"You grow up and you calm down/You're working for the clampdown/You start wearing the blue and brown/You're working for the clampdown," the song's lyrics protest.
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Already a budget clampdown has begun to impact key programs.
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He regularly emphasizes that the clampdown must not violate rights.
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"A clampdown on war veterans has commenced," the lawyers said.
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More often than not, a clampdown on civil liberties occurs.
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The country's clampdown on public life has left businesses reeling.
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People would find a way around any clampdown on remittances.
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The Liberals' clampdown on gun ownership may give them an edge.
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Analysts said small stocks were more vulnerable to the government's clampdown.
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The clampdown on capitalism comes at a fraught time for Cuba.
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The clampdown began shortly after Duterte assumed office on June 30.
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As president, she would almost certainly promote a bigger corporate clampdown.
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But it's the latest sign of a clampdown on Big Tech.
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And Beijing's clampdown on shadow banking has dried up easy money.
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Protests raged for months before a government clampdown reined them in.
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That came to an end in the 1980s after a government clampdown.
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China was a huge market for Diageo, so the clampdown affected business.
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A clampdown on risky lending by bank regulators acted as a trigger.
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Last year saw a rush of transactions before a clampdown by America.
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Worries about a regulatory clampdown globally have sent investors scrambling to sell.
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Mr Bainimarama took the perceived threat more seriously, ordering an army clampdown.
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A nationwide clampdown, however, would be far more radical and wide-ranging.
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Free speech clampdown Opposition figures aren't the only ones feeling the pressure.
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There is usually a security clampdown in the run-up to Jan.
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"This is the really big tragedy about the clampdown," Dr. Steenberg said.
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Go deeper: Pence suggests Hong Kong clampdown could prevent China trade deal
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But the firm's work supporting the Trump administration's immigration clampdown has continued.
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After widespread protests by Tibetans in 2008, China imposed a security clampdown.
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Two aspects make this clampdown particularly insidious: its technological sophistication and global reach.
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So is the global clampdown on emissions following VW's 2015 diesel cheating scandal.
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In Taiwan, there was a clampdown for a while but it's loosened up.
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Dicle University's Coskun said the clampdown on HDP officials was exacerbating Kurds' disenchantment.
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Dicle University's Coskun said the clampdown on HDP officials was exacerbating Kurds' disenchantment.
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It comes after the U.S. announced a further clampdown on Iran's oil exports.
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The clampdown on free speech differs from U.S. efforts to strengthen democracy worldwide.
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Wilson ultimately paid a price for his clampdown on radical and liberal groups.
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The government is justifying its latest clampdown on imports by citing economic security.
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Cypriot regulator CySEC announced its own clampdown on some brokers' behaviour last week.
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What we don't know is how sweeping — or selective — any clampdown might be.
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China launched a clampdown on capital outflows and overseas direct investment last year.
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The tightened grip mirrors a similar clampdown by the Communist Party in China.
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But the clampdown has complicated relations with China at a particularly sensitive moment.
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Behind all this is the threat of a political clampdown on Big Tech.
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His view on the clampdown has turned grimmer in the last few days.
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Its security forces even carried out raids in some areas, supporting Israel's clampdown.
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Then a regulatory clampdown on cryptocurrencies in the world's second-largest economy changed that.
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The government says this is part of an economy-wide clampdown on currency outflows.
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This week the central bank reinforced its clampdown on bad loans in the industry.
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More than 100,000 copies of the controversial blueprint were downloaded before the government's clampdown.
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Some commentators have compared Israel unfavorably to Turkey and warned of a wider clampdown.
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A regulatory clampdown on shadow banking has further restricted smaller companies' access to funding.
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This is not the first time China has mulled a clampdown on crypto mining.
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Ankara says the clampdown is necessary in the light of the threat Turkey faces.
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The case estimates show the need for a clampdown on community transmissions, researchers said.
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China, separately, is reported to be deepening its clampdown of its digital currency market.
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It claimed a broad clampdown on human rights had created a "more dangerous" world.
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Beijing has responded with a security clampdown condemned by rights groups and Western governments.
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Sunday School textbooks have been especially sensitive in the clampdown in Wenzhou, teachers said.
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Last summer, Bitcoin dropped by 40 percent on concerns over a clampdown in China.
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The company attributed the lack of quarterly user growth to its clampdown on fake accounts.
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That angst was fueled after the U.S. announced a further clampdown on Iran's oil exports.
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They have blamed foreigners, absurdly, for the unrest and they are threatening a violent clampdown.
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"The government of India cannot continue to deal with Kashmir with a clampdown," he said.
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Introduced as part of a broader clampdown on pollution, it took waste exporters by surprise.
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Critics also complain about Museveni's failure to stem corruption and a clampdown on opposition voices.
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But the Saudi spending clampdown since oil prices dropped has made the situation much worse.
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But the tide has turned, with core banking emerging as winner from the regulatory clampdown.
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I think in part this is why there was such a clampdown after the war.
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The divergence in the deal market comes largely as a result of a regulatory clampdown.
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Salvini has been criticized for his tough migration policies and his clampdown on migrant ships.
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He says the song "Clampdown" draws parallels to what's happening in the US today. pic.twitter.
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Air France-KLM and Lufthansa said they were studying the implications of the U.S. clampdown.
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Mr. Torra denounced the charges as a political fabrication to justify a clampdown on separatists.
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Mr. Rabasseda, the mayor of Arenys de Munt, said that Madrid's clampdown has been disproportionate.
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Meanwhile, the second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum also saw a fall in value following the clampdown.
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The protesters battled riot police for several intense days amid fears of a bloody clampdown.
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China would certainly prefer that the world did not talk about its clampdown on Muslims.
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Swiss banks are still recovering from European and U.S. clients withdrawing tens of billions of dollars following a post-financial crisis clampdown on tax dodging The tax clampdown has eroded Switzerland's bank secrecy rules, which for decades pulled in money from the world's super-rich.
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The catalyst for the clampdown is clear - xenophobia is on the rise, experts say, stoking tensions.
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It is seen as the ruling Law and Justice party&aposs clampdown on the top court.
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THE RECENT CLAMPDOWN ON INVERSIONS KILLING THAT MORE THAN $150 BILLION DEAL BETWEEN PFIZER AND ALLERGAN.
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New Delhi has said the situation is returning to normality in the region since the clampdown.
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It was the first time that domestic miners have spoken strongly against the government's tough clampdown.
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But there's a bigger trigger for the clampdown, and that's the rise of female corrections officers.
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A global clampdown on pollution ensued, prompting regulators and environmental groups in Germany to scrutinize emissions.
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India imposed a clampdown in India Kashmir in early August to prevent large scale violent protests.
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Kongkarai, 212, has experienced the clampdown on freedom of expression both on social media and beyond.
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Foreign workers are also growing frustrated about the clampdown on visas and rising anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Mr. Modi claims his clampdown would resolve that conflict and bring normality and development to Kashmir.
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Despite the clampdown, the actions have continued, including a large rally in Trafalgar Square Wednesday afternoon.
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China's clampdown on cryptocurrencies has reportedly taken a new direction – to close down local bitcoin exchanges.
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McKinsey: The consulting giant helped American immigration authorities execute the White House's clampdown on illegal immigration.
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But a government clampdown on electricity-intensive cryptocurrency mining could soon see that activity move elsewhere.
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They also said they were prepared to counter Europe's broader regulatory clampdown on American tech firms.
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Supply-side reform and environmental clampdown do not appear to have stopped the Chinese aluminum production juggernaut.
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The clampdown appears aimed at clearing the way for Mr Sisi to win re-election next year.
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The most popular choice, picked by 37% of respondents, was the government's promised clampdown on illegal immigration.
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The clampdown has, in a way, been foreshadowed by a recent attack of user-generated audio content.
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He said the clampdown would last well beyond the congress and was having a widespread "chilling effect".
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India on Monday restored some mobile phone services in Kashmir, two months after imposing a communications clampdown.
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Also playing into the lira's recent volatility have been heavy-handed clampdown on the international lira market.
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So too did the security clampdown that Mr Zhang maintained after taking over from his hardline predecessor.
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Supply-side reform and environmental clampdown do not appear to have stopped the Chinese aluminium production juggernaut.
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For the last two decades, the United States has tried the opposite approach — a fierce border clampdown.
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This is what the normally crowded colosseum looked like during the coronavirus clampdown on March 11, 2020.
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Debt levels had moderated somewhat in the last few years due to a government clampdown on risk.
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Many Paulistas see pichação as vandalism and back the punitive clampdown involving increased arrests and heavier fines.
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In some cases, Mr. Trump has aggressively denounced "radical Islamic terrorism" and demanded a clampdown on immigration.
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Beijing's clampdown on overseas acquisitions appears to have done little to deter the Great Wall Motor Company.
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The clampdown extended beyond the walled gardens of social platforms to a wide array of online services.
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Rights activists say Sisi has overseen a relentless clampdown on dissent in Egypt since his 2014 election.
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But on overseas Chinese websites and in interviews with foreign journalists, he has sharply criticized Beijing's clampdown.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's clampdown on free speech showed little sign of abating throughout 2017, Amnesty said.
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Hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in the security clampdown in Xinjiang.
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"China's clampdown on exchanges can also be seen as a positive move for the industry too," he added.
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Regulators recently shut down its iTunes and iBooks services as part of a wider clampdown on internet content.
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Elsewhere in tech and regulation: A closer look at Margrethe Vestager, the public face of Europe's tech clampdown.
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It is part of a broader clampdown on polluting industries championed by China's all-powerful president, Xi Jinping.
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Lopez, a committed environmentalist, in December canceled the ECCs of three nickel mines as part of the clampdown.
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The scrap supply chain to China faces more disruption this year with a further clampdown on "foreign garbage".
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Until the clampdown, it was easy for traffickers to obtain the drug from factories with few questions asked.
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There's a new casualty in the clampdown on third party Pokémon Go-tapping services: stats tracking site PokeAdvisor.
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Amid protests from trade unions, which argued that Canadian workers were being undercut, the government announced a clampdown.
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The question is whether, as its leaders fear, a private-sector clampdown will actually threaten its very existence.
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So a lobbying joint-front to try to water down any US privacy clampdown is in full effect.
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One group firmly on the side of those caught up in this bookmaker clampdown are Justice for Punters.
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The Spanish government's clampdown on the northeastern region's independence drive is only the latest conflict to visit Catalans.
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But Mr. Noguera may be right to think that his city is taking the clampdown a step further.
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Eyewear maker Luxottica said on Sunday it was suspending all its Italian activities following the latest coronavirus clampdown.
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Crypto clampdown: Securities regulators in the U.S. and Canada have opened investigations into potentially deceitful cryptocurrency investment products.
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Now something is finally being done about it, with Google announcing a major clampdown on irksome video ads.
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In 2011, before Xi came to power, PAP troops were deployed as part of the clampdown on Wukan.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega crushed protests in 2018 in a clampdown that led to more than 300 deaths.
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The slowdown in China's economy and a clampdown on conspicuous consumption there has since hit luxury brands hard.
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He was jailed in a clampdown on Islamists in the 1990s but was released after muting his criticism.
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Ms. Cennetoglu said that many of her friends in Istanbul progressive circles have been detained amid the clampdown.
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Mnangagwa's main rival, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, has accused the government carrying out a clampdown on his party's members.
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Oil got a boost after the United States announced a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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Each clampdown on the judiciary has sparked protests, and brought the country into direct conflict with the European Union.
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The regulatory clampdown, now in its second year, has also slowly pushed up companies' borrowing costs and mortgage rates.
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It has struggled to adapt to placid markets and a clampdown on proprietary trading (trading for your own profit).
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Signs of Friday's protest - the largest since India's clampdown - were visible in the Soura area of Srinagar on Saturday.
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Most immediately, Trump's outburst appears to be a reaction to the recent clampdown on Jones and his Infowars network.
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But the coverage clampdown underscores the complicated relationship the tech behemoth has with China, the fastest-growing Internet market.
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This clampdown was weaker than a similar order President Barack Obama had signed at the beginning of his administration.
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Another change being announced by Twitter now is a clampdown on the distribution of hacked materials via its platform.
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But the incident comes amid a clampdown on Kenya's media, long seen as the continent's liveliest after South Africa's.
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The clampdown was largely credited to the creation of a special anti-terror division called Densus 88, or D88.
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The case began formally as an FTC clampdown on the way AT&T was marketing its unlimited data plans.
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But aside from the clampdown in bitcoin trading, there's little rhyme or reason to why it swings so wildly.
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Favorable regulation in Japan has managed to offset the clampdown from regulators in countries including China and South Korea.
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Italy's prime minister implored the public to cooperate in the largest clampdown against the coronavirus in the Western world.
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But for American paper companies that make new cardboard out of used boxes, China's clampdown has been a boon.
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The clampdown has complicated relations with China, Iran's largest oil buyer, which has been increasing its purchases this year.
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U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the image "horrific" and said the president's migration clampdown made deaths more likely.
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Derbyshire Police defended their clampdown on hillwalkers, insisting that such activity did not qualify as "essential" during the lockdown.
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But they appear set on a narrow resolution that stops well short of the clampdown the students are demanding.
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Companies have already started feeling the pinch of Beijing's clampdown on overseas investments, which started in earnest in December.
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A Bloomberg report earlier in the week also said China intended to clampdown on the centralized trading of cryptocurrencies.
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Trump's immigration clampdown is making it increasingly more difficult for the United States to attract and retain international experts.
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Some see the clampdown as an expected move, given that cryptocurrency fundraising in the country is viewed as bloated.
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The report also highlights concerns that a clampdown could push parents to have their daughters cut in neighboring countries.
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Political unrest in Bahrain has tapered off since 2011 due to a security clampdown on opposition leaders and activists.
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Some believe Mr. Hun Sen is raising the issue to distract attention from his government's clampdown on opposition voices.
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South Korean citizens have also voiced their opposition to a potential clampdown by signing petitions with the president's office.
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But while the clampdown is expected to continue, most analysts believe moves will be cautious to avoid hitting economic growth.
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In President Trump's America, few issues are as politically charged as border security, given the administration's aggressive clampdown on immigration.
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The United States and European nations have criticized the government's clampdown on media, including the shuttering of private radio stations.
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During the past few years it has felt the need to impose a fierce clampdown on dissidents and their lawyers.
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If so, IS can use extreme violence to provoke an official clampdown and to feed the indiscriminate suspicion of Muslims.
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However, some telecoms equipment firms such as Nokia and Ericsson could benefit if the Huawei clampdown diverts business to them.
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However, some of the 2.57 million tonnes may have been already closed as part of a clampdown on illegal smelting.
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According to Amnesty International, the arrests are Egypt's biggest clampdown on LGBTQ people in over a decade and a half.
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As many as 212 people were arrested in Saudi Arabia in what the government said was a clampdown on corruption.
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DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield expects the deal volume of China's outbound property investment to drop slightly in 2017 under the clampdown.
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There were fears that the missile strike on Tuesday could lead to a tighter Saudi clampdown on Al Hudaydah's port.
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With few other ways to get by, the clampdown has left smugglers like Abalde Aboubakar desperate to make ends meet.
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Strong results at these firms have also allayed some concerns about a sectorwide regulatory clampdown and lower levels of volatility.
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But while the clampdown is expected to continue, most analysts believe moves will be cautious to avoid hitting economic growth.
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Following the meeting, Trump agreed to hold off on additional tariffs on Chinese goods and discussed the clampdown on Huawei.
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The nine mines were ordered permanently closed in February last year as part of an environmental clampdown on the sector.
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He has campaigned non-stop, promoting a "man-of the people" image and touting a popular clampdown on illegal immigration.
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Since Friday, many people have laid wreaths and carnations at the Athens Polytechnic, site of a bloody clampdown on Nov.
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The clampdown of these social and economic protests, however, is creating a disorganized opposition prone to flare-ups of violence.
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A clampdown on corruption on the mainland (see article) has also made it riskier to spend money on luxury items.
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The clampdown was prompted by reports that militant groups want to smuggle explosive devices in electronic gadgets, U.S. officials said.
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And the extraordinary security clampdown on Beijing for the congress further emphasized his message: Nothing can stand in my way.
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A clampdown began after Health Net's owner, Centene, sent a team of eight investigators to Prescott to examine billing practices.
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With the government clampdown on their livelihoods, the villagers began to receive death threats for their participation in the film.
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But the company withdrew after the Chinese government's clampdown on deal-making, as well as a cold reception from Allianz.
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Mr. Rajoy accuses the separatists of encouraging civil disobedience, while Mr. Puigdemont compares the Madrid-ordered clampdown to Franco's authoritarianism.
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The persecution of Cyril Almeida is now the center of a clampdown on Pakistani media unprecedented in scale and sophistication.
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There are widespread misgivings that Madrid's clampdown on the vote has only served to strengthen pro-independence sentiment in Catalonia.
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ICE quickly redirected McKinsey toward helping the agency figure out how to execute the White House's clampdown on illegal immigration.
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Ban's office described the dissolution of al Wefaq as part of a wider clampdown on freedom by the Bahraini authorities.
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A central bank adviser said in November that he expected the government's financial clampdown to be less forceful next year.
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"Yes, there's been a clampdown," he said, but he wasn't bitter and was instead grateful for his long run here.
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At the same time, Trump's highly publicized clampdown on illegal immigration threatens to disrupt other large parts of the economy.
