He handed back the phone with his hair still askew.
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That is then handed back at the end of the flight.
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The former British territory was handed back to China in 1997.
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In February, it said 23 medals needed to be handed back.
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She later handed back options worth as much as 2.4 million pounds.
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The staffer then handed back the bottle opener, along with a beer.
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The domestically-focused FTSE 250 handed back earlier gains to end 0.2% lower.
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More than half the business taxes they collect are handed back to Westminster.
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Government authorities said about 80 percent of confiscated land had been handed back.
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But participation has now handed back two-thirds of its gains since September.
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The officer handed back his passport and Dakhil continued to wait in line.
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SkyCity said the NZICC site was handed back to Fletcher on Nov. 1.
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However, the dollar handed back early gains as investors looked past the Fed minutes.
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I am still interested in that, but it was pretty heavy-handed back then.
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Companies handed back more than a $1 trillion to investors through buybacks and dividends.
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"Government institutions were handed back and the (southern) militias withdrew," a government source told Reuters.
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He was their citizen, and the body should be handed back to them, they said.
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There is 120 hours a week sometimes being handed back to me of free time.
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South African foreign minister Lindiwe Sisulu has previously said Chang should be handed back to Mozambique.
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Merkel isn't lying awake at night wondering whether East Berlin might be handed back to Moscow.
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Those were handed back to the crowd-source group, which used them to suggest new products.
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Delta alone has handed back more than $10 billion to shareholders in buybacks over that time.
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Hong Kong is a former British colony that was handed back to Chinese rule in 1997.
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But with the new containment structure, full control will soon be handed back over to Ukraine.
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It may have been the biggest demonstration since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
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Riot police clashed with protesters and Martelly handed back the presidential sash without anyone to succeed him.
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Eventually, he is escorted away by security and is handed back his clothes while casually milling about.
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Admiral's shares, which outperformed rivals in 2019, handed back earlier gains to turn flat by 0917 GMT.
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He was handed back on Friday evening at a famous border post in the village of Wagah.
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This appeared to be the largest demonstration there since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan handed back earlier gains and was down 92.0523 percent.
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Perhaps sadly (for a gypsy upbringing was still judged romantic then), both items were swiftly handed back again.
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But the fraudsters managed to steal millions of hryvnias from the company's account before it was handed back.
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But the shares handed back most of the early gains, and were up 1.1 percent at 0903 GMT.
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Hong Kong was under British rule for 156 years until it was handed back to China in 1997.
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By 0919 GMT, the stock handed back some of those gains and were up 4.7% at 84.65 pence.
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The mass of protesters would be the largest demonstration since the city was handed back to China in 22014.
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The FRC pretty much could have closed right then, and its licensing responsibilities handed (back) to the Commerce Department.
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As he handed back the washed pacifier, I told him that he didn't need to worry about doing that.
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" When Reed is handed back to his dad, he looks back at his uncle and also calls him, "Dada.
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In Saudi Arabia, the share index handed back gains made earlier in the day to edge down 0.2 percent.
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The move came two years after Britain handed back Hong Kong, making Macau the last European colony in Asia.
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Most of the seized property has since been handed back to the original owners by President Yoweri Museveni&aposs government.
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Najib has consistently denied any wrongdoing, maintaining the funds were donations from a Saudi royal and the bulk handed back.
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Housebuilders, which tend to be most exposed to any economic hit, handed back early gains to be down 1.4 percent.
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan handed back earlier modest gains and was last down 0.6 percent.
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The indexes handed back some gains from Tuesday after a dovish policy speech by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi.
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She said one of the officers asked the girl how old she was as she was handed back her clothes.
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It is the first political party to be outlawed in Hong Kong since it was handed back to China in 1997.
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When the war ended, with the partial exception of the Soviet Union, the victors handed back the land they had conquered.
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Under the new policy, the bodies could be exhumed and handed back for burial if Hamas was willing to strike deals.
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Retail and basic resources stocks were also particularly strong, while bank stocks handed back early losses to trade up 0.15 percent.
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Last year, a Serbian court in the town of Kraljevo issued an arrest warrant demanding he be handed back to Serbia.
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Remains and indelible parts, such as egg shells and bones, are turned into compost that is handed back to the farmers.
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When the teacher handed back my first algebra quiz, with a huge "100" written across the top, we celebrated the victory.
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Many residents fear Beijing is eroding the autonomy granted to Hong Kong when it was handed back to China in 1997.
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"The writ of execution that the money be handed back to Bangladesh has already been done by the court," Gomes said.
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Ms. Wentland soothed him with a one-handed back rub; in the other hand, she held a bouquet of three sunflowers.
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Monday's announcements came hours after army chiefs declared an end to their military intervention and handed back policing to civilian police.
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The move came two years after Britain handed back Hong Kong, which had made Macau the last European colony in Asia.
