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...“For certain other cases at the state department, including JDAM kits, we are continuing the review,” the official said....
...As a matter of fact, secretary of state Blinken announced that the United States would add $100mn so that the Kenyan mission would be deployed....
...of the United States didn’t know about it, I think it . . . was a dereliction of duty,” Pence added while on a visit to Tel Aviv....
...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....
...Lael Brainard, the White House economic adviser, said Samsung had also made a “series of commitments to enable it to manufacture chips directly for the Department of Defense”....
...So I wonder if there is a real shift in the demand picture, at least in the United States, at a moment when Chinese manufacturers are just churning these things out at very attractive prices....
...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....
...“We are at the gates of Gaza City,” said Brigadier General Itzik Cohen of the Israel Defense Forces....
...European and Eurasian Affairs 2005-09, the State Department Coordinator for Sanctions Policy 2013-17 and the US Ambassador to Poland 1997-2000 Amb Eric EdelmanFormer US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy...
...Rodrik: The United States never abandoned industrial policy....
...Arab foreign ministers were in Washington on Friday meeting with US secretary of state Antony Blinken to press him to support the resolution and for the US to do more to bring about an immediate end to the...
...Correction: In Friday’s edition of FirstFT I incorrectly stated that the Iowa Hawkeyes faced a potential rematch with Louisiana State University over the weekend when the game had already taken place....
...Private equity firms own hundreds of thousands of houses in the United States. What the hell’s going to happen there? Who’s going to protect on the downside? No one....
...China and investment by Chinese companies in the United States,” said Liu Pengyu, the embassy spokesperson....
...So although I think he’s keeping the option, I’m still sceptical. By the way, I’m still delighted with the sound of Marshall and Cruddas, which I think sounds like a department store in the North....
...Sir Robert Buckland, former Tory justice secretary, was relieved the issue had come to a head....
...The tanker’s owner, Athens-based Empire Navigation, said in October it had settled the dispute with the US Department of Justice....
...None of those elections went the way I wanted them to, but in none of them did it occur to me to express alarm about the situation of the United States, the basic capacity of the United States as the world...
...from the gilded entrance gates to the shampoo bottles in the showers....
...Robert McNamara, who later served as US defence secretary in the Vietnam war, was on the staff of the air force general Curtis LeMay, who ordered the bombing of Tokyo....
...this week, according to a senior state department official....
...Robert, take us through your theory of what’s happened here. Why did Sunak cancel the meeting? Robert ShrimsleyI mean, I’m inclined to take his explanation at face value....
...And actually, what’s so interesting about that idea of Robert’s that she’s trying to run against her own department, the Home Office, is that it’s kind of in the tradition of Boris Johnsonism, isn’t it,...
...at least some see as a competitor, if not a foe of the United States....
...“If we oppose China’s state-run economy, we want more private investment — not less,” he wrote to Treasury secretary Janet Yellen....
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