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“... Letts first went to the Overdose Prevention Society’s drug consumption room in Vancouver in late 2019. Her own son, Mike, was in jail, but she was with a friend who was hoping to find her missing daughter. Letts’s suburban home isn’t far from the stretch of East Hastings Street in Downtown Eastside populated by fentanyl users who live on the ...”

“... When​ DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese company been able to develop something that could compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini despite a US export ban on the latest Nvidia chips that almost all large language models rely on? DeepSeek said it had built its model at a cost of only $5 ...”

“... buses, police dogs, horses and a fireboat were named after him. He was admitted to hospital in January 2021 with Covid and pneumonia, and died a few days afterwards.Meanwhile, the Captain Tom Foundation was incorporated with Companies House on 5 May 2020 and registered with the Charity Commission a month later. According to the application to register the ...”

“... and three-quarters of the US was under snow. A likely reason for that is global heating: in early January, ‘air in the stratosphere above the Arctic warmed suddenly’ – Bloomberg again – and ‘set up a slow-moving atmospheric chain reaction that weakened the polar vortex, the girdle of winds that keeps frigid air corralled at the North Pole’. And ...”

“... unfunded government subsidies for electricity and bread, caused the private banks to collapse in 2019. Last month, European prosecutors arrived in Lebanon to determine whether Riad Salameh, who has been governor of the central bank for thirty years, is guilty, along with his brother, of having embezzled more than $300 million from the state. The evidence so ...”

“... restricting an individual’s movements (a pilot scheme began in London last summer). In January 2019, Skengdo and AM, a drill duo, were both given nine-month prison sentences, suspended for two years, for breaching a Metropolitan Police injunction banning them from performing their song ‘Attempted 1.0’ after a clip of a gig was put on ...”

“... awareness and requests for treatment, the number of prescriptions per month went from 238,000 in January 2017 to 538,000 in December 2021. The costs of HRT prescribed by GP practices over the same period increased from £3.2 million to £7 million. HRT drugs have repeatedly been in short supply since 2018. The NHS may have a lot of purchasing power, but it ...”

“... of the electoral roll. The referendum, coupled with legislative elections originally scheduled for January 2019, would take place soon after. Guinea hasn’t had much experience of democracy. Since independence it has been ruled by a series of dictators, some better liked than others. Condé was elected ten years ago, in the country’s first ever free ...”

“... In​ 2019, I made several visits to Dhar al-Jebel, a Libyan detention centre better known as Zintan, after the nearest town. Around a thousand migrants, most of them Eritreans, were being held there indefinitely. Nearly all had been arrested by the Libyan coastguard in 2017, the year it began to receive EU funding to stop migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean, which was still a crime under a Libyan law dating from the Gaddafi era ...”

“... governments to which Britain has been subjected since 2010. David Cameron’s declaration in January 2013 that, if the Conservatives won the next election, they would offer a referendum on membership of the EU – which wasn’t a significant concern, never mind a priority, for British voters – is a fine example. Usually, it is attributed to Tory fears ...”

“... entirely on board with free and fair elections. ‘Do you know what a democracy is?’ he said in 2019. ‘Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. You don’t want to be in a democracy. Majority rule: not always a good thing.’Johnson was known to House Republicans, according to Politico, as the ‘leading voice in support of a fateful ...”

“... he ‘got all the big calls right’, as Johnson himself boasted to Keir Starmer at PMQs on 26 January. No one is minded to argue with him about this supposed success, wanting to return instead to the question of what he knew about the parties and whether he misled Parliament. The result is that we’ve heard the unchallenged assertion that Johnson made ...”

“... reorganisation in any form of the dissolved Fascist Party’. The constitution came into force in January 1948. The Movimento Sociale Italiano had been established more than a year earlier under the leadership of Giorgio Almirante, Mussolini’s culture minister in the Nazi puppet state established in northern Italy in September 1943. By the end of the ...”

“... then under the direct control of the president. It became Bashir’s praetorian guard. In April 2019, Hemetti says, he refused an order from Bashir to open fire on protesters. Bashir had quoted an Islamic law which supposedly allows a ruler to kill up to half of his people in order to bring stability. Many in Sudan welcomed Hemetti’s stance. But they are ...”

“... Early​ in January, Gautam Adani, an Indian businessman and associate of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, was the world’s third richest man. By the end of the month he had lost much of his fortune, after being accused by the US-based research investment firm Hindenburg Research of pulling the ‘largest con in corporate history ...”