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A spokeswoman for SEB said the bank handed back its quota because it was more efficient to use Stock Connect wherever possible.
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The former Portuguese colony has been allowed to run its own affairs since it was handed back to the mainland in 10.
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Then, in the middle of that coaster, control is handed back to the player, as they navigate one jump to the next.
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The event-driven hedge funds cited concerns over shriveling liquidity in credit markets when it handed back around $1 billion to investors.
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Lily, who we later learn has been renamed, doesn't know who Nora is anymore, after her custody was handed back to Christine.
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India hit back with a bombing raid into Pakistan and an Indian pilot was shot down over Pakistan, but then handed back.
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When they leave the service, a lot of that gear gets handed back, but some of it is worth holding on to.
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As his wife sat on his back, he offered her a drink, which she gratefully took and then handed back to him.
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Police said on Thursday that the two mosques targeted in last Friday's attack will be handed back to the community on Saturday.
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So has national pride: demonetisation has pared growth and handed back to China India's coveted crown of being world's fastest-growing large economy.
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And Chance, already a formidable lyricist in his own right, handed back a career-topping verse that paid direct homage to West's influence.
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The same voice can then be heard saying "thank you," while Trump accepted another hat to sign, which he handed back to the owner.
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Hong Kong was handed back to China under a "one country, two systems" formula, promising a high degree of autonomy on July 1, 1997.
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It's a touchy subject for many in Hong Kong, which was handed back to China in 1997 after over a century of British rule.
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In the confusion, he was almost separated from his mother, and was handed back to her, through a train window, by a Russian soldier.
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Oxford's Isis Innovation said it pulled in £24.58 million ($34.4m) in revenue for the school last year, with £13.6m ($19m) handed back to departments.
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Cooper advises creating a "ramp-up plan" where the work that needs to be handed back to the vacationing employee is communicated to them.
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Australia's S&P/ASX 200 inched 0.3% higher, while the safe havens of gold and U.S. 10-year government bonds handed back some gains.
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Others described not being sure of the amount of money that shopkeepers handed back to them, afraid to lift up the veil to check.
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This doesn&apost mean Tesla will sell 250,000 Cybertrucks, of course, since some preorders may be cancelled and those deposits handed back to customers.
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By some measures, Hong Kong is much less important to China than it was in 1997, the year it was handed back by the British.
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Some 217,000 American soldiers and civilians lived in the Canal Zone, a decade or so after it had been controversially handed back to Panamanian control.
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Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in what may have been the biggest demonstration since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
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Given that neither was on the ballot in 2016, we believe the ultimate choice should be handed back to the public with a People's Vote.
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Miss United Kingdom has handed back her crown and withdrawn from an international beauty pageant after being told to lose weight by competition organisers, she says.
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"Some of the ground that has been made up in the last 212.2-33 weeks could actually be handed back in the near term," he said.
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"Some of the ground that has been made up in the last 7-8 weeks could actually be handed back in the near term," he said.
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"Some of the ground that has been made up in the last 2500-3.73 weeks could actually be handed back in the near term," he said.
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REYKJAVIK - Iceland's Left Green party leader said on Friday she had given up on forming a government and handed back the president's mandate to create one.
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He then returned to New York City with the expectation that his old life would be handed back to him on a platter, no questions asked.
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Parliament gave us a referendum and the people had their say yet the power has now been handed back to Westminster by our unelected establishment judges.
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Puigdemont fled the country after Madrid took control of the regional government - which it handed back in December - and has been in self-imposed exile since.
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After 75 years in the Central European country, the British Army has handed back control of the last remaining British base, Catterick Barracks Bielefeld, to Germany.
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In a ceremony held at Pakistan's embassy in Paris, 445 artifacts were handed back to Pakistan on Tuesday, with an estimated value of 139,000 euros ($157,000).
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They say Mr Modi's adventurism stands in contrast to the statesmanship of his Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan, who swiftly handed back a downed Indian pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman.
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The Umbrella Movement was the first large civil-disobedience campaign since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997; it blocked several major roads for weeks.
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Under the land restitution program, about 200,000 hectares of land has so far been handed back, together with land titles awarded by judges, benefiting about 20,000 Colombians.
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The officer marched over to my car, handed back the license and registration and said he was a man of his word — I was free to go.
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At farewell events in the European Parliament this week, no one knew quite what note to strike, as lawmakers handed back their voting cards and office keys.
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The protests against the extradition bill have become the most significant challenge to China's relationship with the territory since it was handed back by Britain 22 years ago.
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Our crew and on-ground staff extended our full cooperation to the authorities during the on-board screenings, and the aircraft has now been handed back to Emirates.
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Of the $81 million stolen, Wong told the Senate probe he received almost $35 million from the remittance company Philrem, and has handed back $15 million to authorities.
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On the other hand, it means that competences must be handed back to local authorities when there are no clear benefits to implementing them at the European level.