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If followed through, such a law would make it the most draconian clampdown by a European country on an online network.
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The United States and European nations have criticised the government's clampdown on free media, including the shuttering of private radio stations.
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The metal has been supported by a sweeping mining clampdown in the Philippine's, the top exporter of nickel ore to China.
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Microsoft was forced to ban game emulator apps in the Windows Store earlier this year, after a clampdown on pirated content.
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The JKLF was banned by India last year as part of a massive clampdown in Kashmir after an attack on Feb.
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Loan growth at both banks was driven in part by mortgage loans, despite Beijing's continued clampdown on an overheated property market.
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Apple's clampdown seems to be related to the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into effect on May 25th in Europe.
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PROTEST GRAFFITI Signs of Friday's protest - the largest since India's clampdown - were visible in the Soura area of Srinagar on Saturday.
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Waqf religious leaders have refused to enter through the detectors which have been set up as part of the security clampdown.
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Meanwhile, global regulatory clampdown and moves by banks to ban purchases of bitcoin with credit cards have roiled digital currency prices.
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America's steel industry has long called for a clampdown on imports and global steelmaking overcapacity, and is now lauding Trump's decision.
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Tribalism and government's tight clampdown on civil society need to be overcome and voter bribery remains problematic and hard to trace.
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Prices of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies tumbled again on Tuesday amid fresh worries of a regulatory clampdown, before staging a recovery.
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Freed from the Obama administration's clampdown on safety, companies that produce essential but oftentimes toxic substances are seeing their stocks rally.
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In May, following a Facebook clampdown on hate speech, the president retweeted a slew of conspiracy theorists and far-right figures.
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Turkey's clampdown on the news media has increasingly become intertwined with Europe's attempts to cooperate with Turkey on the migrant issue.
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So it's perhaps been providing the inspiration for the EU executive body's even more stringent clampdown — to a one-hour rule.
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The clampdown on potentially speculative trading comes as Seoul's benchmark plunged 13.2% this week, in its worst drop since Oct 2008.
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Priti Patel, who has called for a clampdown on immigration and once supported the return of capital punishment, is home secretary.
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The planned clampdown on short-selling helped the market recover some ground on Tuesday with the benchmark KOSPI ending up 0.4%.
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Any clampdown could help nullify Sunday's result, but it could also backfire and prompt frustrated voters to take to the streets.
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Beijing's clampdown on overseas investments shows how the interests of private business can collide with those of the Communist Party government.
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Critics of the clampdown have accused Switzerland of closing its borders, causing a pile-up in northern Italian towns including Como.
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Late last year, bin Salman detained scores of top princes, businessmen and government officials in a so-called clampdown on corruption.
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Turkey's clampdown on Kurds has been so thoroughgoing that it has left those who remain free expecting arrest at any moment.
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"It is increasingly untenable for Facebook to deny its role in facilitating the Duterte regime's clampdown on critical voices," she added.
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Sisi has overseen a brutal crackdown on dissenting voices during his six-year reign, including a significant clampdown of press freedom.
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Tatchell said Turkey's recent clampdown on the media was tantamount to a "war" on civil liberties, human rights, and press freedom.
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India's factory activity quickened in November at the fastest pace since just before the government's surprise cash clampdown late last year.
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China's recent clampdown on virtual private networks (VPNs), services that tunnel through the Great Firewall, seems designed to fine-tune these filters.
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NEW YEAR, NEW BAN The scrap supply chain to China faces more disruption this year with a further clampdown on "foreign garbage".
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Key to the graffiti clampdown of the last few years has been the government's fear that they lack control over the population.
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The clampdown on communications remained in place for an eighth day, with no regular Internet, mobile phone or fixed-line links working.
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Monday's announcement came hours after authorities launched a clampdown in Kashmir by suspending telephone services and placing state leaders under house arrest.
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The announcement likely marks another instance of a clampdown in China on consumer tech companies in various sectors, from gaming to news.
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Still, the power dynamics apparent in the image resonated with criticism of the treatment migrants are receiving during the clampdown by Mexico.
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The clampdown stoked worries about supply of nickel from the Philippines last year, helping spur a 14-percent rally in global prices.
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On Friday, Trump ordered a study into the causes of U.S. trade deficits and a clampdown on countries that evaded import duties.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Is the Philippines' draconian mining clampdown already affecting the flow of nickel ore to China's nickel pig iron (NPI) producers?
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And there are signs that the small-scale nickel mining sector may already have peaked even before the new government's environmental clampdown.
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In China, a major hub for cryptocurrency innovation and infrastructure, the government has begun to ramp up a widespread clampdown on cryptocurrency.
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A lack of risk control resulted in widespread defaults and a government clampdown for several years in the mid-2000s, he said.
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He told Cruz he was "working for the clampdown and the corporations and the special interests," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Trump has demanded further reforms to the Chinese economy, including greater access for US companies and a clampdown on intellectual property theft.
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There's also been a reduction in fuel and certain fertilizers under the sanctions but reports of smuggling to get around the clampdown.
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Middle-class workers may be struggling now in a changing economy, but a clampdown on global trade would only make that worse.
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Authorities reacted with a security clampdown, shutting down internet services in southern parts of Kashmir and suspending train services south of Srinagar.
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He supported Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's decision to allow women to drive, but opposed the political clampdown that went with it.
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The Chinese government justifies its clampdown on the Uighurs and Muslim minorities by saying it's trying to eradicate extremism and separatist groups.
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The state's reaction continues its clampdown that began in January on non-consensual harvesting of personal information (by private firms, that is).
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Under him, the government has redoubled a yearslong clampdown on Uighurs who are marked as potential supporters of independence or Islamist extremism.
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The unprecedented 3.2 million jump in unemployment insurance claims is just one indication of the near total clampdown of the U.S. economy.
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Though a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman has denied any official clampdown on Korean entertainment, the blow to the industry has been remarkable.
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Despite the improved capital flow picture, China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange has continued a clampdown on the movements of funds abroad.
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He was meeting clients even after July 2015, when the Chinese police began a widespread clampdown on rights lawyers and their associates.
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The virtual currency fell from $4,2973 to $4,350 on Monday following the announcement of a regulatory clampdown on initial coin offerings (ICOs).
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Shares of the company suffered losses last week after the firm warned it would be hit by the U.S. clampdown on vaping.
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But after years of legal challenges and intense public scrutiny, the NCAA's clampdown on paying jocks is at last starting to crack.
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President Piñera has stood by the police clampdown, claiming that the use of force has been justified in order to maintain order.
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Meanwhile, Abdulla, who has mixed feelings about the cyber clampdown in his country, blames the Qatari leadership for the deterioration of relations.
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Many Malaysians were surprised to see Mahathir backing the protests after his own government's clampdown on the Reformasi movement in the late 1990s.
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In a similar vein, Beto O'Rourke's use of The Clash's "Clampdown" pits the candidate squarely against the perceived ideals of President Donald Trump.
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Given the intensity of Mr Xi's clampdown, it is remarkable how willing some activists remain to wage public campaigns that annoy the government.
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Oil topped $74 a barrel on Monday, the highest since November, as the United States announced a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports.
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Some of the scarcity of oil products and higher prices may have been caused by hoarding in anticipation of a clampdown on supply.
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The government's clampdown has reduced the ranks of the casino junket operators and curtailed the flow of money from Chinese high-roller gamblers.
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Facebook's rivals may be wary but, if the industry does not come up with a joint solution, a government clampdown will become inevitable.
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According to Dr. Kent Deng, associate professor of economic history at LSE, it was also a way to clampdown on rich individual Chinese.
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Knots of young protesters threw stones at soldiers, police and a witness said, amid anger over the telecoms clampdown that began on Sunday.
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Gasoline theft, he said, has declined from more than 125,000 barrels per day (bpd) before the clampdown to between 7,000 and 8,000 bpd.
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But in recent years, there has been a clampdown on diazepam that necessitated an influx of much stronger benzodiazepines arriving on the market.
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The two-pronged clampdown comes in part response to rising political heat on China's exports of aluminium to the rest of the world.
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The authorities will be wary of triggering a liquidity crunch through regulatory tightening, which makes an abrupt clampdown on shadow banking activities unlikely.
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The two-pronged clampdown comes in part response to rising political heat on China's exports of aluminum to the rest of the world.
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And whether you like them or not, Trump's immigration clampdown, trade war and pummeling of our traditional allies is part of that too.
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Authorities have continued a multi-year clampdown on illicit capital flows from the mainland, taking aim at underground lending and illegal cash transfers.
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This process has likely been accelerated by a continuing clampdown on credit in parts of the Chinese economy, particularly the shadow financial sector.
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And imagine they could not access reliable information because, due to the clampdown, journalists were largely prevented from reporting or publishing the news.
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President Trump's immigration clampdown has pushed an increasing surge of migrants into the harsh river current as the fastest route to American soil.
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Nauert said on Tuesday that "it is simply no surprise that Vladimir Putin was reelected," bemoaning the "clampdown" on basic freedoms in Russia.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government expects fewer asylum requests in 2000 than last year, after a clampdown on migrants crossing the Italian border.
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Amazon says the clampdown is the result of additional security features it implemented in early 2019 but didn't specify what those features were.
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And many civilians eager to return to work after weeks of a military clampdown say they are terrified of provoking the militants' ire.
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Japan's global share of the bitcoin market jumped after a clampdown this year by Beijing saw bitcoin trading in yuan almost entirely disappear.
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The British prime minister is under pressure to condemn Turkey's clampdown on civil liberties since the government crushed a coup attempt in July.
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Three years later, in 2015, he launched a sweeping clampdown on hundreds of legal activists, the boldest of whom state media label sike lawyers.
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The government refused Hanson's offer of two votes by One Nation in exchange for a clampdown on tax avoidance by international companies, she added.
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As part of the clampdown, Chinese authorities are working to separate local governments from financing activities of often closely associated but technically independent companies.
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Beijing's clampdown since last year on sending capital outside the country was also opening up opportunities for domestic wealth managers in China, they said.
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Even centrists, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats, cringe at Mr Erdogan's brand of Islamic nationalism and his clampdown on dissent.
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Gambian authorities shut a fourth popular radio station late on Sunday, staff said on Monday, further strangling opposition voices amid a post-election clampdown.
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We need to counter this sort of alarmist thinking, and the recent clampdown on AI fake porn is a salutary example in this fight.
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His Chinese-American constituents admire Mr Trump's business acumen and worry about taxes, regulation and law and order, including a clampdown on illegal immigration.
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But he ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the military in the Caribbean island.
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News of this week's clampdown comes after regulators forced WeChat and Weibo to close down celebrity gossip outlets using the services to disseminate news.
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Tea industry The indefinite strike and the government clampdown has left tourism and the tea industry -- the backbone of the local economy -- in tatters.
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Betting companies William Hill and Ladbrokes Coral Group fell 6 percent and 2.8 percent following a media report about a clampdown on betting machines.
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The clampdown on perceived members of the old guard, many blessed with extraordinary birthright wealth, was seen favorably by many Saudis, according to Reuters.
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More widely, the clampdown has seen Muslim architecture and culture destroyed in what is a devastating and under-reported onslaught against an ethnic group.
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Rival IG lowered its revenue forecast for 2019 and said a regulatory clampdown on spread-betting will make some of its products less attractive.
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On Monday, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) was just one of several Chinese authorities to announce a clampdown on initial coin offerings (ICOs).
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He believes the clampdown on illegal immigrants led to mass self-deportation, and raised wages for African Americans and Hispanics in agriculture and construction.
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The decision is seen as part of India's broader clampdown on non-governmental organizations to assert control over decision making in key policy areas.
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Melbourne Victory players expressed frustration with the government's travel clampdown after getting the all-clear to head to New Zealand for the Phoenix game.
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His crime-fighting plan relies on a mix of welfare for the young, a clampdown on corruption and a new 60,000-strong national guard.
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India revoked the special constitutional status of its portion of Kashmir in August, imposed a communications clampdown in the region and made mass arrests.
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Gamers posted angrily on social media and in forums, while politicians saw it as another troubling sign of China's chilling clampdown on speech worldwide.
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British betting companies are also struggling with the government's clampdown on high-speed slot machines, which critics have called the "crack cocaine" of gambling.
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The clampdown has hit tourism as well as farming, horticulture and the arts and crafts that contribute the most to its export-oriented economy.
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The clampdown has hit tourism as well as farming, horticulture and the arts and crafts that contribute the most to its export-oriented economy.
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While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo negotiated the Mexico deal, McAleenan oversaw the department's implementation of the asylum clampdown and other counter-migration measures.
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Moloyashree Hashmi, an actor for more than four decades, says while groups have been physically attacked, there was also a hidden clampdown on dissent.
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Metal prices surged from 20173 to the middle of 22017 after an environmental clampdown on polluting smelters and mines in China threatened to curtail supply.
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Writing at his formerly anonymous blog UnmuzzledScience, Rennie is now offering advice to his American colleagues based on what he learned during Harper's science clampdown.
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Industry sources cited reports on Chinese social media that Bristol-Myers had announced a clampdown on the use of expenses and speaker fees for doctors.
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Yu, an outspoken critic of the government clampdown who had worked to defend fellow lawyers who were arrested in the sweep, was disbarred on Jan.
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The Shanghai measures have already dented buyer sentiment for similar developments in other Chinese cities in anticipation of a broader nationwide clampdown, said Centaline's Luk.
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Also helping was a surge in oil prices, with the United States set to announce a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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Demand from buyers of second and third properties for investment purposes and for larger properties was weak amid the government's clampdown on income tax evasion.
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The move was the culmination of a two-decade international clampdown on tax evasion that has all but ended bank secrecy in many financial centers.
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China will be wary of triggering a liquidity crunch through regulatory tightening, making an abrupt clampdown on shadow banking activities unlikely, the ratings agency said.
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Bing also censors its search service for Chinese users, so it would be odd if its inaccessibility proves to be a case of government clampdown.
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Curbs on lending to foreigners and a clampdown on capital flows by Beijing hurt demand from Chinese investors, Australia's largest source of international property investment.
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The government's clampdown is now making its way into more niche parts of the internet economy, where user data seems to be the key issue.
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Erdogan and his government deny they are trying to muzzle opponents and say the clampdown is necessary in view of the security challenges Turkey faces.
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But a regulatory clampdown on risky lending helped cool the sector while interest from Chinese buyers evaporated as authorities there cracked down on capital flows.
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Among the major contracts, only aluminum is holding its own thanks to the potential supply upheaval promised by China's environmental clampdown on its smelter sector.
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But Kao's sales have been hit after a clampdown by Beijing last year on "daigou" merchants, who buy goods abroad for resale online in China.
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Otherwise, more hostilities would only play into the hands of the military's narrative to clampdown on extremists -- which they have done indiscriminately against all Rohingya.
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But in recent years immigration has become a sensitive issue, with anti-immigrant attacks, economic hardship and a government clampdown on immigrants and asylum seekers.
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"The communication blackout, security clampdown and detention of the political leaders in the region hasmade it worse," said Aakar Patel, head of Amnesty International India.
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European football's governing body said some arrests have been made in a clampdown on bogus tickets and it had begun legal proceedings against unauthorised sellers.
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The government has also failed to explain its legal basis for locking up many Kashmiri politicians, including ones who are relatively moderate, during the clampdown.
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Mr. Pifer said American diplomats who lived through the 1986 clampdown learned all kinds of things about Soviet life that they would not have otherwise.
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The Wall Street Journal on Monday also reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Chinese regulators are planning a "broad clampdown" on bitcoin trading.
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Washington's clampdown on Huawei has become a sticking point in trade talks with Beijing, which is demanding clemency for one of China's leading corporate champions.
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Chinese users had trouble using the popular WhatsApp instant messaging tool on Tuesday, with many fearing it is the latest victim of Beijing's internet clampdown.
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Xi has overseen a clampdown on all forms of dissent in Chinese society, which has seen hundreds of rights lawyers and activists detained and dozens jailed.
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Trump ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the island's military, which manages much of the economy.
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A scrutiny of corporate debt showed that borrowing through the issue of bonds has fallen, however, possibly as the regulatory clampdown has pushed up financing costs.
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LUXEMBOURG – European Union foreign ministers urged Poland on Tuesday to answer questions about the rule of law amid concerns about a government clampdown on judicial independence.
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The clampdown continued on Saturday when security forces arrested senior opposition members including the head of the UDP Ousainu Darboe, whose home was raided by police.
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Such divestments are generally frowned upon by Chinese regulators, while Beijing's clampdown on capital outflows is making it tougher to repatriate sale proceeds, according to bankers.
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Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, has lost 70 percent of its value from its peak in December partly because of market concerns about a global regulatory clampdown.
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Madrid's sometimes violent clampdown on the independence movement in late 2017 had sparked large-scale and impassioned demonstrations in Catalonia that have sporadically continued until now.
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The renewed U.S. clampdown caused a crash of Iran's currency, rampant inflation and a flight of foreign investors desperately needed by Tehran to modernise its economy.
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" As a result of the clampdown on press freedoms, she prophecies, "The world will grow murkier," as "Coverage, and thinking, will drift in a Trumpian direction.
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The move to include them in its quarterly MPA had been expected after NCD insurance rocketed in response to the clampdown on other types of funding.
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The journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders issued a statement last month accusing the military of censorship, but the military has denied being behind any clampdown.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt imposed a big security clampdown in its cities on Friday as mass demonstrations called to protest against austerity measures failed to take place.
