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...the new government with the last 12 months of Iván Duque’s centre-right administration....
...“The safety and security of Americans worldwide is my highest priority as secretary of state, and we will continue to press for the release of all US nationals wrongfully detained abroad,” Blinken said....
...“The violence we’re seeing is a direct consequence of the Farc’s withdrawal and the government not moving fast enough to implement a new security strategy,” says Sergio Jaramillo, Santos’s former high commissioner...
...country’s finance minister, María Jesús Montero, said....
...The EU financial services commissioner is due to meet Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey on Monday....
...He will appear alongside Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, and Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...The writer is the official representative of Juan Guaidó to France and deputy foreign minister in his interim administration...
...Pete Flores, CBP’s director of field operations in San Diego, defended the move....
...He will have to deal with the unfolding crisis in neighbouring Venezuela, which promises to be one of the big challenges for the Duque administration....
...Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president, wore white to symbolise peace. So did Rodrigo Londoño, the normally olive-garbed commander of Latin America’s largest rebel movement....
...“We have entered into [memorandums of understanding] with various commercial banks to the tune of around Rs100bn,” said V Rama Manohara Rao, APCRDA special commissioner....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...“We are seeing an association [of drug groups] with some municipal officials,” Jesús Murillo Karam, the attorney-general, told reporters last week....
...This is the kind of progressive social policy that this Government is proud to pioneer....
...“It represents a very small amount . . . 10 per cent of what the US is spending on border security,” he said....
...The so-called Pact for Mexico, which party leaders signed on December 2, includes 95 pledges to shake up everything from social security to education and from competition in radio and television to overhauling...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The security forces who raided the hotel found a cache of weapons and ammunition, including several cylinders of C-4, a high explosive power and military use....
...Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, called Botnia an “innocent victim” of the conflict between Argentina and Uruguay, thus widening it further....
...From Brown v. Board of Education (the 1954 segregation ruling) to Roe v. Wade (the 1973 abortion landmark), the court has ruled with liberals on vital social issues....
...But the security vote seemed to be personality not party - Republican credibility on security is not guaranteed to last beyond Bush and, as things deteriorate in Iraq, it may not even last that long....
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