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Another option would be to introduce so-called "anti-dilution" safeguards, meaning a discount on the amount of money handed back to investors who want to exit quickly.
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The junior world championships, earmarked for Ostrov, were also handed back to the IBU which opened the investigations last month when it also suspended two unnamed Russian athletes.
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In another, poignant moment, a musical reference is, as it were, handed back to Richard by one of the Africans—a reference now altered by its political translation.
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Berrettini served for the first set at 5-4 after breaking the Thiem serve to love in the previous game, but a netted volley handed back the break.
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In 2018, chef Sebastien Bras publicly handed back his three Michelin stars after the pressure to maintain star-status became too much, and the guide accepted his decision.
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The instrument can be set up in the field in a matter of minutes, and the cartridge can be destroyed on-site or handed back to the individual.
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And while those eye scans will technically be handed back at the end of the project, any diagnostic intelligence they end up generating will remain in Google's hands.
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They crossed at a "green border" zone where there is no formal crossing point, and were handed back to Russia on Saturday, a local border guard spokeswoman said.
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The safe-haven yen also handed back a fraction of recent gains, as the resurgence of moderate Joe Biden in the Democratic Party primaries lifted investors' risk appetite.
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The main index gave up 1.3%, capping off its worst weekly performance in over a year, while the FTSE 250 handed back earlier gains to close 0.7% lower.
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Many have made a beeline for Aldershot, which has been the base for the Gurkha Brigade since 1997, when Hong Kong, its previous home, was handed back to China.
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The FTSE 100 added 0.4 percent after earlier hitting its highest level in nearly three weeks, while the midcap index handed back earlier gains to close 0.6 percent lower.
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When the former British colony was handed back in 1997, China agreed to that Hong Kong could maintain its freedoms and way of life for the next 50 years.
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Shares in Roche, whose Genentech unit in the United States generates much of its sales and profit, handed back early gains to trade down 0.5 percent at 0930 GMT.
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But if the issue is handed back to the states, noted Lesley Stahl, Mr Trump's interviewer, some women "won't be able to get an abortion" anywhere near their homes.
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The Braunschweig prosecutor's office spokesman said some of the data removed from machines was transferred onto data sticks, some of which had in the meantime been handed back in.
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Sharapova handed back her early break with two double faults in game four but started the match well and offered a genuine test in the 55-minute opening stanza.
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Before being disqualified, Chan signed the pledge to uphold the Basic Law, which has governed Hong Kong since the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - On Saturday, Hong Kong will mark 20 years since the end of British colonial rule, when the Asian financial hub was handed back to mainland China.
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Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 with a mandate for "one country, two systems," which allows Hong Kong wide-ranging freedoms not available on the mainland.
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Protesters say it is undermining a "one country, two systems" formula promised when Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997, guaranteeing freedoms not found in mainland China.
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In 1999, the canal was finally handed back, and since then the U.S. military bases that occupied the Canal Zone have been turned into malls, hotels, and housing developments.
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Though police put the number at just 240,000, if the organizers' count is correct, it would make these the largest demonstrations since the city was handed back to China.
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Amid the tentative ebb in risk aversion in the broader markets, perceived safe havens such as the Japanese yen and Swiss franc handed back some of their recent gains.
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The private-sector partner will be responsible and at the end of the contract the new and/or enhanced public asset will be handed back to the public entity.
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"Claas Relotius has reached out to us via a text message, apologised and handed back his 4 reporter awards on his own initiative," Reporter Forum said on its website.
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Then one day, she and dozens of other Islamic State wives were loaded into trucks and driven into the desert, where they were handed back to the Islamic State.
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According to Reuters, almost 700 weapons were handed back by gun owners before the buyback program was launched, while thousands of others already registered firearms with police for collection.
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The U.S. has handed back more than 200 ancient artifacts, valued at more than $100 million, that were stolen from religious sites in India and smuggled out of the country.
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It has greater freedoms and separate laws from the mainland under a "one country, two systems" framework agreed with the British when they handed back their former colony in 1997.
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Hong Kong is a former British colony that was handed back to China in 1997 and enjoys greater freedoms as a "special administrative region," than the rest of mainland China.
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But some gains in the exporter-heavy index evaporated as the pound handed back initial losses, while the more domestically focussed mid-cap index ended with a 0.2 percent gain.
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In 2014, he handed back his doctorate after a panel of Bucharest University academics ruled that he had plagiarized much of his 2003 Ph.D. thesis on the International Criminal Court. 20083.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian authorities have released a U.S. citizen and he has been handed back to his family, thanks to the mediation of Lebanon, a Lebanese security official said on Friday.
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Hong Kong is part of China but governed by separate laws under a "one country, two systems" framework agreed with Britain when it was handed back from colonial rule in 1997.
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Over the weekend, a Burundian army officer who had been held in captivity by a rebel group was handed back to his unit, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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This year's events are especially politically charged, coming just a month before an expected visit of President Xi Jinping to mark 63 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China.