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But rights groups have criticized the approach, saying the clampdown has further stoked, not eased, tension between the Muslim Uighur minority and the ethnic Han majority.
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He ordered an inquiry into how the Taliban could mount an apparently carefully planned operation, despite pledges of a security clampdown in Kabul following recent attacks.
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BAKU (Reuters) - Formula One's clampdown on radio communications between engineers and drivers has made the sport more dangerous, triple world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Sunday.
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Among mid-caps, online trading platform IG Group slumped 9.5 percent as a regulatory clampdown led to a 17 percent fall in its first-half profit.
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The clampdown led to the suspension of democracy for 14 years and resulted in shameless plunder, vast poverty and tens of thousands of human-rights violations.
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The couple had joined an outflow of Uighurs from the western region of Xinjiang three years ago, when China's clampdown on the minority group was intensifying.
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The Iranian government responded with conciliatory words from Mr. Rouhani, but also a widening security clampdown — and a pledge late Monday to crack down even harder.
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It must wait to see if its oil clampdown — which looks like a far more effective tool — will force Iranian leaders to capitulate to American demands.
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The travel clampdown has also forced the postponement of the New Zealand cricket team's limited overs tour in Australia and the return tour in New Zealand.
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Airlines have warned that their industry faces a mortal threat, citing the U.S. clampdown on travel from Europe, which was extended to Britain and Ireland today.
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In addition to introducing the democratic world's longest internet clampdown in Kashmir, Access Now said India also accounted for two-thirds of global shutdowns in 2018.
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Huawei: The Chinese tech giant said its sales for January through June grew by nearly a quarter from a year earlier, despite the Trump administration's clampdown.
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Any military clampdown on Chinas freest and most international city would only be ordered by Xis powerful Central Military Commission, say local officials and foreign diplomats.
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The protests, which were sparked by steep hikes in gas prices, are still ongoing despite what Amnesty International described as a "bloody clampdown" from the government.
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Vestager, who started her second term in Brussels on Sunday, has led a wider clampdown on how tech giants operate across the 28 EU member states.
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U.S. President Donald Trump says these policies, along with his administration's own clampdown on asylum, are behind a sharp drop in border apprehensions in recent months.
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China's outbound foreign investment dropped by 49% year on year in the first quarter of 2017, with an official clampdown on such speculative deals partly to blame.
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The clampdown in India - only Iraq closes as many sites each year - has hit doctors who treat rural patients via WhatsApp, and silenced journalists covering street protests.
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Pakistan's minister for state and interior affairs, Talal Chaudhry, said such actions "by unnamed forces" were part of a wider clampdown on freedom of thought in Pakistan.
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Khalid Zerouali, Morocco&aposs director of migration and border surveillance, said his country is under new pressure amid the clampdown on the route between Libya and Italy.
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After a more than four-month surge in confrontations over the Gaza Strip border, Israel this week eased its clampdown on the enclave's commercial traffic and fishing.
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A clampdown on foreign deals by Chinese regulators, who are worried about capital outflows, has led to the cancellation of dozens of announced acquisitions by Chinese firms.
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U.S. lawmakers have been clamoring for a clampdown on North Korea since Pyongyang earlier this month tested a nuclear device which it said was a hydrogen bomb.
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Most analysts credit a clampdown by government security forces for this reduction, though tough-on-crime policies do little to address the underlying causes of gang violence.
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One is March 14th, the date in 1959 when anti-Chinese riots erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, prompting plateau-wide unrest and a fierce clampdown.
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Its 2015 investigation saw the commission join a global clampdown that saw big banks fined around $10 billion in total for rigging interest rates and forex benchmarks.
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Ever anti-American, Greene approved when Fidel Castro overthrew Batista, Washington's client, in 1959; he admired Castro's social reforms but rued the puritanical clampdown on Havana's fleshpots.
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But they took no action to shield Iran against Trump's sanctions clampdown as Tehran has demanded in exchange for returning to full compliance with the 2015 deal.
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It was not clear if Chinese banks were tightening credit for the sector or if it is part of a wider clampdown on lending across the economy.
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The authorities have launched a new clampdown in the state of Jammu and Kashmir by suspending telephone and internet services and putting some leaders under house arrest.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's recent clampdown on capital outflows is expected to bite into outbound overseas property investment this year, real estate advisory firms said on Tuesday.
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"The clampdown on some types of bank credit, particularly shadow banking and interbank activities, has pushed up corporates' funding costs in the onshore market," Fitch Ratings said.
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A government clampdown would further empower bureaucrats to use the heavy hand of government against conservatives the second that the other side is in charge once again.
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But regulators have since uncovered excessive emissions across the sector and unleashed a clampdown that undermines the business case for combustion engines, forcing a sector-wide rethink.
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That is, several financial metrics are now pointing to the prospects of higher banking profits following a nationwide clampdown on swelling debt — and investors are paying attention.
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China's Internet shares tumbled after news of the clampdown with Weibo Corp's down 9 percent, while SINA Corp, which has a stake in Weibo, fell 6 percent.
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The kiwi had come under pressure in recent weeks on fears of the new Labour-led coalition government's policies, including a clampdown on foreign investment and migration.
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Hit like other spirits makers by a sales downturn in China sparked by a government clampdown on extravagant spending, Pernod Ricard has launched a sales drive there.
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Earlier this month, for example, the price of bitcoin dropped $1,000 after rumors surfaced that an exchange had been hacked and the SEC was planning a clampdown.
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Many donned helmets, masks and goggles, as they cursed Hong Kong's police chief for what they say was a brutal clampdown on some protests in recent weeks.
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The unprecedented clampdown, which will impact some 16 million people and stay in force until April 3, was signed into law overnight by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
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In a statement, the artist's studio suggested that the "censorship" of the work vindicated Mr. Sierra's efforts to denounce a clampdown on freedom of expression in Spain.
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Analysts said if Wanda continues to apply for the relisting as a "property company" it would be difficult to get approval due to China's property market clampdown.
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This followed fears of a more far-reaching clampdown due to comments from government officials that suggested the country would move to ban cryptocurrency trading via exchanges.
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A recent clampdown by Iraq on the resale of cargoes with restricted destinations has also greatly reduced spot trades in Asia, pushing buyers to seek term supplies.
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that Iran is "killing protesters" and noted the internet clampdown at a lunch in New York for the United Nations Security Council.
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Bitcoin, the largest and most prominent cryptocurrency, fell more than 11 percent to hit $10,000 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange, amid worries about a regulatory clampdown.
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In November authorities said they had arrested administrators of more than 20 groups on Telegram for spreading "immoral content" as part of a clampdown on freedom of expression.
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Valentine's Day has in the past been usually preceded by a clampdown from the religious police, ordering florists and other shopkeepers to remove items associated with the festival.
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Oil topped $74 a barrel on Monday, the highest since November, with the United States set to announce a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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The decline came after workers restarted wage talks at the largest copper mine in Chile and China increased its interest rates, sparking concern about a clampdown on speculators.
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The city sprang back to life in 22016 thanks to an aggressive clampdown by federal police and also, many suspect, because the Sinaloa drug cartel defeated its rivals.
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The city sprang back to life in 25 thanks to an aggressive clampdown by federal police and also, many suspect, because the Sinaloa drug cartel defeated its rivals.
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On one side, Trump and conservatives in Congress insist on construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and a clampdown on both legal and illegal immigration.
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The plug was pulled as part of a clampdown on Anglophone activists in which more than a hundred people have been arrested and pressure groups have been outlawed.
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Five days later, Cameroon's minister for territorial administration cited it as justification for an army clampdown against the secessionists that was already under way in the Anglophone regions.
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According to reports from domestic media, censors have banned broadcasts of people "seductively eating bananas" online, as part of an ongoing clampdown of the country's live-streaming sites.
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BAKU, June 19 (Reuters) - Formula One's clampdown on radio communications between engineers and drivers has made the sport more dangerous, triple world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Sunday.
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He wants to "cage power" by strengthening the rule of law and by invoking the constitution, yet he is overseeing a vicious clampdown on dissent and free speech.
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Several countries including South Korea and China have tried to slow trading of cryptocurrencies, and fears of a wider clampdown pushed bitcoin down nearly 20 percent last week.
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But the clampdown on migrants has meant they have sought out new, and more hidden, paths to cross through Mexico, putting them in greater risk of being trafficked.
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An extra 800 million crowns ($153 million) has been added to the police budget this year to bolster the clampdown, but senior officers say this is not enough.
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The death and the birth and both families' struggles reflect the human cost of the government's harsh clampdown in the Kashmir valley, home to nearly seven million people.
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For all the public criticism of what is clearly seen as an unnecessarily heavy-handed Spanish clampdown, few European leaders have been willing to criticize Rajoy in public.
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The League chief has dominated Italian politics over the last year with his constant campaigning, his popular clampdown on illegal immigration and his "man-of-the-people" image.
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The irony of the crackdown was clear: Though a lack of transparency had clearly shattered the market, the Chinese government was responding with a crushing clampdown on information.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sierra Leone has banned female genital mutilation (FGM) as part of a wider clampdown on initiation ceremonies by secret societies, a minister has confirmed.
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The clampdown on risky lending practices and a debt build-up in the corporate sector has led to higher borrowing costs for businesses and reduced access to funds.
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Trump's campaign manager and senior White House officials also reviewed a poll showing a government clampdown on vaping could cost the president in battleground states, The Times said.
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Mr. Kim's clampdown on phones linked to Chinese mobile networks also heightens the risk for those who help bring news about his totalitarian country to the outside world.
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A clampdown on fuel thieves launched in late December by Lopez Obrador, in which several key pipelines were shut due to persistent illegal taps, has also spurred growth.
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The clampdown follows a nuclear deal Iran signed with world powers in July, which hardliners fear may open Iranian society to what they see as corrupting Western influences.
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That scenario would likely encourage authorities to maintain a tighter policy stance and continue with their clampdown on riskier types of financing which has periodically rattled stock markets.
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Kashmiri separatists are conducting their own clampdown, threatening or even attacking civilians in a campaign to destroy any semblance of normality that may be trying to creep back.
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The connection to the N.S.A. is likely to draw further criticism from privacy advocates who have repeatedly called for a clampdown on how the agency collects information online.
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The security clampdown since the coup attempt has seen more than 100,000 people from a wide range of professions sacked or dismissed and scores of media outlets closed.
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The request for a probe on the 500 euro note comes amid an EU clampdown on all means of payment that may be used to finance terrorist acts.
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Under the Trump administration, the firm was redirected to "toward helping the agency figure out how to execute the White House&aposs clampdown on illegal immigration," ProPublica reported.
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Activists opposed to the law said they were trying to keep up the momentum and were looking for ways to work around the police clampdown and internet blackouts.
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The New York Times published the details of the first set of leaked Chinese government documents on the details its clampdown on Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang.
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And the clampdown is further fueled by dwindling hopes for a quick end to the Caracas crisis, as opposition attempts to unseat President Nicolas Maduro appear to have faded.
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Overseas banks, whose domestic market share in China is tiny, have been more affected by the clampdown because they derive a higher percentage of revenues from cross-border business.
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Amazon is being forced to adapt to a new legislative clampdown on online sellers as more retail transactions move to the internet and states seek to recoup tax revenue.
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The French clampdown follows allegations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday that Fiat Chrysler, like Volkswagen, was potentially using illegal software to hide excess diesel emissions.
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In the wake of Volkswagen's diesel test cheating, regulators around the world have intensified a clampdown on toxic fumes, potentially providing a boost in demand for zero emission cars.
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"Vulgar" paparazzi news An administration spokesperson also noted that the clampdown was aimed at "spreading socialist core values and providing for a good mainstream discursive environment," reported China News.
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The real estate industry was already carrying an overhang of unsold inventory, and was hit by an earlier clampdown on "black" money, much of which is invested into property.
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But, a recent regulatory clampdown on risky lending helped cool the once-booming sector while interest from Chinese buyers has evaporated as authorities there cracked down on capital flows.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's financial deleveraging will continue given that a regulatory clampdown on risky lending hasn't "achieved its goals", a state-run newspaper said in a commentary on Wednesday.
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Traders said zinc, which is used in steel production, was given a boost by news of a Chinese clampdown on illegal expansions by steel mills and further environmental probes.
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A clampdown on the Environmental Protection Agency's dealings with the press prompted concerns, and short-lived freezes on contracts and grants shook up some public employees and their allies.
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The kiwi had come under pressure in recent weeks on fears of the new Labour-led coalition government's left-leaning policies, including a clampdown on foreign investment and migration.
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So far, the regulatory clampdown has focused on the financial sector, particularly interbank and shadow banking activity, and the pass-through to the real economy appears to be limited.
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While US Defense Secretary James Mattis warned of a "massive military response," US President Trump suggested a massive clampdown on trade with countries that do business with North Korea.
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Retail borrowing to speculate in stocks is also back with a vengeance as regulators shift their focus back to growth after a lengthy clampdown on riskier types of financing.
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The credit boom has been fueled by strong economic growth, while a clampdown on riskier shadow lending has forced banks to shift some loans back onto their balance sheets.
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But most analysts still expect the broader economy will begin to cool eventually as regulators maintain a clampdown on riskier types of lending which is pushing financing costs higher.
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The visit this month would be the first by a large group of Western diplomats to the region since international concern about Xinjiang's security clampdown began intensifying last year.
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Chinese stock markets will continue their trend higher over the long term despite recent dips caused by a regulatory clampdown in the country, one technical analyst told CNBC Monday.
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Before the nationwide clampdown on Monday, Delta announced it would waive fees if you rescheduled a flight, but online it was still charging me $330 to make the change.
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Erdoğan has arrested thousands of civil servants, judges and members of the media as part of a widespread clampdown on those seen to be supportive of the failed coup.
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Tensions have grown in the region since a 2008 rebellion by Tibetans, which prompted a government-led security clampdown and a number of self-immolations by Tibetans in protest.
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The PM also said there was "no chance of talks" with India about its clampdown on the disputed territory of Kashmir until it lifted a curfew for people there.
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The positive trading update is just weeks after the company posted a plunge in 2019 profit as a regulatory clampdown on high-risk financial market betting hampered trading activity.
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The Trump administration's clampdown on illegal immigration in California follows the state's controversial "sanctuary law," which limits local law enforcement cooperation with immigration authorities, going into effect in January.
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In the aftermath of the attacks, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump caused controversy with a promised clampdown on immigration and repeated advocacy of the use of torture against terrorist suspects.
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He also targeted federal tax revenues of 5.55 trillion rupees ($23.3 billion), up 26.2% and driven by a lower introductory threshold for income tax and a clampdown on tax evasion.
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In another sign of a clampdown on contact with the outside world, one retired policeman said Islamic State officials were trying to inspect SIM cards to check on all communications.
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Chinese overseas deals worth almost $6703bn were cancelled last year as a regulatory clampdown and restrictions on foreign exchange caused 30 acquisitions with European and U.S. groups to fall through.
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LONDON, Mar 1 (Reuters) - Lawmakers have criticized a move by Britain's Lloyds Banking Group to impose more expensive and complex overdraft fees on customers only months before a regulatory clampdown.
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RFA's stories have helped bring global attention to the new detention centres, details of which have been difficult for journalists to uncover because of an intense security clampdown in Xinjiang.
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She ignored appeals by her cabinet colleagues to relax a clampdown on foreign students, despite the damage that her policy was doing to higher education, an area where Britain excels.
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It's ironic that just as international pressure is rising on China to rein in its aluminium smelters, the country is doing precisely that in the form of an environmental clampdown.
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In addition to greater supply of zinc from mines, processing charges have been rising because refining capacity has been depressed, with many operations in China affected by an environmental clampdown.
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The leak could prove to be a boon for the Socialist government in the midst of a tax evasion clampdown that netted over 12 billion euros ($13.6 billion) last year.
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The prosecutor's warning is the latest step in what observers say has been a dramatic clampdown on human rights and free speech in Egypt under President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi.
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The clampdown began in the early hours of Monday when Indian authorities said they were imposing restrictions on public movement and shutting all educational institutions in the main Srinagar city.
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Dundar, who for critics of President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup security clampdown has become a symbol of press freedom, has since left Turkey and is now being tried in absentia.
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"From what we can see now, the regulatory goals clearly haven't been achieved and the talk of the end of regulatory clampdown is out of the question," the newspaper said.
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Chinese banks were told to stop funding several of Wanda's overseas acquisitions, sources said on Monday, unnerving investors and hitting shares in companies seen as potential targets in the clampdown.
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A peace deal that sees Assad remain in power might not be the worst thing, particularly if it came with safeguards and incentives to avoid too brutal a postwar clampdown.
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Jones was the target of a clampdown by tech giants including Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify last year, which banned him over alleged breaches of their rules on hateful content.
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Bank of Singapore's Chief Investment Officer, Johan Jooste said the market is now less focused on Chinese data as investors zoom in on the country's clampdown on liquidity and leverage.
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Analysts generally agree that the UK shortage was initiated by a clampdown on the diversion of ketamine onto the black market by authorities in India at the end of 20143.
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Digital currencies plunged on Friday, with Bitcoin at one point sliding below $8,000 and headed for its biggest weekly loss since December 2013, amid worries about a regulatory clampdown globally.
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The victims were all part of a community of breakaway Mormon sects who arrived in Mexico from the 1880s onwards to escape a clampdown on polygamy in the United States.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Argentina ramped up capital controls over the weekend, showing that a clampdown on cross-border movement of hard currency remains a key crisis control tool in emerging markets.
