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...In January 2022, West Virginia treasurer Riley Moore, who manages the US state’s cash and financial dealings, became the first red-state official to pull money out of BlackRock....
...The west African country of Benin has offered 2,000 troops....
...jails and an unknown number of guards were taken hostage following Fito’s disappearance....
...She also questioned the FTC’s authority, citing last year’s landmark US Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs EPA that cast doubt on regulators’ rulemaking powers....
...West Bank and Gaza....
...Authorities have not confirmed how they would use the cash or whether it would be funnelled to Ukraine, a plan being explored in the west for Russia’s central bank assets if they are eventually seized....
...Since Henry left Haiti on February 25 to attend a regional summit in Guyana, gangs have rampaged through the capital of Port-au-Prince, raiding two jails over the weekend and freeing thousands of inmates...
...Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, all ruled by military juntas, have quit the Economic Community of West African States, marking a significant deterioration of relations in the region....
...A wave of gang violence has rocked Ecuador after the disappearance of a powerful drug gang boss from jail, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency....
...Analysis published on Wednesday by Lancaster University’s Work Foundation covering nine Mayoral Combined Authorities and London, found that employees in the north and Midlands generally struggled more to...
...social classes, from both East and West ends....
...The broader risk for Israel is that another front will open up in the West Bank, run by the internationally supported but weak Palestinian National Authority....
...Libya was the one Middle Eastern state where the west — in the guise of Nato — intervened militarily to support a rebellion against a despot during the 2011 Arab uprisings....
...The number of firms with regional headquarters in Hong Kong fell to 1,411 last year from 1,541 in 2019, while the total number of employees in these companies dropped more than 30 per cent during the period...
...“What cannot be done is a salami slicing of services,” said Andy Street, the Conservative regional mayor of the combined authority for the West Midlands....
...Several employees of his anti-corruption group who have not left Russia are behind bars too....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] UK banks want their employees back in the office. A shortage of accountants is causing problems in the US....
...The town is in the most deprived 10 per cent of 309 English local authorities, according to the government’s index of multiple deprivation....
...The regional water monopolies are accused of paying out billions of pounds of dividends and hefty pay packages for executives at the same time as tipping unknown quantities of storm water and sewage into...
...Several factors are fuelling the potential for an explosion. The Palestinian Authority is crumbling....
...Both these tests cleared Vera, and the French test even indicated the presence of DNA of three unknown individuals. Their identities have never been investigated....
...The west has become an uncomfortable place for old-fashioned liberals....
...The latter would reduce employer tax contributions for employees spending 60 per cent of their time working at the site, on earnings up to £25,000 a year....
..., a section of financial markets that many still regard as the Wild West....
...‘slow rolling crisis’ after SVB failure (FT) T-Mobile scoops up owner of Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35bn (Reuters) West Virginia governor Jim Justice puts family coal business up for sale...
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