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...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
...The UK foreign secretary, who will also hold talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, will call on Congress to approve the extra $60bn in supplementary funding for Kyiv that has been blocked by Republicans...
...Del Toro, the naval secretary, who has been concerned about the economic and security implications of the decline of shipbuilding in the US for some time, recently met officials in South Korea and Japan...
...“We’re not gonna do anything,” one official said. “The whole corner-crossing stuff is so up-in-the-air in the state.”...
...Before his overseas postings, which included about a decade in London, he worked as a news assistant for the American news agency United Press International, according to journalists who knew him....
...“It’s a great example of the convening power of the UK, because you got all of these people under one roof,” said Jean Carberry, assistant secretary for digital policy from the Irish Department of Enterprise...
...race could be decided again by small margins in a handful of swing states....
...Wally AdeyemoI don’t think we take anything for granted in the United States....
...“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...
...This week another UN body, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, put a finer point on the data: it said it believed the inflection point had probably happened some time in April, adding that it...
...served as acting executive director for the US at the World Bank and in the Treasury’s international affairs department....
...Deb Haaland, the US secretary of the interior, who is Native American, referred in recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to proposed legislation that would provide “national survivor...
...“This agenda emerged in the early to mid-90s and the moving parts were visible and working by the end of the 90s,” says Freeman, a US state department human rights and labour official at the time....
...As recently as 2021, Tibor Nagy, former US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told Ramani that Washington “viewed China as the Great Dane and Russia as the little Chihuahua” on the continent...
...Instead he made his mark as chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, focusing on the City of London’s links to Russia and the UK’s duty to stand up for Uyghurs in Xinjiang....
...as the United States, Europe or Japan....
...A host of former government officials work at BlackRock, and others have departed for plum jobs in the Biden administration....
...of the United States at risk,” she added....
...The former secretary of state and national security adviser turns 99 in May and is still lauded by Beijing as a wise statesman with a vision for co-operation and coexistence....
...Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, has had regular contact with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan....
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...An official at the US mission to the UN said: “The United States communicated support for an open meeting in the Security Council early next week in order to give space to diplomatic efforts under way at...
...“Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government...
...“Very delicate technology is in question which allows monitoring of the whole society — and enables a dystopian, Orwellian society,” says Zlatko Petrovic, assistant secretary-general to the Serbian Commissioner...
...Chad Wolf, acting secretary of homeland security, said in a statement that while the events at the Capitol were “tragic and sickening”, he would remain in his position “to ensure the department’s focus remains...
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