Hints and tips:
...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 secretary of state determined and provided detailed justification to Congress that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale” of the ammunition “in the national security interests of the...
...The US president directed his commerce department to determine what measures his administration should take to prevent China from undermining national security through the export of “connected” vehicles....
...“The defendant and his customers believed they could use Bitcoin Fog to conceal these illicit transactions,” said Nicole M Argentieri, acting assistant attorney-general of the justice department’s criminal...
...Instead of considering the bipartisan package, the House voted on a bill to only fund aid for Israel, and whether to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, over his handling of immigration...
...Second, enable the swift deployment of the multinational security support mission....
...Here’s more on the election that occurred on the same day that House Republicans managed, by a single vote, to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, for allegedly failing to enforce...
...Actually, we would advocate for strong secretaries of state leading their departments. The role of the executive committee is not to make policy for different departments....
...For nearly a decade, Henry Kissinger, the US national security adviser and secretary of state who has died at 100, was able to put into practice what he had preached in his academic career....
...And I’m interested that, you know, we’ve seen so much churn in terms of ministers moving departments. Departmentally, the orthodoxies that you might expect are in play....
...Congress: The leaders of the US’s spy agencies testify to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee for a second day at a hearing assessing worldwide threats to national security....
...Jens Stoltenberg, Nato Secretary General, is also due today to address the Munich Security Conference which brings together experts from the public and private sectors....
...Qassem, the Americans believe, plans to assassinate US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice....
...President, The World Bank 2007-12; US Deputy Secretary of State 2005-06; US Trade Representative 2001-05 Philip Zelikow Senior Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Counselor of theUS Department...
...Garland and other top officials, including secretary of state Antony Blinken and homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, will visit Mexico City this week for talks focused on combating fentanyl....
...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Economic data: The US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly import and export statistics and the University of Michigan...
...Letter in response to this report:OpenAI drama empowers Altman, and that’s a worry / From Barry M Rogers, Visiting Professor in Practice, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School...
...It also foresees a sizeable security buffer within the besieged enclave, an outcome the US has made clear it opposes, and says Israel will continue its long-running blockade of the territory....
...The US Department of Justice has charged Hunter Biden with nine federal tax offences, including tax evasion, adding to the legal troubles of the president’s son ahead of the 2024 election year....
...As his own secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, said last week: “The centre of gravity is the civilian population and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic...
...But security analysts said guns were not the only next step available to China on the escalation ladder....
...In a complaint filed on Monday, the US Department of Justice said that the installation of a floating barricade set to stretch at least 1,000 feet across the Rio Grande river had failed to secure the requisite...
...from Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, on Thursday....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Meetings: US secretary of state Antony Blinken heads to the region today and will visit Israel and Jordan in the coming days while Nato defence ministers will...
...Stepping into Shapps’ vacant job at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and securing a meteoric promotion is Claire Coutinho, Sunak’s former special adviser before her election to parliament...
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