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Mr. Lavrov was asked at a news conference on Monday in Minsk, Belarus, about statements emanating from Washington that the compounds should not be handed back without getting something in return.
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The FTSE 100 ended 0.5 percent lower while the more domestically focused FTSE 250 handed back the day's losses to be up 0.1 percent as Inmarsat jumped on M&A chatter.
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The UMNO statement noted that Mahathir had handed back 1.2 billion ringgit ($301 million) to the party and its 3 million members when he stepped down as party president in 2003.
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Office group IWG pushed midcaps higher after divestiture plans for its Japan business Miners, which last week scaled seven-year highs, handed back some of those gains with a 0.8 percent dip.
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Q. Hong Kong is a unique place: a former British colony that did not achieve independence but was handed back to a Chinese Communist state that had not run Hong Kong before.
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Security was tight at the harbour-front venue near where two decades earlier, the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, tearfully handed back Hong Kong to Chinese rule at a rain-soaked ceremony.
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Lam has appeared unable to quell swelling anger as citizens voiced their discontent with the political leadership in Hong Kong, a former British colony that was handed back to China in 1997.
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And that government forces, which had captured the son of the former cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as "El Chapo," handed back their target rather than keep waging a bloody battle.
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People in Hong Kong are worried that Beijing is gradually eroding the high degree of autonomy that the former British colony was promised when it was handed back to China in 1997.
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The protests started on Sunday when organizers said more than 1 million people took to the city's streets -- the largest protest since the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997.
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Hong Kong is technically part of China but governed by separate laws under a "one country, two systems" framework agreed with the British when it was handed back from colonial rule in 1997.
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Hong Kong was handed back from British to Chinese rule in 1997 with constitutional guarantees it would continue to enjoy rights and freedoms not granted in mainland China, including an independent legal system.
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He was speaking in a televised address at a ceremony in Dar es Salaam at which the Kenyan authorities handed back 22kg of gold it intercepted after it was smuggled out of Tanzania.
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Egypt's president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, caused uproar on social media by announcing that two uninhabited islands that Egypt has been looking after since the 1950s will be handed back to Saudi Arabia.
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The Aussie handed back most of the gains it made the previous day after the Reserve Bank of Australia left rates steady and refrained from including an explicit easing bias in its statement.
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The demonstrations represent the biggest resistance to Beijing's rule on Chinese soil since Britain handed back the territory in 1997, said Willy Lam, a political scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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The former British colony was handed back to China in 1997 under an agreement that gave ultimate control to Communist Party rulers in Beijing while promising Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy.
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Spectrum Reallocation Medium-Term Impact: Reallocation of 0003MHz TV spectrum, a requirement of EU regulation and necessary to support anticipated 5G mobile, will probably result in a number of TV multiplexes being handed back.
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In contrast, China's tech sector is now up 28% year-to-date compared to 46% at the end of Q1 while online behemoth Alibaba has handed back 5% of the 30% it had made.
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"The dollar basically handed back earlier gains as Treasury yields pulled back and on IMF comments, and came back to where it was a few days ago," said Takuya Kanda, general manager at Gaitame.
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The greenback handed back all the gains made against the yen after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) adopted negative interest rates late last week, pushing the dollar to a 6-week high of 121.70.
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The flare up appeared to be easing on Saturday after Pakistan handed back a captured Indian fighter pilot on Friday night, amid efforts by global powers to prevent another war between the arch enemies.
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Under a historic land restitution law passed five years ago, the government of Juan Manuel Santos has handed back 2000,000 hectares of land, together with land titles awarded by judges, benefiting about 20,000 Colombians.
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Hong Kong's protests are entering their sixth month and the territory is in the grip of the worst crisis it's seen since the British handed back power over the territory to China in 1997.
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China and the Hong Kong government have staunchly opposed any suggestion that the city, a former British colony that was handed back to China in 1997, might be allowed to decide its own future.
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The FTSE 250 handed back initial gains and edged 0.04% lower as building materials supplier SIG slumped 21%, blaming its weak outlook on the slow pace of recovery in British and German construction markets.
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Macau's government deployed the Chinese People's Liberation Army troops onto the streets for three days to help clean up after the storm, a first for Macau since it was handed back to China in 1999.
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On Friday, Pakistan handed back to India a pilot who was captured after his MiG-21 jet was shot down by a Pakistani fighter during an aerial clash over the disputed Kashmir region on Wednesday.
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The company has committed to publishing the results of the research but any AI models it develops — trained off of the NHS data-set — are unlikely to be handed back freely to the public sector.
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Clinton and her campaign have dismissed concerns about the setup, claiming that it was used merely for convenience and that all work-related emails have been handed back to the State Department for record keeping.
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The British handed back Hong Kong to China in 1997, but under an agreement known as the Basic Law, Hong Kong retains relative autonomy for 50 years, including its own political, judicial and financial systems.
