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"stand-off" Definitions
  1. stand-off (between A and B) a situation in which no agreement can be reached

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He likes to observe and stand off to the side.
Until then, Germany's policy stand-off with the world will continue.
Interest in the Catalonian stand-off is perhaps to be expected.
Even the stand-off on Cyprus may be near a solution.
"It's a sort of stand-off, a stalemate," the source said.
A trade stand-off between the United States and China wasn't.
Singer Cammie Gilbert is almost daring Death to a stand-off.
He nodded and told us to stand off to the side.
Mr Trump's stand-off with Mr Xi could have imperilled that approach.
Others worry that the stand-off could descend into a proxy war.
The second is Russia, with which Ukraine remains in a stand-off.
Its stand-off with America is not very costly for either side.
Not a chicken dinner of course, but I won that stand-off.
Disney stepped into a stand-off between Rupert Murdoch and British regulators.
Tokyo recently backed New Delhi during India's border stand-off with China.
The Kremlin has learned another lesson from the stand-off: Intimidation works.
A long stand-off risks seeing Greece roll down to the bottom again.
S. trade stand-off was at an end, knocking appetite for cyclical assets.
The stand-off, now in its 16th day, has become an international saga.
If the stand-off continues, the repairs will take even longer to complete.
Several gunmen were also wounded during the 14 days of the stand-off.
But as important is the acquisition of "stand-off" munitions with long ranges.
The legal battle has run alongside Ukraine's broader political stand-off with Russia.
The United States is now in a tense stand-off with North Korea.
The result: a journalist-interviewee stand-off, which is awkward for everyone involved.
It's almost got the feel of that climactic stand-off in Reservoir Dogs.
However the stand-off is resolved, both sides are likely to claim victory.
First up, he insisted, Brown did not have a "stand-off" with cops.
Stand off on a global stage Guaido has a flair for theatrical politics.
And even in the midst of this predictable stand-off, A Vigilante subverts expectations.
Cuba and Iran have in common a long stand-off with the United States.
Automation is also expected to help Esquel in the trade stand-off with America.
The spiritual stand-off has failed to arouse much passion among ordinary Russian citizens.
Manned aircraft will increasingly be platforms for sensors, data-gathering and stand-off missiles.
The two countries are embroiled in a stand-off around India's north eastern border.
The stand-off has lead to the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.
Lee, moved by Roslin's dedication to civil liberties, resolves the stand-off through diplomacy.
France is no stranger to the theatre of industrial action and political stand-off.
Spotz died by suicide on March 22 in a California stand-off with police.
She pointed to a political stand-off last year between China and South Korea.
Washington has stood by Ukraine's pro-Western leaders in their stand-off with Russia.
He was killed by security forces after a more than 30-hour stand-off.
The two entities had been locked in an acrimonious stand-off for many years.
As iOS and Android mature, the stand-off between platforms and hackers escalates in kind.
But the Chinese government has little reason to back down in such a stand-off.
It is unusual for a stand-off like this to go on for so long.
But after a brief stand-off he decided once again to pay the rebels instead.
The Senate majority leader, who might be able to end the stand-off, is AWOL.
For many Americans, the history of Russia's stand-off with the West ended in 1991.
Despite its long stand-off with Warsaw, the EU has failed to stop the purge.
Then there is the long-running stand-off with Boeing over subsidies and tax breaks.
The stand-off revealed more than the two countries' relative strength at a remote frontier.
Uber is suspending its service in Taiwan following an ongoing stand-off with the government.
Changes at the constitutional tribunal have led to a stand-off with the European Commission.
Scholz told daily Bild he was "seriously worried" about the trade stand-off with Washington.
Washington and Tehran are in a protracted stand-off over Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
The political stand-off has pushed banks and companies to move their headquarters outside Catalonia.
Tuesday's stand-off in Caracas marks the most significant attempt at a coup from Guaidó.
A stand-off risks instability that the Taliban or the Islamic State group could exploit.
The risk of a stand-off has implications for monetary policy, as well as markets.
Saudi Arabia has called for a summit meeting in Jeddah to defuse the stand-off.
Wei portrayed the South China Sea situation as largely a stand-off between Washington and Beijing.
Even so, the current stand-off appears to be driven more by the inter-creditor disagreement.
Yields stand off those levels but rose 2 basis points on the day to 3.23 percent.
At first, he would stand off to the side and didn't tell anyone he was blind.
Last summer it sparred with China atop the Himalayas in the tensest stand-off in decades.
It was this that caused the previous stand off between Saudi Arabia and Qatar in 2014.
The trouble is that people do not always behave rationally—as the Catalan stand-off shows.
The political stand-off has pushed banks and companies to move their legal headquarters outside Catalonia.
Police were called and Button was arrested after a brief 20-minute stand-off, WSAW reported.
High in the Himalayas, Chinese and Indian troops are involved in a deepening military stand-off.
Javed said that Khan may also avoid a political stand-off by negotiating with the parties.
Last month, the government appointed a ministerial team to find a solution to the stand-off.
Russia has sided with President Nicolas Maduro in his stand-off with opposition leader Juan Guaido.
Please, people, unless your brain has been commandeered by an alien, stand off to the side.
It could also deploy Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSMs) to arm the bombers.
The incident sparked a diplomatic stand-off and Bolivia expelled Mexico's ambassador and several Spanish officials.
Unable to conduct penetrating strikes, stand-off is necessary to keep the bomber in the fight.
The latest Kurdish push against ISIS follows a lengthy and contentious stand-off with Turkish forces.
A similar stand-off with the government in 2111 cost around 2200,53 tonnes of lost output.
The dissipating fear has made it easier to focus on the personal side of the stand-off.
For example Ablin said U.S. President Donald Trump's stand-off with Iran could put pressure on stocks.
The Corps is now considering questions such as the needed stand-off distance and level of lethality.
In this stand-off Tulsa, like other American former boomtowns, benefits from the afterglow of industrial wealth.
The longer the stand-off continues, the more problematic the strategy of President Donald Trump's administration becomes.
It was just the latest development in Mr Elmer's long-running stand-off with the Swiss authorities.
The Democrats, emboldened by their takeover of the House of Representatives, conceded nothing during the stand-off.
After a half-day stand off, wildlife officers finally entered and were able to sedate eight tigers.
That is especially true just now when America finds itself in a stand-off with North Korea.
The development mirrors a similar stand-off between Western buyers and Russia's top oil producer, Rosneft (ROSN.MM).
The stand-off around the courts splits Poland's 38 million people and damages the country's reputation abroad.
After a protracted stand-off with the government, Uber has decided to suspend its service in Taiwan.
Ibrahim Fraihat, Conflict Resolution Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, forecast a prolonged stand-off.
Who, to quote Clint Eastwood's character in the "Dirty Harry" movie, feels lucky in this stand-off?
The campus stand-off saw police blockade the protesters in, and use tear gas on those inside.
Over the weekend, the French government urged Air France managers and unions to resolve the stand-off.
It is time to end this stand off and get the Ex-Im Bank back to work.
There's a reason why the stand-off on the Korean Peninsula has lasted for nearly seven decades.
Kenyan television channel KTN said as many as six officers had died in the continuing stand-off.
In the 1960s a similar stand-off ended with the president being ousted by a military coup.
Two police officers were killed during a two-week stand-off, before gunmen surrendered to the authorities.
The stand-off between Congress and the White House over Saudi Arabia isn't likely to end soon.
Protesters stand off against police during an anti-government rally in Hong Kong's Tsuen Wan District, Aug.
The enemies made clear the pause was an armed stand-off rather than a long-term accommodation.
Fears are escalating of a Middle East war with global repercussions as the U.S.-Iranian stand-off festers.
In the new stand-off with Vladimir Putin, Mr Gordievsky may still be a target for Russian assassins.
Chinese coastguard ships took control of the area after a tense stand-off with Philippine vessels in 2012.
The stand-off has led to tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and fiery rhetoric on both sides.
See article China and India ended a stand-off on their shared border with Bhutan in the Himalayas.
He has only created a stand-off that has energised his enemies and shocked his friends (see article).
Luxury shops were caught up in the stand-off, with some shoppers even taking pictures of riot police.
Global stock markets fell as investors worried about a trade stand-off between the United States and China.
Qube shares rose more than 10 percent on hopes that a joint offer might end the stand-off.
Kenyan television channel KTN said as many as six officers had died in the stand-off in Kapenguria.
Taiwan's export-centric economy leaves it exposed to the potential fallout of a worsening global trade stand-off.
S. trade stand-off, upcoming U.S. data and U.S. Federal Reserve meeting minutes kept prices in a range.
Analysts expect the continuing stand-off to be a drag on China's economy but also present trading opportunities.
"Stand-off weapons" are things like cruise missiles launched from far enough away that Syria could not retaliate.
In between takes, I would just stand off to the side, motionless, and just stay in that space.
The demonstrations come nearly three weeks after a stand-off began between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido.
Efforts include the Air Force's new B-2628 Raider bomber and its Long-Range Stand-Off missile (LRSO).
The main risk is that the stand-off will further embolden the 5-Star, and especially, the League.
The stand-off between Qatar and its fellow Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, continued.
They are heavy users of the scheme and the stand-off with Brussels has pushed up their borrowing costs.
B-1 strategic bombers armed with stand-off missiles could be stationed at Fairford, an American base in Britain.
Teilhard was connecting things that were traditionally kept apart—and upsetting the uneasy stand-off between science and religion.
A stand-off between the United States and China, the world's top two economies, has been hurting copper prices.
Renault agreed to limit formal control of its larger partner in a shareholder pact to defuse the stand-off.
The stand-off comes after an international court rejected China's historic claims to most of the South China Sea.
Barros refused to come out of the house, but was arrested after a six-hour stand-off with police.
The intro scene shows Walt get cocky as he has a stand-off in the desert with their competitor.
Italy is certainly no stranger to political turmoil, but the ongoing stand-off constitutes new territory for the country.
Earlier today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked Middle Eastern countries to quell their diplomatic stand-off with Qatar.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is also due to meet rail unions for talks over the SNCF stand-off.
The appointment would fill a management void after a tumultuous stand-off with unions at French carrier Air France.
I seem always curiously interested in myself, and it's so much fun to stand off and look at me.
PA) in 2015 and a stand-off between Macron and business tycoon Martin Bouygues during talks between Orange (ORAN.
The vehicles were eventually able to reach their destination after a tense stand-off, albeit hours later than scheduled.
Much talk of workplace automation paints a picture of an apocalyptic stand-off between humans and their robot replacements.
Leder-Elder suggests regular communication, and especially, routine visits, to help stand off the negative effects of their time apart.
Woodley is one of many who have asked Obama to end the stand-off during his last months in office.
What came next was an epic hours-long exhausting stand-off between the lions and an old male bull giraffe.
Not for nothing has The Australian, a newspaper, referred to the testy stand-off as "the Elliott in the room".
CIA Director Mike Pompeo visited South Korea Monday amid high tensions in the stand-off over North Korea's weapons program.
Now an uneasy stand-off exists between the groups supported by Turkey and Kurdish militia along a broad, ragged front.
A week after the end of the stand-off, Washington, DC, continues to witness a briefing war about what happened.
The move marks the latest clash in the stand-off between the Taiwan government and the global ride-sharing firm.
A stand-off with police ended when residents were granted the right to hold secret ballots for its village leaders.
We find them a bit further along the quay, in the Vieux-Port area, in a stand-off with police.
The tense stand-off between the US and Chinese governments has darkened the international banks' assessment of Huawei's business prospects.
Trump seemed eager to dampen down any expectations that the nuclear stand-off would be seriously addressed at the meeting.
An initial stand-off between protesters and the government in April over planned welfare cuts quickly descended into deadly clashes.
Brown, who studied art history in Seville, expressed his concern and sympathy for both sides in the political stand-off.
He urged Russia to release the crew of Ukrainian vessels it seized during a stand-off in the Kerch Strait.
For the first time in a 40 year stand-off, the Islamic Republic targeted US military installations openly and directly.
"Dialog is continuing hour by hour," Trudeau said before meeting with his top cabinet ministers to discuss the stand-off.
In 1998 at least 58 locals and eight South African soldiers died during a political stand-off and subsequent fighting.
The stand-off with Brussels deepened in May when Prime Minister Robert Fico said Islam had no place in Slovakia.
This domestic crisis is overlaid by the simmering and more dangerous stand-off between the United States and North Korea.
The diplomatic stand-off with Russia has dragged relations between Putin and the West to a post-Cold War low.
The protesters are occupying part of three strategic bridges - Ahrar, Sinak and Jumhuriya - in a stand-off with security forces.
That leaves NATO trying to learn more about Russia's aims if Putin continues to escalate the stand-off with the West.
Political risk—from Brexit to Italy's budget stand-off with the European Union—is never far away and, seemingly, never resolved.
Her Boyfriend Committed Suicide After a Police Chase Spotz died by suicide on March 22 in a stand-off with police.
As officials from both countries meet to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S-North Korea talks are aimed at ending a stand-off over Pyongyang's development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
Thousands of his supporters are believed to be inside the compound although many left following a tense stand-off with soldiers.
The Trump administration has become increasingly hawkish on Pyongyang in what appears to be a creep towards a military stand-off.
Early Saturday morning, Cincinnati police pulled over his vehicle, but Aurs initiated an hour-long stand off before surrendering, police said.
The court's ruling could further prolong the stand-off described last week by the United Nations as a "looming humanitarian crisis".
In a meeting with a group of journalists, Sisi also pledged support for Saudi Arabia in its stand-off with Iran.
The two bluffs known as the "Bears Ears" stand off in the distance at sunset in the Bears Ears National Monument.
People on both sides the stand-off, however, put the present value of that amount at about 82 to 84 percent.
The Cold War stand-off between the Soviet Union and the United States was based on ideology and competing economic systems.
Predictably, cafes in Athens are buzzing with speculation of a lengthy stand-off with Greece's creditors and a spring parliamentary election.
That puts those brands in a stand-off with both environmental groups and consumers concerned at the potential damage they're doing.
The pair then stand off stage at opposite sides and hand envelopes to the respective presenters as each category is announced.
The stand-off ended after the German government intervened to allow about 25,000 migrants to board trains to Austria and Germany.
Dana called the proposal unacceptable, however, and it is not clear that it will change the stand-off over the bonds.
" Brown also acknowledges that the stand-off isn't the best look for his NFL future -- but says, "F**k the NFL.
Court battles could last months, bringing the stand-off between Congress and the White House closer to the 2020 primary races.
There's more than one photograph of Tank Man, but for such a long, momentous stand-off, the photographs are surprisingly few.
The ship docked in Lampedusa after 2330 CET, ending a prolonged stand-off between the Spanish charity and the government in Rome.
But, any sudden breakthroughs in the trade stand-off possibly could see investors stampeding for the exit as fast as they arrived.
Shapiro says that Sondland would also threaten his European counterparts with a "Chinese-style stand-off" if they didn't cooperate on trade.
The tone and words used on both sides, however, suggest that the stand-off is as much personal as it is political.
Economists say the stand-off could tip towards a trade war if Trump responds with further tariffs, such as on EU cars.
