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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...
...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....
...mandates of all officials in Haiti have since expired....
...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....
...cent as the president tries to shore up support among union workers in Pennsylvania ahead of November’s election....
...“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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...As long as the coalition remains intact, Netanyahu is likely to avoid imminent elections — his term officially ends in 2026....
...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....
...Brexit loomed large in the premiership of Varadkar: he highlighted having helped ensure no hard border on the island among his top achievements in office....
...But if these DEI attacks accelerate, companies could soon find themselves in trouble in the “S” category as well as the “E”. (Patrick Temple-West) 4....
...as the Ebola virus that broke out in west Africa in 2014....
...One Tory official said the prime minister was expected to convene his cabinet to “rubber stamp” his HS2 plan before his speech to party members in Manchester....
...They would also provide a powerful demonstration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who may feel for now that the odds have shifted in his favour in his gamble that he can outlast the west....
...His relationship with Woo seems to have been conducted remotely, with the exception of a trip to Sanya, a beach resort city in Hainan Island, in 2019 to meet his intelligence handler....
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