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...Recent modelling has shown that as many as 1mn people in China could be at risk of dying in a “winter wave” because of low vaccinations and limited hospital capacity....
...Criminal prosecutions are run by publicly accountable officials, and the public can watch the wheels of justice grind in open court....
...Lugging his backpack around the Forbidden City in Beijing, French tourist Xavier counted himself as “lucky” to be at the vanguard of China’s latest campaign to reinvigorate its flagging economy....
...Every day, as I waited there for my bus, I witnessed gradually more tents pitching up. One day, a man named Jimmy Owen was found dead in his tent in the underpass....
...Ukraine: Day of resistance to the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by Russia in 2014....
...It also, says Foroohar, raises questions about America’s ability to reindustrialise in strategic sectors and its ability to continue to police global shipping lanes when it no longer has the industrial capacity...
...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...
...In Laramie, a city 50 miles south-east of the mountain, I had supper with a group of residents, including hunters and advocates for public-land access....
...Peretz and his partner had been hiding in the safe room of their house for hours, desperately trying to call in help from Israel’s security forces....
...“He always wants her in the room for anything that’s important,” says Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff....
...Limited supply and a rush of new buyers, including those from Russia, are driving the demand for luxury homes in the Gulf city. The Big Read For 12 years, the World Cup dominated Qatar’s agenda....
...the OBR, for which I thank Richard Hughes and his team....
...In April he took a big delegation to China for a three-day, two-city tour....
...For months, he thundered his protest against the official Russian leadership and, as commander of the Wagner private military company, he had the means to cause a shattering crack in the skyline of Russia...
...In April 2020 his security forces lined up hundreds of gang members stripped to their underwear and forced them to sit on the floor in long lines as a punishment for a jump in violence....
...The progression of his habit reflects the changing face of the US betting industry: as a college student he recalls long drives to Atlantic City to go on 72-hour binges; then when the offshore betting sites...
...Part of the challenge, she says, is that law enforcement officials sometimes lack the capacity to build cases against traffickers....
...“More than a loss of economic capacity, it has been a loss of reputation,” says Jordi Casas, chief of staff at Foment del Treball, the region’s oldest business group....
...“To be investable as a country, you should be able as a country to protect investments,” the company’s chief executive Steve Phiri said during a mining conference in Johannesburg that month....
...The official attendance at Senegal’s game against the Netherlands in al-Thumama stadium on Monday was just below 42,000 — close to the 44,400 capacity....
...Polls are particularly sketchy outside the big cities, where people are sometimes paid in bags of rice or bundles of notes to vote for a particular candidate....
...Now at this stage, nobody is saying that Iran is in the process of developing the capacity for a nuclear weapon, but it is enriching uranium at levels so close to what would be required for a nuclear weapon...
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast was recorded in Mexico City on the eve of a mass demonstration in defence of the country’s democracy....
...Some landed while I was in the city last week. But as I discovered, most residents now tend to ignore the frequent air raid alarms....
...Job moves Tony Fratto, the founder of Hamilton Place Strategies (now called Penta Group) and a former senior Treasury official under George W Bush, is joining Goldman Sachs as a partner and global head...
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