Some sound almost nostalgic for the grim but familiar doctrines of the East-West nuclear stand-off during the original cold war.
An escalating diplomatic stand-off could have innumerable repercussions, including a further rise in oil prices and damage to investors' risk appetite.
However, the political stand-off has blunted economic growth in Kenya, which has been largely stable since the violence a decade ago.
They're walking down the road, they have those words with each other, and then they have their stand-off in the woods.
Police opened fire after pleading with the man, 31-year-old Miguel Richards, to disarm himself during a 12-minute stand-off.
"The (Gulf) stand-off could last years," said Abhishek Kumar, lead investment manager for emerging market debt at State Street Global Advisors.
But will it work and, equally importantly, what will it mean in terms of the uneasy stand-off with the Shanghai market?
The stand-off was sparked after Bhutan accused China of constructing a road inside its territory in "direct violation" of treaty obligations.
Because of a parliamentary stand-off between Mr McAuliffe and the legislature, Republicans were denied a chance to redraw the offending district.
Neither country should claim victory after the stand-off, said former Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, an expert on relations with China.
Saudi Arabia had been trying to resolve the stand-off to refocus the coalition on fighting the Houthis on its southern border.
Is the current stand-off between the US and North Korea as much a test for China as it is for Trump?
Initial reports suggested that Iran had deliberately missed the locations of US troops in an attempt to de-escalate the stand-off.
Because India and Pakistan have fought two of three wars over Kashmir, any stand-off in the region is fraught with risk.
Poorer countries always argue that richer net contributors to the budget should pay more, and there is inevitably an acrimonious stand-off.
The announcement came a day after China and India agreed to halt a two-month stand-off on the remote Doklam plateau.
S. trade stand-off was at an end knocked appetite for cyclical assets, helping pull the metal from the previous day's high.
"There seemed to be some indication of some planned stand-off with police," one of the responding officers wrote in a report.
If the stand-off with China turned into a trade war, Taiwan would suffer badly; its economy is inextricably linked to the mainland.
The stand-off between the volunteers and the House Speaker's office has taken on a second life on Twitter via the hashtag #PaulRyanSoScared.
While the stand-off pressed on from winter into spring, case had become one of the most closely watched of the Mueller investigation.
The stand-off between the two state firms has worried markets and left bondholders uncertain about who would pay them their interest payment.
In 2013 it was a local stand-off that threatened to end for good the raucous jamboree on Tsushima that honours the missions.
On Wednesday, Bristow said Barrick was "stuck in the middle between Acacia and the government of Tanzania who are in a stand-off".
The Indian government seems to have been pleased by what it perceived to be American support in its recent stand-off with Pakistan.
Hundreds of protesters were still locked in a tense stand-off with police in central Jakarta on Wednesday after a night of violence.
"It's a little bit of a stand off because Otis, our little boy, his hair is really long," Sudeikis told DeGeneres in October.
In its stand-off with the government Apple and other tech firms have a lot to prove, as well as much to lose.
The stand-off reflects a broader debate over how to balance the desire to keep public companies accountable with concerns over market manipulation.
Since Scalia's death, Warren has not been shy to express her sentiments about the current stand off between the President and Senate Republicans.
Tense stand-off The Doklam dispute began in July, over a thin strip of land bordering both countries and Bhutan, in the Himalayas.
One suspect, who was killed in a stand-off with police, said he wanted to kill whites, according to the Dallas police chief.
But if economic growth were to falter, the stand-off in Washington could become a bigger issue ahead of the November 2020 election.
The Asian giants were locked in a 73-day military stand-off in a remote, high-altitude stretch of that boundary last year.
" Asked if the United States questioned Turkey's membership in NATO given the stand-off, Bolton said: "That's not an issue at the moment.
" Asked if the United States questioned Turkey's membership in NATO given the stand-off, Bolton said: "That's not an issue at the moment.
The equipment, known as "stand off explosive detection technology" can detect an explosive when an individual passes by the device, New York Sen.
Although analysts said the stand-off between the United States and China could hit oil markets, for now most said demand looked healthy.
There isn't, yet, an exchange-traded lithium contract through which investors can place their bets on the outcome of the Santiago stand-off.
But instead of the discussion resulting in a tense stand off, Lukens had recalled that the leaders had handled the topic "as friends."
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she hoped the stand-off could be resolved and she had told police to handle it humanely.
As the characters race towards the inevitable stand-off against the White Walkers, there is less time for sexual encounters, no matter how lovely.
Tens of thousands of England's doctors are currently on strike, as a stand-off over new contracts continues between them and the British government.
The stand-off eventually ended up when the police tear-gassed the crowd and closed the polling station before anyone could cast their vote.
On Monday, this became evident when hundreds of young activists stormed the city government headquarters resulting in a tense stand off with riot police.
A referendum on the program could give Iran's leaders space to maneuver and a chance to resolve the stand-off with the United States.
As a result, it is conceivable that LRPF could provide strategically vital stand-off attack options for commanders moving to advance on enemy terrain.
"Diplomacy worked well in ending the nuclear stand-off ... The dispute over the missile programme also can be resolved through talks," the official said.
What is less clear is how long the stand-off will continue and whether it can be resolved without damage to Europe's single currency.
Mr Jammeh fled Gambia after a month-long stand-off with West Africa's regional power bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Spain's recent shift from two major parties to four produced a stand-off that left it without a government for most of last year.
Some speeches may be interrupted, like that of Prince Harry who had a stand-off with a bumblebee during a speech about his dad.
With no fundamental change in the nuclear stand-off between America and North Korea, once the jaw-jaw subsides then war-war looms again.
While also being locked in a trade stand-off with the United States, Merkel must now juggle competing domestic demands from within her coalition.
Catch up quick: Guaido called on the country's military to turn against Maduro yesterday, sparking a stand-off between his supporters and the government.
Some frame the stand-off in terms of the rule of law: Apple cannot pick and choose which rules it will obey, they say.
Her spokesman said ministers had discussed one possible way out of the stand-off - "a mechanism to clearly define how that backstop will end".
The losses are likely to accelerate to 200,000-300,000 bpd if the stand-off over the nation's leadership is not resolved, the bank says.
Yet that may not solve the stand-off; voters look set to elect another fractured parliament if they are called back to the polls.
After an hour-long stand-off, the officials starting taking down the artwork which was supposed to be on display until early Saturday evening.
But the current stand-off is widely seen as just part of a broader struggle for hegemony between the world's two biggest economic powers.
The move to Singapore comes as Russia and the West are in a stand-off over allegations that Moscow meddled in the U.S. elections.
But the protests didn't stop as demonstrators demanded the military swiftly hand power to civilians, leading to a stand-off and then a crackdown.
Mexico made concessions to the U.S. sugar industry to reach a deal, eager to avoid a stand-off before the NAFTA talks kicked off.
He and his base metal friends find themselves on the front line of the escalating trade stand-off between the United States and China.
The surge followed a stream of reports about a violent stand-off since Sunday between Hong Kong's police and radical protesters at Polytechnic University.
That stand-off lasted until earlier this month, when Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin reached a bipartisan proposal on immigration.
But in a late January opinion from Howell released Thursday, she articulates how the company and the prosecutors were still in a stand off.
The stand-off in parliament came about a week after the third meeting between Suu Kyi and Min Aung Hlaing, the powerful army chief.
Apple's stand-off with the regulator comes at a time when it is seeking greater access in India, the world's third-largest smartphone market.
Labour, already in the throes of a divisive leadership contest, had faced a stand-off with the GMB union, traditionally one of its biggest supporters.
Russian annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, triggering economic sanctions by the European Union and United States and a tense stand-off in the region.
By contrast, gridlock in Madrid risks reinforcing the stand-off in Catalonia and wasting the chance to turn the economic recovery into a Spanish renaissance.
Mr Xi and Donald Trump are expected to discuss how they might end their stand-off when they meet at the G20 summit this month.
Bloody protests broke out in Vietnam during the stand-off in 2014, with anger directed not only at China but also at Vietnam's own rulers.
Unless the stand-off is resolved soon, there is a risk that any transitional government, if and when it happens, will inherit a pauperised state.
Unless the stand-off is resolved soon, there is a risk that any transitional government will inherit a country with the living conditions of Haiti.
Following a tense stand-off with Pakistan, we look at how Hindu nationalism has shaped Narendra Modi's premiership, and will shape his re-election campaign.
International mediators including Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's prime minister, have been trying to end the stand-off between the generals and leaders of the protest movement.
Armed separatists are in a tense stand-off with the security services in several villages, in an apparent revival of a long-running regional insurgency.
Director Zack Snyder and a host of other crew members stand off camera to the left, checking lighting and footage while they watch the take.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will blacklist eight more Russians over a stand-off with Ukraine in the Azov Sea, diplomatic sources said on Friday.
The Democratic Unionist Party said on Wednesday the stand-off increased the likelihood of a "no deal" Brexit - the nightmare scenario for many British businesses.
Turkey has supported the Gulf state of Qatar in its prolonged stand-off with Saudi Arabia and its allies, sending troops to Qatar last year.
This time, he may not even vote, said his son Andrew, confessing to the unlikely graffiti stand-off on condition their surname not be published.
"Turkey is facing two fronts – one if the stand-off with the U.S., and the other are the weak economic fundamentals," said Danske Bank's Christensen.
But it announced its change of heart before a visit by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday to discuss the immigration stand-off.
The United States should develop a conventional variant of the LRSO, to deliver conventional payloads in heavily-contested air defense environments from stand-off range.
Nearly half of analysts polled by Reuters expect the agency to cut the rating, due to the government's continuing stand-off with the constitutional court.
Hazra, a wildlife enthusiast who owns a brick kiln, said he hopes his picture will make people think more carefully about this inevitable stand-off.
The two oligarchs have been locked in an acrimonious stand-off ever since Deripaska scooped up his holding in Norilsk during the global financial crisis.
Still, the GNA, which has struggled to impose its authority in the capital and beyond, had tried to mediate a solution to the stand-off.
The fight over presidential re-election led to a bitter political stand-off which ended in a coup against former President Manuel Zelaya in 2009.
STAND-OFF The fighting first erupted on Thursday, when troops loyal to Kiir stopped and demanded they be allowed to search vehicles of Machar's loyalists.
U.S. equity investors sold shares as they got some specific indications on the potential impact of President Donald Trump's trade tariff stand-off with China.
As CNBC's Jim Cramer sees it, the stock market is in the middle of a full-fledged stand-off between the bulls and the bears.
He would sing the song, "Blow High, Blow Low" and he would go away and stand off to the side and the ensemble would dance.
The whole thing was a big undertaking, and then the Grand Ronde folks would come and stand off to the side and listen to us.
The Saudi stand-off with Qatar, which has fractured a security alliance importance to the US, has been another thorn in the Trump administration's side.
MIWD00000PUS also rose, showing signs of relief after fears of a nuclear stand-off drove them to the biggest weekly losses of 2017 last week.
The ability to carry the DF-299 would give the bomber "an impressive stand-off capability against large enemy warships, especially aircraft carriers," Trevethick said.
Britain's Takeover Panel announced the auction on Thursday to end the Sky stand-off and force both Comcast and Fox to disclose their best offers.
So "The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle of the Binary Stars" are interested in questions of war and ethics, but they center on a tense stand-off between starships, and I don't think I'm giving too much away (it's in the episode name, after all) by revealing that the stand-off eventually leads into a big battle that shows off Discovery's sizable special effects budget.
It is a mark of the seriousness of the stand-off that he is ready to negotiate on all points of contention between the two sides.
A tense stand-off ensued with members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe, who captured the January confrontation on a cellphone video viewed by Reuters.
Investors have been cautiously monitoring moves related to the trade stand-off ahead of a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping late this month.
The LRSO, which could also be launched at farther stand-off ranges, is also designed for extremely high-risk areas armed with advanced air defense systems.
Facebook shut down the accounts of a woman engaged in a fatal stand-off with officers at the request of the Baltimore County Police Department Monday.
If a stand-off ensued, moreover, the rest of the world would not neatly divide between east and west, an essential feature of the cold war.
This stand-off has been politically profitable not just for the Catalan nationalists but also for Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, and his conservative People's Party.
The stand-off, preceded by a lawsuit and a countersuit both alleging breaches of the agreement, underscore how acrimonious relations have gotten between the two sides.
Outside organizations including powerful business lobby groups are increasingly worried that the disagreement could lead to a political stand-off that prevents tax reform from occurring.
Trouble had been brewing for some weeks amid a fraught stand-off between protesters and the generals over who would control the country's transition to democracy.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told reporters in Paris that he had seen a "greater desire" from Trump to fix the stand-off through discussion.
The stand-off was dismaying too, showing that even near-conflict with a foreign power is not enough to unite an America gripped by partisan furies.
At the heart of the Russian stand-off is a water testing license owned by Uniper's Russian subsidiary Unipro, which Moscow has deemed to be strategic.
The Times - The European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has warned Britain to start "negotiating seriously" as the stand-off over the Brexit divorce bill intensified.
Later, Jayasuriya met U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Robert Hilton at parliament and discussed the stand-off and reconvening parliament, a source privy to the meeting told Reuters.
He said he'd advise Trump against accelerating the Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) weapon — an aircraft-launched nuclear cruise missile — or building up new nuclear capabilities.
Dozens of them also need medical help, three asylum seekers said, in a stand-off that the United Nations has described as a "looming humanitarian crisis".
When she failed to show up to court to face these charges, a bench warrant was issued for her arrest which led to the stand-off.
The stand-off, preceded by a lawsuit and a countersuit both alleging breaches of the agreement, underscores how acrimonious relations have gotten between the two sides.
The EU is divided over how to end the stand-off with Moscow, with some countries such as Slovakia saying the current sanctions policy is untenable.
"There's a stand-off between too much and too little regulation," said Jayasree Iyer, executive director of the non-profit Access to Medicine Foundation in Amsterdam.
Brown described a tense stand off and hours of negotiating between officers and the sniper on the second floor of El Centro College in downtown Dallas.
Such a linkage mitigates against any quick resolution of the two countries' trade dispute because the escalating stand-off is about far more than just trade.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is "seriously concerned" about a trade stand-off with the United States, he told mass-selling daily newspaper Bild.
The trade stand-off, which has soured business confidence and tipped both U.S. and global manufacturing into recession, is threatening the longest economic expansion in history.
World stocks also rose, showing signs of relief after fears of a nuclear stand-off drove them to the biggest weekly losses of 2017 last week.
Alexis also notes that, whereas once there was a stand-off between militias representing different ethnic groups, local communities now live together in peace and harmony.
Sceptics have warned that a disputed result could lead to a dangerous political stand-off, with losers refusing to accept the outcome, as happened in 2014.
Oil's rise defied a slump in global stock markets, which fell in response to worries about a trade stand-off between the United States and China.
Sunday was the seventh day of a stand-off at Polytechnic University, its campus surrounded by police as some protesters hid out on the sprawling grounds.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's administration will use the stand-off "as an opportunity to replace imports, promote localisation or develop export-oriented advanced manufacturing," it continued.
