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...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
...The chancellor is expected to describe his plans as “a memorandum of understanding between central and regional government” and invite mayors to apply “when ready”, according to officials....
...in north-west England....
...Nowhere fast Ever since Rishi Sunak announced the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg as the centrepiece to his October party conference speech in Manchester, of all places, a glaring question has remained...
...Most Republicans in the Senate, plus a scattering of Democrats, rejected the package in February after Donald Trump signalled he did not want to hand Biden a pre-election “gift”....
...But there is “frustration across the board” with the programmes in parliament, according to Hillier....
...In many ways, PCCs are an improvement on what went before, in that they have a direct mandate from the voters as opposed to an indirect one (two-thirds of the members of police authority boards had to be...
...It has been “many, many years” since the communities of north Somerset have “seen red”, local accountant John Mayer remarked of the main opposition Labour party’s prospects in his part of south-west England...
...Stephan Brandner, the party’s deputy leader and a member of its executive board, said there was “complete unity” behind 51-year-old Bystron, who is currently a member of the German parliament....
...Friday 70th anniversary of the first hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 40th anniversary of the UK’s National Coal Board announcing the closure of Cortonwood Colliery in South...
...Fairhurst said spending on the service in the current financial year was already £100mn over budget, in part because the estate was at capacity....
...Both sides, as well as governments in the west, should clearly recognise the “red lines” in cross-straits relations and avoid crossing them in word or deed....
...mandates of all officials in Haiti have since expired....
...Latin American cocoa farmers are rushing to expand planting as the price of chocolate’s main ingredient soars amid a global shortage of supplies, exacerbated by crop disease and poor weather in west Africa...
...“As we have done previously following a Taiwan presidential election, the US government has asked former senior officials to travel in their private capacity to Taiwan....
...of weapons capacity....
...On this strip of Palm Beach there is only one road — the only way on or off the island (except by boat) — and the airport is across the waterway in West Palm Beach....
...Israel election news: Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz has called for early elections, piling pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his increasingly unpopular rightwing coalition. 3....
...Official media trumpeted the result as an overwhelming endorsement, despite witness reports of thin turnout....
...cent as the president tries to shore up support among union workers in Pennsylvania ahead of November’s election....
...In order to entice Maduro into permitting a “free and fair” election, the US in October provisionally relaxed sanctions on the country’s oil, gas and mining sectors, as well as its secondary debt markets...
...As long as the coalition remains intact, Netanyahu is likely to avoid imminent elections — his term officially ends in 2026....
...The Biden administration is drawing up plans to require goods produced in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be clearly labelled as coming from there, according to US officials....
...It’s me back again after Aime Williams superbly stood in last week. Her take on the World Bank in the run-up to its spring meetings is here if you missed it....
...One local official closely involved in transport projects in the north of England said the increase in funding to mayors had been somewhat “lost in the noise” of poor communications....
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