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But the whole idea behind the charges is to discourage people from putting their ideas on social media, and it is about a clampdown on social media by the state.
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But a recent clampdown by the Libyan coastguard means fewer boats are making it out to sea, leaving the smugglers with a backlog of would-be passengers on their hands.
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Lower shipments result from a combination of the Indonesian government's incremental clampdown on the cluster of independent producers operating on the island's of Bangka and Belitung and from low prices.
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It is true that it is a major sponsor of groups like Hezbollah, and it played a central role in the violent clampdown against the reformist Green Movement in 2009.
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But the tribute on Saturday was overshadowed by criticism of the government's immigration policy and by the lingering effects of a clampdown on members of the Windrush generation last year.
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Mr. Wu's detention follows a move last month by China's insurance regulator to bar the company from offering new insurance products for three months as part of a wider clampdown.
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Modi has also revoked special autonomous status for Jammu and Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority state in India, triggering a clampdown that included bans on internet and social media use.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Aluminum maker Norsk Hydro may restart a mothballed Norwegian production line as global metals markets tighten following a Chinese clampdown on pollution, the company's chief executive told Reuters.
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Crowds have also been gathering this week in the streets of Srinagar, the biggest city in Kashmir, and elsewhere, throwing stones at security forces in protest against the continuing clampdown.
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But when Prime Minister Hun Sen recently pressured Mr. Trump to forgive the debt outright, critics saw domestic political purposes, like distracting attention from his own government's clampdown on dissent.
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Global banking group HSBC on Friday strongly denied any link between the police clampdown on Spark Alliance and the earlier closure of an HSBC bank account tied to the group.
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The clampdown goes even further in Beijing where banks must import 100 yuan for every 80 yuan they remit overseas on behalf of clients, ensuring a net inflow into the capital.
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The price of bitcoin plummeting by more than $1,000 in the space of an hour Wednesday amid a regulator clampdown and rumors that the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange had been hacked.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's government said on Thursday it was importing hundreds of microbuses and buses to alleviate a growing transport shortage in Havana due to its clampdown on private sector taxis.
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China's economy was already slowing last year before trade tensions escalated, due in part to a regulatory clampdown on riskier lending that starved smaller, private companies of financing and stifled investment.
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BRUSSELS – The United Nations&apos human rights envoy in Europe is warning that Hungary and Poland&aposs clampdown on the judiciary, media and human rights risks spreading throughout the European Union.
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"I called my daughter and son-in-law in the US to try to contact them, but they too expressed helplessness in the face of the clampdown on communication," she said.
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From July through September, authorities detained or questioned about 300 hundred human rights lawyers and activists, rights groups have said, in the government's most severe clampdown on dissent in two decades.
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French exports to Asia were boosted by a near 23 percent rise in wine and spirits sales to China, where the market had been subdued by the clampdown on extravagant spending.
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The Oikya Front has hinted that it may call for street protests if there is no accommodation, yet it is clearly also hesitant to provoke a clampdown or declare a boycott.
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The new residential investment clampdown will bring New Zealand in line with similar hot housing markets around the world, causing home prices in cities such as Vancouver and Sydney to skyrocket.
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Trump is calling for across-the-board tax cuts that he said will spur aggressive growth, along with plans to renegotiate trade agreements and institute a sharp clampdown on illegal immigration.
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A regulatory clampdown on bank lending to big companies, for example, is a way not just to clean up shadowy financial practices but to influence how private firms spend their cash.
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The consumer rebound backs the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) prediction of a V-shaped recovery from the cash clampdown, whereas many in the private sector had expected a longer slump.
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In China, where economic growth is slowing and a government clampdown on extravagant spending has hurt demand for premium spirits, sales fell 2 percent in the first half ended Dec. 31.
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Under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's new Automatic Exchange of Information program, more than 100 countries are beginning to exchange financial information amid a global clampdown on tax evasion.
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In 2016, protests by Anglophone lawyers and teachers against the marginalization of minority English speakers in their professions led to a heavy-handed clampdown, in which unarmed civilians were shot dead.
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GVC's 3.9 billion pound bid for Ladbrokes Coral Group is trying to do something similar, by using financial engineering to hedge the risk of a government clampdown on its target's business.
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Like BoCom and AgBank, CCB saw a sharp almost 30 percent growth in residential mortgage lending last year to 3.59 trillion yuan, despite Beijing's continued clampdown on an overheated property market.
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In a clampdown in the region over the past 13 days, authorities have cut internet and phone links, set up numerous roadblocks and detained more than 500 local leaders and activists.
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American tech companies fear that a federal clampdown on Chinese tech firms over national security concerns could prompt retaliation from China — and leave Silicon Valley's business interests caught in the middle.
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The company, which was looking to take advantage of the industry boom, slashed its IPO by two-thirds last week from its initial estimate of raising $500 million following the clampdown.
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Presidential spokesman Eugenio Chicas insisted the clampdown was not disproportionate to the size of the problem, adding it was one of a range of measures being used to tackle the gangs.
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China's economic growth slowed to 6.6 percent in 2018, weighed down by rising borrowing costs and a clampdown on riskier lending that starved smaller, private companies of capital and stifled investment.
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Investors in China, in other words, have been bearish copper for several years, a stance that has only been abetted by Beijing's recent clampdown on short-selling the local stock markets.
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Before trade tensions sharply escalated last year, China's economy was already slowing, in part due to a clampdown on riskier lending that starved smaller, private companies of financing and stifled investment.
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VW made a radical strategy shift towards building electric vehicles after regulators in the United States caught it deliberately cheating clean air tests, leading to a global clampdown on vehicle emissions.
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On Monday, the price of bitcoin spiked from $13,250 to more than $14,000 following news of China's clampdown, suggesting the market has acclimatized to Beijing's attempts to undermine the cryptocurrency industry.
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ROME, March 9 (Reuters) - Movement across Italy will be sharply restricted in a dramatic new clampdown aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday.
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News media reports had linked Chinese businesses to a possible takeover of Stellar, but that talk has cooled after the Chinese government began a clampdown on companies' holding overseas sports assets.
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The government took away Mr. Jiang's license to practice law in 2009, but he kept supporting dissidents and activists, even after July 2015, when the Chinese government initiated a wide clampdown.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday extended his recent clampdown on European travel to also include Britain, Norwegian's biggest destination for transatlantic flights, while other nations also severely limited air traffic.
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The clampdown -- which comes amid the Lunar New Year, China's busiest travel period -- reflects mounting fears that the outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus could give rise to a pandemic.
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The clampdown at the borders illustrates the lengths China is willing to go to secure the man who long served as the de facto banker to the Chinese Communist Party elite.
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Under the Trump administration, the firm was redirected to "toward helping the agency figure out how to execute the White House&aposs clampdown on illegal immigration," ProPublica and The Times reported.
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He has long been a critic of Mr. Maduro and Mr. Chávez, becoming politically active as a student leader in Caracas and leading protests against Mr. Chávez's clampdown on press freedom.
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But the clampdown also hurts free speech, denies poorer citizens access to health advice and curtails online educational opportunities, said Mishi Choudhary, legal counsel at advocacy Software Freedom Law Centre in Delhi.
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The government said the clampdown on telecommunications and media services, which began late on Sunday night and was still in effect almost 24 hours later, was needed to curb any potential violence.
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Licensing Greece's television broadcasters has been a rallying cry of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's government since it was first elected in 2015, but critics say its clampdown is hurting freedom of speech.
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Other Department of Interior Bureaus were also subject to the clampdown, the email said, with the expectation that there were to be "absolutely no posts to Twitter" until further guidance was provided.
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In the heart of Hebron, where a hard-core of settlers has lived since Israel seized the West Bank in 1967, the concern is that the army's clampdown will only be temporary.
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Either way, the clampdown by European tax authorities in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has had a major ripple effect on the luxury world far beyond these few courtroom cases.
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A clampdown risks scaring away legitimate investment, especially if it is seen as targeting entire nationalities: many Russians own London pads through offshore companies for reasons of privacy or legal tax planning.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies plunged on Friday, with bitcoin at one point sliding below $214.7,20113 and headed for its biggest weekly loss since December 22011, amid worries about a regulatory clampdown globally.
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Trump last month announced a partial rollback of that opening toward Cuba, ordering tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean island's military.
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Benguetcorp Nickel Mines's (BNMI) mine in Zambales province, north of the capital Manila, is among 10 suspended for environmental infractions in a government clampdown on damage from mining in July and August.
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China Vanke, whose share price had been boosted by a heated bidding war, slumped 6.1 percent to a four-month low on Monday, amid a regulatory clampdown on "barbaric" acquisitions by insurers.
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She says she sees little impact from China's recent clampdown on the movement of capital abroad, or from the government's efforts to stop corrupt officials from fleeing the country with their wealth.
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The clampdown in South Korea, a crucial source of global demand for cryptocurrency, came as policymakers around the world struggled to regulate an asset whose value has skyrocketed over the last year.
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But the scale of the clampdown has baffled many people here, as has the level of official alarm, from a government that has faced no challenge from large-scale protests in years.
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Nine months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi scrapped high-value banknotes in a clampdown on the "black economy", there is no clarity on how much of the banned $240 billion individuals returned.
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We expect new-contract growth in housing construction to slow in 2017 amid a government clampdown on property investment, and in infrastructure to remain high, driven by public-private partnership (PPP) investment.
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In a further sign of a widening clampdown, facilities run by France's Peugeot Citroen and Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp were searched on Thursday by local officials investigating fuel efficiency and pollution levels.
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Those events, culminating with this week's surprisingly muscular tax clampdown and his own public relations efforts, have raised Mr. Lew's profile higher than any time since he became secretary three years ago.
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A clampdown by governments on greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to climate change is fuelling a boom in the lithium market as car manufacturers start to ramp up electric vehicle production.
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Tight liquidity and an ongoing regulatory clampdown has pushed China's 10-year bonds to now yield less than its 5-year bonds, in a state of affairs known as yield curve inversion.
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But the move angered many residents of the region, which has been under a security clampdown ever since with telephone lines, internet and television networks blocked and restrictions on movement and assembly.
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The clampdown is part of a growing movement to curtail public gatherings and "flatten the curve," the popular shorthand for limiting the spread of coronavirus by dramatically cutting back on social interactions.
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A huge clampdown on the smuggling trade, of everything from illegal furs to alcohol and drugs, and the arrest of key smugglers momentarily strangled the supply of banned substances in the country.
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NUMBERS COUNT China began its copper scrap clampdown by moving "Category 7" material to the list of restricted imports in December 2017 ahead of a complete ban at the end of 2018.
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In its latest regulatory clampdown after the PNB fraud, the RBI, which has faced criticism for not being able to police the banks, this week barred banks from issuing letters of undertaking.
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But the clampdown seemed to have benefited the large real estate companies such as Country Garden and China Vanke, which have gained market share as smaller players exit the increasingly tough sector.
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CMC, which was hit by a sector-wide regulatory clampdown, said net operating income rose to 187.1 million pounds in the year ended March 31, from 160.8 million pounds a year ago.
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Boumala's arrest, though not immediately confirmed by the justice ministry, was the latest sign of a new clampdown on dissent following the detention of three other leading opposition activists in recent weeks.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Few people step outside Anchar, a neighborhood ringed by steel barricades and razor wire in Indian Kashmir, where police have imposed a weeks-long regionwide clampdown to stifle protests.
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Before the election last month, Mr. Sánchez promised not another independence vote, but a stronger clampdown on Catalan separatists after several nights of violence on the streets of Barcelona and other cities.
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The detention probably also reflected a wider clampdown in China ahead of a Communist Party congress this year, said Shawn Shieh, an expert on Chinese civil society who lives in Hong Kong.
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Under Mr. Xi, the government's clampdown has not been confined to social organizations, said John Fitzgerald, a professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, who studies civil society in China.
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Huawei: The chief executive of the Chinese technology giant cut his prediction of sales for the year to about $100 billion from $125 billion, citing the Trump administration's clampdown on the company.
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Chief Executive Brian Hartzer said the bank expects housing price growth will slow, especially in Sydney and Melbourne due to the regulatory clampdown and like other domestic banks, it has raised mortgage rates.
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Demand for Tom Ford suits and Jimmy Choo shoes held up better than some other Chinese spending as economic activity slowed following a government clampdown on bank lending to cool a debt boom.
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News that Chinese regulators are planning a tough clampdown on wealth management products to curb risks to the banking system had weighed heavily on Chinese stocks, with investors still wading through the details.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek lawmakers on Thursday scrapped regulations making universities a no-go zone for police, a move authorities say will tackle lawlessness but which critics have decried as a clampdown on democracy.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday tore into his successor Narendra Modi's clampdown on the cash economy, calling it an "organized loot and legalized plunder" of the country.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein expressed grave concern about the conduct of credible elections next year as well as a clampdown on civil rights groups and independent media.
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Online gaming, which accounts for a third of spending in some countries, is legal in just three states after a federal clampdown in 2011, while sports betting is fully legal in just one.
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The U.S. clampdown comes even though officials have offered no public evidence to suggest the company has done anything untoward or that the Russian government is using its software to launch cyber attacks.
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Oil prices jumped more than 2% in the previous session, hitting their highest level this year amid intensifying concern about global supplies after the U.S. announced a further clampdown on Iran's oil exports.
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The price of oil, one of Canada's major exports, rose to its highest since October as the United States was set to announce a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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As part of a widening clampdown on health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution levels in the wake of VW's diesel emissions test cheating, Germany's KBA Federal Motor Transport Authority tested 53 different vehicles.
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As many as 120,000 oil workers are expected to have lost their jobs by the end of this year in an industry-wide clampdown on costs as weak oil prices have reduced profits.
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After rocketing to almost $20,000 in December, bitcoin's price has fallen this year on the back of worries about a regulatory clampdown and concerns it is a speculative bubble that is now deflating.
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Resources firms continued to outrun the broader market, with steelmakers leading the advance, supported by firm demand from a construction boom and tighter supply following Beijing's clampdown on production of low-grade steel.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A fresh clampdown on radio communications during Formula One races has been branded as "unnecessary" and "strange" by the drivers in the lead up to Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
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In June, Cruddas, who had set up CMC Markets as a foreign exchange broker with a 10,000 pound investment in 1989, said the worst of the regulatory clampdown on the sector was over.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Human rights groups called for an independent investigation on Sunday, after Indonesian police shot dead 1003 men earlier this month as part of a security clampdown ahead of the Asian Games.
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While the inquiry savaged the industry's behavior and lack of ethics, there was no overhaul of regulations, no clampdown on credit and no push to break up the operations of the biggest banks.
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Analysts don't know what sparked Thursday's selloff, though the continued clampdown on cryptocurrency advertising by Google, Facebook and Twitter, together with greater scrutiny from regulators across the globe, have weighed on the markets.
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But there is little sign that Zhejiang's clampdown on the public flaunting of Christian faith, of which the crosses are seen as an example, is encouraging officials elsewhere to adopt a similar approach.
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Smaller Swiss banks, which for years benefited from clients bringing money to Switzerland to take advantage of bank secrecy rules, are struggling due to a global clampdown on tax evasion and costly regulation.
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Bukola Saraki, the head of the senate in Nigeria, was charged with illegally changing the rules to get himself elected to the post amid a clampdown on corruption by Muhammadu Buhari, the president.
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China's ongoing clampdown on cyberspace has seen WhatsApp, the messaging service run by Facebook, periodically unavailable in the past few weeks ahead of twice-a-decade Communist Party Congress that opens on Wednesday.
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And after last year's clampdown, the government has been looking at fresh curbs to limit environmental harm, with plans to cap the amount of land that miners can develop at any one time.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) explained how the British punk band The Clash, whose song "Clampdown" has served as the 2020 hopeful's walkout jam at campaign stops, influenced his politics on a recent podcast.
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LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is to ban most advertising of cryptocurrencies on its platform, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown on the nascent industry, the company said in a statement.
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BEIJING, Sept 13 (Reuters) - China produced 278 million tonnes of coal in August, down 11 percent from a year ago, as producers responded to Beijing's clampdown on overcapacity, government data showed on Tuesday.
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Benguetcorp Nickel Mines Inc's (BNMI) mine in Zambales province, north of the capital Manila, is among 10 suspended for environmental infractions in a government clampdown on damage from mining in July and August.
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The Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy has become the main crossing point for asylum seekers and economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe, after a clampdown on sea crossings from Turkey.
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Automakers have been hit by a regulatory clampdown on diesel emissions ever since Volkswagen admitted to systematic cheating in 2015, leading regulators to discover massive discrepancies between real-world and theoretical pollution levels.
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The company has paid out more than 27 billion euros ($31 billion) in penalties for using illegal software to disguise excessive levels of pollution from its diesel cars, triggering a global regulatory clampdown.
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In a round of television interviews, Pence defended the Trump administration's strategy to stop the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 respiratory illness, including a clampdown on travelers coming into the country.
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Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former deputy national security to Mr. Obama who helped broker the opening first announced in 2014, called the clampdown a politically motivated move that would ultimately be self-defeating.
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But critics say the Peruvian government's resulting clampdown on Odebrecht's assets only deprived construction projects of funding while threatening to punish any other company that joined it in admitting complicity in graft schemes.
