authorities
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By Friday evening, Moscow authorities said nearly 750,00 people in the city had voted, and those opposed to moving the statue prevailed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The spike in shootings has forced Belgian authorities to react and, on Thursday, Belgium's interior minister announced that an extra 40 police officers would be deployed in the problem area.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Serbian officials were awaiting details on when authorities in The Hague would release the body, he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Mr. Hoser was already battling the governmental authorities over his license to keep reptiles; now the scientific community had rebuffed him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“We had to write to check with the church registers. What the Nazi authorities were looking for, of course, were Jewish names.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
