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...The White House last week sent two former top officials — former Republican national security adviser Stephen Hadley and former Democratic deputy secretary of state James Steinberg — to Taipei in the wake...
...One senior council official in a deprived northern area says that his authority’s bid to the first round of the levelling up fund in 2021 was more like a “thesis”, totalling more than 30,000 words, which...
...James Zimmerman, a Beijing-based lawyer at Perkins Coie, said the case was another example that “the administration of justice is an elusive, if not imaginary, exercise” in China....
...Ben Rhodes, a close adviser to Obama and a national security official in his administration, wrote in The New York Times that Kissinger was a “hypocrite”....
...And there is little room for manoeuvre in Brazil’s federal budget, since some 90 per cent of it is earmarked for non-discretionary items like social security and pensions....
...One senior administration official said that internationally Harris had developed a strong record from the start, with early trips to visit President Emmanuel Macron in Paris in 2021 and to the Munich Security...
...In an interview with the Financial Times, James Cleverly said he would “look with seriousness” at new opportunities and any requests from African leaders “to work on capacity building and training with the...
...Biden’s bet — and that of his top officials including Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary — is that he can revitalise them in a way that expands America’s economic offering to developing nations around...
...Since so much time has passed since then, his top officials have in recent weeks carefully crafted an intellectual framework to accompany it....
...Volunteers from a church in Queens were fishing for souls. Burly security guards manned the Roosevelt’s doors....
...The Biden administration is determined to keep supplies flowing: a deal with Republicans in Congress might involve concessions on US border security in return for extended aid for Ukraine....
...But US officials have made clear that billions of dollars in annual military assistance to Israel is not in jeopardy....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing Follow on Twitter: James Politi and Demetri Sevastopulo...
...The two small drones with their limited payloads had almost zero chance of killing Russian president Vladimir Putin, who is well known for not sleeping in his official Kremlin offices....
...Le had been widely spoken of in Chinese official circles as the likely next foreign minister. He now occupies a post as deputy head of the National Radio and Television Administration....
...James Cleverly, education secretary Gillian Keegan and security minister Tom Tugendhat....
...“Our national security is a hell of a lot more important than what a bunch of political opponents to the administration are going to say.”...
...And in his speech, Starmer talked consistently about offering hope through stability and security....
...The security convention that phones should be left at the entrance of Number 10 had been abandoned, as ministers oscillated between watching Johnson’s liaison committee appearance, looking at social media...
...Cox also emphasised that no information about official complicity in drug trafficking was heard in the commissioner’s inquiry last year....
...At a community college in central Virginia on Thursday, Joe Biden put his finger on the biggest domestic problem of his presidency. “Inflation is up. It’s up,” the US president said....
...Putin’s circle has shrunk further still due to his extensive social distancing precautions....
...He sees graffiti as an exercise in community and a refutation of the same social contract that the late David Graeber, his idol, railed against in his books. It’s bigger than him....
...The admonition was a nod to his administration’s success in limiting official Covid deaths to just a few thousand — the US has suffered nearly 1mn....
...Michael OrlandoWe are most concerned about the government of China because it is both an economic and national security threat, and we haven’t had a a national security threat like China since the end of...
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