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...The Foreign Office said earlier this week: “Boris Johnson was visiting in a personal capacity and not acting on behalf of the UK government.”...
...The choice of the oil-rich Gulf state as the host of the next UN climate change summit has been controversial....
...Secretary of state Antony Blinken last week urged India to co-operate with the Canadian police investigation....
...The new government is dominated by blocs linked to Iran, known as the Coordination Framework, and its affiliated militia groups, who fought against loyalists of rival Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr this summer...
...” — Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, referring to COP21, hosted by Paris in 2015....
...As minister for international development and then for prisons, Stewart found aid money being wasted and broken windows allowing drugs to be brought in by drone. Officials shrugged off his doubts....
...His team presented several options for attacks with partners and directed secretary of defence Lloyd Austin to launch Thursday’s strikes, which the US said targeted the Houthis’ drone, missile, radar and...
...US President Joe Biden is not planning to go to the summit, US officials said on Sunday, but his top climate advisers, including former secretary of state John Kerry and former White House chief of staff...
...US officials have told the Financial Times that they expect Israel to switch tactics in their war against Hamas in January....
...Al-Shifa hospital, in the heart of Gaza City, ran out of fuel over the weekend, local officials and the World Health Organization said, risking the lives of patients as fighting raged outside its doors....
...Sunak spoke with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday and noted “the importance of Egypt’s historic role in the region, including in seeking de-escalation”, Number 10 said....
...One official in the enclave said its hospitals were running at full capacity because of the number of casualties they had received since Saturday....
...As western companies continue to grapple with the consequences of cutting ties with Russia, a senior bloc official said it could make it possible for EU energy companies to get out of contracts with Russian...
...A senior UN official said Saturday’s delivery is expected to be the first of many, as a formal inspections regime is slowly being put into place....
...More than 130 US lawmakers and members of the European parliament wrote to UN officials and others last month to request the UAE withdraw Jaber from the role, arguing that his position as head of the state...
...It has since become a hub for western officials covering Afghanistan, with many embassies relocating to Doha and Sheikh Mohammed acting as a conduit for Washington to engage with the Taliban....
...High-level delegations from Nigeria and Benin were in Niamey and senior officials, including US secretary of state Antony Blinken, had called Bazoum to express support....
...Peretz and his partner had been hiding in the safe room of their house for hours, desperately trying to call in help from Israel’s security forces....
...Biden’s bet — and that of his top officials including Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary — is that he can revitalise them in a way that expands America’s economic offering to developing nations around...
...Shoigu’s broadcast came as the EU’s chief diplomat described Prigozhin’s rebellion as “the monster acting against his creator” and said the weekend’s chaos proved that Putin’s “military power is cracking...
...on her even more as his potential successor....
...Although some vacancies are being filled by officers in an “acting” capacity, they may not have the same authority and flexibility as confirmed military officers....
...His army was defeated but his point had been made and by the end of the decade he had a peace deal that saw the return of the Sinai in 1982....
...Across town, defence secretary Ben Wallace speaks at a conference organised by defence and security think-tank Rusi US: President Joe Biden begins Investing in America tour of the country to tout his administration...
...US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has warned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the upsurge in violence in the occupied West Bank is weakening their capacity to work together on tackling the...
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