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...The Japanese military is also setting up a “Joint Operations Command” next year to improve co-ordination between the branches of its own Self-Defense Forces....
...“You can expect to see them in the days ahead,” US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Friday when asked about recommendations he had received to impose sanctions based on the Leahy law....
...Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also confirmed that one of his country’s nationals was among those killed....
...Ryder said the deputy secretary of defence had been “prepared to act for and exercise the powers of the secretary, if required”....
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, had blamed the communications breakdown in part on Austin’s chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, who was out for much of last week with the flu....
...The defence secretary was “conscious but in quite a bit of pain” when he was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the company of his security detail and an aide, and admitted to the intensive...
...He will combine his experience of leading the Foreign Intelligence Service with the tasks facing the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.”...
...Kissinger stayed on as secretary of state under Ford, who succeeded Nixon, but when Ford lost the election to Carter in 1976, the mood had changed....
...In addition to his meeting with Harris, Gantz met national security adviser Jake Sullivan. He is due to meet US secretary of state Antony Blinken on Tuesday....
...Ashton Carter, who served as the US defence secretary under former president Barack Obama, began his career as a physicist....
...Until this week, the Israel Defense Forces had also adopted this position....
...conversation,” he said after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany....
...And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” Austin said in a speech to the Reagan National Defense Forum in California....
...The frantic diplomacy came as Herzi Halevi, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, signalled that his country was preparing a response to the barrage of more than 300 missiles, rockets and drones fired...
...National elections in India begin later this month that are likely to see the BJP’s Narendra Modi returned for a third term....
...security programme at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies....
...Former national security adviser Stephen J Hadley and former deputy secretary of state James B Steinberg will arrive in Taipei on January 14,” said the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s quasi-embassy...
...It was another sharp example that a younger generation of Democratic national security officials were less charmed by the former secretary of state....
...The vote came after UN secretary-general António Guterres made use of a rarely exercised power to warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in Gaza and push for a vote on a ceasefire....
...David Cameron, UK foreign secretary, told the BBC on Friday that “the number of casualties is too high”....
...Meanwhile Washington said US secretary of state Antony Blinken would travel to Israel on Friday for meetings with members of its government, and then make other stops in the region....
...Fellow former health secretary Matt Hancock will follow later in the week US: funeral service in Plains, Georgia, of Rosalynn Carter, former first lady to president Jimmy Carter Thursday Bhutan: parliamentary...
...And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” Austin told the Reagan National Defense Forum in California at the weekend....
...Nixon had appointed Kissinger as secretary of state while keeping him in the role of US national security adviser. This combination had not happened before, or since....
...US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israel’s strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer in Washington on Tuesday. Dermer also met US secretary of state Antony Blinken....
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