The peaceful resolution of the Korean stand-off, and of the contested territorial claims in the South and East China Seas, sounds like easily acceptable objectives.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister warned on Sunday of possible direct or proxy Iranian attacks on Israel should the stand-off between Tehran and Washington escalate.
A similar stand-off was taking place nearby, with crowds throwing stones, sticks, eggs and bottles at police who were protecting a business center owned by Plahotniuc.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers will discuss in February imposing more sanctions against Russia over a stand-off with Ukraine in the Azov Sea, diplomats said.
International phone calls between the two countries have been restored, meaning friends and families divided by the stand-off can speak for the first time in decades.
But some members of the Catalan government have already questioned this interpretation of the constitution, suggesting the stand-off could extend for at least several more days.
Mr Ghani remains in a stand-off with the governor of the northern province of Balkh, Atta Muhammad Noor, who in December refused his order to resign.
The group's leader, an Ivy League-educated lawyer and ex-serviceman called Elmer Stewart Rhodes, opposed the occupation but felt his men could end the stand-off.
Burns Mayor Craig LaFollette told Reuters that while he had limited information about the night's events, he hoped the stand-off would come to a peaceful end.
Macron will have an opportunity to address the industrial stand-off in TV interviews over the coming days, one on Thursday and a second round on Sunday.
Japan, which also has its only overseas military base in Djibouti, already faces a tense stand-off with China over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The Trump administration may have dialled down its stand-off with the European Union, for now at least, but it is ratcheting up the pressure on China.
Or China might start building on the Scarborough Shoal, which it wrested from the Philippines in 2012 after a stand-off between the two countries' patrol boats.
Morales had been defiant, insisting that the stand off was not about him but about the need for a government of "the people" to remain in power.
Malaysian authorities rebuffed North Korean officials' efforts to stop an autopsy being carried out on Kim, three Malaysian government sources familiar with the stand-off told Reuters.
The most recent controversy is a stand off between local authorities and 580 asylum seekers hauled up in a decommissioned detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
AIM-listed Burford Capital, the litigation financing specialist caught in a stand-off with short-seller Muddy Waters, jumped 13% after it appointed a new finance chief.
But the "electric premium" in the price has been crushed by the broader market concerns about the escalating trade stand-off between the United States and China.
Shortly after Puigdemont and Colau's appeal, the Budget Ministry said the uncertainty created by the stand-off could damage the economy and push up sovereign borrowing costs.
Adam Perry Lang, famous chef and best-selling author, was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police vehicle after an 8-hour standoff stand-off.
Similar shortages occurred two years ago, when Poland was at odds with Russia - its former communist master and dominant gas supplier - over the stand-off in Ukraine.
Still, the peaceful end to the Doklam stand-off was a positive sign, Mao Siwei, China's former consul general in India's eastern city of Kolkata, told Reuters.
The stand off brings an end to a week of relative calm in Hong Kong, which had seen numerous clashes between protesters and police since early summer.
The stand off brought an end to a week of relative calm in Hong Kong, which had seen numerous clashes between protesters and police since early summer.
After days of bloodshed and a two-week stand off in which Palestinian Muslims refused to enter the compound, Israel removed the metal detectors and other equipment.
But some Senate Democrats are getting restless after Congress returned this week and an end to the stand-off over the impeachment articles did not appear imminent.
Two of the men occupying a federal biologist's office in a stand-off over land rights hopped from their chairs and swung rifles toward the locked door.
Saidy is the highest level official to abandon President Yahya Jammeh's camp in his stand-off with opposition leader Adama Barrow, who won an election in December.
One of the agencies affected by the stand-off is the Treasury Department, which will oversee the issuing of tax refunds as the 2018 filing season advances.
The official China Daily said in a Friday editorial that China was not in the mood for a fight, noting how the stand off has been "unusually restrained".
Crucially, both the U.K. and EU are keen to maintain the upper-hand in the ensuing talks and, as such, a stand-off could be on the cards.
World stocks also showed signs of relief after fears of a nuclear stand-off drove them to the biggest weekly losses of 2017 last week, while volatility ebbed.
The company has since been reprised — a strategy move within the U.S.-China trade stand-off — but Trump said today that its new life comes at a cost.
All this explains why the current stand-off could escalate further, even if a war on the scale that China and India fought in 1962 is highly unlikely.
To prepare Chinese public opinion for a long trade stand-off, propaganda chiefs have abandoned months of restraint and told state media to start thundering about American bullying.
The foreign ministers of China and India were due to meet to ease tensions over a stand-off in an area close to their shared border with Bhutan.
This will worsen the stand-off between the regime and its foes, which include a sprawling coalition of parties called the Democratic Unity alliance (MUD) and irate citizens.
Trump's stand-off with Iran is directly at odds with his oft-repeated pledge to keep the U.S. from diving into yet another war in the Middle East.
If the stand-off between the Administration and China were just about trade, there is plenty of scope for a deal, or even a series of mini accommodations.
The communiqué following meetings in Baden-Baden, Germany, omitted tough language vowing to resist all forms of protectionism after a stand-off between the US and its partners.
His government has requested an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the issue, and both countries have summoned each other's ambassadors in a mounting diplomatic stand-off.
Analysts say the next election campaign will feature significantly stronger anti-euro and euroskeptic tones, given the stand-off is likely to further embolden M5S, and especially, Lega.
The nuclear-armed Asian giants were locked in a 10-week military stand-off last year in a remote, high-altitude stretch of a boundary in the Himalayas.
The CSU idea is opposed by Merkel and the stand-off with the party leader and Germany's interior minister Horst Seehofer has threatened the stability of her coalition.
Moreover, the stand-off between Rome and Brussels over Italy's free spending budget, which is in breach of the European Union's fiscal rules, has weighed on the euro.
Grasberg's production loss results from a stand-off between majority owner and operator Freeport-McMoRan and the Indonesian government, which shows no signs of ending any time soon.
The stand-off with Congress also involved a conflict over the appointment of new judges to Peru's Constitutional Tribunal, the top court, adding an extra edge to proceedings.
In order to be relatively safe, a carrier would have to stand off by 244,300 nautical miles, or 2,300 kilometers – out of range of the Dong Feng missiles.
Pat Meehan (R-Pa.) on Wednesday advocated for Congress to resolve the tense stand-off between Apple and the FBI by passing some form of legislation governing encryption.
The fleet was originally established in the earliest days of the Cold War and was primarily tasked with supporting NATO in its stand-off with the Soviet Union.
The TSA said it is partnering with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to test the explosive screening system, known as a stand-off explosive detection unit.
Before the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011, there was an uneasy stand-off between Israeli and Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Five of the 14 ships headed to the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, held up since the stand-off, were still waiting to cross on Wednesday, Refinitiv data showed.
Three police officers were hurt in a stand-off lasting more than an hour at an apartment building in the beachside suburb of Brighton, police said in a statement.
The stock had lost about a third of its value after Dr. Reddy's said earlier this month it would launch its new drug regardless of the legal stand-off.
"This is not good news, but it was expected and markets I think will be neutral because of the ongoing political stand-off," said a regional equities fund manager.
In Libya, the state's already crippled oil production was at further risk from a stand-off between eastern and western political factions that prevented a Glencore cargo from loading.
Analysts have estimated the stand-off could cost SAS as much as $10.5 million a day, threatening to wipe out the airline's annual profit in less than two weeks.
Those gains follow losses in seven of the past eight sessions after Turkish assets have come under pressure in recent days over a stand-off with NATO ally Washington.
This strange stand-off is because the judge says the defense still has a right to see the malware, even if the government can't be forced to disclose it.
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley has urged authorities to move quickly, and Governor Kate Brown has personally called on federal authorities to bring a "swift resolution" to the stand off.
The whole shebang ends with a stand-off between Euron, who's holding Yara hostage and threatening her with a sword, and Theon, who's still not over his Bolton PTSD.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Convoys of evacuees traveled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and from two Shi'ite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday after a days-long stand-off.
LONDON (Reuters) - Surging zinc mine output will eventually lift annual charges for treating concentrates, but uncertain timing has led to a stand-off in talks between mines and smelters.
A lot of viewers are feeling an exaggerated smiley-squint from Daenerys during her heart-to-heart  stand-off with Sansa in the most recent Game of Thrones episode.
"The geopolitical risk premium (in the Middle East) is partly offset by another stand-off, namely between the U.S. and China," PVM analyst Tamas Varga said in a note.
His government has requested an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the issue, and both countries have summoned each other's ambassadors in a mounting diplomatic stand-off.
In the coming week, major geopolitical risks including a potential stand-off between the United States and North Korea over the latter's nuclear provocations will continue to dominate headlines.
The LRS-B will be able to carry internally a payload of cruise missiles, the new B61-12 bombs or a smaller stand-off missile with a conventional warhead.
"Amid the fiscal stand-off between Rome and Brussels as well as increasingly jittery global markets, the ECB is likely to stress caution," said Stephen Brown at Capital Economics.
European Union leaders will try to reassure Germany and Italy over migration at a summit next week as a stand-off in Berlin threatens Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition.
President Vladimir Putin has stressed the need to develop Russia's domestic tech industry to make it less dependent on foreign equipment amid a broader stand-off with the West.
Each helicopter instance triggers a stand-off between people who've been trained by decades of shooters that firing your weapon isn't just the best solution but the only one.
That romanticised past is the backdrop of a seemingly eccentric stand-off that began on January 2nd when armed militiamen seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon.
The streaming service shared a trailer for the new series that opened with Scott's character sitting in a car holding a gun while in a stand-off with police.
Shabir Ahmad, a doctor, said he began supporting militants and protesters after his brother-in-law, 21, was shot dead in Chadoora amid a stand-off with security forces.
Cue the stand-off we saw previewed on Conan, then a Wun Wun ex machina that introduces this episode's abiding motif: tiny men getting their heads exploded by giants.
Gibraltar has refused a U.S. legal request to seize the Iranian tanker Grace 1 that has been at the centre of a stand-off between Iran and the West.
The GOP Senate Majority Leader has indicated throughout the immigration stand-off that he would not allow legislation to come to a vote that the president did not support.
MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is playing no role in a stand-off between French group Vivendi and Italian broadcaster Mediaset, the phone group's Chairman Giuseppe Recchi said on Thursday.
"If it were a typical stand-off situation, where you have to get a SWAT team mustered, how many more people would have died," he said in an interview.
"I hope yield spreads come down ... when markets understand that 2.4 percent is a maximum ceiling," Tria said, warning that the stand-off with Brussels could have dangerous consequences.
He said the stand-off could go on at least until South Korea has new leadership, following the impeachment last month that ended the presidency of Park Geun-hye.
After a protracted stand-off with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Central European University has announced it will be closing its offices in Hungary and moving to Vienna, Austria.
The stand-off was a "disgrace," the star of the films "Gladiator" and "Les Misérables" told his 2.7 million followers in a series of messages on social network Twitter.
After a lot of punching and a cute little cameo from Krasinski's Office co-star Ellie Kemper, the two end up in a rooftop stand-off for the ages.
That came after a prolonged stand-off after nine armored troop carriers were seized by customs officials in Hong Kong en route from Singapore to China's historical rival Taiwan.
Ghosn, who heads both manufacturers, said a 2015 stand-off over French government voting rights had persuaded Nissan that no further consolidation was possible while France remains a shareholder.
WM: Do you acknowledge that if this stand off with the Saudis, Emiratis, Bahrainis and Egyptians continues, that there could be genuine concern about your country's economic growth model?
Congress also has approved initial funding of $256 billion to build a completely new weapon, the "Long Range Stand-Off" cruise missile, at an estimated $26 billion total cost.
The driver is in some kind of stand-off with a vehicle coming in the opposite direction—one of them needs to reverse, or they'll be there all day.
With his Glock 17, Vargas murdered six people and held two neighbors hostage during an eight-hour stand-off until a SWAT team stormed the building and killed him.
" Another time, he wrote: "I don't like it that you don't like my oldest son; but it's a bit of a stand off cuz he doesn't like you either.
Weekly mass demonstrations forced veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April, leaving Algeria in constitutional limbo and facing a stand off between protesters and the army-backed government.
Weekly mass demonstrations forced veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April, leaving Algeria in constitutional limbo and facing a stand off between protesters and the army-backed government.
The dispute is a close parallel to a stand-off between Apple and the Obama administration in 2015 in the wake of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
During a stand-off with Joe and Love inside Anavrin, Forty (James Scully) pulls a gun on Joe and tries to convince Love that Joe is a terrible murderer.
Vizcarra, a centrist, dissolved Congress late last month and swore in a new Cabinet last week following a lengthy stand-off between with lawmakers over his anti-corruption reforms.
But as the appointments dispute threatens to escalate into a new boardroom fight, Renault's hand is critically weakened by another deal Macron struck to end the last stand-off.
That helps explain why those in Harlan are still awaiting justice—even after the state governor and other powerful politicians have spoken up for them during the stand-off.
Greek corporate Titan Cement cleared a five-year deal at 3.50%, just one year after Greece's stand-off with creditors saw the company's bonds spike to double-digit yields.
In this time of aggressively evolving threats, failed and failing states and nuclear powers engaged in military stand-off, we must invest in these long-term, stability-oriented efforts.
The cleric-politician leading the nearly three-week blockade of the capital, Islamabad, thanked the army chief for helping resolve the stand-off, raising questions about the military's role.
While the tense stand-off would typically be seen as a possible diplomatic crisis in prior administrations, Trump has embraced sharp-elbowed approaches and appears more comfortable in such scraps.
Five EU states agreed on Wednesday to take in scores of migrants stranded for weeks on board the crowded rescue ship Open Arms, ending a prolonged stand-off with Rome.
Reuters reported 1MDB as saying the fund did not make a $50.3 million interest payment on its bonds due 2022, following a stand-off with Abu Dhabi sovereign fund IPIC.
The year-long stand-off was seen as a test for Pashinyan, who came to power in 2018 after mass protests against corruption and cronyism resulted in a peaceful revolution.
JeM last month carried out a suicide bombing in the disputed Kashmir region that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police, leading to a stand off between India and Pakistan.
A Louisiana inmate last week kidnapped and killed an assistant warden's 18-year-old stepdaughter after he escaped from prison before being shot dead in a stand-off with authorities.
A stand-off between the Italian government and European Union over Italy's 2019 budget has pushed up the country's borrowing costs and made for volatile trading conditions in recent months.
The present stand-off stems from an agreement that Kevin Rudd, a former Labor prime minister, struck with PNG four years ago in a bid to curry favour with voters.
"News related to the stand-off between the United States and China will remain the main driver of currencies," said Junichi Ishikawa, senior FX strategist at IG Securities in Tokyo.
The new stand-off between the neighboring Mediterranean countries arose as Italy's new government has been pressuring European partners to shoulder more of the burden of immigration from North Africa.
MUMBAI/SINGAPORE, Feb 26 (Reuters) - As Apple Inc resists the U.S. government in a high profile stand-off over privacy, rival device makers are, for now, keeping a low profile.
When the western stand-off subsides, Oregon may emerge as the latest state to pass ambitious emissions-reductions legislation, in this case a cap-and-trade programme for carbon pollution.