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As part of their protest against the recent police clampdown in Catalonia, orchestrated from Madrid, separatists are reviving memories of Spain's dark and recent past under Franco, who notably banned the Catalan language.
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Pakistan's leader, lamenting what he said was the world's indifference to civilian suffering in Kashmir, on Wednesday condemned India's military clampdown there and said he would appeal to the United Nations for help.
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The government formally took office on Tuesday, promising a fresh approach to migration following the hardline clampdown on rescue ships introduced by former interior minister Matteo Salvini, who heads the far-right League.
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CSI300 started skidding in April on worries that the economy was losing steam and in response to a regulatory clampdown on riskier types of lending which has prompted some companies to hoard cash.
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Internet and text messaging services were suspended by government order in parts of Delhi on Thursday, mobile carriers said, widening a communications clampdown in restive areas stretching from disputed Kashmir to the northeast.
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The apparent clampdown stands in contrast to other whistle-blowers who have communicated with media outlets while serving prison sentences, such as former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling.
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Since the Chinese stock market tumbled more than 40 percent in summer last year, brokerages have faced a clampdown on margin financing, a temporary suspension of listings and regulator probes for allegedly illegal activities.
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But while the clampdown is expected to continue, most analysts believe the moves will be cautious to avoid hitting economic growth, and some sceptics believe authorities will continue to put off more painful reforms.
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The most high-profile government clampdown has been the arrest and indictment of Wu Xiaohui, the chairman of Anbang, who was once a high-flying businessman on par with the likes of Stephen Schwarzman.
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Last Sunday's vote was marred by delays in issuing biometric identity cards that prevented hundreds of voters from casting their ballots, part of what opposition leaders said was an intensifying clampdown on political opposition.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is firing dozens of foreign-funded health experts working inside the government, seen as part of a broader clampdown to reduce the influence of non-government organizations (NGOs) on policy.
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The S&P energy index jumped 20.3%, the most among the major S&P sectors, as oil prices surged on the United States' move to further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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The price of oil, one of Canada's major exports, rose to its highest since October on growing concern about tight global supplies after the United States announced a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports.
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This U.S. clampdown and the push by the OECD to bring in global rules on exchanging tax data between countries means that Switzerland handing over information to Europe and the United States is unavoidable.
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Bankers say the clampdown has backfired because as it became riskier to deal on the black market, the dollar strengthened against the pound and people began hoarding foreign currency to speculate on the rate.
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The clampdown on over-eager teachers and out-of-school instructors fails to tackle the root cause of pupils' stress, notes Zeng Xiaodong of 21st Century Education Research Institute, a Beijing-based think-tank.
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Federal regulators are proposing a significant clampdown on payday lenders and other providers of high-interest loans, saying borrowers need to be protected from practices that wind up turning into "debt traps" for many.
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Potential international participants worried they would not be able to freely exchange the yuan because of a Chinese clampdown on capital outflows, and were concerned at Beijing's heavy handed intervention in its commodity markets.
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However, the yuan has seen a sharp rebound so far this year, thanks to a reversal in the dollar and a further widening of Beijing's forex controls, including a clampdown on some outbound investment.
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Investors have feared a clampdown since March, when the administration concluded that China's unfair actions against American companies merited retaliatory restrictions on Chinese investments in "industries or technologies deemed important to the United States".
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According to Rhodium Group, a research firm, this was part of the reason Chinese investment in America fell by 35% from 20093 to 2017 (a Chinese clampdown on outbound capital was the main factor).
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It joined a global clampdown that has led to dozens of traders being fired and several big banks fined around $10 billion in total for rigging the level of Libor and other forex benchmarks.
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Airbnb is celebrating a partial win over a housing law change in Berlin that last year led to a total clampdown on the short term renting of entire homes to visitors to the city.
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This is a notoriously opaque part of the copper supply picture but there is no reason to assume that local copper miners haven't been facing the same environmental clampdown as other industrial metal producers.
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IG Group unveiled a plan in May to battle the hit from the regulatory clampdown and drive growth while warning that full-year results would be impacted by low levels of financial market volatility.
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As part of a widening clampdown on health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, Porsche, Volkswagen, Opel, Audi and Mercedes diesel cars will be recalled to fix engine management systems, a German government official said.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the biggest fuel price hike in January, a 13% increase, which sparked deadly protests by financially struggling Zimbaweans that left more than a dozen people dead after an army clampdown.
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In his post, Zuckerberg makes mention of international censorship and, in theory, a decentralized service could circumvent such measures — such China's blocking of Facebook and Twitter, or Iran's recent clampdown on Instagram and Telegram.
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The S&P energy index jumped 2.2%, the most among the major S&P sectors, as oil prices surged on the United States' move to further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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Turkey's economy and government too are under strain given the war in neighboring Syria, the resultant refugee crisis, internal conflict with Kurdish separatists, a clampdown on local media and a diplomatic showdown with Russia.
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Smaller companies, in particular, are having a tough time securing loans and are grappling with rising borrowing and operating costs, fuelled in part by a lengthy official clampdown on riskier lending like shadow banking.
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Despite the clampdown on civil liberties, Sisi has throngs of supporters who argue that many of his stern measures have been necessary to bring order to Egypt after the chaos of the 2011 uprising.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A trove of leaked Chinese government documents reveals details of its clampdown on Uighurs and other Muslims in the country's western Xinjiang region under President Xi Jinping, the New York Times reported.
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Among those trying to make the case that the prescription opioid clampdown is claiming lives — not saving them — is Joel Bomgar, a state representative from Mississippi and vice chairman of his Legislature's Medicaid committee.
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The S&P energy index jumped 1.9%, the most among the major S&P sectors, as oil prices surged on the United States' move to further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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The new "B20" guidelines propose stricter checks on uninsured mortgages, and a clampdown on regulated lenders teaming up with unregulated private lenders to circumvent rules limiting how much they can lend against a property.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan security services arrested on Thursday a retired general and former security minister who intends to challenge veteran leader Yoweri Museveni for the presidency next year, escalating a clampdown on political opponents.
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Pemex will receive $1.8 billion in pension liability monetization as part of the new plan and finances will be helped by a corruption clampdown, officials said in a presentation that was short on details.
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The explosion came just hours after the government arrested a dozen members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the latest phase of its clampdown on those involved in July's failed coup.
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SHANGHAI — Huawei, the embattled Chinese technology giant, is slashing its sales expectations for this year by around $25 billion as the Trump administration's clampdown on the firm takes a bite out of its business.
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Work to shore up supplies began decades ago with a clampdown on littering and a cleanup of rivers and canals, in a nation that once joked the blind could "see" rivers by their smell.
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Smaller companies, in particular, are having a tough time securing loans and are grappling with rising borrowing and operating costs, fueled in part by a lengthy official clampdown on riskier lending like shadow banking.
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The move comes after China's insurance regulator barred Anbang from offering new insurance products for three months as part of a clampdown on speculative wealth management products, of which Anbang is a major issuer.
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The de facto clampdown on a free press is a matter of concern to anyone who cares about the ability of the people to speak up against the tightening hold of an authoritarian government.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's populist government on Monday escalated its clampdown on irregular immigration with a decree aimed at slashing the number of people awarded asylum and doubling the time irregular migrants can be detained.
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The increase in citing of "relatively tight" appears to reflect intensifying worries about a liquidity squeeze as a vigorous regulatory clampdown on riskier forms of financing has kept liquidity conditions unusually tight this year.
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Their grievances are old and bone-deep, reawakened by political movements, both in Catalonia and in Madrid, magnified by partisan news media on both sides, and accelerated by the Spanish government's blunt, reflexive clampdown.
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Despite the clampdown on civil liberties, Sisi has throngs of genuine supporters who argue that many of his stern measures have been necessary to bring order to Egypt after the chaos of the uprising.
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Chinese companies have completed only US$1.6bn of M&A loans so far this year, but this is expected to accelerate as companies try to get around the government clampdown on outbound M&A.
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But the rise of the nationalist Sweden Democrats, who propose ending all job-creation subsidies for foreigners, has spooked other major parties into drafting immigrant labor clampdown measures of their own before the Sept.
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Amid the military clampdown, a humanitarian effort to provide food and medicines to more than 150,000 people has been suspended for more than 40 days in the area, which is populated mostly by Rohingyas.
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Since then, an improvement in high frequency indicators such as sales of two-wheel vehicles, oil consumption, cargo traffic and rail freight raised hopes that the impact of the cash clampdown had bottomed out.
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Still, while the U.S. clampdown will probably trigger recession in Iran next year, economic meltdown should be avoided, with a reduced but still significant volume of oil exports continuing, a Fitch solutions analyst said.
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CMC, which has been hit by a sector-wide regulatory clampdown, said a rise in the proportion of high-value clients had led to improved revenue per client in the final quarter of the year.
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The clampdown was intended to prevent security problems, such as rioting, as the government announced on Monday that it would move to end Jammu and Kashmir state's right to set some of its own laws.
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But despite a clampdown on immigration, Honduran migrants are increasingly looking to settle in Mexico, rather than continue on to the US. Last year, 4,272 Hondurans requested asylum in Mexico, up from 1,560 in 2015.
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Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent the previous day to a near six-month high, on growing concern about tight global supplies after the United States announced a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports.
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The lawsuit accuses half a dozen NGOs of illegally receiving foreign funding and harming national security, and is part of what some have described as the worst clampdown on civil liberties in Egypt's recent history.
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That includes a clampdown on activities by human rights lawyers and a proposal for a law to tightly control the operations of foreign nongovernmental organizations operating in China and the Chinese partners of those groups.
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The clampdown comes at a time when the solar industry globally is increasingly able to compete toe-to-toe on price with more conventional sources of power generation, such as coal, natural gas and nuclear.
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The S&P energy index jumped 2.1% in its biggest one-day percentage gain since January, as oil prices surged on the United States' move to further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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ISIS' attacks inside Turkey also resulted in a Turkish clampdown on the flow of many thousands of ISIS "foreign fighters," almost all of whom transited Turkey on the way to join the group in Syria.
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Pakistan arrested dozens of militants in a clampdown after the Jaish-e-Muhammad group claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack in which 40 Indian paramilitary policemen were killed, causing a military face-off with India.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin rallied from three-month lows below $26,276 in choppy trading on Tuesday, but worries lingered about a global regulatory clampdown and moves by banks to ban buying bitcoin with credit cards.
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But for many voters, relations with the North are not the main issue as they choose a successor to President Park Geun-hye, whose impeachment left voters clamoring for transparency and a clampdown on corruption.
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Mnangagwa, the 75-year-old former Mugabe ally, has urged Zimbabweans to unite behind him but questions linger over the death of six people in an army clampdown on protests against the ruling party's victory.
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WORLD'S GROWTH ENGINE SLOWING China's economy was already slowing last year before trade tensions escalated, due in part to a regulatory clampdown on riskier lending that starved smaller, private companies of financing and stifled investment.
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In the lead up to the massacre, the junta issued increasingly bellicose statements against protesters, and after a sudden clampdown on media, protest leaders warned that large-scale violence against the sit-in was imminent.
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The clampdown on media access planned by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party is among a raft of measures its critics say have eroded the independence of the media and the judiciary.
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Chinese regulators have issued a flurry of warnings in recent months over an apparent resurgence in riskier types of financial activity, as policymakers shift their focus from a debt clampdown to boosting the slowing economy.
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A bounceback in U.S. internet-related stocks helped the equity rally following a sell-off in those names Monday that was tied to worries about a clampdown on the world's internet and social media giants.
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The arrest comes as the Kashmir region remains under a clampdown by the Indian army and police, including the blacking out of phone and internet connections, in lockstep with the Indian government's announcement on Aug.
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Curbs on lending to foreigners, foreign buyer taxes and a clampdown on capital flows by Beijing have hurt bubbling demand from Chinese investors, who have been important contributors to the housing boom of recent years.
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But economists have expected the pace to slow slightly in the second half due to higher financing costs, a regulatory clampdown on riskier lending and some signs of moderation in the red-hot housing market.
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Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets over the past months to protest a clampdown on the opposition, shortages of food and medicine and President Nicolas Maduro's plan to overhaul the constitution.
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However, the media companies will be hoping that Congress will look favorably on a temporary exemption, particularly giving the recent clampdown on the technology industry which saw Google slapped with a $2.7 billion antitrust fine.
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Despite the government's clampdown on internet connectivity and censorship of what could be officially reported, Iranians who saw or participated in the protests found workarounds to transmit video and text of what they had witnessed.
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On Friday he published an article on the Peterson Institute's website that said the clampdown "should be temporary," but given the latest news reports, Chorzempa told CNBC Tuesday that he would "potentially revise" his expectations.
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Erdogan, accused by critics of crushing democratic freedoms with tens of thousands of arrests and a clampdown on media since a failed coup last July, has in the past spoken of raising a "pious generation".
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China banned "N" as part of a widespread censorship clampdown that occurred after word got out Sunday that presidential term limits might be dropped, allowing Chinese President Xi Jinping possibly to stay in power indefinitely.
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Other major European leagues and several top clubs contacted on Monday by Reuters asking if they had concerns over political interference or a clampdown on free speech for players in China also declined to comment.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia detained three North Korean vessels and more than 200 crew on Friday in the second such incident in two weeks as part of a clampdown on poaching by the secretive nation's fishermen.
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Googlers have been protesting about various issues at the company, including what they say is its lenient treatment of those accused of sexual harassment, its business with the Pentagon, and its clampdown on internal activism.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia detained three North Korean vessels and more than 200 crew on Friday in the second such incident in two weeks as part of a clampdown on poaching by the secretive nation's fishermen.
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Federal regulators Thursday announced a sweeping clampdown on a cottage industry of companies that extend short-term, high-interest loans to borrowers with nowhere else to turn for the next monthly rent check or car payment.
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China's economic growth slowed to 6.6 percent in 2018, the weakest in 14.53 years, weighed down by rising borrowing costs and a clampdown on riskier lending that starved smaller, private companies of capital and stifled investment.
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Beijing's clampdown on the so-called special administrative region in recent years have included expelling democratically-elected lawmakers from the Legislative Council, refusing others to stand for election, and heavy-handed prosecutions of pro-democracy activists.
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The U.S. has always been open to immigration — sometimes more and sometimes less — and historical rhetoric from Trump advisor Steve Bannon and others suggests the country might be headed for a clampdown on immigration, said Mossberg.
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Post-election opinion polls have shown support for Forza Italia collapse further in favor of the League, which has promised a fierce clampdown on illegal immigration and a hefty reduction in both business and personal taxes.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's diesel margin is expected to fall in coming weeks as it faces a slowdown in import demand from China ahead of a tax clampdown and from Australia after a cyclone hit mining activity.
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International buyers are raising around US$210.8bn of syndicated loans to buy commercial real estate, mainly office buildings, after China's credit tightening and clampdown on property speculation forced some domestic developers to deleverage and sell assets.
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"This arrest marks the start of a sinister new chapter in the Zimbabwean government&aposs clampdown on freedom of speech, and the new battleground is social media," said Amnesty International&aposs deputy regional director, Muleya Mwananyanda.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators who back a clampdown on ZTE Corp urged fellow lawmakers on Tuesday not to give in to White House pressure to support an agreement lifting a ban on the Chinese telecommunications company.
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Many critics say that those efforts came too late and that in recent years the group was able to build up networks in Turkey that are now targeting the country as retaliation for the recent clampdown.
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A slide in the yuan and China's foreign exchange reserves in 2016 prompted regulators to restrict capital outflows, including a clampdown on "irrational" outbound investments in sectors such as property, hotels, entertainment, sports clubs and films.
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Bitcoin has fallen heavily in recent sessions as a risk-off mood across markets, worries about a regulatory clampdown, and moves by banks to ban buying bitcoin on credit cards have rattled investors, pushing prices lower.
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Smaller Swiss private banks, which for years benefited from clients bringing money to Switzerland to take advantage of the country's bank secrecy rules, are struggling under a global clampdown on tax evasion and increasing regulatory costs.
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That is something of a surprise, given the clampdown on the metallic collateral trade by the Chinese authorities in the wake of the Qingdao port scandal, which was centered on allegations of multiple pledging of metal.
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The plan comes as China enters its sixth year of an aggressive clampdown on pollution in a bid to cut smog that envelops many cities during the winter months, when homes and businesses crank up heating.
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China's clampdown on aggressive overseas deals has also seen the likes of Dalian Wanda Group offloading billions of dollars worth of assets last year, while Anbang Insurance Group was taken over by the government this year.
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The EU official in charge of relations with Ankara said earlier this month that Turkey's quest to join the bloc would probably fail unless it reversed its clampdown on civil rights, press freedoms and the judiciary.
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China's economic growth slowed to 6.6 percent in 2018, the weakest in 28 years, weighed down by rising borrowing costs and a clampdown on riskier lending that starved smaller, private companies of capital and stifled investment.
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However, China's multi-year clampdown on debt and pollution has seen fixed-asset investment growth — a key gauge of future activity — fall to record lows this year, a trend that policymakers are now scrambling to reverse.
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Diamond mining accounts for a quarter of Botswana's economy and it is being hurt by a sharp downturn in demand almost everywhere—particularly in China, where a clampdown on corruption has curbed public displays of wealth.
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Others oppose a clampdown on immigration and asylum overseen by Faymann, but the head of the People's Party (OVP), Reinhold Mitterlehner, has said that stance must be maintained or it will pull out of the coalition.
