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That’s never going to happen, and whatever compromises party elites could make to try to force it would amount to nothing more than a pile of platitudes.

"Any denial of the entry of the necessities of life for civilians may amount to collective punishment," the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.

The proposals would amount to a 7% reduction in the academic workforce if signed off.

Russian officials have rejected the idea of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov previously saying such a move "can't be allowed" as it would amount to the "direct, official and unveiled involvement of Nato members in the war against Russia".

One man very well placed to consider what Trump's ambitions for Greenland actually amount to is Anders Fogh Rasmussen.