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...That image of safety and stability was shattered this week, as Hamas militants were able to penetrate as much as 20km inside Israel, overrun military bases and murder civilians for hours before the army...
...As recently as 2021, Tibor Nagy, former US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told Ramani that Washington “viewed China as the Great Dane and Russia as the little Chihuahua” on the continent...
...“There are questions about the ability of a military that hasn’t been in combat since 1979, and questions [about] their strategic lift capacity,” said Randy Schriver, who was assistant secretary of defence...
...One morning in August, Abigael Bahati felt it in her skin as she searched for cassava leaves close to the village of Kanombe....
...The stereotype of an MI6 officer is, according to civil service legend, an upper-class white man in beige chinos and desert boots. Kathy initially baulked at the poshness of the office....
...He was still in the Pentagon, with the rank of brigadier general, when the Reagan administration swept into power in 1980, and in the summer of 1983 he became military assistant to the secretary of defence...
...In the description of William Clayton, the assistant secretary of state for economic affairs: “We loaded the British loan negotiations with all the conditions the traffic would bear.”...
...Close to four months after the first case of Covid-19 was identified in the UK, and as a growing number of Britons are being encouraged to return to work or school, many health experts, politicians and officials...
...Today’s Tit-for-Tat is with Chris Southworth, UK secretary-general of the International Chamber of Commerce, while our chart of the day looks at the slump in trade in Iowa as the Democratic caucuses kick...
...“Taiwan is at root immensely defensible,” says Lieutenant Chip Gregson, a former US assistant defence secretary and former commander of US Marine Corps Forces in the Pacific....
...Jo-Ellen Darcy, the army’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, issued a statement on Sunday evening saying that the consortium behind the project, which is led by Energy Transfer Partners, would have to...
...In a memo released on Sunday evening, Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the army for civil works, said several key documents relating to the pipeline had not been shown to the tribe or the public, including...
...“I have had conversations,” she said, mentioning Obama administration officials such as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs Victoria Nuland, who was part of the group that advised...
...There are dishes with meats, as well as vegetables including “bennie” sesame seeds, “parched in a skillet and pounded”, according to one of Sirleaf’s assistants....
...He has not ruled out standing for parliament in 2020 and some Conservative officials have spoken of him as a future prime minister; he has been a regular fixture in key Tory strategy meetings for the best...
...She says fellow activists in her NGO Change, based in Ho Chi Minh City, all know someone who works for the government who uses rhino horn....
...’ trade unions and worked as personal secretary to her father Karl....
...“I’m sure there’s a Microsoft project planner for who’s doing what at any given point of the week,” says a friend who recalls her travelling to Texas for a day and a half before rushing back to supervise...
...“What we think about where Joseph Kony is not as important as where [the four armies] think he is,” said Karl Wycoff, deputy assistant secretary for African Affairs at the US State Department, last month...
...Xi Jinping was sent at the age of 15 to work as a farmer in a village in the north of the country and remained there for six years, according to his official biography....
...Beryl, a former suffragette, was only the second woman to reach the rank of assistant secretary in the old Ministry of Labour. “She kicked the door open for us,” said one female colleague....
...Stephen Stedman, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, believes that the US in particular was responsible for missing the opportunities of the 1990s....
...Obviously, that’s not possible for the foreign secretary – you don’t have to be upset because of that....
...Even with the best will in the world, co-operation will severely stretch the capacity of the Burmese government, a system in which most civil officials are so terrified of making a mistake that they refer...
...They point out that it contravenes a cornerstone of US non-proliferation policy: that reprocessing is not necessary for the development of a peaceful civil nuclear sector....
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