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When the agent handed back Elizabeth's passport and moved on, she took a deep breath and "With or Without You," which had stopped when the agents boarded, came back on in what seemed like triumph.
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Mr. Xi said Taiwan's freedoms would be guaranteed under a version of the "one country, two systems" political framework that Beijing has used in Hong Kong since Britain handed back the former colony in 1997.
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Since Australia's rusty-red monolith, Uluru, was handed back to its original owners in 1977, the Anangu people have welcomed visitors to walk its 9.4 kilometer (5.8 mile) circumference and soak up its spiritual presence.
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Demonstrators say they are fighting the erosion of the "one country, two systems" arrangement that enshrined a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong since it was handed back from British to Chinese rule in 1997.
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Demonstrators say they are fighting the erosion of the "one country, two systems" arrangement that enshrines a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong since it was handed back from British to Chinese rule in 1997.
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Miners, which last week scaled seven-year highs, handed back some of those gains with a 1.5 percent fall, despite a rise in copper prices as data from China showed higher unwrought copper imports in March.
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The insurer earlier this month generated a forecast-beating annual profit, boosted by growth in general insurance and asset management, and said more of its growing cash pile would be handed back to shareholders in 2017.
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Technology and consumer stocks, however, handed back an early burst of gains after the bell, with traders pointing to fallout from the biggest reshuffle since 21.36 of Wall Street's broad industry sectors as a driving factor.
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Hong Kong, a former British colony, was handed back to China in 1997 under an agreement that gave ultimate control to Beijing but promised Hong Kong greater freedoms and separate laws for at least 50 years.
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Under the agreement that the UK reached with China when it handed back control of the former colony in 1997, Hong Kong has a separate legal system and freedoms the rest of China does not have.
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Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy protesters from getting to the harbour-front venue close to where the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, tearfully handed back Hong Kong to China in the pouring rain in 1997.
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Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy protesters from getting to the harbor-front venue close to where the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, tearfully handed back Hong Kong to China in the pouring rain in 000.
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BEIJING — The Chinese Navy on Tuesday handed back an American underwater drone it had seized, returning the device to the United States after days of contention that drew the ire of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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The protesters' demands include universal suffrage, an investigation into alleged police brutality and an end to Beijing's perceived efforts to undermine democratic freedoms promised when the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997.
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Chinese laws covering the garrison state that any unused land, after central government approval, should be handed back "without compensation" to the local authorities, so any deal would likely have no benefits for the PLA's coffers.
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The Guardian reported that Britain's last governor in Hong Kong before it was handed back to the Chinese, Chris Patten, had written to May urging her to raise the erosion of rights and freedom in the territory.
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Police estimated 240,000 people attended on Sunday, while organizers put the number at 1.03 million -- the latter figure would make it the city's largest protest since the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997.
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His eldest son and successor, Tung Chee-hwa, survived the financial strains of the early 1980s (with the help of Chinese money) and became Hong Kong's first leader after it was handed back to China in 1997.
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ADEN (Reuters) - Three days of deadly clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and an internationally recognized government based in the port of Aden subsided on Wednesday after fighters handed back two military bases they had seized, residents said.
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A flare up between arch-foes India and Pakistan appeared to be easing on Saturday after Islamabad handed back a captured Indian pilot, amid efforts by global powers to prevent a war between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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"What Ivanka and her lawyers have said is that there was no classified information, all of these emails have been handed back over to the federal government and put in for the federal records act," Short continued.
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The former British colony was handed back to Chinese rule in 1997 amid guarantees of autonomy and various freedoms including a separate legal system, which many diplomats and business leaders believe is the city's strongest remaining asset.
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The former British colony was handed back to Chinese rule in 1997 amid guarantees of autonomy and various freedoms, including a separate legal system, which many diplomats and business leaders believe is the city's strongest remaining asset.
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Both were handed back to China in the 1990s — Hong Kong from Great Britain, Macao from Portugal — and became special administrative regions with privileges that afforded them political and legal freedoms not available on the Chinese mainland.
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The Hong Kong garrison of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) still occupies some 28 sites across the global financial hub it inherited from the British military when the former colony was handed back to China in 2000.
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The FTSE 23 added 26 percent and the midcaps handed back losses to trade flat by 22017 GMT, as investors saw little change in the Brexit backdrop after Prime Minister Theresa May's latest defeat in parliament on Thursday.
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Hong Kong, an international finance hub on China's southern coast with more than seven million residents, was a British colony until 1997, when it was handed back to China under a policy known as one country, two systems.
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The former British colony was handed back to China in 1997 and has since been ruled under the "one country, two systems" principle — that means the special administrative region can enjoy certain economic and political autonomy from Beijing.
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Hong Kong's special status The former British colony was handed back to Beijing in 1997 but is now run under its own special system of laws that give it greater economic and social freedoms than mainland Chinese cities.
