Diplomats
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The plan devised by High Representative Kaja Kallas to raise up to €40 billion in fresh military support for Ukraine failed to gain the necessary political traction during a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday, throwing its viability into serious doubt. The reaction was so lukewarm that some diplomats declared the project “dead”. The…
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Donald Trump’s second stint as president will be like a “24/7 bar-room brawl”, according to the UK’s former ambassador to Washington. Lord Darroch was the representative for the UK to the US between 2016 and 2019 – when Mr Trump was last in power – until cables he sent to London were leaked and showed him criticising…
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The behavior of former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who stepped down from her position Monday, was “totally toxic” and unhelpful for dealmaking with the United States, President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after she announced her resignation. “The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position…
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Further to reports we brought you yesterday on Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointing a new chief diplomat, here is what we know… Ukraine’s parliament approved the appointment of a new foreign minister, with the war against Russia poised for what could be a pivotal phase. Andrii Sybiha, a former ambassador to Turkey, is the country’s new chief…
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The UK’s deputy head of mission to Russia was among the foreign diplomats who laid flowers at Crocus City Hall today (more in earlier post). Many attended with bouquets of red flowers, which they laid on top of a makeshift memorial which emerged in the wake of the attack last Friday. In a post to…
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Anti-corruption and government transparency activists say a new U.S. law that allows federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against officials of foreign governments who solicit or accept bribes from U.S. companies will fill a major void in the global fight against corruption. The Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), part of the National Defense Authorization Act,…
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Germany has expelled two Russian diplomats following a court ruling that Moscow had ordered the 2019 murder of a Georgian citizen in Berlin. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made the announcement of the expulsions. The German court found that Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov had murdered Tornike Khangoshvili, an ethnic Chechen of Georgian nationality, in a…
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China Friday said it had taken ‘reciprocal’ measures against US diplomats in the country, who will have to notify the foreign ministry before meeting with local officials. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China had notified the US embassy of the new measures Wednesday, which she said were a “countermeasure” to Washington’s decision in October…
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In the wake of accusations and denials stemming from Otto Warmbier‘s fateful journey to North Korea, and his release in a vegetative state to America on “humanitarian grounds,” Reuters reported that DPRK said its diplomats were harassed at the JFK airport in New York. Kim Jong Un‘s government said its statesmen were “mugged” on US…
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