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...Campbell has told diplomats that he would still have capacity to focus on Asia, but some officials were sceptical....
...Wolf and former interior secretary David Bernhardt....
...The constraints meant Thomas and other officials who visited India, including Canadian Security Intelligence Service head David Vigneault, had only been able to present the evidence verbally to their Indian...
...The sanctions follow warnings from Yellen and secretary of state Antony Blinken that Chinese companies providing support for Moscow’s war in Ukraine will face significant consequences....
...A prominent British-born Israeli government spokesperson has been suspended from his role after an online dispute with the UK foreign secretary David Cameron over humanitarian aid to war-torn Gaza....
...The result has been an overall decline in competitiveness and capacity in US shipbuilding yards, according to navy and union officials, as well as some labour economists....
...“Now they see they can make an impact, so they’ve taken a chance.” Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher and David Sheppard in London...
...“The irony is that if they hadn’t made such a big thing about Rwanda and hung the whole migration policy on it, they could say they have made some progress,” said Sir David Normington, former permanent secretary...
...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....
...The Tory right, bruised by a reshuffle that brought the return of the centre-right David Cameron as foreign secretary, may need more than a tax cut [though] as an offering....
...Scouring my notes later, I see he talked about “strategic opportunism” and “patient capital”, phrases repeated in an official announcement that said changes were necessary “to counter the forces currently...
...The data comes as building society Nationwide reported an uptick in mortgage arrears in its half-year results....
...US officials claim it has kept Russian crude on the market, temporarily reduced the price Moscow can sell at and increased costs by forcing the Kremlin to invest in an independent fleet, and ship further...
...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...
...“This is an important region, and not only to us but to the world.”...
...Fed chair Jay Powell has been adamant that the central bank is limited in its capacity to offset any damage triggered by a default, although officials have in the past outlined ways in which it could act...
...It’s been an intriguing week for post-Brexit EU-UK relations during which some gaps have emerged in the political and official-level engagement between the two sides....
...The UK’s official climate advisers calculated the need to install up to 35 gigawatts of onshore wind capacity by 2035 as part of the drive to hit the UK’s net zero emissions target by 2050....
...At a small rural farm about an hour’s drive from the Zambian capital city of Lusaka in late January, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen stood before a gathering of farmers and told them she understood the...
...The Manston facility has a maximum capacity for 1,600 migrants but this week was holding around 4,000 in conditions described by the chief inspector of borders and immigration David Neal as “wretched”....
...But US officials believe that a substantial cut to oil output would cripple Russia’s production capacity. Shutting down fields can harm the reservoirs....
...“We’re going to work with our US allies to increase production and make sure we have the refining capacity,” he said in a television interview after the Opec+ meeting....
...German officials admit they have no idea whether state-controlled gas export monopoly Gazprom will restart deliveries through Nord Stream 1 once the maintenance period comes to an end on July 21....
...“These are deliberate actions, not an accident,” she added. German officials expressed concern that the sudden loss of pressure in both pipelines could be the result of a “targeted attack”....
...He would love to be foreign secretary, but says: “I will serve in whatever capacity I’m asked to serve.” Even as a junior minister? “I’m not arguing jobs with you!”...
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