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A year and a half ago the 300 meter-long beach was handed back to the public after the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC), whose facilities are gated off and subject to military secrecy, scaled back its operations.
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Ukrainian authorities will now invite Italian experts to authenticate the paintings — which have an estimated value of more than 16 million euros ($18.3 million) — and prepare for them to be handed back, his office said in a statement.
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Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Minister of Police Stuart Nash announced the launch of the program in a joint press statement, promising licensed gun owners "fair compensation" for their weapons handed back during a six-month amnesty period.
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And unlike the shotgun shells, it brought down the target drone without damage, so that it could be handed back to its owner unharmed, or forensically examined to find more signs of its purpose or who was flying it.
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Several banks, including Barclays, Commerzbank , Norway's SEB and the Netherlands' ING , handed back just over $800 million in quota granted by Chinese authorities under the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme between April and September 2015, public data shows.
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The FTSE 100 index added 0.2 percent and the midcaps handed back losses to trade flat by 0938 GMT, as investors saw little change in the Brexit backdrop after Prime Minister Theresa May's latest defeat in parliament on Thursday.
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The government has made big strides in awarding titles under a land restitution program started in 2011, and hundreds of thousands of hectares stolen or abandoned during Colombia's half-century civil war have been handed back to rightful owners.
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Shares of the company initially rose as much as 2000 percent to $27, although they handed back much of those gains after the company said a renovation of its flagship New York store would eat into earnings this year.
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He laughed as I handed back the joint, and my last thought before blacking out was that he must be some sort of demon if he preferred what I was feeling at that moment to however he normally felt.
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WAGAH, India/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan handed back a captured Indian pilot on Friday as the nuclear-armed neighbors scaled back a confrontation that has prompted world powers to urge restraint, although shelling continued in the disputed Kashmir region.
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On Wednesday, as part of the ceremonies for India's Independence Day celebrations, one of the sculptures, a bronze seated Buddha in the Bhumisparsha Mudra pose, was handed back to Indian high commissioner, Y.K. Sinha at a ceremony in London.
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African governments have fiercely denied that such takeovers could happen, despite recent precedent in Sri Lanka, where a port in the president's strategically located but commercially unviable hometown was handed back to the Chinese company that financed its construction.
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"These illegal acts that challenge our country's sovereignty, and jeopardize 'one country two systems', will destroy the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong," Lam said, referring to the territory's administrative system since 1997, when it was handed back to China.
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Hong Kong is ruled by an entirely separate and independent legal system that is part of British-based common law, the heart of the "one country, two systems" model adopted by the territory when it was handed back to China.
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Parity was short-lived, however, as Kerber handed back the break in the next game and Azarenka did not waste another opportunity to seal the deal to move one win away from a third Miami title and second straight tournament triumph.
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Organisers said almost 2 million turned out on Sunday to demand that chief executive Lam step down in what is becoming the most significant challenge to Chinas relationship with the territory since it was handed back by Britain 22 years ago.
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"These illegal acts that challenge our country's sovereignty, and jeopardize 'one country two systems', will destroy the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong," she said, referring to the territory's administrative system since 1997, when it was handed back to China.
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The former British colony was handed back to China in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" agreement that promised to maintain the global financial hub's freedoms and separate laws for at least 50 years, but gave ultimate control to Beijing.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by large and sometimes violent street protests over the past month to oppose the extradition bill, plunging the former British colony into its biggest political crisis since it was handed back to China in 1997.
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Hong Kong, a former British colony handed back to China in 1997, is constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and autonomy from Beijing for 50 years but the series of disappearances has led to suspicions that mainland law enforcement officers were ignoring the law.
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It would guarantee, however, that a significant portion of people who are deemed "middle class" would not, and that the money Americans receive under the LIFT Act would not be handed back to the government to pay for their health care.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A London museum has handed back locks of hair cut from the corpse of an Ethiopian emperor during a British invasion 150 years ago, after a campaign by activists seeking the return of hundreds of pieces of colonial plunder.
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At Thursday's hearing, Turner thumped a massive binder down in front of his microphone, explaining that each page had "15 to 16 titles" of documents from CyTech's work that were erased before the OPM handed back the company's CyFir tool.
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Such accidents are exceedingly rare in Hong Kong, and there was no indication that the crash was related to the protests that have prompted the former British colony's worst political crisis since it was handed back to Chinese control in 1997.
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Records show that Christmas Masses have been celebrated at Notre-Dame every year since at least 1803, after the cathedral was handed back to the Roman Catholic Church following the French Revolution, according to André Finot, a spokesman for the cathedral.
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Malls in particular are under pressure when they are handed back much larger locations from department store operators like Sears, J.C. Penney, Macy's and Hudson's Bay, since there are few retailers, if any, still growing at that same size and scale.
