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...Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s former Asia tsar, was on Tuesday confirmed by the Senate in his new role as deputy secretary of state, giving him a wider foreign affairs remit than the Indo-Pacific...
...David....
...“We’ll have to tighten our belts for a few months,” Kenya’s treasury secretary Njuguna Ndung’u, who has led efforts to shore up government finances, told the Financial Times....
...‘Burying the bad news’ Sue Gray has quit her post as second permanent secretary at Michael Gove’s department to become Keir Starmer’s new chief of staff....
...Dowden, who was culture secretary and Conservative party chair in Boris Johnson’s government, previously worked in Number 10 under David Cameron....
...But many feared she lacked experience and yearned for a Treasury veteran to succeed Sir Tom Scholar, the former permanent secretary sacked by Kwarteng on his first day as chancellor....
...of rightwingers, fuelled by rightwing think-tanks like the Institute of Economic Affairs....
...It was an attempt to get the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs on the record about the issue, setting off a chain of events that — Stewart and fellow campaigners hoped — would lead to new legislation...
...Scholar has been replaced by a Treasury veteran, James Bowler, as the finance ministry’s permanent secretary....
...at the justice department....
...But economically for business, it gives the sense, well, if they’re gonna U-turn on that, what else might they U-turn on?...
...Insiders at the Department for International Trade joke that they now work at the Department for Instagramming Truss. One says: “Ironically she did all the Instagram herself....
...Lord George Robertson, a former Nato secretary-general and ex-Labour defence secretary, said during the Lords debate that such a move would “undermine some of the most basic international legal standards...
...Andrew J Oswald: The oil shocks of the 1970s. David Page: In many ways each downturn is unique and no historic comparison is perfect....
...We’re sitting in Marietta Square in the middle of town, where there is a fountain, a gazebo and a playground. Even in mid-November, Veterans Day decorations of American flags linger on....
...In 1974 he was named Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, responsible for all peacekeeping operations, a post he held until his retirement in 1986....
...Hermann Hauser, the veteran Cambridge tech investor who has led a campaign against the proposed sale of Arm, has raised no such alarm about Newport....
...Secretary of state Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and defence secretary Lloyd Austin got involved in the regional broker attempts before Biden promised on Wednesday to “stay in touch...
...The Jordanian intrigue points to outside meddling, says David Gardner....
...three years, a policy U-turn that is the latest sign of chilling relations between London and Beijing....
...Both are veterans of the justice department. Mr Donoghue is a long-serving New York prosecutor, with a stint in the private sector as a corporate counsel....
...(FT) Podcast of the day George Floyd and the politics of protest Chief foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman talks to Omar Wasow, a professor at Princeton University, about how narratives of rights,...
...David Hare, who as head of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network led negotiations with NHS officials, says: “We can argue whether that’s the right or wrong thing, but one of the advantages of ‘command...
...Previously he was UK ambassador to Denmark, director of strategy in the Foreign Office and then director for Europe, trade and international affairs at the business department, as well as special adviser...
...Secretary Wilbur Ross....
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