Most concerning right now for the cobalt supply chain, however, is the stand-off between the government and some of its largest mine operators over a proposed new mining code.
After that, he put the gun to his head again, prompting a stand-off with police officers who had arrived on the scene before he ultimately surrendered, the statement says.
The stand-off has cast doubts on the future of the agreement, designed to give Turks visa-free travel to Europe in return for stemming the flow of illegal migrants.
Delaying the stand-off to next month would improve Vivendi's chances of better board representation because shareholders would vote on candidates proposed by both top investors and not just Elliott.
Tillerson traveled to the Middle East to try to resolve the stand-off between Qatar and other Persian Gulf nations, who have accused their oil-rich neighbor of supporting terrorism.
Washington has not ruled out the eventual possibility of direct talks with the North to resolve the stand-off, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan said on Tuesday.
The panels on Nord Stream 2 at CERAWeek were generally more diplomatic, but the stakeholders nevertheless appeared exasperated with the stand-off, with tempers threatening to boil over at points.
The stand-off worsened this week as France mobilised strategic oil stocks for the first time in six years and employers said the protests were starting to hurt the economy.
Trump said Tuesday's summit could "work out very nicely" as officials from both countries met to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
The winning set of images includes snapshots of an interlocked army of ants, a stand-off between a surly fox and a shocked marmot, and a puma ambushing a guanaco.
While Pichai would regularly attend the meetings, she said, he would stand off to the side of the stage, weighing in only when tapped in by one of the cofounders.
But Corbyn retains strong support among the party's more left-leaning rank-and-file members, meaning that he could hold on to power and prolong the stand-off with MPs.
STAND DOWN: The Hill's Timothy Cama reports: Ted Cruz has taken a side in the controversial stand-off between protesters and the government at a federal building in rural Oregon.
The stand-off ended after 507 days when police forcibly removed and arrested hundreds of protesters, but much of the land was later returned to or vested with Ngāti Whātua.
While some of the technicalities around Exxon's stand-off are easily lost in the weeds, here's what you need to know about why the corporation's legal flexing is so significant.
Special forces units and police then surrounded the building, footage showed, leading to an hour-long stand-off between the women and the police in which there was sporadic gunfire.
Electoral authorities have proposed recounting around 6 percent of the vote, but Nasralla's party has demanded a wider recount, forcing a stand-off with the ruling party and election authorities.
Weekly mass demonstrations forced veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April, leaving Algeria in constitutional limbo and facing a stand off between the protesters and the army-backed government.
It has resulted in two competing leaders of parliament, at a time when the oil-rich, but cash-poor, country is the midst of a long-running political stand-off.
But it was unclear whether Tuesday's move will reduce export revenue flowing to Maduro's government, which continues to enjoy Moscow's backing in a stand-off reminiscent of the Cold War.
STAND-OFF Milan-based Mediaset, controlled by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's family, wants to use MFE to build alliances with other broadcasters in Europe, including Germany's ProSiebenSat.1.
But when it came time to extend the mandate again in March the United States and other western council members wanted the language removed, sparking a stand-off with China.
The shuttered entrance and flapping notices are a blunt reminder of how South Korean businesses have become unwitting victims in a year-long diplomatic stand-off between Beijing and Seoul.
On Thursday sources said the two groups were close to ending their legal stand-off with a deal that would see Vivendi sell a 20% stake in the Italian broadcaster.
The Broadcom news was one of the clearest indications yet from the trade-sensitive tech sector of the scale of pain companies can expect from Washington's stand-off with China.
But added urgency has come from China's veiled threats to use its dominance of rare earths production as a weapon in the broader trade stand-off with the Trump Administration.
López was captured by the Mexican authorities in the midst of the stand-off with Los Chapitos and eventually extradited last July to the United States, where he testified against Guzmán.
Inside, Sam Allardyce, Rafa Benitez and Alex Neil are engaged in a Mexican stand-off, each of them pointing Smith & Wesson revolvers at one another and wearing comically oversized cowboy hats.
"Trade protectionism is an impending risk," said Jakob Christensen, head of emerging markets research at Danske Bank, highlighting the possibility of a deepening stand-off between the United States and China.
The stand-off between Madrid and Barcelona is likely to intensify in the coming weeks as Catalonia's separatist government moves ahead with the vote on breaking with the rest of Spain.
Airbus said last month it hoped to resolve by year-end an unidentified commercial issue surrounding current-generation A330 airplanes, which industry sources afterwards linked to the HNA payments stand-off.
Eleven Israelis, a German policeman as well as five of the Palestinian gunmen died after a stand-off at the village and then a nearby airfield, as police rescue efforts failed.
Based on a 1983 British TV series, the plot follows four widows who come together to pull off a heist after their husbands die in a stand-off with the police.
In June 2018 a populist coalition took office seeking to overturn pension reforms and promising to increase public spending, provoking a stand-off with Brussels before Italy backed down in December.
The recent moves reflect a wider, long-running stand-off between Tencent and Alibaba, which have made competing investments in areas as diverse as bike-sharing apps, food delivery and gaming.
The stand-off worsened this week as the country mobilized strategic oil stocks for the first time in 6 years and employers warned the protests were starting to hurt the economy.
This leaves a more modest fix as a likelier conclusion to the stand-off—the Democrats offer a bit more money for border-security provided Mr Trump reopens the government first.
The Stand-Off, Michael Lambie, CanadaIt was breeding season, and all the male turkeys were putting on a show for the females, but a number of birds seemed a little confused.
The stand-off came to an end after the gunman, who at one point was shot in the arm, talked with police over the phone to negotiate a surrender before emerging.
FOR THE PAST three-and-a-half years the government has been in a stand-off with Vertex, a pharmaceutical firm, over the price of Orkambi, a drug for cystic fibrosis.
But dialogue within OPEC is likely to be complicated as the stand-off strikes at the heart of OPEC's efforts to form a united front to stabilize a fragile oil market.
North Korean officials spent hours on Wednesday trying to talk Malaysia out of conducting an autopsy on Kim Jong Nam, three Malaysian government sources familiar with the stand-off told Reuters.
First, the administration should move forward with modernization of U.S. strategic nuclear delivery systems, especially the new air-launched nuclear cruise missile, known as the Long-range Stand-off system (LRSO).
In March a disturbed man wearing a fake explosive vest hijacked an EgyptAir domestic flight and diverted it to Cyprus, where he was arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours.
One has been with the Republican supermajorities in the Tennessee capitol, around the corner from her office—part of a widening stand-off between left-leaning southern mayors and conservative legislatures.
About 30 family members, some in tears, gathered at China's foreign ministry to hand over the petition, and a group were allowed in despite a brief stand-off with plainclothes security.
Tuesday's protest coincided with another stand-off with thousands of Maori protesters in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, over plans to build a housing project on land they believe is sacred.
As attorney-general during his brother's presidency, he ordered troops to prepare for a stand-off in Alabama with the arch-segregationist governor over admitting African-Americans to the state university.
The narrow waterway separating the two countries has become the focus of a stand-off between Tehran and Washington, which has beefed up its military presence in the Gulf since May.
Brigadier General Mohammed al-Harithi told Ekhbariya TV that Mohammed al-Maliki had responded with gunfire to appeals for his surrender during the stand-off near the Western city of Taif.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will try to reassure Germany and Italy over migration at a summit next week as a stand-off in Berlin threatens Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition.
"There is an argument to be made by some who feel that two great powers can stand off with long-range precision weapons and hold each other at bay," Berger said.
Last year, Chinese construction in another disputed border area — a plateau known as Donglang in China and Doklam in India — resulted in a tense stand-off involving troops from both countries.
North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile in the latest test, a dramatic escalation of Pyongyang's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta on Tuesday agreed to accept 90 migrants rescued by an Italian coastguard vessel in its search and rescue zone, defusing a stand-off with the new Italian government.
" Asked at a forum for Russian students about the risks of the stand-off escalating into armed conflict, he said: "The risks are very high, especially taking into account the rhetoric.
Kuroda voiced hope the United States and China will soon reach a deal on trade, saying the fact they are continuing negotiations suggests the risk of a stand-off is receding.
A stand-off at Polytechnic University on Sunday entered its seventh day, with the campus surrounded by police as some protesters remained in classrooms and first aid workers roamed the campus.
Publicised on social media as #BloodyHarlan, the Blackjewel blockade looked like a time-honoured, morally unambiguous stand-off—"the little man against the big man," as Mr Raleigh said with relish.
Strong production and weakness in the biggest usage sector should spell trouble for any metal, particularly in the context of the continuing trade stand-off between China and the United States.
The communique was the best outcome possible from the EU's perspective, because it used the word "intensifying" to describe the fraught stand-off between the world's two largest economies, Moscovici said.
"The stand off," as the video is called, has received 28,000 views on Facebook so far — which means squirrels everywhere will mostly likely seek out more cats to drive nuts through windows.
Ongoing worries about a stand-off between the European Union and Italy over the country's budget had pushed Italian borrowing costs to their highest since 2014 and had weighed on the euro.
The stand-off threatens a payment to Greece from the euro zone's bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which would redeem €6.3bn ($6.7bn) of bonds that are due in July.
"As this stand-off continues, the human service system is stuck in the middle and the only people who are going to be hurt are the people we are serving," she said.
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armed men who seized a police station in the Armenian capital Yerevan surrendered to the authorities on Sunday after a two-week stand-off, the country's National Security Service said.
Stock markets in emerging economies this year have fallen almost 14 percent, bearing the brunt of higher U.S. rates and worries over global growth and the U.S.-China stand-off on trade.
China says it is already doing all it can to pressure North Korea and that those countries directly involved in the stand-off on the peninsula should take responsibility for resolving tensions.
Most recently, a KazMunayGaz subsidiary delisted from the London Stock Exchange last May following a prolonged stand-off between the state firm and foreign shareholders over how to use its cash pile.
The United States and Europe ended a stand-off of several months last July, when Trump agreed to hold off on car tariffs while the two sides looked to improve trade ties.
In March, Israel's nominee as envoy to Brazil, former settler leader Dani Dayan, was reassigned to become Israel's consul-general in New York after a lengthy stand-off with the Brazilian government.
The looming retail battle reflects a wider, long-running stand-off between Tencent and Alibaba, who have made competing investments in areas as diverse as bike-sharing apps, food delivery and gaming.
The stand-off is the latest chapter in a strange saga that started in March, when recordings of flirtatious telephone conversations, purportedly between Mr Kem Sokha and his hairdresser, were leaked online.
The pain is coming Historically, it's not a compromise, but the pain inflicted by the shutdown, either politically or throughout the country, or both, that bring an end to the stand off.
However, investors remain concerned over a trade stand-off between the United States and its trading partners, which deepened on Thursday after the U.S. proceeded with tariffs on aluminum and steel imports.
And whatever framework emerges from the stand-off won't address the structural problem of a Chinese Communist Party that holds the economic might of the globe's top manufacturing power in its hands.
"The Triple Nickel is rapidly mobile, we're lethal and we're ready to deliver multi-role air-to-ground, air-to-air and stand off munitions anywhere, anytime," Diers said in the release.
Authorities have been clear in their desire to prosecute those Many people attempted to escape the university campus earlier in the stand-off, using inventive methods in an attempt to avoid arrest.
"We continue to believe that movement toward resolution of what is currently an ongoing stand-off and shout out on international trade is more likely to come sooner than later," he said.
A 13-year-old Palestinian was shot in the lower leg while using a slingshot in a stand-off with Israeli settlers near the Beit El settlement outside Ramallah, CNN eyewitnesses reported.
Even as Trump called talks a waste of time, Yun has quietly tried to lower the temperature in a dangerous nuclear stand-off in which each side shows little interest in compromise.
Huawei, the world's biggest producer of telecoms equipment, has been caught in a stand-off between Washington and Beijing after the United States accused the company of spying to steal Western secrets.
"With the combination of the implications of the oil stand-off and the outbreak, I now believe that it's almost inevitable that there will be a global recession this year," he added.
Spot gold prices climbed by 18.3% in the same year as the trade stand-off led to policy easing by major central banks, reducing the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion.
Although Netflix productions are conspicuously absent from the line-up - as a stand-off with Cannes over selection rules rumbles on - the streaming company loomed large over the first day of festivities.
The B-52H, the latest variant of the 1950s bomber, carries AGB-86B air-launched cruise missiles, which are expected to eventually be replaced by the Long-Range Stand Off (LRSO) weapon.Gen.
Sunday was the seventh day of a stand-off at Polytechnic University, its campus surrounded by police as some protesters still hid out on the sprawling grounds roamed by first aid workers.
"It is likely that the region, have being stable for the last month, will face another period of increasing maritime threats, as the Iranian and Saudi geopolitical stand-off continues," it added.
Charges were dropped against three reporters arrested in late June for covering an event organized by the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, an ethnic militia engaged in a stand-off with government troops.
The location was not far from Doklam, where Chinese and ­Indian forces remain locked in a stand-off sparked by a road construction project in a disputed border area shared with Bhutan.
"We were asked to design a stand-off weapon that was capable of hitting a man-size target at 200 meters," Richard Shelton, chief of the Gunsmith Shop, said in the release.
The dour forecast from Broadcom was one of the clearest indications yet from the trade-sensitive tech sector of the scale of pain companies can expect from Washington's stand-off with China.
On Saturday, a man and a woman who authorities suspect were PKK militants preparing a car bomb attack detonated explosives and killed themselves near the capital Ankara in a stand-off with police.
Then it was time for a brief stand-off between left-wingers and right-wingers, who barked at each other until anti-riot police units lost their patience and separated the two groups.
With tear-gas swirling around Avenida Libertador, one of the capital's main streets, what had begun as a march to parliament became a stand-off between youths with stones and soldiers with machineguns.
Yet its two most populous members, China and India, defused a months-long stand-off between their soldiers along their high Himalayan frontier only days before it would have spoiled the love-in.
The stand-off between America and China, combined with China's growing and none-too-subtle influence in Europe, may force Europeans to consider awkward trade-offs between co-operation and confrontation with Beijing.
Spain's Constitutional Court in August annulled a resolution by Catalonia's assembly to press ahead with independence, sharpening the stand-off between the separatists and the central government of the conservative People's Party (PP).
LONDON (Reuters) - A stand-off between Britain and the European Union over the future of London's vast financial services industry is shaping up as one of the key Brexit battlegrounds of this year.
The American, South Korean and United Nations troops that patrol the southern side of the DMZ have long worked hard to impose as much calm and order on the stand-off as possible.
And the 2013 image of Amanda Polchies, the woman who knelt in the road holding an eagle feather toward a line of Canadian police during a stand-off over fracking in New Brunswick.
WARSAW, Dec 21 (Reuters) - If Poland's current political stand-off escalates then it is not excluded that it may impact investment decisions made by investors, Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday.
The StormBreaker tri-mode seeker uses imaging infrared, millimeter wave and semi-active laser, giving pilots the ability to destroy moving targets on the battlefield in adverse weather conditions from stand-off ranges.
In the early 1970s, before enemy soldiers were locked in a face-to-face stand-off at Panmunjom, North Korean generals would occasionally visit for a quiet drink at the Swiss Club bar.