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Moscow and Tokyo agreed in 1956 to put an end to their wartime hostility and that two small parts of the territory near Hokkaido — Habomai and Shikotan — would be handed back to Japan after the signing of a formal peace treaty.
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Organizers said almost 2 million turned out on Sunday to demand that chief executive Lam step down in what is becoming the most significant challenge to China's relationship with the territory since it was handed back by Britain 22 years ago.
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Officials tried hard, however, to make this election appear more democratic than previous ones (when Mrs Lam takes over on July 1st she will be the territory's fourth leader since the former colony was handed back to China by Britain in 1997).
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which laid out how Britain would end its rule over Hong Kong before it was handed back to China in 1997 and which guaranteed the city's rights and freedoms, still applied.
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Over past months, Hong Kong has been embroiled by a series of sometimes violent protests - its most serious crisis since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997 but with democratic freedoms under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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Hong Kong has been hit by a series of sometimes violent protests for over two months - its most serious crisis since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997 but with democratic freedoms under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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Hong Kong has been hit by a series of sometimes violent protests for over two months - its most serious crisis since the city was handed back by Britain to China in 1997 but with democratic freedoms under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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The yuan handed back some of its early gains, but was on course for its fifth straight weekly advance after the central bank guided its official midpoint above a key threshold, and as Chinese exports and imports contracted less in October than expected.
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Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has handed back three private jets he was leasing because U.S. sanctions imposed on him last month make it impossible to keep using the planes, the firm retained by the owners to sell the aircraft said on Thursday.
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Portugal's ties with China date back some 500 years to the settlement of Macau, the trading post-turned-gambling hub that was Europe's last colony in Asia until it was handed back to China in 1999, just as Portugal joined the euro.
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Trump's friendliness with Putin, meanwhile, has raised questions about whether he might at some point be handed back to the US as a diplomatic gift, a possibility that Snowden says he puts out of his mind as an uncontrollable element of his fate.
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Britain's last governor in Hong Kong before it was handed back to the Chinese, Chris Patten, had written to May on Monday urging her to raise concerns over the "increasing threats to the basic freedoms, human rights and autonomy" in the territory.
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Soon after the Lakers drew even midway through the fourth period, Jennings sank a step-back 27-footer, then promptly assisted on a layup that turned into a 3-point play to restore a lead for the Knicks that they never handed back.
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It might be sweet and indulgent, or about a renewed lust for life when some of your precious time is handed back to you, or it might be of the platonic ideal of the sweet Nanna or wise-cracking Pop you never had.
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"It seems to me that the government has handed back control of its border to the EU." The government said control over migration from the EU into Britain could be exercised by restrictions on access to the British social security system and labor market.
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Others charge that the rail link involves an unacceptable breach of "one country, two systems", the arrangement whereby the central government in Beijing promised Hong Kong "a high degree of autonomy" for at least 50 years after Britain handed back the territory in 1997.
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Wong said freedoms in Hong Kong had been destroyed by Beijing and the Hong Kong government since the city was handed back from British rule under a "one country, two systems" deal meant to ensure freedoms not allowed in mainland China including an independent judiciary.
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"People on the left still think what happened is just an aberration and the reins of power will soon be handed back to us," says Emilie Moatti, a Labour member who is planning to run for a seat in the Knesset at the next election.
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The demands and expectations of the two have grown increasingly divergent in the years following 1997, when Hong Kong was handed back to China from Britain to be governed under the "one country, two systems" framework while enjoying a "high degree of autonomy" from China.
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Another Russian tycoon subject to U.S. sanctions, metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, has handed back three private jets he was leasing because his inclusion on the sanctions blacklist made it impossible for him to keep using them, the firm retained to sell the aircraft told Reuters in May.
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The twin female pandas, Mei Lun and Mei Huan, were born at Zoo Atlanta in 2013 but handed back to China this month under the rules of the "panda diplomacy" program under which China loans the endangered animals to other countries as a gesture of friendship.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by a series of sometimes violent protests for over two months against an extradition bill - its most serious crisis since the city was handed back by Britain to China in 1997 but with democratic freedoms under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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" "I accept that today's story is an ironic one and shows hypocrisy and is a mistake, and the administration shouldn't have had government emails going to private emails servers," he said, adding that "all of the emails have been handed back over to the federal government.
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He also caused a local controversy during the student-led protests against Chinese-imposed restrictions on voting rights in 2014, in which young demonstrators occupied major streets for months, the biggest challenge to China's authority in Hong Kong since Britain handed back the colony in 1997.
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The Time Stone can be handed back to the Ancient One, and the Tesseract can go back in a case, the Reality Stone/Aether can be... reinjected into Natalie Portman's Jane (yikes), but the Soul Stone can't just be returned like an item you no longer want from Target.
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Yet inspecting newly returned sculptures—including a splendid tenth-century statue of a monkey god, handed back in 2015 by the Cleveland Museum of Art—is how John Kerry, the secretary of state, began a visit to Cambodia on January 26th, a day before he headed to Beijing.
