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...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...“We are not serving as a port state control authority,” he said, adding that this was a role for the flag state of the vessel and the countries in which ports were located....
...Opec’s Kuwaiti secretary-general, Haitham Al Ghais, linked the decision to cut to the anxieties about energy supplies facing global consumers, though he did not mention Moscow’s energy war on Europe....
...US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, denies “turning a blind eye”, saying he is “very concerned by credible reports that Rwanda” is backing the M23 when he visited Kinshasa and Kigali in August....
...It's struggling to remember its foundation, its foundational values, that everyone in the United States has an opportunity and a hope for prosperity....
...Winston Churchill, secretary of state for the colonies, was the dogged son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a legendary champion of Ulster....
...I think if you look at the careers of people with my sort of similar educational background, like the former deputy secretary of state under Clinton, Strobe Talbott....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...Trump et al v....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...a Russian information effort to sow chaos in the United States....
...The rules have been eased for 15 of the more than 40 AOP cheeses, according to the Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité, a state institution that governs the production of designated cheese and...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Mr Trump called Mr Cook a “very special person” and nudged him to offer an upbeat assessment of the state of the US economy in an exchange in front of reporters....
...Now: imagine you are the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America. For "cobalt-rich ore," substitute "dollars," or "dollar-denominated assets," or perhaps just "Treasuries."...
...Abdel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, said: “This conference in Bahrain, maybe people have read too much into it....
...US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Kofi Annan pose before the Action Group on Syria meeting at the UN’s headquarters in Geneva in 2012 Meeting Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s president, in Baghdad in 1998...
...The purpose of a company, it says, “is to engage all its stakeholders in shared and sustained value creation”. Multinationals, it adds, must do nothing less than “improve the state of the world”....
...United Airlines suspended a flight from New Jersey’s Newark airport to the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, which passes over Iran, citing safety concerns....
...He briefly served as housing secretary in the Obama administration and was among a handful of contenders to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016....
...Piling on, Sonny Perdue, the US agriculture secretary, declared a DeSantis victory to be “cotton-pickin’ important”. Both men can rest easy, Mr Gillum has since conceded....
...Beijing said the additional duties on 128 kinds of products of US origin would be introduced from Monday “in order to safeguard China’s interests and balance the losses caused by the United States additional...
...Ahead of last year’s general election, she ambushed Michael Fallon, then Tory defence secretary, by revealing on air that he had attended a reception celebrating Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in 2009....
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