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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...
...During his tenure as the inaugural White House co-ordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, Campbell has been very influential in a job created to put more emphasis on Asia policy as the US deals with the rise...
...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
...Defence secretary Grant Shapps on Friday attacked the BBC for not describing Hamas as “terrorists” despite the group’s deadly attacks on Israeli civilians....
...“Internet capacities are growing or doubling almost every year now,” said one veteran of the lawful interception industry in India. “They keep needing to add capacity.”...
...Staunton, a City of London veteran who was sacked by business secretary Kemi Badenoch in late January after a little more than a year in the job, had himself been investigated for what he called “politically...
...For the economic team, the big questions are whether Trump might pick a Wall Street donor for the role of Treasury secretary, as he did with Steven Mnuchin in 2017 — and who he might tap to replace Jay Powell...
...The state has one of the most ambitious targets in the country for offshore wind, making it central to the Biden administration’s goal to deploy 30GW of capacity by 2030....
...The mayor has also ordered all departments to draw up 15 per cent cuts to their budgets to offset the cost of caring for so many migrants with limited federal assistance....
...But officials from Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs had something explosive on their agenda....
...A US defence official said: “Without these leaders in place, these holds severely limit the department’s ability to ensure the right person is at the right place at the right time in order to ensure strategic...
...Lee’s office said in a statement that the US was “obliged to fulfil its basic responsibilities as a host” and invite Lee to the Apec meeting “in his capacity of the leader of Hong Kong, China”....
...Separately, figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions showed a record number of foreign nationals entered the UK in the year to the end of June for work or study, with the majority from non-EU...
...on her even more as his potential successor....
...For Albert Hofman, who chairs the department of epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the research points to one conclusion: “The absolute risk [of developing dementia] is lower now...
...My guest is Baroness Catherine Ashton, who served as high representative for the European Union on foreign affairs and security policy from 2009-14....
...Lula showed little public recognition of the US campaign to protect the election. His first official visit to Washington in February was a low-key affair lasting a day....
...for China Analysis and a former China country director in the office of the US secretary of defence....
...served as acting executive director for the US at the World Bank and in the Treasury’s international affairs department....
...Many branded the man blamed for his death, Daniel Penny, as a dangerous vigilante in a city where poor black men can be killed with impunity, and demanded justice....
...Wally AdeyemoThe Treasury department has played a geopolitical role probably since the founding of our nation, but I’ve been now at the Treasury department for the better part of a decade....
...The Cabinet Office confirmed Gray had quit her post as second permanent secretary at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and added: “We are reviewing the circumstances under which she...
...The Canadian provided a guarantee for the loan. Some Whitehall veterans suspect Case put his advice to Johnson in writing because he was worried about the arrangement....
...‘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....
...And Biden — who was born in the rustbelt city of Scranton, Pennsylvania — made it his mission to provide massive subsidies for industrial America as the solution to maintaining both US economic primacy in...
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