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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...
...The White House announced the nomination of Campbell, a veteran Asia policy official who previously served at the state department and Pentagon, on Wednesday....
...filed with the US Department of Justice....
...Others expected to be on the list include veteran studio boss William Sargent....
...However, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on the carving and given the V&A until June 14 to raise £2mn so it can match the price paid by the American institution...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Henry ManceThat was my guest, Robert Fatton, professor of government and foreign affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. And that’s it for this week....
...“When I was on the board, it was UBS that was in a crisis,” said David Syz, a former Swiss state secretary for economic affairs who served as a Credit Suisse director between 2006 and 2013....
...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...
...The announcements follow the appointment this week of veteran TV executive Samir Shah as the new chair of the BBC for four years....
...Obasanjo, himself a veteran negotiator, also worried that the mission was premature, based on conversations with the US state department and UK foreign office....
...from Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, on Thursday....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...“This is far from the first time that the PRC has rejected invitations to communicate from the secretary, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, or other [defence] department officials,” said a senior...
...Arthur Lira, head of the lower house of congress, vice-president Mourão, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, Bolsonaro’s infrastructure minister, and Admiral Flávio Rocha, the secretary of strategic affairs in the...
...the US secretary of defence....
...But Harold Wilson’s attempt to beef up the Department of Economic Affairs was deemed a short lived failure....
...joseph.bambridge@ft.com...
...Brainard’s departure marks a rather abrupt exit from the US central bank’s leadership for the former Treasury under-secretary for international affairs....
...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...
...Additional reporting by Joseph Leahy in Beijing...
...Another former permanent secretary in a big department said: “I don’t think he has any credibility left and really he should go.”...
...‘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....
...The 31-year-old previously worked with Truss during her time as international trade secretary and at the Institute for Economics Affairs think-tank....
...Rees-Mogg, who will advise all government departments to apply the same three-year ban, said he was particularly concerned at the way Bain’s South African division “colluded” with the regime of former president...
...John Bew, who served as Johnson’s chief foreign affairs aide, will remain in post — one of the few aides to be kept over from Johnson’s Downing Street....
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