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China will return an underwater US drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea, both countries said on Saturday, but Beijing complained that Washington had been hyping up the incident. Oceanographic survey ship USNS Bowditch that deployed an underwater drone seized by a Chinese Navy warship in international waters in South China Sea. US President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to take an aggressive approach in dealing with China over its economic and military policies, jumped on the unusual drone seizure with a pair of provocative tweets, accusing
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With the row over the David Abraham s donation by proxy of nearly 拢630,000 to the Labour Party threatening to embroil 10 Downing Street and lead to a po
adidas campus lice investigation necessitating the interview of Gordon Brown personally, Brownites are trying to pass the buck to Tony Blair. HT Image A Labour insider told HT that this attempt to pass the brown envelope, or who can avoid the blame in the dodgy donations scandal , has re-opened the decade-long Blair-Brown rift. After Tory leader David Cameron taunted Brown during the Prime Minister s question hour in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Brown supporters orchestrated that the first donations from A
asics brahams proxies were accepted by the Labour Party in 2003, when Tony Blair was Prime Minister and Brown Chancellor. Brown too has insisted that any wrongdoing happened originally before the time I became leader , reminding MPs that the covert payments had started four years before . A source close to Brown endorsed this and reportedly said, The bottom-line is that this started under Blair, at a time when Gordon just wasn t able to get involved in donations or the party finances because he was Chancellor. We inherited this situation. Blair s remaining allies in parliament now are fuming. They are convinced that an attempt to link the current funding scandal with the cash-for-peerages affair that clouded the last months the Blair premiership was being
adidas samba attempted to pre-empt questions about Brown s integrity
