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...served as acting executive director for the US at the World Bank and in the Treasury’s international affairs department....
...“Bolsonaro continued to talk about fraud in US elections and continued to understand his relationship with the United States in terms of his relationship with President Trump”, says Shannon, who is also...
...His appointment of scores of federal officials — in dozens of energy-relevant bodies, from the departments of interior and agriculture to energy — will give conservation-minded officials power, letting them...
...The lockdown reaffirmed Mr Modi’s stature in the eyes of many middle-class Indians, who saw it as a reflection of his courage and willingness to act decisively against a looming threat....
...“China wants nothing less than to push the United States of America from the western Pacific . . . But they will fail,” the vice-president declared....
...Kevin Wolf, an export controls lawyer and the assistant commerce secretary during the Obama administration, however, thinks such concerns are premature, “because the new controls are likely to be narrowly...
...The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius) is one of the most powerful — and enigmatic — regulators in the world....
...In his budget this month, Mr Trump proposed slashing spending for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by 28 per cent, while increasing funding for the Pentagon by...
...Kevin Washburn, a University of New Mexico law professor who formerly served as general counsel for the federal agency that regulates Indian gaming and as assistant secretary of the interior for Indian affairs...
...In New York, Preet Bharara, Indian-born and now the US Attorney for the southern district of New York, just as adamantly stood his ground and wondered why no one in the land of his birth cared about the...
...Gideon Rachman ——————————————- HISTORY Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, Oxford University Press, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when...
...Bernanke and other Fed officials understood all too well the United States’ aversion to the type of centralized political control embodied by a central bank....
...For now, though, Mr Hill and his family are moving to Indian Springs, a small town 50 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They will live in a trailer....
...assistant secretary of state for international energy policy....
...“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...
...The comments by Philip Crowley, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, are likely to be seized on by WikiLeaks’ supporters....
...Gates says that one of the things that links his first career, as the builder of Microsoft, and his new life as a philanthropist, is the pleasure he takes in hiring “super-smart people” and unleashing them...
...secretary T.K.A.Nair....
...It also signals America’s commitment to a strong partnership, write Inderfurth, professor at George Washington University and a former assistant secretary of state for south Asia affairs, 1997-2001 and...
...But Mr Obama is likely to want to hear how the money will be spent, given doubts about Japan’s capacity to administer the aid through its tiny handful of officials on the ground in Afghanistan and the ability...
...Most of the work took place in his head. “Carothers read from the depths of organic chemistry such as I have never seen,” said Elmer K Bolton, who took over Stine’s chemistry department in 1930....
...As long as the Pakistani civil society does not take a stand on this issue, it cannot be helped,” K. Subrahmanyam, the Delhi-based strategic affairs analyst, writes in The Times of India....
...A PORT SEEKS A PLACE FOR FRANK TALK Veracruz, a steamy port on the southern Gulf of Mexico that is the largest city in the Mexican state of the same name, bears the official designation “Heroic” for its...
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...Much of the coverage has reflected the Burmese government’s official view of the events, as well as China’s official response, such as State Counselor Tang Jiaxuan’s meeting with the Burmese foreign minister...
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