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...Sir Vincent Fean, former UK consul-general, Jerusalem, said the move would “antagonise the Arab and Muslim world, for no valid reason” and could jeopardise a trade deal between the UK and the Gulf Cooperation...
...The First Consul and the new Pope Pius VII understood they needed each other....
...Kurt Tong, a retired diplomat who served as US consul-general in Hong Kong until last year, said the move was “symbolically important” since it was the first step taken by Washington and would likely not...
...Andrew Heyn, UK consul general to Hong Kong and Macau, said the partnership was a “demonstration of the developing interest between these nations’ corporations”, against a backdrop of other initiatives including...
...Kurt Tong, who served as US consul-general in Hong Kong for three years until June 2019, says Beijing’s strategy of suppressing political opposition without denting business vitality is layered with risk...
...Antonia Romeo, permanent secretary at the international trade department and formerly consul-general in New York overseeing trade matters, is seen as a potential successor to Sir Kim....
...Another prominent female candidate, Antonia Romeo, permanent secretary at the Department of International Trade, has pulled out of the race, despite having experience of US-UK trade in a previous role as consul-general...
...Baron Antoine-Jean Gros’s “Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa”, painted in 1804, has the fearless First Consul as he was in 1799, standing amid the sick, both French soldiers and Arabs in the...
...The organisers were subsequently accused by China’s consul-general in Brisbane, Xu Jie, of being “separatists” and “anti-China activists”....
...Given the general impression that vegetables are cheaper than meat, some chains have faced a backlash from customers expecting more of a saving....
...Mark Wu, a professor at Harvard Law School, said: “In theory the president could direct his attorney-general to drop the investigation.”...
...The Saudi consul general in Istanbul, Mohammad al-Otaibi, invited Reuters on a tour of the six-storey premises on Saturday, opening cupboards and panels covering air conditioning units in a bid to disprove...
...The same team had previously spent nine hours scouring the home of the Saudi consul-general....
...Elio Leoni-Sceti held senior roles at Reckitt Benckiser, the Dettol disinfectant to Mucinex cold remedies group, and was head of frozen foods group Iglo....
...Two months later, it also received a secretly filmed sex tape featuring GSK’s China chief Mark Reilly....
...Alberto Mingardi Director General, Istituto Bruno Leoni, Turin, Italy...
...Napoleon, newly elected first consul, refused to ransom him. When he was eventually freed more than two years later, a debilitated General returned to a France he did not recognise....
...Yeah, one minister said to me that this appointment was rather like Caligula appointing his horse as a consul as one of his last acts as emperor....
...The telegram marks the last known official mention of the arcane bit of legislation....
...In another, Angus McKee, the UK’s consul-general in Kurdistan and northern Iraq, recounted the mayor’s attempt to drive an F-type Jaguar out of a car showroom....
...Crisis catalyst Roberto Rodriguez, Mexico’s consul general in Phoenix, says relations with Arizona are improving after a “dark period” earlier this decade....
...But in general the only way on and off the island for everyone and everything is by a single ship, the RMS St Helena, which normally calls every 18 days. But not for much longer....
...Justin Siberell, the US consul-general in Dubai, visited Mr Shahin, the former chief executive of the troubled property developer Deyaar, on Thursday....
...Yet Britain at least is eager to claim Sir Jonathan’s individual talents: Priya Guha, British consul-general in San Francisco, says he “epitomises the strengths of British design and innovation”....
...Eastwood directs in his workmanlike-but-unenthused style: roll camera, turn on sound recorder, move actors between chalk marks....
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