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His appearance came days after he suddenly fired the new CDC director, Susan Monarez, provoking a group of senior staffers to resign in protest.

Raducanu likes to learn and once put her high turnover of coaches down to asking "provoking" questions of them.

One view is that the defence drive and Lai's rhetoric are provoking China, which could lead to war.

By provoking his father, he had ended his own misery and had freed his mother, who finally found the courage to leave her husband of 48 years.

Raducanu likes to learn and once put her high turnover of coaches down to asking "provoking" questions.