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By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -China on Friday approved the promotion of Hong Kong’s security secretary John Lee to chief secretary, while police chief Chris Tang will take Lee’s position in what critics say will further tighten Beijing’s security squeeze on the global financial hub. The elevation of Lee, 63, a former police deputy
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Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to Marine Le Pen’s far right on Sunday in a second round of regional elections that saw President Emmanuel Macron’s party suffer another drubbing at the polls. Le Pen‘s National Rally was once again thwarted in its ambition of winning a first region in elections marred by a woeful
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Hair windswept, handsome and 32-metres high, a statue of Mao Zedong presides over a crowd of millennials alternating between selfies and bubble teas — drawing a thread through the past, present and future of China’s Communist Party in its red heartland. As the party prepares to mark its 100th anniversary on Thursday, it has put
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Pope Francis expressed his “affection” for the American people as he met at length Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, with the latter declining to delve into “domestic politics” when later asked if the two discussed a campaign by U.S. bishops to deny Communion to Catholic politicians like the U.S. president who support
Uncategorized / June 28, 2021 / Philip Elliott / 0
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. At the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, I came to know a routine all too well. President Obama or his top aides would seek to dismiss a reporter’s question
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Australian officials instituted a strict two-week lockdown for Sydney and surrounding areas on Saturday, to fight an outbreak of the coronavirus Delta variant. It is Sydney’s first full lockdown since early 2020.
Uncategorized / June 28, 2021 / Ana Ionova / 0
Nearly 16 percent of those eligible for a second dose had not returned for them as of June 1.
Uncategorized / June 28, 2021 / Michael Crowley / 0
Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid, is determined to repair his government’s fraught relationship with Washington Democrats, but he does not necessarily speak for his own right-wing prime minister, Naftali Bennett.
Uncategorized / June 28, 2021 / Amelia Nierenberg / 0
Rescuers have recovered nine bodies from the Florida building collapse.
