The Latest from the FIFA meetings ahead of the Women’s World Cup (all times local): 3:30 p.m. FIFA’s president and secretary general have arrived at the Elysee Palace to meet French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron is a soccer fan who joined the winning France team in locker room celebrations after the World Cup final in […]
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Chancellor Philip Hammond says he supports legislation setting a target of reaching “zero-net” carbon emissions by 2050. However, he added it would cost “about £1 trillion” and said “before we make that commitment, we need to be sure that we understand all the implications”. In a letter to Theresa May, leaked to the Financial Times,
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With a small pension and Social Security, he said, he and his wife are “just getting by.” “It’s devastating,” Mr. Adair said. “You go through the stages just like dying. First you can’t believe it. You’re so sure and your wife is so sure, and even the recruiter is. Then you get mad.” By the
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The US has increased its military presence in the middle east as a result of, what it says is, “credible intelligence” pointing to a potential attack on US interests. There have been rising tensions between Washington and Tehran, ever since the Trump Administration pulled out of an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme and imposed
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A misconception still clings to Cleveland and it comes down to three words: river on fire. From 1868 to 1969, the polluted Cuyahoga River, which cleaves Cleveland into east and west, caught fire 13 times. In 1969, a photo in Time magazine dramatically showed a brave little fire department boat battling a wall of angry
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Klay Thompson is scheduled to play in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night, while Kevin Durant remains sidelined as he works back from a strained right calf. Thompson will be on the court as long as he doesn’t have any further issues with the strained left hamstring that kept him out of
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A YouGov poll, also in 2016, told respondents that the Hyde Amendment “prohibits federal funds from being used to fund abortions, except in the case of incest, rape or to save the life of the mother,” and found that 55 percent of Americans (not just likely voters) supported it. A Hart Research Associates poll commissioned
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FUKUOKA, Japan — An unending trade war between the United States and China. President Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico. A potential clash with Europe over cars and agriculture. Escalating trade disputes spurred by the president’s affinity for employing tariffs as his diplomatic weapon of choice have cast a pall over the global
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mobile payments are growing in popularity – but may not work everywhere More than five million people led a close to cashless lifestyle last year, as debit cards secured their position as the most popular method of payment. Two million more people used cash no more than once a
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As Germany celebrates the centennial of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the short-lived revolutionary art school is also being honored in a surprising location: Aspen, Colo. The prolific Bauhaus artist and designer Herbert Bayer lived in Aspen from 1946 until 1975, and left a rich, lasting mark on the mountain resort town. A
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