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...of the Democratic party’s base ahead of next year’s presidential election....
...In the dying days of Boris Johnson’s government, he even held one of the great offices of state, serving as chancellor of the exchequer for two months....
...They're going to use the Afghanistan hearings to try and tie down Tony Blinken and others in the State Department....
...The US Department of State called it “an apparent act of terrorism . . . directed at the heart of the Iraqi state”, and said the US was offering assistance with the investigation....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, issued a statement later on Monday calling for the restoration of internet services among other demands, in addition to condemning the actions of the Sudanese military...
...I am thinking here of the demise of Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned highly effective Democratic senator from Minnesota....
...“America’s workers will not have consistent access to free, fair and safe union elections until we strengthen our nation’s labour laws,” Virginia congressman Bobby Scott, chair of the House committee on...
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...The mission given to the former Obama-era secretary of state, who helped to orchestrate the 2015 Paris climate accord, signals the issue will rise to the top of the US policy agenda, even as the Biden administration...
...(FT) Energy Source reports on how Jennifer Granholm, Joe Biden’s pick for energy secretary, will reshape her department....
...She is seen as a safe pair of hands who would uphold the independence of the department. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democratic senator who was beaten in last week’s election, is an old friend of Mr Biden....
...Some of the telecoms assets that had passed to the group that Reiman was found to control had been misappropriated from the Russian state, the tribunal found....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...argued would occur in the third quarter of the year just before the election....
...to the New York State Department of Financial Services....
...A meeting of G7 foreign ministers in March failed to agree on a statement after Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, insisted they brand it the “Wuhan virus”....
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...committee on March 31....
...Over the weekend an external member of the committee that sets interest rates in the UK said he was willing to vote for a cut in interest rates....
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...Sayida Ounissi As Tunisia’s secretary of state for vocational training, 32-year-old Ounissi has made waves since she was elected in 2014....
...Last week Brett McGurk, a top state department official, said that although the “end of the physical caliphate” was in sight, “nobody is declaring a mission accomplished”....
...The campaigners include the doctor of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian alleged to have masterminded a 2000 al-Qaeda bomb attack on a US warship who is now imprisoned in Guantánamo....
...Thursday US-India talks US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and defence secretary Jim Mattis hold talks with Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman to discuss the two...
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