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The money is part of about 4.8 billion euros of profits from Greek bonds held by the euro zone that is to be handed back to Athens by mid-2022 and from a waiver of the step-up interest rate margin on part of the euro zone loans.
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The money is part of about 4.8 billion euros of profits from Greek bonds held by euro zone central banks, to be handed back to Athens by mid-2022 in semi-annual tranches and a waiver of the step-up interest rate margin on part of the euro zone loans.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by large and sometimes violent street protests over the past month against the extradition bill, which many city residents see as a threat to their freedoms, plunging the former British colony into its biggest political crisis since it was handed back to China in 1997.
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Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India both carried out aerial bombing missions last week and on Wednesday fought a brief dogfight in the skies over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, but they stepped back from the brink after Islamabad on Friday handed back a captured Indian pilot as a peace gesture.
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A new law banning disrespect for the anthem came into force in mainland China last year, but it was not automatically applicable to Hong Kong, a former British colony handed back to China in 1997 under promises that its core freedoms would remain intact under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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Johnson told Reuters on Wednesday that he backed the people of Hong Kong "every inch of the way" and cautioned China that the "one country, two systems" principle under which the territory has been governed since being handed back to China by Britain in 1997 should not be cast aside.
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The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is one such outfit, promising that their carbon tax plan would be pro-growth and that two-thirds of Americans would directly benefit from a tax if the proceeds from it were to be handed back to the public equally in the form of monthly rebate checks.
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Sunday's protests, reminiscent of 2014's Umbrella Revolution, came hours before China rubber stamped the ruling on Monday, with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) voting unanimously to pass the interpretation — the fifth such intervention by Beijing since the British handed back the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
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It's visible when Harden throws a lob that clanks too high off the backboard and when Corey Brewer launches one of those two-handed, back-twisting crosscourt heaves that proves too much for the aging reflexes of Jason Terry; only two teams in the NBA turn the ball over with greater regularity than Houston.
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Still, in a case that takes this understanding to a brow-raising extreme, Sequoia Capital has, for the first time in its history, parted ways with a newly funded company over a purported conflict of interest and, almost more shockingly, handed back its board seat, its information rights, its shares and its full investment.
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The United States, a key ally of Iraq's Kurds, has warned the vote will likely destabilize the region amid the fight against IS. The Iraqi central government has also come out strongly against the referendum, demanding on Sunday that all airports and borders crossings in the Kurdish region be handed back to federal government control.
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Although the ministry said the drone would be returned to the United States in a "proper way," the statement stopped short of saying when or how the device, which Chinese and American analysts say was most likely used to gather intelligence about Chinese submarine activity in contested waters, would be returned, or if it would be handed back intact.
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He gave up four runs in fewer than five innings, handed back a lead that his Boston Red Sox teammates had given him in the first inning and was removed from Game 093 of the American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros after he had allowed two batters to reach base in the top of the fifth.
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When the Chinese lost to a more experienced British military they were forced to pay a fine to Britain, open up more ports to foreign trade as well as give the British control of the island of Hong Kong, starting a long history of trade and territorial links – a legacy that only ended when Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
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California requires auto companies and suppliers who test their self-driving vehicles on public roads to provide an annual compilation of miles traveled in autonomous mode and the number of "disengagements," or times the self-driving system was deactivated and control handed back to humans because of a system failure or a traffic, weather or road situation that required human intervention.
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A spacious, shiny beacon for business Opened in 1998 -- a year after Hong Kong was handed back to China by the British -- on the reclaimed island of Chek Lap Kok, the newly built airport replaced the famous Kai Tak facility which was regarded as one of the most difficult airports in the world for pilots to fly in and out of.
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Sequoia is giving away $21M to a payments startup it recently funded as it walks away from deal Sequoia Capital has, for the first time in its history, parted ways with a newly funded company (Finix) over a purported conflict of interest and, almost more shockingly, handed back its board seat, its information rights, its shares and its full investment.
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Other recent developments that Tiger's investors have surely liked seeing include the sale of Glassdoor, the jobs and salary website, acquired by the Japanese human resources company Recruit Holdings for $1.2 billion in cash back in May; Spotify's direct listing on the U.S. stock market back in April (the company is currently valued at $26 billion); and even more recent exits, including the IPOs of both Eventbrite and SurveyMonkey — though both have handed back some gains since going public last month.
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But we also see news reports in last couple of days under the previous administration or other administration&aposs where kids were handed back to mules unintentionally they&aposre being trafficked because not enough protocols are in place, so I&aposm at least grateful for the fact that in this instance, even if it&aposs taking a little bit longer, we&aposre making sure these are parents or relatives the kids are being given back to in a very humane -- PERINO: Jose, do you support the use of the DNA tests in order to make sure that these children are going back to the actual parent?
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