Despite the inevitable distractions incurred when thinking about matters beyond your upcoming fight, Duffy insists his contractual stand-off with the UFC will not have any impact on his fight come Saturday night.
The two sides ended a stand-off last July, when U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to hold off imposing tariffs on EU car imports while the two sides looked to improve trade ties.
In last-minute negotiations on Wednesday, PiS rejected the centrists' appeal to delay the reopening of parliament after the Christmas and New Year recess to allow time to settle the budget stand-off.
Indeed, the recent arrival of marine artillery units outside Raqqa illustrates not only the administration's readiness to up our direct military engagement from stand-off bombing, special operations, and support for proxy forces.
The most pressing foreign-policy question facing the Philippines is its stand-off with China over claims in the South China Sea (or the West Philippine Sea, as it is known at home).
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sought to ease a stand-off with pro-separatist leaders in Catalonia on Wednesday with a promise of further dialogue over issues such as financing.
Corbyn retains strong support among the party's rank-and-file members, meaning that if he does make the ballot paper he could hold on to power and prolong the stand-off with MPs.
The second is that this is a "he said, she said" stand-off and therefore Kavanaugh should be confirmed based on the presumption of innocence and the lack of eyewitness corroboration of Ford.
The two sides met for talks in August after a sustained military stand-off and agreed to reduce tension and hold further talks at vice-ministerial level, although subsequent negotiations have been fruitless.
Prime Minister Theresa May said she believed a deal was achievable and urged the EU on Monday not to allow a stand-off over the so-called Irish backstop to derail the talks.
The announcement means that the US and China will be dodging a stand-off that might've resulted in an exchange of punitive tariffs that could've been the opening round of a trade war.
As the Eleonore arrived in Pozzallo, the Mare Jonio, a rescue ship operated by an Italian non-governmental organization, docked at Lampedusa with 31 people aboard, ending its own stand-off with Salvini.
The statements have sparked backlash from politicians and political observers who say the countries are reigniting an arms race reminiscent of the Cold War stand-off between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
"The country has passed recent years in a state of ungovernability, bad governance and general corruption," Embalo said during the ceremony in a speech that did not reference his stand-off with parliament.
McKenzie had a good story to tell: Just over 22019 weapons, all on target, including missiles from American surface combatants, a submarine and bombers, supplemented by some French and British stand-off weapons.
The diplomatic stand-off deepened last week when South Korea's Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government that will enable South Korean authorities to deploy the controversial U.S. missile defense system.
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The minimum wage increase will not apply for now to human service agencies funded by the state, Wolf said, because they are already "stressed" by delayed funding caused by the budget stand-off.
Around 200 riot police stood guard in Molenbeek and there was a tense stand-off with the local youths, mostly of North African origin, one of whom hurled a rubbish bin toward the police.
"Indian loans face more headwinds this year with the ongoing stand-off between India and Pakistan and the national elections expected to be held in the coming months," said the Hong Kong-based banker.
Ghosn, the chief executive of both carmakers, said the resulting stand-off over government voting rights had persuaded the Japanese carmaker that no further consolidation was possible while France continued to hold Renault shares.
The cross default, the continuing stand-off with IPIC and a widening investigation across at least six countries into possible corruption and money-laundering connected to the fund are starting to affect the markets.
However, with North Korea saying it was open to resolving the stand-off over its nuclear weapons programme, and U.S. 10-year Treasury yields in retreat, risk appetite returned for some emerging market assets.
Unmanned systems or "ground-drones" could carry weapons, test enemy defenses or perform high-risk forward positioned ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) missions – while allowing manned crews to operate at a safer stand off distance.
But that shine is forecast to start coming off this quarter, with growth slowing more by the end of next year as a trade stand-off with China shows no signs of letting up.
This was in retaliation for Donald Trump's decision to raise duties on $200bn-worth of Chinese exports following the breakdown of talks that had tried to end the two countries' stand-off over trade.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he hoped the United States would continue to support Ukraine in its stand-off with Russia following the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.
I've never engaged in a public restroom stand-off, and I made it four years of college blissfully evacuating in gender-neutral bathrooms, perfectly aware that my crush could be in the next stall.
"The possibility of more protracted U.S.-China trade stand-off has seen Europe's tentative growth optimism slipping away - and with it fiscal concerns are creeping back in," said ING senior rates strategist Benjamin Schroder.
On Monday, North Korea, which sees the exercises as preparations for invasion, raised the stakes in its stand-off with the United States and its allies by firing an intermediate-range missile over Japan.
She lives in a town that is likewise never named—but is probably Belfast—where, "rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, stand-off or riots", she walks through the streets reading 19th-century novels.
We endured an uncomfortable two-year stand off, where he didn't want to use condoms and I didn't want to lose my mind or have my face turn into a festering pool of pus.
Last month, 1MDB did not pay a $50.3 million coupon on another $1.75 billion bond, following a stand-off with Abu Dhabi sovereign fund IPIC, triggering cross-defaults on some of its other bonds.
With the prison guards digging in, the stand-off is turning into a survival test for Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet, a high-flying law lecturer appointed by Macron last June following his election victory.
At the same time, have long-range precision-strike capability will enable the Navy to hold potential enemies at risk or attack if needed while retaining safer stand-off distance from incoming enemy fire.
While Washington and Beijing are sounding positive about their trade stand-off, officials in Europe are worried that the Trump administration is preparing to hit European automobile exports with tariffs, citing national security grounds.
The two people said the quota stand-off was tied to a disagreement between the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and China's top state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
Iraq's Supreme Federal Court ruled on Monday that the referendum was unconstitutional and the results void, bolstering Baghdad's hand in a stand-off with the Kurdish region watched closely by neighbouring Turkey and Iran.
During the stand-off, Gaines, who was barricaded inside her apartment with her five-year-old son and wielding a shotgun, streamed the incident using Facebook Live and posted videos to her Instagram account.
"The stand-off in Oregon is news, but the strong pro-gun, anti-regulation viewpoint in that area is not, if you have the right data," Resonate Chief Analytics Officer Michael Horn tells Mashable.
U.S. President Donald Trump is due to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
In the last few weeks, numerous members of the British tattoo industry have become pissed off with the show for various reasons, and now this feud has arrived at a full-on stand-off.
And although there is relief that the stand-off could be resolved, there has also been a backlash from some doctors on social media, claiming that the deal is hardly any better than before.
The Iranian video aired on Monday also contains an exchange between the Guards and the same British warship during a stand-off in mid-July involving the British Heritage oil tanker, according to Tasnim.
The stand-off between Mr Hunt and the doctors, which has led to six strikes over the past year, came about because of government plans to boost what it calls a "seven-day NHS".
"The RFEF will pay a part of the salary of players in the Primera Division Iberdrola in order to unblock the stand off that currently exists between clubs and athletes," said an RFEF statement.
The metal had surged more than 968.473 percent as concerns over escalating tensions in Syria, U.S. sanctions on Russia and the U.S.-China trade stand-off weighed on stock markets and the dollar index.
Hedge fund Elliott is in talks with Japan's Hitachi and could sell its stake in Italy's Ansalso STS to solve a legal stand off on the railway signalling company, Il Sole 2300 Ore reported.
Photographers from 100 countries submitted 48,000 entries for the contest, including photos of an interlocked ant army, a stand-off between a surly fox and a shocked marmot, and a puma ambushing a guanaco.
STOCKHOLM, March 17 (Reuters) - North Korea's foreign minister and his Swedish counterpart concluded on Saturday three days of discussions focused on reaching a peaceful solution to the nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
The stand off followed a warning by U.S. President Donald Trump that U.S. sanctions on Iran would soon be "substantially" increased as part of Washington's drive to curb Iran's nuclear activities and regional behaviour.
The robots, which help develop cell cultures used in stem cell therapies, are on a sprawling list of products threatened with steep U.S. tariffs amid a simmering trade stand-off between Washington and Beijing.
But despite Western voices like Renzi's calling for an end to the stand-off, the EU is expected to extend the duration of its sanctions against Russia through the end of the calendar year.
MILAN (Reuters) - A second migrant rescue boat is heading towards the south Italian island of Lampedusa, potentially creating another stand-off with Italian authorities who are banning non-governmental organizations from bringing migrants ashore.
Sources close to the matter have previously said that Atlantia has offered more than 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) to resolve the stand-off but the offer was considered insufficient by the ruling parties.
The clash over where euro-denominated securities should be traded and cleared echoes the stand-off between regulators over trading of euro-denominated shares inside the bloc if there is a no-deal Brexit.
Earlier this month another tribunal in Sicily recommended that Salvini stand trial over a separate migrant stand-off dating from last August, with parliament expected to decide on this case later in the year.
But those measures have had little impact on the increasingly bellicose stand-off, and on Thursday President Donald Trump repeated his complaint that Beijing needs to lean harder on Pyongyang to defuse rising tensions.
Earlier this month another tribunal in Sicily recommended that Salvini stand trial over a separate migrant stand-off dating from last August, with parliament expected to decide on this case later in the year.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un landed in Singapore on Sunday ahead of a summit that could that could end a nuclear stand-off between the old foes and transform his secretive, impoverished country.
China's imports of soybeans from the U.S. reportedly increased last month following the announcement that "phase one" of a trade deal had been reached between the two nations after a months-long stand-off.
A meeting between the three could result in some kind of détente to the current stand-off, wherein Uber is continuing to operate its cars in clear defiance of the DMV and Attorney General's requests.
More than 300,000 travelers have been hit by the stand-off over wages and other pilot demands which analysts estimate could cost SAS $113 million a day, threatening to wipe out the airline's annual profit.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday five countries had come forward with offers to help end the stand-off over a rescue boat moored off Sicily with 47 migrants on board.
More than 300,000 travellers have been hit by the stand-off over wages and other pilot demands which analysts estimate could cost SAS $113 million a day, threatening to wipe out the airline's annual profit.
Another recent article, on the pope in Africa, describes a stand-off between the pontiff and a Nigerian diocese where a bishop-elect was seen as an ethnic and linguistic outsider ("Stony ground", September 7th).
Rather than sit in the dusty cab all day, operators can program the coordinates for the size hole that needs digging, then stand off to the side and watch the vehicle do all the work.
The Speaker of Catalonia's parliament postponed a session that had been expected to reinstate the separatist Carles Puigdemont as president of the region, prolonging a tense stand-off with the Spanish central government in Madrid.
Russia's rouble weakened 2171.36 percent despite soaring oil prices as investors lost faith that sanctions slapped onto Moscow over its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine could be eased amid the latest stand-off.
Trump's move to force Iran into new negotiations has for now reunited Iranian hardliners who opposed the nuclear deal and pragmatists like Rouhani who championed it to Iran's economically crippling stand-off with Western powers.
Al Jazeera is the flagship broadcaster for Qatar, which is in a stand-off with fellow Arab states which accuse it of ties to terrorism, in a row that is endangering stability in the region.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A refugee footballer who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition stand-off between Australia and the Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday.
Perhaps looking to prevent another high-profile stand-off, Malta moved swiftly to accept 54 mainly Africans who were picked up on Thursday by the Alex sailboat, which is operated by the Italian charity Mediterranea.
Copper, however, is particularly vulnerable because of its exposure to the Chinese economy, already showing signs of losing momentum and now apparently battening down the hatches for a trade stand-off with the United States.
Several other exchanges followed, with protesters, wearing helmets and masks, mostly withdrawing when police fired gas or advanced with shields and truncheons, exhausting authorities and leaving the weeks-long stand-off little closer to resolution.
The stand off came at a critical time for Modi, who faces a general election that must be held by May and who had been expected to benefit from nationalist pride unleashed by the standoff.
PARIS (Reuters) - Travelers grappled with another crippling wave of transport strikes in France on Sunday, as train workers protested President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms and a stand-off between the government and rail unions hardened.
Now, the woman, captured during a  Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge in a photograph some are likening to the snap of the Tiananmen Square stand-off in Beijing in 1989, has been named.
More than 100 confronted police in a tense stand-off hours before on the Chinese New Year holiday, when most of the city is shut down, with rubbish bins and flower pots in flames nearby.
China is looking to accelerate plans to develop its semiconductor market amid a fierce trade stand-off with the United States and a recent ban on U.S. sales, including of American chips, to ZTE Corp.
Following a 48-hour stand-off at Bangkok airport, some of it barricaded in a transit lounge hotel room, she was allowed to enter the country and was processed as a refugee by the UNHCR.
The sixth and final installment of the Resident Evil franchise is coming February 2017, and will see Alice's final stand off with Umbrella Corp bring her right back to where the story began: Raccoon City.
A suicide-bombing in Kashmir (by an Indian Kashmiri), followed by tit-for-tat sorties by Indian and Pakistani warplanes, have left the two nuclear-armed powers on the brink of a catastrophic stand-off.
Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.) on Wednesday advocated for Congress to step in and resolve the tense stand-off between Apple and the FBI over the locked phone of one of the San Bernardino, Calif.
Argentina has a long and troubled history with the international organization, most notably exemplified by the fallout from the 22019 financial crisis, which led to a lengthy stand-off between the government and the IMF.
Trading activity fell by 2505% on the London Metal Exchange (LME) in the first half of this year as robust micro fundamentals were subsumed by the rumbling stand-off between the United States and China.
STOCKHOLM, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A Swedish appeals court decided to uphold the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, prolonging the six year long legal stand off between prosecutors and the Wikileaks founder.
The development came after Saudi Arabia rushed to book a record number of tankers after it opened its taps and pledged to flood markets with additional oil as part of its stand-off with Russia.
The development came after Saudi Arabia rushed to book a record number of tankers after it opened its taps and pledged to flood markets with additional oil as part of its stand-off with Russia.
A stand-off between the United States and Iran erupted into tit-for-tat military strikes this month, while Britain has called on Iran to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual nationals imprisoned there.
Tensions are also heightened due to a stand-off between Beijing and the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) following a tweet from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The confrontation, which included the firing of tear gas canisters, was the latest chapter in the former Georgian president's stand-off with Ukrainian authorities that led to his detention and release from custody last week.
PARIS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Renault and PSA Group face a potential stand-off with French workers worried that an industry drive to meet EU emissions targets will fuel demands for concessions in upcoming labor negotiations.
PARIS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Renault and PSA Group face a potential stand-off with French workers worried that an industry drive to meet EU emissions targets will fuel demands for concessions in upcoming labour negotiations.
A tense stand-off also erupted near the Park Lane Shoppers' Boulevard as protesters repeatedly hurled petrol bombs at the Tsim Sha Tsui station as officers fired rounds of tear gas at them from inside.
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BISHKEK (Reuters) - Police investigators summoned former Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev for questioning on Monday, setting the stage for a stand-off between him and his successor, incumbent Sooronbai Jeenbekov, in the volatile Central Asian nation.
Following a 48-hour stand-off at Bangkok airport, some of it barricaded in a transit lounge hotel room, she was allowed to enter Thailand and was then processed as a refugee by the UNHCR.
And the only question is, in the inevitable Tarantino-style "Mexican stand-off" that brings the action to a violent conclusion, who will be the one to try and kill Trump: Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz?
