbed to the same internal divisions that have felled so many of its neighbours....
...“The recent coups in the western Sahel were triggered by discontent,” says the Sudanese analyst Khair. “People wanted a change of government....
...Western leverage in Russia is at its lowest since the Soviet collapse. But foreign companies still doing business there should waste no further time in pulling out....
...The challenge, in a regional court in Hamburg, is one of several hundred claims for compensation of up to €1mn being pursued by the two law firms....
...But disillusionment with Xi Jinping has prompted western leaders to turn a lamentably blind eye to Modi’s actions....
...Prosecutors and judges have begun to put ATM attackers on trial for attempted murder, punishable by up to 15 years in jail....
...The EU is also withholding money from its regional aid programmes. All told, that’s about €36bn Hungary is missing out on....
...Sharply rising interest rates, a regional banking crisis that curtailed credit and a trend towards remote work are all wreaking havoc....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...“If you’re importing from the western world, you’re protected by existing regulations,” said Taal, adding that drugs shipped to the US have to meet regulatory standards there....
...Best known for his 1998 book King Leopold’s Ghost, which introduced many western readers to the horrors of Belgian rule in what is now Congo, Hochschild has developed something of a speciality in delving...
...Poland’s rapid graduation into a linchpin of the western alliance is a big f***ing deal, as Biden might say....
...And secondly, you don’t call it a western coalition. This is the coalition of democracies across the world....
...Despite his government’s human rights record, Sisi has enjoyed sound relations with western capitals that have traditionally viewed Egypt as an important Arab partner and vital to regional stability....
...And if he had done it, he would have been treated like the Chechnyans were and he would be dead or in jail....
...just before sundown when Muslims break their fast, dozens of Tunisian policemen swooped on the home of Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the country’s biggest political party and took the 81-year-old man to jail...
...Yakunin spoke to the FT from a jail in Norway, maintaining his innocence....
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