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Smaller Swiss private banks, which for years benefited from clients bringing money into Switzerland to take advantage of the country's bank secrecy rules, are struggling under a global clampdown on tax evasion and increasing regulatory costs.
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Around the same time as the clampdown, 1,175 kg of the drug—more than 1 million grams worth—meant for export to the UK, Australia, and the US was seized at a chemical plant in Maharashtra.
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Bank lending may have risen to 1.2 trillion yuan ($190.56 billion) in March, after slumping in February, probably hit by a regulatory clampdown on riskier financial activity that has fueled a rapid build-up in debt.
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It also comes after a heavy-handed clampdown on the international lira market designed to prevent big lira swings before last weekend's local elections that saw President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party lose both Istanbul and Ankara.
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Sinosphere The ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng, in central China, was experiencing a cultural and religious revival until a recent government clampdown, which has brought a ban on collective worship and forced out foreign Jewish groups.
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It did not say why that estimate had been changed, but in January Austria announced a clampdown on immigration that included capping asylum claims for 22016 at less than half last year's total of roughly 22018,000.
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The unprecedented clampdown is prompting criticism from an increasing number of Indian media organizations and senior editors, though some also support the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi - saying the curbs were important for national security.
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But while fine watch brands have been buffeted in recent years by currency fluctuations and the gift-giving clampdown in the all-important Chinese market, the fortunes of the jewelry market appear more buoyant than ever.
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This push to close down some of the spammier types of content follows a clampdown on sites with crappy web experiences — for example those caked in advertising — and moves to weed out clickbait in multiple languages.
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Most market watchers believe authorities will maintain their clampdown on illegal financing to the property sector, but their views diverged on whether regulators will ease restrictions on cash-starved developers' access to other sources of funding.
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With the sanctions clampdown, Trump is seeking to push Iran to end uranium enrichment outright, and halt its ballistic missile development and support for proxy forces in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.
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In recent years we have seen a clampdown on First Amendment-protected activities on college campuses across that nation, signaling a dangerous closing of the American mind that only contributes to a more difficult national dialogue.
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The Chinese technology giant has slashed sales expectations for this year by around $25 billion as the Trump administration's clampdown on the company takes a bite out of its business, Raymond Zhong of the NYT reports.
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But critics fear that any softening toward China could have much broader ramifications, putting pressure on Australia, for instance, to roll back its clampdown on foreign interference or to keep silent on Chinese human rights abuses.
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But he confirmed that China, the North's largest trading partner, had eased a clampdown on cross-border trade in recent weeks — a reversal he attributed partly to the trade tensions between China and the United States.
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She has not been heard from since, and her family and close friends are sure she was secretly detained as part of a severe clampdown on Uighurs, the largely Muslim group who call Xinjiang their homeland.
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The transcript of a speech by President Xi Jinping instructed officials to show "no mercy" in what the government portrays as a necessary clampdown on Islamist militancy following a string of violent attacks earlier this decade.
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Its investigation came during a global clampdown that has led to dozens of traders being fired and several big banks fined around $10 billion in total for rigging the level of Libor and other forex benchmarks.
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Its investigation came during a global clampdown that has led to dozens of traders being fired and several big banks fined around $10 billion in total for rigging the level of Libor and other forex benchmarks.
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As many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others have been sent to internment camps and prisons in Xinjiang over the past three years, an indiscriminate clampdown aimed at weakening the population's devotion to Islam.
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If the Trump administration prevails, more than 222 of these men may soon be deported, like the tens of thousands of other people rounded up this year as part of a national clampdown on illegal immigration.
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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's Congress approved a sweeping amnesty law during a Saturday session that will offer protection to police and others who took part in a violent clampdown on anti-government protesters over the past year.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley took the lead over the weekend in corporate resistance to President Donald Trump's clampdown on immigration, financing legal opposition, criticizing the plan, as well as helping employees ensnared by his executive order.
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Washington career civil servants say the clampdown appears designed to try to limit the flow of information inside and outside government and deter officials from talking to the media about topics that could result in negative stories.
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Swiss prosecutors allege the three passed documents to German courts and authorities, several Swiss and German media reported, in the latest twist to a row pitting Switzerland's long-defended bank secrecy laws against a German tax clampdown.
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Thousands of Egyptians fleeing Gamal Abdel Nasser's clampdown in the 1950s and 20143s brought Brotherhood ideas to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, which welcomed them at the time as a counter-balance to Nasser's revolutionary nationalism.
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Daimler now faces scrutiny from regulators and prosecutors about diesel pollution as part of a broader clampdown on toxic fumes which has seen customers shun diesel cars, leaving German workers worried about jobs tied to engine assembly.
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"This arrest marks the start of a sinister new chapter in the Zimbabwean government's clampdown on freedom of speech - and the new battleground is social media," Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director Muleya Mwananyanda said in a statement.
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A clampdown at the time prevented calls issued on social media for mass gatherings in the capital Riyadh, although some small protests by minority Shi'ite Muslims were dispersed by security forces with gunshots fired in the air.
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There has been no word on the clampdown from the federal government in New Delhi, which rules the troubled state since last year after Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) withdrew from a coalition with a local party.
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But the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency has since fallen dramatically and on Monday was down by 11 percent to $7255 at 1719 GMT on Bitstamp, extending losses from Friday amid worries of a global regulatory clampdown.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent on Monday to a near six-month high, on growing concern about tight global supplies after the United States announced a further clampdown on Iranian oil exports.
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China's blue-chip CSI300 index gained 1.3 percent after Friday's 4.0 percent fall, which was triggered after CITIC Securities issued a rare "sell" rating on a major insurer and by a clampdown on grey-market, margin financing.
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The pressure from the ratings agencies has caused discomfort among government allies, and Lopez Obrador has said they were not taking into account huge savings he estimates will flow into public coffers thanks to a corruption clampdown.
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Zurich prosecutors allege the individuals passed documents to German courts and authorities, several Swiss and German media reported, in the latest twist to a row pitting Switzerland's long-defended bank secrecy laws against a German tax clampdown.
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McSally has tried to embrace the president, whom she now calls a "friend," and attacked Ward in political ads, saying she doesn't support Trump's clampdown on illegal immigration, and pointing out she used to be a Democrat.
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LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A British clampdown on retail trading platforms prompted warnings among industry players and investors on Tuesday that some smaller firms may not be able to sustain their business under the new stricter rules.
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The eight explosions, some of which officials said were suicide bomb attacks, led to an immediate clampdown, with the government declaring a curfew and blocking access to major social media and messaging sites, including Facebook and WhatsApp.
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A regulatory clampdown on toxic emissions has, however, revealed several carmakers often exceed pollution limits because they make use of a so-called "thermal window" to legally throttle back emissions filtering systems to protect engines from condensation.
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Volkswagen has paid out more than 27 billion euros ($31 billion) in penalties for using illegal software to disguise excessive levels of pollution from its diesel cars, triggering a global regulatory clampdown that has now reached Bosch.
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LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges said on Tuesday it did not fear a regulatory clampdown would squeeze the market, and instead was targeting millions of new customers in Europe with a fresh expansion.
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In June the German parliament voted in June to declare the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide, and Berlin has criticized a security clampdown by Turkish authorities since a failed coup in mid-July.
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Plus2500, whose shares have been pummelled in recent months by a collapse in revenue due to lower market volatility and a European clampdown on highly leveraged betting, said it was on track to meet expectations for 22019.
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Government officials have grown increasingly alarmed in recent years at rising debt levels, and analysts and investors said the clampdown on short-term interbank borrowing raises questions about the future of small banks like Bank of Jilin.
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Hundreds of thousands of mainly Syrian refugees crossed the short but precarious sea corridor to Greece from Turkey last year in small inflatable boats, but that route was effectively sealed after an EU-Turkey clampdown in March.
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But intelligence and Defense Department officials said American sanctions have been working better than originally expected, proving far more crippling to the Iranian economy — especially after a clampdown on all oil exports that was announced last month.
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Meeting his French counterpart in southern France last week, who criticized the clampdown on protests, Putin rebuked President Emmanuel Macron, saying he did not want the same "yellow vest" protests that have plagued France for many months.
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A few days before he won the primary, Mr. Krasner appeared onstage at a campaign event in a sober shirt and necktie and performed a cover of the Clash's "Clampdown" with Sheer Mag, a local punk band.
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The Japanese car maker is the latest manufacturer to be investigated on suspicion of hiding illegal levels of pollution following a regulatory clampdown on toxic fumes triggered by Volkswagen's 2015 admission that it had cheated emissions tests.
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The withdrawal from the Incirlik base, approved by the German parliament last month, marks a further step in one of many bilateral disputes, ranging from a post-coup clampdown by Ankara to Turkish political campaigning in Germany.
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Global human rights watchdogs have noted concerns in recent years over what they see as a growing clampdown on civil society in Pakistan, along with the increased use of sedition and anti-state charges to quell dissent.
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Observers say the law is part of a clampdown on free expression and an effort to create a powerful enemy — in this case, Mr. Soros, a financier who embodies, for Mr. Orban, the influence of global capitalism.
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The Japanese car maker is the latest manufacturer to be investigated on suspicion of hiding illegal levels of pollution following a regulatory clampdown on toxic fumes triggered by Volkswagen's 2015 admission that it had cheated emissions tests.
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The ChiNext's drop to 2015 lows "really is an indication of how seriously investors view the current financial clampdown and how vulnerable many of the firms listed on the ChiNext are to a deleveraging campaign," he said.
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European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's comments come three days after senior U.S. Treasury official Robert Stack met her team in the latest lobbying effort against her clampdown on tax deals involving U.S. as well as EU companies.
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The Chinese media attack on U.S. agriculture comes as President Donald Trump is expected Thursday to announce up to $60 billion in annual new tariffs against Chinese goods as part of clampdown on Beijing's intellectual property theft.
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China launched a clampdown on capital outflows and overseas direct investment last year, and Wanda, a property-to-entertainment giant run by one of China's richest men, Wang Jianlin, has been one of the companies most affected.
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The Times A Chinese consortium has gate-crashed the auction of gas pipelines that supply nearly 11 million homes and businesses - posing the first big test of Theresa May's clampdown on foreign ownership of key national infrastructure. bit.
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Thousands of demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and even independence from China in the face of what many see as a marked clampdown by the Communist Party on local freedoms.
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Wanda has become a target in China's clampdown on capital outflows, and sources say Chinese banks have been told to stop providing funding for several of its overseas acquisitions in order to curb its appetite for offshore deals.
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Restrictions on opposition activity The lead-up to Thursday's event in Kampala was met with strong government restrictions, including the detention of the opposition candidate, a heavy police presence and a clampdown on social media such as Facebook.
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Bitcoin mining "consumes a large amount of electricity and also encourages a spirit of speculation in 'virtual currencies', " according to the document seen by the FT. The clampdown by Beijing has meant changes to the Chinese cryptocurrency market.
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German car manufacturers will recall 630,000 Porsche,Volkswagen Opel, Audi and Mercedes vehicles to fix diesel emissions management software, a German government official said on Friday, widening a clampdown on pollution in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal.
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Third, if one of the policy objectives of mega-events like the Olympics is to distribute economic benefits across the host country, then a clampdown on small businesses attempting to tap into the Olympic feelgood factor is questionable.
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Beijing's clampdown on highly-leveraged foreign investment has led to more regulatory scrutiny around the world, putting the brakes on a remarkable period of growth that saw HNA announce $2000415 billion of acquisitions in just over two years.
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France, which has championed the security clampdown, has called for strict limits on the use of prepaid payment cards which, according to French investigators, were used to fund the Paris attacks claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
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Loan data will also be closely watched for signs of whether the economy continued to build up more debt, amid signs that banks have shifted more credit back onto their books in response to the shadow financing clampdown.
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U.S. crude broke above $56 a barrel for the first time in more than two years as Mohammed bin Salman's clampdown on graft led to arrests of royals, ministers and investors including prominent billionaire investor Alwaleed bin Talal.
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The clampdown at Peking University also comes ahead of several politically sensitive anniversaries next year, including the May 4 student protests in 1919 and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which students from the university played prominent roles.
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And far from arguing for an immigration clampdown, the then mayor of London would regularly boast of the benefits of EU immigration to the capital and even called for an amnesty for illegal immigrants living in the country.
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Petry's party, known by its German acronym AfD, has called for a clampdown on the number of asylum-seekers allowed into the country, a sentiment shared among a growing number of supporters in Merkel's own center-right bloc.
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Chinese assets were the exception however, with stocks tumbling more than 217 percent for their worst day this year on signs Beijing is willing to tolerate market volatility amid a regulatory clampdown on shadow banking and speculative trading.
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Another potential hurdle is the possibility the administration may cut back on the number of visas for temporary agriculture workers, which Politico reported Monday could be part of a broader immigration clampdown ahead of the fall midterm elections.
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The Wall Street Journal, for instance, has become increasingly critical of the economic clampdown: "... no society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its overall economic health," the Journal wrote in an editorial last week.
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The executive order -- which marks just the latest clampdown on domestic travel amid the novel coronavirus pandemic -- applies only to those who arrive in Texas by plane and will be enforced by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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The bigger picture Rochelle Toplensky, FT: The commission's recovery order could rekindle trans-Atlantic tensions over Europe's tax clampdown, just as Washington considers White House tax reforms that pave the way for US multinationals to repatriate foreign profits.
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But its heavy-handed measures are testing the patience of its citizens, many of whom think such a clampdown could have been avoided if officials had not first hid the scale of the outbreak and silenced whistle-blowers.
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Tobacco stocks BAT and Imperial Brands enjoyed a slight recovery, rising 1.6 and 1.4 percent respectively after sharp losses the two previous sessions as investors digested a U.S. regulatory clampdown on the amount of nicotine in cigarette products.
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As pollution spiked in the city in October and November, the government adopted measures ranging from a temporary ban on construction activities and garbage burning to a clampdown on polluting industrial plants, such as coal-fired power stations.
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When black market money reaching American shores from the European Union led to concerns for American financial stability, the United States started a clampdown on tax evasion in Switzerland, leading to reciprocity and the coordination of information exchange.
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SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India said on Saturday it would partially restore mobile phone services in Kashmir on Monday, more than two months after it imposed a communications clampdown in the Himalayan region before stripping it of its special status.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Internet and text messaging services were suspended by government order in parts of India's capital Delhi on Thursday, mobile carriers said, widening a communications clampdown in restive areas stretching from disputed Kashmir to the northeast.
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The decision was welcomed by President Trump's base of supporters, which has extolled his demands for stricter American immigration rules and a clampdown on refugees, as well as his promises to build a wall along the Mexico border.
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Trump seeks to push his plan for fair trade and more manufacturing jobs back to the top of his agenda by ordering a study into the causes of U.S. trade deficits and a clampdown on import duty evasion.
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Excitement over investment in Cuba for instance has gone tepid after Trump ordered a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean island's military, saying he was cancelling his predecessor Barack Obama's "terrible and misguided deal" with Havana.
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Hahn's home country has meanwhile led calls for a formal end to suspended EU accession talks with Turkey - which were also due to be spurred by the migrant deal - over a security clampdown following a failed coup last year.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Bahrain appeals court on Tuesday upheld a five-year prison sentence for human rights activist Nabeel Rajab amid the island kingdom&aposs clampdown on all dissent, a verdict that has been widely criticized internationally.
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Non-performing loans jumped sharply for smaller banks in the second quarter and corporate bond defaults are on the rise, even as Beijing tries to maintain a broader clampdown on riskier lending and prevent another explosive jump in debt.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Finance Ministry said on Thursday it blocked the bank accounts of 26 people for their alleged involvement in human trafficking, as Mexico broadens its migration clampdown under intense pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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"In November, the Indian government's clampdown on the parallel economy ... pushed gold buying to around 10 percent of normal trade levels during a seasonally strong period for demand, after an initial flurry," Standard Chartered analysts said in a note.
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The number of for-profit schools eligible to award federal student aid — the lifeblood of the industry — plummeted by 9.3 percent in 2016, amid a wave of closures prompted by lawsuits and a regulatory clampdown by the Obama administration.
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Senior Trump administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the sanctions as the latest examples of a broad economic clampdown on Iran's economy that would help dry up funds for the IRGC, a key part of its military.
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The Commission launched the investigation in April 2015, joining a global clampdown that has led to dozens of traders fired and big banks fined around $10 billion in total for rigging the level of Libor and other forex benchmarks.
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The clampdown comes amid an ongoing tightening of control over various aspects of Chinese society since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, a period that has seen increasing censorship and shrinking space for protests, including on campuses.
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Tens of thousands took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak over his alleged involvement in a grand corruption case, resulting in a fresh clampdown on anti-government critics.
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Real estate has been one of the few bright spots in China's investment landscape, partly due to robust sales in smaller cities where a government clampdown on speculation has not been as aggressive as it has in larger cities.
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Rumors of a renewed clampdown in the predominantly Muslim region have circulated for weeks, but the activist group said new information suggests that more than three dozen people have been detained and two of those were killed following torture.
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Pemex will receive $22019 billion in pension liability monetization as part of the new fiscal assistance plan for the company and finances will be helped by a corruption clampdown, officials said in a presentation that was short on details.
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Full-year growth in China is widely expected to meet the government's target of 6.5 percent handily but most analysts predict the broader economy will begin to cool eventually as regulators maintain a clampdown on riskier types of lending.
