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...In 2021, ministers committed to spending £3.75bn to deliver 20,000 new prison places by the mid 2020s but a backlog in refurbishment costs has crept up to more than £1.4bn....
...Benin last week offered 2,000 troops for the mission, while Washington has promised to back it with $200mn. Canada has pledged $60mn....
...During Henry’s absence gangs ran riot across the capital, helping 3,800 inmates escape from two jails and attacking police stations, the airport and the seaport....
...Noboa’s finance minister began talks in Washington this week with US government officials, multilateral lenders and other investors on refinancing debt....
...Read the full story. 3. Imported vehicles are piling up at European ports, turning them into “car parks”....
...While the Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority, its recent Republican appointees have sometimes crossed ideological lines to side with liberal justices....
...Walk 3: Museum für Gestaltung A short walk from the Hauptbahnhof is the original Museum für Gestaltung (design museum)....
...That’s what we missed: how the policy response to the regional banking crisis stabilised the banking system, which allowed a pretty sharp V-shaped recovery....
...Audio changed to include an edit on 3/24/2023. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...That became clear at this year’s IMF meeting in Washington when she received well-deserved appreciation for her actions from around the world....
...At approximately 3.25pm, Trump signed the bond....
...Beijing’s interest in Risc-V has grown as Washington has increased the pressure on China’s tech sector by limiting access to cutting-edge chip components and machinery....
...Scenes in Brasília over the weekend brought back painful memories of two years ago in Washington. Trump might be receding into the rear-view mirror, but anti-democratic populism is not....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...Will that change now that he’s in the 6-3 majority?...
...Initially its activists cited the theory that no revolution had failed when 3.5 per cent of the population turned out in a mass demonstration....
...Share your ideas with us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Citi estimates growth of 3 per cent in 2021 and 1.5 per cent in 2022....
...“[But] it’s the bigger picture.” 10 Foot is staring up at 3-metre-tall barrier topped with menacing steel prongs. It’s night-time in central London....
...“We think of our forests as healing and learning centres,” she says, pointing to another site some 10,000km away in Yakama Nation, Washington....
...In late March, as more than 300mn people found themselves under fresh restrictions, searches on Tencent’s WeChat platform for “how to move to Canada” surged almost 3,000 per cent, a study by US think-tank...
...Democrats in Washington have sought to counteract those efforts by passing new federal voting laws....
...And if it’s not $3.5tn, what gets cut?,” says Podesta....
...His vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, had just arrived back from Moscow bearing seasonal tidings of comfort and joy regarding Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Trump et al v....
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