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John Bercow, the speaker of the Commons, tells off the foreign secretary for using sexist language

UK Statistics Authority boss David Norgrove strongly criticised the foreign secretary for repeating the dubious claim that Britain would be able to spend an extra # 350 million a week on the NHS once it had left the EU,.

Many foreign politicians and diplomats that I speak to tell me they are pleasantly surprised when they meet the foreign secretary for the first time.

Who knew that Philip Hammond was foreign secretary for two years?

Also during PMQs, May showed that she was riled by Emily Thornberry when she attacked the shadow foreign secretary for shouting «from her normal sedentary position».

«The Italian government granted Italian citizenship to Alfie on Tuesday and applied to the foreign secretary for permission to intervene to save Alfie's life,» according to CNN.

Not exact matches

Edward Alden, a reliable observer of trade policy and politics at the Council on Foreign Relations, noted that it's unusual for the commerce secretary to comment so forcefully on a determination that could technically be reversed.

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

The news comes after the Senate Foreign Relations committee on Monday endorsed Mike Pompeo for secretary of State.

On Thursday, Moscow's ambassador to London, Vladimir Yakovenko, said that, had Novichok been used, the Skripals would have died and he rebuked British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for comparing Russia's hosting of the soccer World Cup this summer with Nazi Germany's hosting of the Olympics in 1936.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are working on requests for exemptions and exclusions from foreign countries and U.S. businesses, Navarro said.

«I can imagine these changes would be really good for the morale for the Chinese diplomats at the foreign ministry at a time when the morale of the diplomats in the US foreign service is at an all time low,» Susan Shirk, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told Bloomberg.

Trump supporters say Clinton deserves to be prosecuted for her handling of U.S. foreign policy as President Barack Obama's first - term secretary of state and for her use of a private email server while in that office.

Sean Spicer, the former Trump White House press secretary, said in March, just after Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, that Trump had not been aware that Flynn had been paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election.

During one event attended by the prime minister that week, an investment seminar hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at the Pierre Hotel, Dr. Ziad Haider, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the US Department of State said, «Secretary Kerry... likes to say that foreign policy is economic policy, and in saying that he's referring to that interplay between foreign policy, foreign affairs, economic issues, and it's certainly true with bilateral diplomatic relations, as well.»

Mike Pompeo, widely seen as the next secretary of state, is known for a hawkish approach toward foreign policy.

MONDAY, JANUARY 8 BRUSSELS - The European Commission holds a conference and its speakers include EU Commission head Jean - Claude Juncker, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, Italian Finance Minister Pier - Carlo Padoan, German Secretary for Finances Jens Spahn and the chairman of euro zone finance ministers Mario Centeno.

At the G - 7 meeting Monday night, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said this was the moment for Russia to pick a side.

President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is facing serious opposition before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

As emails disclosed by WikiLeaks laid bare internal concerns about how the Clinton Foundation's funding might impact the former Secretary of State's run for the Oval Office, former President Bill Clinton announced in August that the nonprofit would reject corporate and foreign donations if Hillary Clinton prevailed in her campaign.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (2nd L) poses for a photograph before talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart Sibusiso Moyo (C) and other delegations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, U.K., on April 20, 2018.

CNBC's Eamon Javers sits down with Rajesh De the Former General Counsel for the National Security Agency; Michele Reagan the Secretary of State of Arizona; and Mark Testoni the President and CEO of SAP National Security Services to talk about the concern of foreign interference in this year's presidential election.

It had been suggested Mr Osborne could have been given Foreign Secretary but in the end there was nothing for him and he returns to the backbenches.

, a program created in 2004 by Mexico's Secretary of Economy and the US - Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), launched with the aim of «strengthening the entrepreneurial, technological and innovative capacities of small and medium sized technology - based companies» and to help startups scale their products and great ideas into foreign markets.

Reporters listen to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel during a news conference after a meeting with South Korea's senior officials at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul March 17, 2015.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban - ki Moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs John Kerry and asserting Israel's right to defend itself against incessant rocket attacks and terrorist infiltrations which no country can be expected to suffer without responding.

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Although Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar stated that the informal meeting does not have a set agenda, India's support for the Belt and Road will likely form part of the discussions between the two leaders on Friday and Saturday.

Mike Pompeo won a favorable vote Monday from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after Sen. Rand Paul flipped to endorse him, paving an unexpectedly easy path for the CIA director to win confirmation as secretary of state as soon as this week.

On July 30, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided a stalwart rationale for U.S. foreign policy on worldwide religious freedom, which is rooted in the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) signed by her husband.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Secretary Clinton asserted: «For the United States... religious freedom is a cherished constitutional value, a strategic national interest, and a foreign policy priority.»

Some of the most striking documents in this volume are internal memos between Bell and Anthony Eden, the British secretary of state for foreign affairs.

Here is the full stand alone post, for context By the way, the former German foreign secretary Mr. Guido Westerwelle is just chastised by the Godhead: He suffers from leukemia (cancer of the blood).

Britain's foreign secretary Philip Hammond has called for countries to increase financial aid and to provide more medical expertise, transport and supplies.

Kinzer's book should be required reading for every legislator on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or on the House Committee on International Relations — and for President Bush, the secretaries of state and defense and others shaping U.S. foreign policy toward predominantly Muslim couForeign Relations or on the House Committee on International Relations — and for President Bush, the secretaries of state and defense and others shaping U.S. foreign policy toward predominantly Muslim couforeign policy toward predominantly Muslim countries.

(HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell may seem, at first blush, a curious contemporary analogue to the Austrian foreign minister, Prince Clemens von Metternich; but both tried to use the Church for state purposes, and both had to be resisted.)

Rufus Anderson served as the Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the ABCFM for thirty - four years and remained a member of the governing Prudential Committee and the official Board historian for another eleven years.

the secretaries of foreign mission boards with headquarters in London formed an association for «mutual counsel and fellowship».

As Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.

The news this week of further Brexit wrangling in Parliament, complemented by the bungling of the foreign secretary in matters dealing with a British national presently in prison in Iran, don't really fill one with hope about how smoothly the transition to life outside the European Union will go for the United Kingdom, in light of the current government.

Bob Carr, Professor of International Relations at UTS, Director of the Australia - China Relations Institute Dennis Richardson, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, former Director General of ASIO and former Ambassador to the US Andrew Shearer, Senior Adviser on Asia Pacific Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies, US Moderator: Lisa Murray, Returning China Correspondent, The Australian Financial Review

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, right, and Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarrea, deliver statements to the media during the sixth round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement in Montreal in January 2018.

June 26 — Former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has hailed Sunderland's new sponsorship deal with not - for - profit organisation Invest in Africa as the best in the club's history.

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

You are supposedly on his side - but you didn't lobby Theresa May or the actual foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, who are responsible for policy.

I might poach Obama for foreign secretary - he's a promising politician.

There are few other positions important enough for the elder sibling, who has already been foreign secretary and is too unsympathetic to Ed Miliband's civil liberty agenda to go to the Home Office.

The comments come as foreign secretary David Miliband had his trip to Israel cut short so he could come back and vote for the plans, showing just how tight the vote has become.

It was as Stanley Baldwin's foreign secretary that he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for negotiating a peaceful conclusion to the Locarno Pact and Franco - German reconciliation.