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As a result of the Trump administration's clampdown, Chinese direct investment in the U.S. has plummeted 22017 percent in two years, from $46 billion in 2016 to $4.8 billion in 2018, according to data from research firm Rhodium Group.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $733-billion defense policy bill on Friday, defying President Donald Trump's veto threat by including provisions like a clampdown on funding for his planned wall on the border with Mexico.
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China's clampdown last year on bank lending for overseas investments has required ZZ Capital to seek offshore funding for its existing deal pipeline and to slow new mergers and acquisition proposals, it said in a regulatory filing in February.
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Parties from Britain, Sweden, Romania and Italy in the group Feminists United Network Europe (FUN Europe) demanded free, safe and legal abortions for all women in the European Union amid fears of a clampdown from a resurgent far right.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has banned cinemas nationwide from screening an Indian blockbuster movie starring a famous Pakistani actress, a censor official said on Tuesday, the latest media clampdown after last year's spike in tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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But some lawmakers are going a step further by talking about a possible clampdown on the military-to-military relationship that would include nixing arms sales and withdrawing support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen's civil war.
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Following a clampdown on costs, Airbus has said the A380 can break even at production levels of 20 a year, while Bregier has previously said he is pushing the breakeven level as low as possible to sustain low production.
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KUALA LUMPUR/KARACHI (Reuters) - Non-Arab nations in Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Pakistan, are getting caught in the middle after Saudi Arabia led a clampdown on Qatar, accusing the tiny emirate of supporting pro-Iranian Islamist militants.
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GSK, which was fined nearly $500 million in 2014 for bribing doctors in China, is the first drug company to implement such a broad clampdown on payments to prescribers and competitors are watching closely to assess the commercial fallout.
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NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Indian authorities need more time to restore order in Kashmir, a Supreme Court justice said on Tuesday as a security clampdown entered a ninth day since New Delhi revoked the region's special status, triggering protests.
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That procedure, called "residential surveillance in an undisclosed location," has been used liberally by the Chinese police under the rule of Mr. Xi, who is overseeing a widespread clampdown on dissent in China and a dismantling of civil society.
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Real estate has been one of the few bright spots in China's investment landscape, partly due to robust sales in smaller cities where a government clampdown on speculation has been not as aggressive as it is in larger cities.
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They also demanded a clampdown on the trafficking of girls for prostitution, more opportunities for job promotions, equal pay with men, longer maternity leave, child care for working mothers and free access to lawyers for victims of domestic violence.
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In addition to the clampdown at Kerem Shalom, Israel said it was restricting Gaza's fishermen to six nautical miles offshore, after having allowed them to fish as far as nine miles into the Mediterranean for the past three months.
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The firm offers televisions, washing machines and other household goods to people on "rent-to-own" credit, a model that attracted criticism for slapping high rates of interest on purchases prompting a regulatory clampdown on the sector last year.
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The body is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, adding time pressure to Mnangagwa, who is under fire over an economic crisis and clampdown on dissent that has drawn parallels with the worst excesses of the Mugabe era.
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His televised confession later became a symbol of what human rights advocates say is the Beijing government's increasingly repressive measures to clampdown on dissent -- including overseas abductions, televised confessions, and ignoring consular rights even for those with foreign citizenship.
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The European Union's antitrust watchdog has accused General Electric, Canon and Merck of breaching the bloc's merger rules as part of a clampdown on corner-cutting in merger clearance processes, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times reported.
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In a statement announcing he was leaving the party, Abubakar said the APC "has failed and continues to fail our people" and accused it of "a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government".
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"Although the lifting of the state of emergency is symbolically positive, in that the clampdown we saw after the coup has come to an end... I'm not sure this is going to make a very big difference," he said.
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In the real world, however, the clampdown on Category 299 flows caused significant supply-chain disruption, which was compounded by China's imposition of tariffs on imports of scrap from the United States, a key source of higher-purity material.
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The Commission launched the probe in April 2015, joining a global clampdown that has led to dozens of traders being fired and big banks fined a total of around $10 billion for rigging interest rate and foreign exchange benchmarks.
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A photograph of the bodies of a Salvadoran man and his toddler daughter who drowned trying to reach U.S. soil from Mexico raised global awareness on Wednesday of the desperate steps taken by migrants following Trump's clampdown on asylum.
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On Friday, Trump sought to push his crusade for fair trade and more manufacturing jobs back to the top of his agenda by ordering a study into the causes of U.S. trade deficits and a clampdown on import duty evasion.
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CMC — founded by Chief Executive Peter Cruddas as a foreign exchange broker with a 10,000-pound investment in 1989 — was hit by a sector-wide clampdown by the European Union's securities watchdog, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in March.
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The boost to volatility from U.S. and French elections since late last year, however, has helped prop up non-Japanese brokers including IG Group as they battle through a clampdown on regulation of the sector in Europe and the United States.
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In terms of online-specific ads, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood in the U.S. called for a clampdown on "influencer" ads that "masquerade as content" on YouTube and other sites run by Disney, Google and AwesomenessTV in October 2016.
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China's corporate debt has fallen to about 22018 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) due to a multi-year clampdown on riskier types of financing and debt, but the level was still higher than in other major economies, the OECD said.
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The clampdown in a half-dozen towns in the southeast, home to most of Turkey's 15 million Kurds, is aimed at rooting out militants who have dug trenches and built barricades in a bid to declare autonomy in urban areas.
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After a clampdown on costs it has said the A380 can break even at around 20 a year and Chief Operating Officer Fabrice Bregier has said he is pushing the breakeven level as low as possible to sustain low production.
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Showing that it means business in its clampdown on illegal tax benefits, the commission referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to recover €23bn ($21bn) in back taxes from Apple, a requirement imposed by the regulator on Ireland.
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The intensifying censorship clampdown on media and cyberspace in the run-up to autumn's Communist Party congress, held once every five years, extends even to negativity, with regulations issued in early June calling for "positive energy" in online audiovisual content.
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MINA, SAUDI ARABIA (Reuters) - Fear of getting caught is not enough to deter Abu Ahmed and up to 200,5003 other illegal pilgrims from attending this year's haj in Mecca, despite a clampdown by the Saudi authorities aimed at preventing deadly overcrowding.
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European parties to the pact decided on Monday not to trigger the deal's dispute mechanism in favour of pursuing more talks and avert any U.S.-Iranian military conflict, but took no action to shield Iran against a sanctions clampdown by Trump.
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Jaguar Land Rover said it would redouble efforts to cut costs after it posted a $4 billion loss earlier this year, hit by a downturn in demand for sports utility vehicles in China and a regulatory clampdown on diesel emissions.
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But more likely, it will lead to a situation in Iran where there's a more severe clampdown… and the prospect of moving towards more open governance and greater human rights becomes even more reduced because of tensions with the United States.
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China's corporate debt has fallen to about 25.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) due to a multi-year clampdown on riskier types of financing and debt, but the level was still higher than in other major economies, the OECD said.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and even independence from China in the face of what many see as a marked clampdown by the Communist Party on local freedoms.
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DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield said in a report it expected the deal volume of China's outbound property investment would drop slightly in 215 under the clampdown, after 2016 investment into overseas commercial real estate reached a record high of $38.3 billion.
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Draghi was echoing comments by the head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, who had defended the ECB's clampdown on bad loans on Friday and said the high levels of soured credit was an impediment to a common safety net for depositors.
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"Most if not all Western smelters are probably working flat out, but in China, with the environmental scrutiny clampdown, capacity is being cut and new capacity has been delayed," said Robin Bhar, head of metals research at Societe Generale in London.
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China's corporate debt has fallen to about 22018 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) due to a multi-year clampdown on riskier types of financing and debt, but the level was still higher than in other major economies, the OECD said.
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She says she approves of Duterte's draconian clampdown on illegal drugs in which more than 7,600 small-time dealers, users and others have been killed over the seven months since he took office, about a third of them in police operations.
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The move came as China's gay community has been celebrating Taiwan's recent decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry, a first for Asia, and amid a broader clampdown on civil society and rights activism under President Xi Jinping.
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It began nudging up short-term market rates and those of its other liquidity tools in early 2017 as authorities' clampdown on riskier financing practices kicked into higher gear, but it has moved cautiously to avoid a hit to the economy.
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"As they reach the other side, they are apparently cut down in a hail of gunfire," Zeid said in a statement, also expressing concern that the cameraman, who was wounded in the shooting, may face arrest under a "clampdown on media".
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The huge rally in Istanbul's Maltepe Square was the dramatic culmination of opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu's "Justice March" – a 25-day, 0003-kilometer trek from Ankara to Istanbul – a protest at the post-coup clampdown by Erdoğan's ruling AK party.
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The huge rally in Istanbul's Maltepe Square was the dramatic culmination of opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu's "Justice March" – a 25-day, 425-kilometer trek from Ankara to Istanbul – a protest at the post-coup clampdown by Erdoğan's ruling AK party.
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WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives approved a $733 billion defense policy bill on Friday, defying President Donald Trump's veto threat by including provisions like a clampdown on funding for his planned wall on the border with Mexico.
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's crude oil imports in April unexpectedly surged to a record despite refinery maintenance outages and tepid domestic fuel demand, customs data showed, as state-run refiners built up stocks of Iranian crude oil anticipating a sanctions clampdown.
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Global nickel prices have surged by more than a fifth since May on prospects that a clampdown on mine supply from Philippines will tighten nickel supplies, trading at $10,355 a tonne on Friday, up from $8,390 at the end of May.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean island's military, saying he was canceling former President Barack Obama's "terrible and misguided deal" with Havana.
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"The Kaifeng Jews are in a kind of survival mode again," said Anson Laytner, a retired rabbi in Seattle and past president of the Sino-Judaic Institute, who has worked with the Jews in Kaifeng and drawn attention to the clampdown.
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Worse, with the recent immigration clampdown, the United States may soon be struggling to attract and retain highly skilled tech experts from around the world that it needs to keep Silicon Valley at the cutting edge of A.I. research and innovation.
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Ahead of those talks, members of Congress, including President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans, have been pushing back on suggestions that Trump might ease a clampdown on one major Chinese company, telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp, in exchange for eased agricultural tariffs.
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Switzerland's tradition of banking secrecy helped it become the world capital for foreign wealth but in recent years a global clampdown on tax dodging and money laundering, as well as new agreements on cross-border information exchange, has lessened its role.
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The army's clampdown on civilians and the opposition's allegations that the vote was rigged revealed the deep fissures in Zimbabwean society that developed during the four-decade rule of Robert Mugabe, when the security forces became a byword for heavy-handedness.
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Then, late last year, Twitter changed its rules as part of a clampdown on hate speech, leading to the deletion of a number of alt-right accounts, including such overt neo-Nazi groups such as Atomwaffen Division and Patriot Front.
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Activists have said the three-year suspended sentence for Pu Zhiqiang would serve as a strong reminder to other rights lawyers that the Communist Party, currently engaged in a severe clampdown on dissent, would brook no challenge to its rule.
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Others have been arrested over the past few weeks on similar charges, including journalists, and the crackdown has extended far beyond Cairo flats to include a sweeping clampdown on social media, the medium that famously helped organize the protests in 2011.
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Following a clampdown on the electronic music scene in Buenos Aires earlier this year, there's been a surge in clandestine raves in the outskirts of the Argentine capital, where cheap drugs and alcohol are welcome along with the occasional gun.
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MEXICO CITY, June 6 (Reuters) - The Mexican Finance Ministry said on Thursday it blocked the bank accounts of 26 people for their alleged involvement in human trafficking, as Mexico broadens its migration clampdown amid growing pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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But last night they reminded the Raptors that their game had a less-romantic aspect: swarming, muscular, clampdown defense of a sort that would have brought a smile to the face of Pat Riley and the bruising Knicks circa 1992.
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It now finds itself in a waiting game, as it watches for whether the latest clampdown on oil exports, which was announced in late April, will force the Iranian leaders to surrender to American demands in exchange for economic relief.
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In standing firm, she is channeling the hard-line instincts of her boss, the Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, who has presided over a clampdown on civil society across China and essentially silenced all visible political dissent on the mainland.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president on Tuesday called for the "immediate" lifting of a temporary ban on several social media networks, a clampdown that had been intended to prevent the spread of misinformation after devastating suicide bombings on Easter.
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President Trump said the clampdown was needed as the United States enters a "critical time" in the fight against the virus, which has taken root in the country after spreading from China to Italy, South Korea, Iran and other countries.
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This year's rally took place in the shadow of a clampdown by Madrid after the territorial conflict boiled over last October, when Catalonia held a referendum on independence that was declared unconstitutional by the central government in Madrid and Spanish courts.
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China is the largest container cargo handler - processing around 30% of global traffic or around 715,000 containers a day in 2000 - and the virus clampdown impacted supply chains of everything from sneakers and machine parts to technology components and food items.
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And the way these kinds of conspiracy theories work is that even if Snyder or Abrams were to rebut their existence, fans who are invested in the narratives would see their statements as evidence of a management or studio clampdown.
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SHANGHAI, July 28 (Reuters) - China's share indexes fell in early trade on Thursday, extending a slump from the previous session, on news that Chinese regulators are planning a clampdown on wealth management products to curb risks to the banking system.
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China is the largest container cargo handler - processing around 30% of global traffic or around 715,000 containers a day in 2000 - and the virus clampdown impacted supply chains of everything from sneakers and machine parts to technology components and food items.
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Last month, the newspaper reported: As many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others have been sent to internment camps and prisons in Xinjiang over the past three years, an indiscriminate clampdown aimed at weakening the population's devotion to Islam.
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BEIJING, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A major city in China's Shandong province has ordered seven big coal-fired power plants to cut output by nearly two-thirds as part of a clampdown on pollution as smog blanketed northern parts of the country.
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Mr. Xi signaled a break from the policies of his predecessor, Hu Jintao, who responded to deadly 2009 riots in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, with a clampdown but also stressed economic development as a cure for ethnic discontent — longstanding party policy.
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Turkey's social media clampdown is par for the course for a president who has in recent years cracked down on local media, forced newspapers to shutter and arrested thousands of members of the press, civil society, academia and the military.
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Clampdown on University of Michigan Fraternities After Reports of Sexual Misconduct and Alcohol Abuse The suspension of parties and pledging activities at most of the school's fraternities was the latest effort at major universities to curtail the excesses of Greek life.
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China's ongoing clampdown on cyberspace has seen WhatsApp, the messaging service run by Facebook, periodically unavailable in the past few weeks, while certain gifs using images of President Xi Jinping cannot be posted to group chats on messenger app WeChat.
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The upheaval spurred on Erdoğan's aggressive clampdown on media and his political opposition, drawing concern from the EU. Turkey and EU relations have only gotten worse since then, especially in the wake of the failed coup against Erdoğan in July 2016.
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Some analysts believe Kushner's ability to run the Middle East initiative has been handicapped by his loss of access to certain valued U.S. intelligence because of a White House clampdown on access to such secrets for those without full security clearance.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Banks in Estonia have not yet plugged all the gaps in their money laundering controls, the Baltic state's regulator told Reuters, pledging to maintain a clampdown in the country at the center of one of Europe's biggest financial scandals.
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With expectations growing of a heavy clampdown on dissent, European politicians warned Erdogan the coup attempt did not give him a blank check to disregard the rule of law, and that he risked isolating himself internationally as he strengthens his position at home.
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Thousands of pro-government demonstrators turned out for a rally in support of the city's police -- who have had their headquarters repeatedly besieged by egg-throwing protesters since the clashes of June 12 -- and calls for a clampdown on anti-government activity.
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United States Steel workers are set to get the biggest wage jump in at least six years under a new deal negotiated with the company, providing early signs that gains from U.S. President Donald Trump's clampdown on foreign imports are finally trickling down.
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Bitcoin had soared to a record high of $19,666 by mid-December, before worries of a regulatory clampdown on cryptocurrency exchanges in January quickly deflated what many in the investment world were calling one of the biggest asset price bubbles in history.
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WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. senators who back a clampdown on China's ZTE Corp said on Tuesday they intend to fight for the measure, and urged fellow lawmakers not to give in to White House pressure to give up on the legislation.
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Stung like other spirits makers by a sales downturn in China sparked by a government clampdown on extravagant spending, the owner of Mumm champagne and Martell cognac has launched a sales drive there and is cutting costs globally to help boost growth.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday criticized President Nicolas Maduro's government for curtailing the powers of the chief state prosecutor and called on it to uphold the rule of law and freedom of assembly in Venezuela amid a clampdown on protesters.
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HNA Group, which is under scrutiny following Beijing's clampdown on highly-leveraged foreign investments, faces a wall of maturity in coming months as investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch grow wary of working with the company.
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Image of strength and unity Beijing has been on high alert for weeks, with a heavy security clampdown including road closures, the banning of flying drones, kites and even racing pigeons, as well as greater restrictions on the already-heavily censored internet.
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The U.S. hedge fund managed to secure its WOFE application just ahead of a government clampdown on such entities following last year's summer stock market crash, and a series of lending scandals, which have raised fears the investment structure has been abused.
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BERLIN, April 22 (Reuters) - German car manufacturers will recall 630,000 Porsche, Volkswagen Opel, Audi and Mercedes vehicles to fix diesel emissions management software, a German government official said on Friday, widening a clampdown on pollution in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal.
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Earlier this month, apparently incensed by Twitter and other social media outlets' clampdown on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Trump fired off a series of tweets complaining that social media is "totally discriminating" against conservative voices and promising he won't let it happen.