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union should allow EU investors to continue trading Swiss shares from January and avoid a stand-off with Switzerland that would harm competition, a senior stock exchange industry official said on Monday.
People at the blockade carried posters with the pixilated face of the baby girl and the hashtag #BabyAsha was Twitter's fourth highest trending topic worldwide over the weekend when the hospital stand-off reached its climax.
A shaky outlook for the single currency is being driven mostly by weaker growth for euro zone economies and lingering concerns about Italy's fiscal management in a stand-off with the European Commission over its borrowing.
The stand-off with the United States over an American evangelical Christian pastor detained in Turkey on terrorism charges has helped accelerate a crisis in the Turkish lira, which is down about 40 percent this year.
A long-running stand-off between the governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, and the state legislature, which has resulted in the disruption or end of many social programmes for Chicago's poorest residents, is also a factor.
Nearly 50 years after the stand-off at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, sociologist Beth Roy movingly described in her book "Bitters in the Honey" an interview with a white former student at Central.
The stand-off between the government and CGT worsened this week as the country mobilised strategic oil stocks for the first time in six years, and employers warned the protests were starting to hurt the economy.
The hardline CGT union sought to tighten its grip on France's energy supplies and transport network on Thursday as its stand-off with the government over planned labour reforms continued into a day of nationwide protests.
Locked in a stand-off with Washington after the Trump administration withdrew from the nuclear agreement, Tehran said earlier on Monday it would breach internationally agreed curbs on its low-enriched uranium stock in 10 days.
The prospect of a trade stand-off between the United States and China triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats against the world's second-biggest economic power has caused jitters in markets across the world.
Oil prices fell in volatile trade on Wednesday, weighed down by equity markets as China signaled readiness to escalate the trade war with the United States, stoking concerns that an ongoing stand-off could hurt demand.
The bill does not authorize any new money, and the House and Senate are still at a stand-off over how much additional federal funding Congress will approve for federal agencies to use to fight Zika.
And that carries over to the online sphere as well: At any given moment, the Beliebers are usually engaged in a stand-off with OneD-ers to see who can get their idol to trend harder.
The stand-off was resolved after PSA agreed to extend its purchasing commitment to five years averaging 10 million euros annually from three years at 12 million euros, a spokesman for the carmaker said on Wednesday.
A protracted political stand-off has thrust the oil-rich, but cash-poor, country into uncharted territory — whereby it now has an internationally-recognized government, with no control over state functions, running parallel to Maduro's administration.
The move comes as the company is embroiled in a stand-off with its primary investor, China's Evergrande Health Industry Group Ltd, after a planned $2 billion investment from the unit of Evergrande Group went sour.
But many in the healthcare industry are watching to see how the first stand-off between such a large national chain and Quality Care, a specialized real estate investment trust, plays out, analysts and advisers said.
The kingdom's fear of changing the status quo may explain why the stand-off in the Himalayas has persisted far longer than previous surges of tension between China and India along their border in recent years.
A stand-off over Venezuela's leadership has gripped the OPEC member for the last month, with the U.S. and dozens of other nations backing opposition leader Juan Guaido, while Nicolas Maduro clings to his disputed presidency.
Hostility between the two countries extended to repeated assassination attempts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a failed invasion, and a tense missle stand-off that brought the world to the edge of nuclear war in 1962.
Himself an Italian, Draghi said he was confident compromise would be reached between Brussels and Rome and noted how much the stand-off was already costing Italy because of the rising yield on its government debt.
The PML-N was already engaged in a bitter stand-off with Khan's government, which came to power last year accusing Abbasi and his predecessor, Nawaz Sharif, of large-scale corruption and mismanagement of the economy.
But a stand-off between Martin Bouygues and French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron about the clout the billionaire would have gained in the former state monopoly had weighed on the talks, sources had told Reuters earlier.
Additionally, there's an "uneasy stand-off" underway between OPEC and U.S. shale producers, many of whom have comprehensively restructured balance sheets and bounced back from the low points they had sunk to a few years ago.
The trade squeeze has highlighted the complicated economic relationship between the two sides and represents a new phase in a periodically violent stand-off that has killed more than 10,000 people in the last three years.
Ukraine's international backers have invested much money and political capital backing the government in its stand-off with Moscow after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 following the overthrow of Kiev's pro-Russian president by protesters.
Wednesday's announcement showed the Kremlin can lure big foreign investors to its oil sector despite political risks associated with Russia, which is locked in a stand-off with the West over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
Hawaiians recently braced themselves for 38 minutes, awaiting a terrifying missile attack — a false alarm — but Americans were exposed to the horror of a pending war, with no place to hide from destructive, stand-off weapons.
The leader of the rogue nation is in the island nation ahead of a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump that could end a nuclear stand-off between the old foes and transform his impoverished country.
The fighting in eastern Ukraine between the Moscow-backed separatists and Ukraine's pro-Western government killed hundreds of people, displaced thousands of residents and created a Cold War-style stand off between Moscow in the West.
Carr declined to draw comparisons between any future protests against Trans Mountain and a stand-off in the United States, where a coalition of activists has been demonstrating against a proposed oil pipeline in North Dakota.
They are also a reflection of Ukraine's nervousness about being abandoned by Western backers in its stand-off with Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and Moscow's support for separatist rebels in the Donbass region.
"When we see the present stand-off it becomes even more clear that serious political negotiations between the parties are necessary to find a solution leading to lasting peace for the people of Venezuela," he said.
The two sides ended a stand-off of several months in July, when U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to hold off imposing tariffs on EU car imports while the two sides looked to improve trade ties.
The court has ordered Gazprom to pay more than $2.5 billion to Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz - a ruling meant to conclude a long legal battle that has run alongside Ukraine's broader political stand-off with Russia.
Sanchez had been in a stand-off with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's People's Party, frustrating efforts to form a government after two elections left the conservatives with the most votes but shy of a majority.
The official China Daily said that while China was "serious" about resolving the stand-off through talks, it would not be rolled over, despite concerns over a slowing economy and a falling stock market at home.
UNIVERSITY SIEGE STAGGERS ON A stand-off at Polytechnic University entered its seventh day on Sunday, with the campus surrounded by police as some protesters hid out on the sprawling grounds roamed by first aid workers.
As the stand-off with the government stretched on, peaceful mass marches increasingly descended into violence -- and the movement quickly expanded to include demands for an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality and for universal suffrage.
A trade dispute between the United States and China over Chinese trading practices that Washington says are unfair has dragged on for almost two years, making the stand off the biggest risk to the global economy.
The machines, called stand-off explosive detection units, can detect metallic and nonmetallic explosive devices on people walking past by spotting an obstruction of the emissions naturally given off by bodies, according to the agency's website.
Ukraine is grappling with pro-Russia separatist in its industrial eastern heartland and faces Moscow in London courts in a stand-off over a $3 billion eurobond that Kiev wants to be part of its debt restructuring.
The comments add to pressure on British Prime Minister Theresa May to rethink her plan for leaving the EU after Brexit talks reached a stand-off at the weekend over arrangements for the UK border with Ireland.
The trigger for the slump was the latest escalation of the trade stand-off between the United States and China, President Trump announcing the imposition of more tariffs on Chinese goods effective the beginning of next month.
Facing a stand-off, Schaeuble, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the G20 this year, has floated the idea that the issue of trade might be left out of the communique altogether to avoid a clash.
He suggested that a review of the national mechanism used to calculate motorway tolls could be part of the solution to end the unresolved stand-off between Atlantia and Rome over the revocation of the group's concession.
The European Commission is expected send its criticisms to Warsaw on Monday as part of the Commission's investigation whether the Polish government is violating rule of law standards in its stand-off with the country's constitutional court.
The stand-off is likely to force Rosneft to soften its demands, the sources said, adding that the development shows the extent to which the state-owned oil giant is concerned about widening U.S. sanctions on Russia.
The stand-off with its traditional union support base comes nine months after Labour formed a coalition government, promising to pour money into social services and rein in inequality, which has increased despite years of strong growth.
BENGHAZI/LONDON (Reuters) - Libya's crippled oil production appeared at risk of further decline on Wednesday after an escalating stand-off between rival eastern and western political factions prevented a cargo belonging to trading giant Glencore from loading.
That is the crux of the stand-off between America and the North: America wants "complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearisation", but Mr Kim seems to view nuclear arms as the only way to ensure his regime's survival.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of President Joseph Kabila's supporters rallied in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Friday in a growing stand-off with opposition parties who have accused him of trying to cling to power.
Dostum's case has become a pivotal issue in the growing stand-off between Ghani and other members of his administration, who include rivals brought together into the national unity government formed after a disputed election in 2014.
MILAN (Reuters) - Vivendi has succeeded in shuffling the cards in a stand-off over Telecom Italia with Elliott, rattling the activist fund by forcing shareholders at the Italian phone operator to vote on an entire new board.
The April default, the continuing stand-off with IPIC and a widening investigation across at least six countries into possible corruption and money-laundering connected to 1MDB have been weighing on Malaysia economy and its currency ringgit.
As economic growth has slowed across Asia, Europe and North America, potentially denting fuel consumption, no breakthrough has emerged in the trade stand-off between Washington and Beijing, at least before meetings scheduled on March 28-29.
The poll also found a majority of Americans and Canadians are united in support of Trudeau and opposition to Trump in their countries' stand-off over the renegotiation of the 2305 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
After months of the stand-off involving protesters (who call themselves Water Protectors) and police, the Army Corps announced on Sunday that it would not grant permission for Dakota Access LLC (DPL) to drill under the river.
General Khalifa Haftar, who has been waging a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents in Benghazi and the east, and his backers in eastern Libya have been in a stand-off with the GNA for months.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's parliament resumed proceedings after the winter recess on Wednesday in defiance of an opposition blockade of the plenary hall, escalating a stand-off that has raised fears for democracy in the European Union state.
There is Holy Wayne, who says that his hugs can take away pain, and who eventually dies in a stand-off with the show's version of the ATF: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and Cults.
While to the outside world the Kremlin presents a united front, especially in its stand-off with the West, in reality it is divided with Putin often having to act as umpire in contests between different factions.
But if that stand-off ended well for Barneys, its bankruptcy last week may give fashion and luxury brands new motivation to move beyond wholesale arrangements with department stores, to focus on their own stores and websites.
The launch, which directly defies Trump's demands that the North Koreans curtail a burgeoning nuclear program, is likely to add tension to an already strained stand-off with the United States and its allies in the region.
Batlle's resignation comes days after three members of Catalonia's regional government also stepped down, ahead of the plebiscite which has ratcheted up a stand-off between Madrid and Barcelona and caused divisions even in the separatist camp.
Beyond the price tag, there are a myriad of reasons the eight-year bull-run could get derailed, whether it's a stand-off with North Korea, continued weather catastrophes or a general lack of cohesion in Washington.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German utility Uniper SE named a new chief executive and chief financial officer with the unanimous backing of its supervisory board on Thursday in a sign of movement in a stand-off with Finland's Fortum.
The stand-off was averted when Nissan agreed to appoint Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard and Chief Executive Thierry Bollore to its audit and nominations committees, even as Nissan itself will not be represented on those committees.
Trump also backed away from confrontation over Iran on Monday, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron stunned other leaders by inviting Iran's foreign minister to Biarritz for talks on the stand-off between Washington and Tehran.
Traders see the Brazilian harvest, which is underway and expected to be record large, providing stiff competition for sales to China, particularly after Beijing turned extensively to Brazil for supplies during its tariff stand-off with Washington.
On the other side of the stand-off, Serzh Sarksyan, Armenia's ruler for a decade, was in touch with Russian officials as he fought for survival, according to a diplomatic source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
India and China have agreed to an "expeditious disengagement" of troops in a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in a stand-off for more than two months, India's foreign ministry said on Monday.
Experts on both sides of the debate say that if the carriers have to stand off, the Hornets would have to be refueled in midair an impractical number of times while flying to and from their targets.
The Turkish lira fell around 210.18 percent and was on course to end the week down some 213.57 percent as a stand-off between Turkey and the U.S. over the detention of an American pastor dragged on.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said in a press release on Tuesday that staffers will hand-deliver vegan jerky to the cattle ranchers, who have requested provisions for their stand-off with federal authorities.
Police tracked a suspect, a man with the family name Wu, to the neighboring city of Kaohsiung and after a lengthy stand-off stormed a building and shot the man, who was taken to hospital, it said.
Russia warned on Monday of a stand-off comparable to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis if the United States were to deploy land-based missile systems near Russia's borders, but Stoltenberg said there were no such plans.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Signs of movement in the U.S.-China trade stand-off and an interest rate hike in emerging market trouble-spot Turkey sent an index of global stocks higher on Thursday as risk appetite returned.
The stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighbors, who share a 3,500-km (2,175-mile) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.
The officials who signed the internal memo in the State Department's "Dissent Channel" urged the administration to take very limited "stand-off" military action to forcefully persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to compromise at the negotiating table.
This has never been more true than in Captain America: Civil War, a rock-'em-sock-'em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed.
The captain of the vessel refused to turn back to Indonesia, and there was a stand-off for several days, during which the Howard government accused the asylum seekers of purposely throwing their children overboard to garner sympathy.
Last week, 1MDB did not meet its deadline to pay a $50.3 million coupon on a $1.75 billion bond following a stand-off with Abu Dhabi sovereign fund IPIC, triggering cross defaults on some of its other bonds.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military junta removed the chief of the department responsible for overseeing Buddhist affairs and replaced him with a police officer on Saturday, amid a stand-off between officials and monks at the country's largest temple.
Pedro Sanchez had been in a stand-off with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's People's Party (PP), frustrating attempts to form a government after two elections left the conservatives with the most votes but shy of a majority.
Sources tell me Mark Meadows and his group of some 40 members will call on Republican leadership to pass a bill in July to deal with the debt ceiling and avoid a last-minute stand-off in October.
Sanchez had led a stand-off with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP), which won the most votes in December and in a repeat election in June but fell short of a majority in parliament.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A stand-off in Thailand between investigators and a powerful Buddhist sect intensified on Thursday after its influential abbot failed to appear at a police station to answer graft charges because followers said he had fainted.
Trump said on Monday his historic summit with the North Korean leader could "work out very nicely" as officials from both countries sought to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
As I stand off to the side in the hair detention area, I watch other women pass by with big hair -- sprayed up Dolly Parton do's, giant bouffants, Hasidic women in wigs, or Amish with women wearing bonnets.
A history of political scandal, a long-running stand-off with CORFO, the Chilean development agency that controls the rights to the brine deposits in the Atacama desert, and a government investigation make for a highly inflammatory cocktail.
This should include a new ballistic missile submarine, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a new strategic bomber and a new air-launched nuclear cruise missile — the long-range stand-off system, or LRSO — and our dual capable aircraft.
The EU and United States reached an entente in July, ending a stand-off of several months, when Trump agreed to hold off imposing tariffs on EU car imports while the two sides looked to improve trade ties.
A stand-off between Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition intensified in January when Juan Guaido, leader of the National Assembly, invoked Venezuela's constitution to assume the interim presidency, arguing that Maduro's 2018 re-election was illegitimate.
