Hints and tips:
...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...
...Former defence secretary Ben Wallace said: “There’s no substitute for a core funding increase that leads towards 3 per cent in 2030 and 2.5 per cent as soon as possible....
...Just over 56 per cent of the UK’s electricity in 2022 came from low-carbon sources such as wind, solar, biomass and nuclear, according to official figures....
...Wang has been serving as both the top Chinese foreign policy official and in the less influential role of foreign minister since July, after China removed Qin Gang as foreign minister....
...The White House last week sent two former top officials — former Republican national security adviser Stephen Hadley and former Democratic deputy secretary of state James Steinberg — to Taipei in the wake...
...The former chancellor told the FT he “emphatically” did not regard his interactions with Glen as lobbying and “did not at any time ask John Glen to facilitate a meeting for Copper”, which he said “would...
...The Chinese officer made reference to past efforts to target Martin Selmayr, a former secretary-general of the European Commission who was once among the most powerful officials in Brussels....
...The US Department of State notified Congress that it planned to approve Turkey’s request to buy 40 F-16s, according to an announcement late on Friday by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency....
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, had blamed the communications breakdown in part on Austin’s chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, who was out for much of last week with the flu....
...John Kerry, the top US climate diplomat and former presidential candidate, will retire in coming months, shortly ahead of a US election in November that could return Donald Trump to the White House....
...India’s attempts to claw back social security payments worth tens of millions of pounds for its workers in the UK have become a sticking point in trade talks between the two countries....
...President John F Kennedy asked his National Security Council in January 1963, “Why should we have in Europe supplies adequate to fight for ninety days when the European forces around our troops have only...
...Jeremy Pocklington The top civil servant at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Pocklington is regarded by fellow officials as businesslike, pragmatic and “a mandarin’s mandarin”....
...Alternatively, the defence budget could be increased at the expense of other departments....
...said a senior US official, speaking about the energy department’s review of its approval process....
...John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser and the former US ambassador to the UN under George W Bush, has publicly criticised him, as have Mark Esper, his former defence secretary, and John Kelly...
...Antony Blinken, secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security; and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall are to meet López Obrador and his team “to discuss further...
...Critics have pointed to the deployment of just one destroyer, HMS Diamond, to the Red Sea rather than a carrier, as the US has done, as further evidence of those problems....
...Starting with his vice-president, we can add his chief of staff, John Kelly, both his defence secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, his national security adviser, John Bolton, his first secretary of state...
...Secretary of state Antony Blinken also raised it, said a state department official....
...Ukraine will select the pilots who participate. American officials had indicated they would be open to training Ukrainian pilots within the US if European capacity was not sufficient....
...His successor as chief executive of FTX, John Ray, was having none of it. Bankman-Fried continues to “live a life of delusion”, he wrote to the judge, Lewis Kaplan....
...He said a House panel would move forward next week with articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis — and hold a vote on the House floor “as soon...
...The tanker’s owner, Athens-based Empire Navigation, said in October it had settled the dispute with the US Department of Justice....
...One local official closely involved in transport projects in the north of England said the increase in funding to mayors had been somewhat “lost in the noise” of poor communications....
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