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The chant was widely heard at Mexico games in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, when FIFA took no action, but the world soccer body has since launched a clampdown and other Latin American teams, including Argentina and Chile, have also been fined.
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DANDONG, China (Reuters) - The United Nations may have failed to slow North Korea's weapons programs, but the country's economy is already showing signs it is feeling the squeeze from the ongoing clampdown on trade, including a curb on fuel sales by China.
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China's clampdown on risky wealth management products and a push by global asset managers to sell funds in the country is set to channel about $6tn of capital into the mutual fund market over the next five years, according to a new report.
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"These crude attempts to intimidate Malaysian civil society activists and human rights defenders further damages [the] Barisan Nasional government....This clampdown on its critics is another sign of the Najib government's failed governance and bankrupt agenda," Bersih said in a statement on Saturday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Swiss man was handed a suspended prison term of nearly two years and a fine on Thursday for spying on a German tax authority, in a case that has pitted Swiss bank secrecy against Germany's clampdown on tax evasion.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - From Internet regulation and online censorship to a clampdown on activists and non-governmental organisations, China has tightened controls on Chinese society since Xi Jinping assumed power in late 2012, first as Communist Party chief and then as president in 2013.
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The voyage from Libya across the Mediterranean to Italy - most cross the sea on flimsy boats run by people smugglers - has become the main route to Europe for migrants from Africa after a European Union clampdown last year on sea crossings from Turkey.
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On Friday, Trump sought to push his crusade against U.S. trade deficits and for more manufacturing jobs back to the top of his agenda, by ordering a study into the causes of the trade deficits and a clampdown on import duty evasion.
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But critics described the decision as a chilling signal meant to intimidate rights workers and, more broadly, add to a growing Israeli clampdown on peaceful protest against the settlements and the treatment of Palestinians under the conservative government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Lopez Obrador argues that the problems in healthcare are the result of his clampdown on overpricing that he says was rife in the health system under the last government, with a small group of companies benefiting from government purchases and charging excessive prices.
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It was a peculiar era in which to be a teen-age girl, equally prudish and decadent: the era of Trump Tower and cocaine, AIDS and "Just Say No." It also made me a free-speech absolutist, wary of any clampdown on expression.
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In an email interview with WPR, Artyom Lukin, a scholar specializing in Russia's ties with East Asia at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia, explains the timing behind Russia's clampdown and how this issue is affecting the two countries' broader relationship.
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NEW DELHI, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The Indian government has told a court that its federal ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes implies that their use is also prohibited, legal documents seen by Reuters showed, in a further clampdown on the devices.
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" O'Rourke said earlier this month that he picked "Clampdown" as a campaign anthem because its lyrics tell listeners "you can grow up idealistic with the best of intentions, but you can be compromised or corrupted or consumed by these larger forces and powers.
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Nickel is also on a supply-inspired bull surge with the focus on an environmental clampdown on nickel mining in the Philippines, which has emerged to fill the supply gap left by Indonesia when Jakarta banned all nickel ore exports in 20163.
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The last big protest in Zimbabwe, organized by the main labor union in January against a sharp fuel hike, turned deadly after it spilled onto the streets and was met by an army clampdown in which more than a dozen people died.
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Government officials have defended the clampdown, which has included the detention of at least 300 politicians and activists, as well as the addition of tens of thousands of soldiers in a region that was already one of the most militarized in the world.
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Three examples of "engagement baiting" shared by Facebook Facebook did specify that there are some exceptions to this clampdown, and that includes examples like a missing child report, raising money for a cause, or asking for travel tips, to quote the company directly.
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The trend towards the use of PMK-Glycidate was triggered by a clampdown on safrole production in Cambodia in 2008, when U.N. drug forces seized and burned 33 metric tons of safrole-rich oil—which offers one of the easiest routes to MDMA.
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Vilma Carrillo was one of a group of migrant women flown to Texas in July from a detention center in Georgia to be reunited with their children, who had been separated from them as part of the Trump administration's clampdown at the border.
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In a clampdown started in the second half of 2018, officials checked 1,172 businesses and found only 10 whose materials contained CFC-11, Liu Youbin, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Environment and Ecology, said at a news conference in October.
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The case against Mr. Shakir comes as part of a broader Israeli clampdown against the international movement to boycott Israel, a campaign that the government, empowered by the staunch support of President Trump, says delegitimizes the country and smacks of anti-Semitism.
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It's important that Mr. Poroshenko and his Western supporters ensure that the clampdown is not used to harass citizens who speak Russian and who are clustered in the affected regions, or give the impression that he is using the crisis for political advantage.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India will formally split up disputed Jammu and Kashmir state into two federal territories on Thursday, aiming to tighten its grip on the restive region that has been in the grip of a harsh security clampdown for nearly three months.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean island's military, saying he was cancelling former President Barack Obama's "terrible and misguided deal" liberalizing ties with Havana.
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The UK government is not currently recommending a total clampdown on travel to Asia, but suggests travellers self-quarantine if they visit regions where the novel coronavirus is widespread including mainland China, parts of Korea, and parts of Italy, among other areas.
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Imran Tariq said he had not spoken to his fiancée since the day the clampdown began, which also saw the closing of schools, the detention of scores of regional politicians and the deployment of thousands of troops to guard neighborhoods and highways.
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The White House leak clampdown has fueled paranoia among Washington career civil servants who say it appears designed to try to limit the flow of information and deter officials from talking to the media about topics that could result in negative stories.
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SHANGHAI, July 26 (Reuters) - China blue-chip stocks fell for a second day on Wednesday on lingering fears of further regulatory tightening, even though most China watchers do not expect any major new clampdown ahead of a sensitive national leadership reshuffle in autumn.
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Six people were killed last week in a post-election army clampdown on protests against the result that were reminiscent of the long rule of Robert Mugabe, who was toppled last November in a de factor military coup and replaced by Mnangagwa.
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That was the message from one of China's top officials Thursday, who warned against taking overzealous measures against coal burning after a clampdown last winter left millions of households across Beijing and northern China without heat during the coldest parts of the year.
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Analysts said the reduction in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) should support banks' net interest margins and profit growth in 2018, while ensuring that liquidity in the broader economy will remain ample even if Beijing continues its clampdown on riskier forms of financing.
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As part of a widening clampdown on health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution levels in the wake of the VW scandal, the Commission in December began legal action against Germany, Britain and five other EU member states for failing to police emissions test cheating.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump sought to push his crusade for fair trade and more manufacturing jobs back to the top of his agenda on Friday by ordering a study into the causes of U.S. trade deficits and a clampdown on import duty evasion.
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Trump has made a clampdown on illegal immigration a centerpiece of his two-year-old presidency, leading chants of "Build that wall" at his rallies as he has sought to cut back on the number of newcomers entering the United States without proper documentation.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Most Chinese bankers and property developers at a recent closed-door meeting expect growth in credit to real estate firms will taper off next year, said two sources who attended the gathering, amid a government clampdown on inflated home prices.
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They come as the Chinese economy faces broader headwinds, including from an intensifying trade war with the United States and the effects of a campaign by the central government to clampdown on easy credit – a campaign that has weighed on both property buyers and developers.
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HNA Group, which is under scrutiny following Beijing's clampdown on highly-leveraged foreign investments, faces a wall of maturity in coming months with sources saying investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have grown wary of working with the company.
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Bitcoin BTC=BTSP had soared to a record high of $23,666 by mid-December, before worries of a regulatory clampdown on cryptocurrency exchanges in January quickly deflated what many in the investment world were calling one of the biggest asset price bubbles in history.
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There were no other indications of a clampdown on foreign media and local media reported at length on Obama's three-day trip, which is aimed at bolstering diplomatic, economic and military ties though the U.S. side is expected to prod Hanoi on human rights.
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ISTANBUL/AMSTERDAM, April 24 (Reuters) - A prominent Dutch journalist has been detained by Turkish police, a Dutch official said on Sunday, a week after she wrote a column published in the Netherlands in which she criticised President Tayyip Erdogan for his clampdown on dissent.
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BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Tougher sentencing and a clampdown on political corruption and organized crime groups are part of the new Brazilian right-wing government's proposal unveiled on Monday to tackle rampant crime in a country with the world's highest number of murders.
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Concern about the extent of possible money laundering involving Danske Bank's Estonian branch is mounting and European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager joined a growing chorus of calls for a clampdown on the billions of euros alleged to have been "washed" through several European banks.
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De Blasio also inexplicably chose a walk-out song from London Calling and, while "Clampdown" is probably a better song than "Rudie Can't Fail," Bill gets the edge here for choosing a song that feels like a weird, convoluted dig at Rudy Giuliani somehow.
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Besana, who is based in southern Zamboanga city across a strait from Basilan, said a security clampdown due to intelligence reports of possible bomb attacks on military outposts included the setting up of road checkpoints, which allowed troops to stop the bomb-laden white van.
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Fewer smugglers are setting off from the Nigerien city of Agadez - a smuggling hub until the European Union last year bankrolled a clampdown - and are now taking more treacherous routes through the Sahara, far away from water sources and basic services, the IOM said.
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These sessions would address "simple questions" such as: 'I would like to build up an art collection and have no clue how to do that,' Sarasin said, adding that bank clients may be getting short-changed due to stricter regulation and a tax clampdown.
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The proposal comes amid a clampdown on the Internet that has seen Russia impose laws requiring search engines to delete some search results, messaging services to share encryption keys with security services and social networks to store user data on servers in the country.
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A clampdown by the Chinese state regarding capital outflows in general and the acquisition of foreign targets specifically had a severely dampening effect with outbound purchases by Chinese buyers dropping by a tremendous 86 percent (by value) compared to the same quarter last year.
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The hearing followed a rout in the price of bitcoin, which has lost about half its value since the start of the year on concerns ranging from a global regulatory clampdown to a ban by some banks on using credit cards to buy bitcoin.
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The February hearing followed a rout in the price of bitcoin, which has lost about half its value since the start of the year on concerns ranging from a global regulatory clampdown to a ban by some banks on using credit cards to buy bitcoin.
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In a setback to the U.S.-Cuban detente negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama, Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to the Caribbean island and a clampdown on dealings with its military, which owns many of the capital city's top establishments.
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Rights groups say the current clampdown on dissent is the most sweeping in two decades in China, where a slowing economy has led to a surge in labor disputes, particularly in the southern manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong province, of which Guangzhou is the capital.
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Combined with a clampdown on graft - Western luxury goods have often been used to bribe officials - and new import restrictions imposed by the Chinese government earlier this year, and it's little wonder China's luxury buyers seem to be keeping their money in their handbags.
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BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Shares of Tangshan Port Group Co Ltd soared 7 percent on Tuesday, to post their biggest daily percentage gain in nine months, as investors bet the small port would benefit from a major clampdown on coal transportation at its larger rival.
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The state government said it was still taking measures to ease the clampdown, which has included a severing of all phone and internet links, curfew-like conditions in many areas, the detention of more than 500 politicians, community leaders and activists, and school closures.
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Reuters exclusively reported in October that Turkish authorities had dismissed hundreds of senior military staff serving with NATO in Europe and the United States following July's coup attempt as part of a far-flung, post-coup security clampdown that has raised human rights concerns.
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The painful luxury industry downturn that occurred worldwide between 211 and 11 in the wake of a Chinese government clampdown on corruption and a spate of terrorist attacks in Europe — ending years of soaring sales growth — is still fresh in the minds of many.
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If the prospect of an extended clampdown left companies reeling, it is especially daunting for smaller employers like Mr. Denamur, who have little time to prepare for potentially large losses and ensure workers aren't left in precarious straits as they are forced to stay home.
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DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's finance ministry has cut advance payments to firms doing construction work for the government to 5 percent of the contract value from 20 percent, a newspaper reported on Wednesday in a fresh sign of a clampdown on state spending.
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But Mr. Navalny published the video on the same day that Mr. Putin signed legislation that augurs a further clampdown on freedom of speech: a law that allows Moscow to declare as "foreign agents" people who publish anything online while receiving funding from abroad.
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The religious right's influence is evident in the policies the new administration has prioritized in its first weeks, from Mr. Trump's clampdown on federal funding that could indirectly support abortion to his directive to give persecuted Christians special dispensation to enter the United States.
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" Tom Grundy, founder of crowdfunded media outlet Hong Kong Free Press, tweeted that the coming crackdown "may be worse than post-2014," predicting that China would attempt to justify the clampdown on pro-democratic forces in the name of "public safety" and "national security.
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Indonesia, the world's largest tin exporter, has seen production and exports steadily fall since 2012, partly due to degrading mine economics but partly because of a government clampdown on the anarchic cluster of independent tin mines and smelters operating on the islands of Bangka and Belitung.
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Image 2 of 2 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A prominent Shiite cleric in Bahrain who led a now-shuttered opposition party was acquitted Thursday of spying charges with two colleagues, marking a rare victory for activists in the island kingdom amid a yearslong clampdown on dissent.
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"China's tariff conflict with the U.S. was a major factor, weighing on demand, sentiment and returns across Asia, which were compounded by a cyclical slowdown in growth, capital outflows, a lending clampdown in China's banking sector and currency weakness against the U.S. dollar," the report states.
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President Donald Trump is expected to come home to Trump Tower for a few days starting Sunday, the first time since his inauguration, and New York City police are planning a slight security clampdown in the area around the skyscraper for the duration of his visit.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital currency bitcoin BTC=BTSP fell more than 13 percent on Monday to a nearly three-month low amid a slew of concerns ranging from a global regulatory clampdown to a ban on using credit cards to buy bitcoin by British and U.S. banks.
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There are three different measures making their way through the Senate: a war powers resolution ending any U.S. involvement in the Yemen conflict, legislation imposing a broad clampdown on Saudi Arabia, including ending arms sales and levying new sanctions; and a nonbinding resolution targeting the crown prince.
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The number of private banks in Switzerland is shrinking, a consequence of tougher regulations and a global clampdown on efforts to avoid paying taxes that is forcing lenders to the world's wealthiest to cut costs, go in for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or quit the business.
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His comments are the latest from China's leadership about efforts to prop up small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are flailing in the face of a wider clampdown on riskier credit, a slowdown in economic growth and the escalating trade war between the United States and China.
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The following years saw more temporary bans—including of Wikipedia, Flickr, and Facebook—but the most significant clampdown came in 2012, after the release of Innocence of Muslims, a 14-minute segment from a film that originated in the United States and was perceived as denigrating Islam.
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That compares with traditional luxury titans like Italy's Prada - a maker of fancy handbags - which sank 45 percent on the Hong Kong exchange last year as Beijing's clampdown on corruption and China's slowest economic growth in 25 years forced China's elite to change their spending habits.
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Last September, Butt, 30, who runs a discussion website Islam21c, was one of the first to fall foul of the moves to clampdown on non-violent extremists after being identified by a secretive cross-government Extremism Analysis Unit, established to pick out groups or individuals of concern.
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But Zimbabwe's economy is in meltdown, fuelling popular anger, and there are concerns of a resurgence of the violence that spilled onto the streets in January, when a sharp fuel price hike sparked protests and an army clampdown in which more than a dozen people died.
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But a report to be published on June 24th by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an NGO, suggests the clampdown will not be implemented by local officials—and even if it is, may come too late to save Siamese rosewood from being eradicated in Laos and Cambodia.
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Washington career civil servants say the clampdown appears designed to try to limit the flow of information inside and outside government agencies charged with foreign policy and national security and to deter officials from talking to the media about topics that could result in negative stories.
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Relatives of Tamils missing since the end of the war, former cadres of the Tamil Tiger insurgent group and people who say their land has been occupied by the military, interviewed by Reuters in recent days, said they feared a military clampdown if Rajapaksa rose to power.
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While migrants continue to climb those fences, as well as ones separating Morocco from Spain's other enclave in North Africa, Ceuta, the Spanish authorities are grappling with an increase in attempted sea crossings spurred in part by a clampdown on other migratory routes across the Mediterranean.
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"China has been extending its clampdown — its choking of civil society — throughout the world, and often it is attempting this through official channels such as the U.N. or Interpol," said Michael Caster, a rights campaigner who was a co-founder of the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group.
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The arrests were the latest example of what critics say has been a clampdown on free speech and on the news media during the first 15 months of the first democratically elected government that Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has had in more than half a century.
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As part of a widening clampdown on health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution levels in the wake of the VW scandal, the Commission in December began legal action against Germany, Britain and five other EU member states for allegedly failing to police for cheating emissions tests.
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The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, includes measures targeting the two "strategic competitors," including a clampdown on trade rules and a ban on the Defense Department dealing with any entity that uses telecommunications equipment or services from Chinese companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp.
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BEIJING — A human rights advocate from Taiwan has been detained in China on suspicion of being a threat to national security, an official in Beijing said on Wednesday, adding to signs of an intensified clampdown on outsiders working with China's beleaguered human rights lawyers and groups.
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According to Amnesty, hundreds of protesters suffered ill-treatment during the Hamas clampdown, including one of its own research consultants, Hind Khoudary, who was detained and interrogated for three hours, Amnesty said, during which she was accused of being a spy and working as a foreign agent.
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Despite a clampdown on discriminatory stop and searches ordered by Home Secretary Theresa May, which has dramatically reduced the practice, black people in London are still three times more likely to be frisked than white people, rising to 295 times more likely in some parts of England.
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