But Europeans have tried to deflect the threats with the argument that a commitment to security is not just about spending targets, which diplomats said that U.S. officials did not challenge, suggesting that the stand-off will continue.
Camouflage-clad veterans of the ANC's now-disbanded Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) military wing, its Youth League and police with armored vehicles ringed the party's Luthuli House building in downtown Johannesburg, causing a stand-off with the protesters.
Both the B-28503 and the B-22019 will have nuclear weapon options and will also share a capability that was a key consideration for keeping the B-52 in service: the Long Range Stand-Off cruise missile.
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday he was working to prevent two rescue ships operated by French and Spanish charities from bringing more than 500 migrants to Italy in the latest Mediterranean stand-off.
Last week, 1MDB missed a deadline to pay a $50.3 million coupon on a $1.75 billion bond following a stand-off with Abu Dhabi sovereign fund International Petroleum Investment Co (IPIC), which says 1MDB never met payment obligations.
NANTES, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators faced police in a tense stand-off in the French city of Nantes on Saturday as revived "yellow vest" protests against the government of President Emmanuel Macron took place across the country.
Just two weeks ago, the Washington-based AMTI think tank claimed a fresh stand-off over energy exploration in the South China Sea involving China, Malaysia and Vietnam had been brewing out of the public eye for weeks.
As Bloomberg, which first reported on the Ford's self-defense setbacks, wrote, the various self-defense capabilities of a carrier are important, especially given rising concerns about their vulnerability to stand-off weapons, such as anti-ship missiles.
Analysts estimate the stand-off over wages and other demands by pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark could cost SAS as much as $10.5 million a day, threatening to wipe out the airline's annual profit in short order.
A decision from the DC Circuit on McGahn and immunity for White House officials would mark the first time an appeals court has interpreted its role in a stand off like this between the executive branch and Congress.
As Roll Call previously reported, Senate Appropriations Chair Richard Shelby is considering reducing spending in the Labor and Education Departments' appropriations in order to cover such possible outlays for the wall — potentially teeing up another intractable stand-off.
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday said India has been building up troops and repairing roads along its side of the border amid an increasingly tense stand-off in a remote frontier region beside the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
The stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighbours, who share a 3,500-km (2,175-mile) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.
A stand-off between the two countries escalated on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by British Prime Minister Theresa May expired without an explanation from the Kremlin about how the nerve agent could have appeared in Britain.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. deployment of land-based missile systems near Russia's borders could lead to a stand-off comparable to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Monday.
In comparison, of the ships aiming for one of Russian city Rostov-on-Don's ports, that had arrived to Kerch Strait since the stand-off began, none were still waiting for passage, the data showed the same day.
Before the agreement was reached, the two sides were locked in a stand-off over the subpoena to Trump Jr. that nearly forced the North Carolina Republican to have to decide whether to hold the President's son in contempt.
North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell in volatile trade on Wednesday, weighed down by equity markets as China signaled readiness to escalate the trade war with the United States, stoking concerns that an ongoing stand-off could hurt demand.
Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared force majeure on operations at its biggest oilfield late Monday night amid a stand-off with armed protesters, expecting a loss of 315,000 barrels per day (bpd) for the OPEC member.
A stand-off with the European Union over the size of Italy's projected budget deficit last year saw its spreads blow out, but a last-minute decision by the government to adhere to EU rules brought bond investors back.
DONGLU VILLAGE, China (Reuters) - In 1996, a tiny village with a huge Gothic-style church in China's Catholic heartland of northern Hebei province was the scene of a tense stand-off between the ruling Communist Party and the faithful.
He has shaken up geopolitical stalemates (such as the stand-off over North Korea's nuclear weapons) and forced a reckoning on long-standing problems, whether it is China's cheating at global trade rules or European allies' paltry defence spending.
During the Kargil war Bill Clinton gave Nawaz Sharif, then Pakistan's prime minister, a dressing down in Washington, DC. In a stand-off that unfolded in 2001-02 everyone from Tony Blair to Vladimir Putin passed through the region.
A Stockholm arbitration court ordered Gazprom in February to pay more than $2.5 billion to Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz - a ruling meant to conclude a long legal battle that has run alongside Ukraine's broader political stand-off with Russia.
The United States, Mexico and Canada are locked in tortuous negotiations to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and are also seeking to avoid a potential stand-off over U.S. threats to impose steel and aluminum tariffs.
This plays into a larger stand-off between liberal cities, which want progressive policies such as higher wages and paid sick leave, and the more conservative legislature, which has moved to limit cities' freedom to craft their own policies.
The contrast recalls images of the stand-off between a man and a tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989, or the determination of Rosa Parks in refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in 1955.
Under this agreement President Ghani is bound to consult Jamiat-e Islami's leadership council on all key government appointments, but he unilaterally attempted to sack me as governor, triggering a stand-off between Jamiat-e Islami and the presidency.
The stand-off over Ukraine has left ties between Russia and the West at their weakest since the Cold War, and NATO, which allies 28 mainly North American and European countries, has suspended all practical military cooperation with Moscow.
"We are planning to introduce the JSM (Joint Strike Missile) that will be mounted on the F-35A (stealth fighter) as 'stand-off' missiles that can be fired beyond the range of enemy threats," Onodera told a news conference.
The report said the testers had taken blood samples from Sun while at the clubhouse of his residence compound but the swimmer and his entourage then refused to let them depart with the samples during a tense stand-off.
The bloc sees the agreement as a chief international success of recent years, and fears tearing it apart would hurt its credibility as well as harming diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions around a nuclear stand-off with North Korea.
He cast himself and the ruling United Russia party as an anchor of stability at a time when the economy is shrinking and the financial knock-on effects of Russia's stand-off with the West are still being felt.
A stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighboring giants, who share a 3,500 km (2,175 miles) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.
The European Parliament gave final approval on Thursday to an exchange of airline passenger data between security forces in the European Union, ending a stand-off between privacy advocates and those who consider the move crucial to fighting terrorism.
Only Jimmy Carter at the outset of the Iran hostage situation in November 153 began an international stand off in a comparably weak position: in Gallup polling just before the hostages were seized, Carter's approval rating reached just 32%.
Beijing's trade stand-off with Washington intensified over the past fortnight and was set to spill into the currency markets when the yuan slipped past 7 to the dollar after U.S. President Trump announced additional tariffs on Chinese goods.
North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
While Italy's anti-establishment coalition government has stressed its commitment to the euro and pledged not to impose new taxes on its citizens' wealth, a stand-off with the European Union over budgets has left many Italians on edge.
But this one is different: it will be closely watched not just in Spain but across Europe, for signs of whether it will mitigate or exacerbate the stand-off between the Catalan independence movement and the government in Madrid.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India does not consider the stand-off with the United States at the World Trade Organisation over export subsidies to be the beginning of a trade war, Indian trade secretary Rita Teaotia told reporters on Thursday.
Investor attention has focused on the stand-off between Warsaw and the European Union and a modified Polish bill on the conversion of Swiss franc-denominated home loans to local currency, due to be presented later in the day.
Elsewhere in Kampala, there was a stand-off between opposition supporters and the police, who are accused of firing tear gas and rubber bullets systematically to disperse the crowds, with several people seriously wounded and taken to the hospital.
A Stockholm arbitration court ordered Gazprom this week to pay more than $2.5 billion to Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz - a ruling meant to conclude a long legal battle that has run alongside Ukraine's broader political stand-off with Russia.
But something inside of me (and I imagine others) longs for the tension of a stealth maneuver, the thrill of the open road, and the excitement of that final stand-off where you just don't know who will win.
But after weeks of talks since Johnson took power that have made little headway to break the Brexit stand-off, the prime minister will make his last gambit - a new proposal which British officials describe as a final offer.
In Indonesia, meanwhile, Freeport McMoRan is threatening to partly suspend operations at its Grasberg mine due to the lack of an export permit, the latest turn in the long-running stand-off between the company and the Indonesian government.
During its decade-long stand-off with world powers over its nuclear program, Iran repeatedly rejected visits by U.N. inspectors to its military sites, saying they had nothing to do with nuclear activity and so were beyond the IAEA's purview.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday said India has been building up troops and repairing roads along its side of the border amid an increasingly tense stand-off in a remote frontier region beside the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's decision to withdraw its ambassador to Italy may be the biggest diplomatic fracas between the neighbors since Benito Mussolini declared war on France in 1940, but the trans-Alpine stand-off has its roots in more recent events.
While Shabani has not yet been found, a man authorities identified as her boyfriend fatally shot himself in California Thursday night in a stand-off with police — and authorities believe the vehicle he was driving may contain clues to Shabani's disappearance.
Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, who is President Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law, used a visit to Paris to both take aim at the United States and highlight Ankara's push for better ties with Europe, given the stand-off with Washington.
SHANGHAI, April 19 (Reuters) - Hyundai's China joint venture is facing "severe challenge" due to a complex political and economic environment and tough local competition, the firm's chairman said on Wednesday, amid a political stand-off between China and South Korea.
In a letter to the local securities regulator, the miner said it was not yet possible to quantify the impact of the strike, which would depend on whether protesters continued to block access and the length of the stand-off.
In this episode, he speaks to Anne McElvoy about his role in the "nuclear option" stand-off over Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation, Rex Tillerson's mishandling of Syria - and why the US should stand up the "gangster" in the Kremlin.
BENGHAZI, Libya, July 12 (Reuters) - Libya's Abu Attifel oil field, which had been shut for about two weeks due to a stand-off at eastern export terminals, has resumed operations, an engineer and a Libyan oil source said on Thursday.
It comes as China aims to speed up development of its technology sector, including segments such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence, amid a fierce trade stand-off with the United States that has demonstrated the country's reliance on imported technology.
MAZAR-I SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A stand-off between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Atta Mohammad Noor, the powerful provincial governor he is trying to remove from his northern stronghold, is increasingly turning into a battle over next year's presidential election.
The dollar was little changed on Thursday, on track to post a fourth straight month of gains, as the trade stand-off between China and the United States prompted traders to put money into perceived safe currencies including the greenback.
"LET THEM BE RICH" Trump also backed away from confrontation over Iran on Monday, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron stunned other leaders by inviting Iran's foreign minister to Biarritz for talks on the stand-off between Washington and Tehran.
THE government's stand-off with Brussels is less than a week old but already one aspect of the Brexit divorce is causing severe collywobbles in Britain: withdrawal from the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which oversees the EU's nuclear industry.
Sergio Erede, a well-know Italian lawyer, is working on a potential settlement agreement to end the stand-off between the Italian broadcaster and French media group Vivendi over a failed pay-TV deal, Il Sole 210 Ore reported on Saturday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A stand-off between security forces and monks at Thailand's biggest temple has exposed a struggle as much about power as religion in the predominantly Buddhist country, where the junta has shut down dissent since a 2014 coup.
Whether this leads to a solution to the six-week stand-off over Catalan independence, or to an intensification of Spain's constitutional crisis, depends on how much resistance the government will now face in one of the country's most important regions.
The stand-off at Hariga, part of a broader political struggle between factions in eastern and western Libya, threatens to further reduce oil output which has fallen to less than a quarter of its 2011 high of 1.6 million bpd.
Friday's skirmishes on the Strait of Hormuz mark another escalation in the stand-off between Iran and the west, and come a day after President Trump announced that an American warship shot down an Iranian drone in the same waters.
As both Bloomberg News and Reuters point out, that phrase has only been used by Chinese state-run media in the lead up to significant confrontations, including the 2017 border stand-off with India and the 1979 invasion of Vietnam.
North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, in a dramatic escalation of Pyongyang's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
Muddying the outlook for the region, Italy's government is in a stand-off with the European Commission over its borrowing and longstanding German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would not be seeking re-election as head of her party.
The statement came after 1MDB said on Tuesday it did not pay a $50.3 million coupon on a $1.75 billion bond following a stand-off with Abu Dhabi sovereign fund IPIC, triggering cross defaults on some of its other bonds.
The stand-off has raised fears of a repeat of the communal violence that broke out in the Rakhine state capital Sittwe in 2012, leading to the killing of nearly 200 people and displacement of some 140,5003 - most of them Rohingya.
The S&P posted its biggest one-day loss in about three weeks on Tuesday after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test yet on Sunday that triggered a dramatic escalation of the country's stand-off with the United States.
The border stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighboring giants, who share a 3,500 km (2,175 miles) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.
Seoul and Beijing agreed in October to move beyond a year-long stand-off over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea, a dispute that has been devastating to South Korean businesses that rely on Chinese consumers.
The report, however, said the testers had taken blood samples from Sun while at the clubhouse of his residence compound but the swimmer and his entourage then refused to let them depart with the samples during a tense stand-off.
Britain's last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit after the deal Prime Minister Theresa May agreed with the bloc was crushed in a parliamentary vote has stalled in a stand-off between May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
In addition, the budget requests $451 million, up from $95 million last year, for the Long-Range Stand-Off missile, a nuclear cruise missile that the Air Force can fire from the B-85033, B-2 and the B-21 bomber.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union sanctioned on Friday eight more Russians over a stand-off with Ukraine in the Azov Sea, including senior security service officials and military commanders that the bloc accuses of preventing Ukrainian ships from reaching port.
These swirling misgivings, exacerbated again this weekend by Trump's widely criticized response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, present the President with unique challenges as he tries to rally the country and the world in the stand-off with North Korea.
MADRID, May 23 (Reuters) - The Spanish government secured parliamentary backing on Wednesday for its 2018 budget after the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) lent its support, avoiding delays some had feared as a consequence of the political stand-off in Catalonia.
PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) - The hardline CGT union sought to tighten its grip on France's energy supplies and transport network on Thursday as its stand-off with the government over planned labour reforms continued into a day of nationwide protests.
Concerns that a trade deal would not be reached before the 2020 U.S. presidential election grew after Goldman Sachs on Sunday became the latest to cut its U.S. growth outlook and warn a trade stand-off would fester past the election.
"We will implement stand-off missiles capable of defending ourselves adequately, when we are outside the range of the opponent, in order to ensure the safety of the Self Defense Force and to defend our nation effectively," Onodera told reporters.
That trust helped me enormously when more than six months later, I arrived at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon to cover what would become a 41-day stand-off between brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and the federal government.
During a stand-off in New York City in 2015, Uber named a mock feature on its app after the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, and used it to warn that a regulatory proposal he backed could increase waits for rides.
Instead, he would stay in Downing Street until the UK has left the EU without a deal on October 31, before calling an election, setting up a constitutional stand-off that could see the Queen dragged into the Brexit crisis.
READ: How the hours-long police stand-off in Philadelphia finally ended Original story follows: Police are still attempting to negotiate with a suspected gunman who has so far shot and wounded six police officers terrorizing this neighborhood in north Philadelphia.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tighter U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil planned for May are adding to a wealth of factors curbing global supply of heavy-medium crude, driving up prices for scarcer barrels and setting up a stand-off between buyers and sellers.
The current stand-off between buyers and sellers comes down partly to uncertainty over just how much Iranian crude may still flow, crucially to top consumer China, after the May 1 deadline the U.S. has imposed for importers to halt purchases.
Over the weekend a violent stand-off between protesters and the police took place, as police fired tear gas and water cannons filled with a dye that irritates the skin at the protesters, according to an earlier report from Business Insider.
Electrolux has boosted margins in recent years by cutting lower-margin products and increasing efficiency, but its work was partly undone last year by mounting costs for raw materials and tariffs amid a trade stand-off between Washington and Beijing.
The blockade is a new phase in the three-year stand-off between Ukraine and the pro-Russian rebels that has highlighted the abiding economic ties between the two sides despite a simmering conflict that has killed more than 10,000.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co's imported vehicles are being held up at Chinese ports, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, underscoring how U.S. goods are facing increased customs scrutiny in China amid a tense trade stand-off.
"We don't think this will result in a full blown political crisis...but the stand-off between the government and the protesters will go on for the time being," said Andreas Schwabe, senior economist at Raiffeisen Bank International in Vienna.
KABUL (Reuters) - Two rival Afghan politicians appointed themselves president on Monday following a disputed election, a stand-off that threatens political turbulence days after the United States and the Taliban signed a deal on the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga called for calm on Sunday as he visited a slum in the capital that was hit by violence when a political stand-off over a repeat presidential election fed into rising ethnic tensions.
"The gloomy mood has mainly been down to the U.S.-China stand-off in trade talks as the two countries continue the tit-for-tat measures of implementing import tariffs on each others goods," said Tamas Varga of oil brokerage PVM.
In a video posted by Passenger Shaming, a popular Instagram account that documents outlandish in-flight behavior, two men can be seen having a heated stand-off after the cabin crew requested all windows be left open during the plane's descent.
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Former Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev went on trial behind closed doors on Friday charged with illegally setting free a jailed organized crime boss, which led to his arrest in August after a dramatic stand-off with security forces.
Demonstrators who gathered to show support for the gunmen's cause clashed with police outside the station on Wednesday, and Sarksyan has so far shown no intention of using force to end the stand-off, or of moving to free Sefilian.
Rajoy's stand-off with the Catalan separatists has sharpened at a time when national politics have ground to a halt after two inconclusive national elections over the last 10 months failed to produce a majority to form a central government.
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of Pyongyang's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
There is an even more baritone historical resonance in today's Gulf stand-off, namely that of the 19th century "Great Game" in which Russia muscled in on Britain's Central and South Asian dominions in its quest to reach the Arabian Sea.
It loaded the bomblets into a new generation of guided "stand-off" glide bombs for the Navy and made the old airdropped dispensers like the ones used at As Salman more accurate by fitting them with GPS-guided tail kits.
Their father, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was not at the reserve but was offering his sons advice by phone, became a symbol of the anti-government ethos after a stand-off over grazing rights with federal authorities in 2014.
U.S.-SOUTH KOREA DRILLS North Korea has boasted of developing nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching the United States, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, but Pyongyang and Washington both say they want a diplomatic solution to the stand-off.
ABU DHABI, July 4 (Reuters) - The diplomatic stand-off in the Gulf region between Qatar and its neighbours gives the entire region an opportunity to move together to step up its fight against terrorism financing, Germany's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA (Reuters) - The stand-off between the tiny Gulf state of Qatar and its Arab neighbors would best be solved by an agreement across the region to prevent the financing of terrorism, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said.
Airbus faces a logjam of undelivered A330 jets worth well over $1 billion for airlines affiliated to China's debt-laden HNA Group following a stand-off over late payments, according to industry sources and a Reuters examination of parked aircraft.
Trump said he was prepared to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between the countries' leaders and could mark a breakthrough in a stand-off over the North's nuclear weapons.
The stand-off fits with a tough style cultivated by the youthful new head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces whose powers under the French constitution go further than those of any other western democratic leader.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - There was no sign of the Urals crude loading plan for January 2020 on Thursday, with four trade and industry sources telling Reuters that a stand-off over Russian oil supplies to Belarus in 2020 was behind the delay.
MOSCOW, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble opened weaker on Thursday, hurt by the ongoing political stand-off between Washington and Beijing after China reacted angrily to U.S. President Donald Trump signing a law on Wednesday supporting protesters in Hong Kong.
Republican failures to win legislative victories — embodied by the collapse of healthcare reforms — last week injected an early bout of nerves into financial markets as investors confronted the possibility of a disorderly stand-off over the US's public debt limit.
ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday accused Italy's European Union partners of "hypocrisy" after they failed to offer a solution to a migrant stand-off in Sicily, and said it would have repercussions for Italy's stance on other issues.
The stand-off, defused by an emergency intervention of three county governors, was a stark reminder of how easily Kenya's months-long political crisis could spark the type of ethnic violence that killed 1,200 people after a flawed 2007 vote.
MNDAA is a part of the Northern Alliance coalition of rebel groups comprising one of Myanmar's most powerful militias, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and two smaller groups caught in a stand-off with the military since 2015 clashes in the region.
Still, it was U-23, as I was told, that played a key role in identifying the Syrian government's use of sarin gas on their own civilians, making good use of its "stand-off" capabilities -- performing intelligence-gathering missions from well offshore.
Modi and Xi on Tuesday met for more than an hour on the sidelines of the BRICS nations summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen, a week after agreeing to end a more than two-month long stand-off along their disputed border.
PARIS (Reuters) - The stand-off between France's government and a hardline union over labor reforms worsened on Wednesday as the country mobilized strategic oil stocks for the first time in 6 years and employers warned the protests were starting to hurt the economy.
The group is now part of the Northern Alliance coalition of rebels comprising one of Myanmar's most powerful militias, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and two smaller groups caught in a stand-off with the military since 2015 clashes in the region.
ET - Live from Singapore:  As the world watches to see if the North Korea nuclear stand-off yields to diplomacy and if President Trump can cut a deal with Kim Jong Un, "Special Report" counts down to the historic summit live from Singapore.
Historical examples abound of nations fighting over fish, including the "cod wars" of the 1950s and 1970s - which led to a naval stand-off between Iceland and Britain - and the Pacific salmon dispute between the United States and Canada in the 1990s.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of asylum seekers refused to leave a detention center in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, even after power and water were cut and food supplies dwindled, in a stand-off that human rights groups warn could become a humanitarian crisis.
A man believed to be the boyfriend of Adea Shabani shot and killed himself Thursday night in a California stand-off with police, multiple outlets report — only intensifying the search for the model and actress who disappeared in Los Angeles last month.
The stand-off between Berlin and the IMF on how to deal with Greece has delayed the participation of the Fund in the bailout for 18 months and raised speculation that the euro zone may choose to go it alone in the end.
When VICE News spoke to Guaidó earlier this month, he seemed unfazed by his recent string of failures, which included an aid stand-off on the border of Colombia that turned violent, but appeared to lack concrete steps to realize his ultimate goal.
Though the Dreamers will probably be saved eventually—because around 85% of Americans want them to be—the stand-off has degenerated into an ugly row over Mr Trump's reference to Haiti and African countries, at a bipartisan meeting on immigration, as "shitholes".
There are immediate concerns: Donald Trump's threat to tear up a bilateral free-trade pact, foreign investors' jitters over the nuclear stand-off with North Korea and Chinese economic retaliation in response to South Korea's deployment of an American missile-defence system.
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union was divided on Monday over how to end a stand-off with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, as Britain called for governments to maintain their tough stance and Slovakia said the current sanctions policy was untenable.
Sanchez has led a long stand-off with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP), which won the most votes but fell short of a majority in two inconclusive elections, and the dispute has frustrated attempts to form a government.
SYDNEY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea's leader said authorities will apprehend those responsible for a nine-day stand-off at an Australian-run detention centre for asylum seekers, where almost 600 men have barricaded themselves inside despite having no water or food.
A stand-off between Britain and the EU over the future access to the bloc's single market for London's vast financial services industry is shaping up to be one of the key Brexit battlegrounds before Britain leaves the bloc in March 2019.
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Eleven migrants who were stranded on a Spanish fishing boat for more than a week after being rescued off Libya were brought to Malta on Sunday, ending an international stand-off, but Valletta said they would later be taken to Spain.
If, however, "this is no classic trade war" but rather a "strategic rivalry across many fronts", to quote James Kynge of The Financial Times speaking at the LME Week seminar in October, then a trade truce alone does not end the stand-off.
North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
The EU on Friday added eight more Russians to its sanctions list over a stand-off between Russia and Ukraine in the Azov Sea, including senior security service officials and military commanders that the EU accuses of preventing Ukrainian ships from reaching port.
A stand-off between Britain and the EU over the future access to single market for London's vast financial services industry is shaping up to be one of the key Brexit battlegrounds before Britain is due to leave the bloc in March 2019.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar was little changed on Thursday, on track to post a fourth straight month of gains, as the trade stand-off between China and the United States prompted traders to put money into perceived safe currencies including the greenback.
Clients of Chinese wool mills are also starting to balk at the high prices, leading to a stand-off between buyers and sellers and some bales being left unsold, said Michael Jones, chief executive of Australia's dominant wool storage and export house, AWH.
House prices in London have slipped by 1.5 percent over the past year as a series of adverse political and economic factors have combined to cause an ongoing stand-off between potential buyers and sellers, according to data from Rightmove on Monday.
During a stand-off in New York City in 2015, Uber named a mock feature on its app after the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, and used it to warn users that a regulatory proposal he backed could increase waits for rides.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria outlined plans on Wednesday to erect a fence at a border crossing with Italy that is a vital link between northern and southern Europe, escalating a stand-off between the two states over how to handle a migration crisis.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration threatened on Monday to veto an effort in the U.S. Congress to end U.S. military support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, continuing a stand-off with lawmakers over policy toward the kingdom.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran decided not to escalate a stand-off over the extension of U.S. sanctions at a meeting of diplomats overseeing the nuclear deal it reached with world powers in 2015, senior Russian and Iranian diplomats said after the session on Tuesday.
In the interview, Alnoud said that to end the stand-off, the Islamist Islah party - a backbone of Hadi's government that the UAE sees as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood - should be ousted from posts of influence along with any northern politicians.
While China and South Korea agreed last month to move beyond their year-long stand-off over THAAD, a dispute that has been devastating to South Korean businesses that rely on Chinese consumers, China has stuck to its opposition to the system.
The stand-off over control of the south left Riyadh struggling to hold together a Sunni Muslim alliance formed in 2015 to fight the Iran-aligned Houthi group as the United Nations tries to restart political talks to end the ruinous war.
BERLIN, March 19 (Reuters) - German manufacturers are sitting on orders that will take them nearly six months to complete, providing some cushioning as Berlin tries to work through a trade stand-off with Washington that has finance minister Olaf Scholz "seriously worried".
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the shooter who wounded six police officers amid an hours-long stand off in Philadelphia to get a "long sentence" and said the incident showed authorities need to crack down on street crime.
Gold eased on Wednesday as a recovery in the dollar pulled prices further from the previous day's near six-week peak, though a drop in equities on the back of jitters over a U.S.-China trade stand-off kept the metal underpinned.
Unlike most years, in which wages are set on an industry-by-industry basis to reduce complexity, the 2018 round rolls a majority of private sector firms into a single negotiation in a bid to resolve a stand-off over pension reform.
Brexit-induced paralysis, owing to the uncertainty generated by last June's referendum has contributed to the ongoing stand-off between buyers (who felt too unsure to cough up exorbitant asking prices) and sellers (who anticipated appetites would return and refused to drop prices).
Such strongly opposed positions could extend a stand-off that has prevented much of the 125 basis points in rate cuts the RBI implemented last year from filtering through to the economy, with banks lowering their lending rates by only 60 bps.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - North Korean vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui has arrived in Sweden to take part in roundtable talks, Sweden's foreign ministry said on Friday, amid stepped up international efforts to end the stand-off between the United States and North Korea.
KABUL, March 9 (Reuters) - Two rival Afghan politicians appointed themselves president on Monday following a disputed election, a stand-off that threatens political turbulence days after the United States and the Taliban signed a deal on the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.
LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Surging oil production from non-OPEC countries led by the United States along with abundant global stocks will help the market weather political shocks such as the U.S.-Iran stand-off, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.
The stand-off between Britain and the EU over future access to the single market for London's financial services industry is shaping up to be one of the key Brexit battlegrounds before Britain is due to leave the bloc in March 2019.
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA, July 3 (Reuters) - The stand-off between the tiny Gulf state of Qatar and its Arab neighbours would best be solved by an agreement across the region to prevent the financing of "terrorism", German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdish region said on Thursday it had offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into Turkey with the participation of U.S.-led international forces as part of a compromise aimed at ending a stand-off with Baghdad.
JAKARTA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Indonesia will mobilise fishermen to join warships in the South China Sea to help defend against Chinese vessels, the government said on Monday, as the biggest stand-off with China for years escalated off Southeast Asia's largest country.
The specter of a global trade stand-off, however, appeared to be receding after the United States and South Korea agreed to revise a trade pact, with U.S. automakers winning improved market access and Korean steelmakers hit with quotas but avoiding hefty tariffs.
The third source said resolving the Aden stand-off, which fractured the Western-backed coalition, was needed before the coalition officially responded to a Houthi offer to halt missile and drone attacks on Saudi cities if the alliance halted strikes on Yemen.
The Department of Justice is in a stand-off with Apple over the effort to unlock iPhones owned by a suspected terrorist — but according to cybersecurity experts, it should be straightforward for federal agents to crack the iPhones, even without Apple&aposs cooperation.
The modernization includes $220006 billion for the future B-2202 bomber, $2628 billion for the future Columbia-class submarine, $28500 million for the future Long Range Stand Off cruise missile and $6900 million for the future Ground Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile.
"The United States should be prepared to employ air power, stand-off weapons, covert measures and enhanced support for opposition forces to break the current siege of Aleppo and frustrate Assad's attempts to consolidate control over western Syria's population centers," the report said.
It made the comment in response to what it said were reports of recent U.S. military flights near Scarborough Shoal - known by Beijing as Huangyan Island - an area China seized control of after a stand-off with the Philippine coast guard in 2012.
A stand-off between Britain and the EU over future access to the single market for London's financial services industry is shaping up to be one of the key Brexit battlegrounds before Britain is due to leave the bloc in March 2019.
While the impact on flights is set to be limited, the stand-off is another potential threat to the airline's image a little over a month after thousands of passengers were stranded by a computer systems outage caused by a power surge.
"The effectiveness of the North Vietnamese air defenses has demonstrated the need in modern aerial warfare for 'stand-off' delivery systems—for remotely piloted vehicles—of all types," the Air Force analysts declared in a review of the pilotless missions in 2190.
The political stand-off has divided the country, pushed banks and companies to move their headquarters outside Catalonia and shaken market confidence in the Spanish economy, prompting calls from the European Commission for Catalan and Spanish leaders to find a political solution.
India and Pakistan are amidst their biggest stand-off in many years, with the United States and other global powers mediating to de-escalate tensions between arch-foes who have fought three wars since their independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
"Had I known more at the time, and had I been able to stand off and view it — had I not been dissociated, as I put it — I would've given less time to the shows, and they would've been just fine," he said.

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