BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to meet in Brussels.
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Hammond is the first of her ministers to break rank.
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Doing so has often required ministers to bite their tongues.
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There is no shortage of models for ministers to pinch.
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" "I have officials, ministers to follow things, and they're responsible.
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It is a religious organization that ministers to the community.
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A cabinet meeting was postponed to enable government ministers to attend.
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"Nada," replies Father Okpara, who ministers to more Hispanics than Italians.
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Bankers initially expected ministers to champion their cause above other industries.
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He told the new ministers to tackle graft and streamline bureaucracy.
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This is a time for presidents and prime ministers to lead.
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It also urges congregations and ministers to abide by all reporting laws.
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May's proposal led several ministers to resign, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab.
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Let's give an opportunity for new ministers to unpack what it means.
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Zuma has summoned cabinet ministers to a meeting in Cape Town today.
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Defeat seemed inevitable, prompting several ministers to urge the president to resign.
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He also persuaded a couple of prominent black ministers to endorse him.
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They left it to finance ministers to settle the details by December.
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It will not be for UK ministers to make such judgement calls.
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EUROGROUP ECON MINISTERS TO HOLD TELECONFERENCE MID-WEEK TO DISCUSS CRISIS - ITALY
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He brought in new faces and moved some ministers to new portfolios.
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The African Union mandated trade ministers to create a framework deal by 2017.
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They ordered all six of their ministers to step down from Rousseff's Cabinet.
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The British system does allow for prime ministers to change leaders mid-term.
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He dispatched three ministers to the scene who addressed reporters along with Zema.
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But only when they are judged by ministers to be necessary and proportionate.
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Tech firms said they would work with ministers to fine-tune the regulations.
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All three of Singapore's prime ministers to date have been of Chinese origin.
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And what better way then by inviting ministers to a Brazilian-style churrasco?
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If so, she will push ministers to insert an amendment into another bill.
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He has also received gifts from NBA players he ministers to, he said.
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Ms. Philpott was among the few cabinet ministers to publicly side with her.
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Before the summit Mr Trudeau dispatched his foreign, finance and defence ministers to Washington.
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Muhammad Khatami reappointed many of Mr Rafsanjani's senior ministers to his cabinet in 1997.
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The prime minister's weakness has allowed cabinet ministers to ignore informal codes of conduct.
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Now a no-nonsense rural priest who ministers to the poor of the countryside.
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Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, ministers to prisoners on death row.
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Poland has dispatched two ministers to Britain, to urge the government to protect Poles.
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Senate appointments became a way for prime ministers to reward loyalists with "taskless thanks".
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He was just one of several ministers to cite data from jobs portal Naukri.
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He called on other cabinet ministers to "return to rationality" and prevent a schism.
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The commission's recommendations must be approved by EU finance ministers to come into force.
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Many are little more than an excuse for government ministers to stage a photo-op.
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The move comes two days after the President asked all of his ministers to resign.
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The legislature still summons ministers to explain plans or provide information, but none ever appears.
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He is expected to reappoint the same ministers to his Cabinet later in the day.
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Many tycoons could count on ministers to put in a word with a recalcitrant banker.
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Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's leader, has called on all cabinet ministers to publish their tax statements.
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Last month Duterte sent his foreign and defense ministers to Moscow to discuss arms deals.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with top ministers to discuss the end of the standoff.
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Alongside the sackings, King Salman appointed a committee of ministers to overhaul the Saudi intelligence apparatus.
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The Palestinians think most countries will send senior diplomats but not foreign ministers to the meeting.
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Labor lost two prime ministers to the problem before the Liberals came to power in 2013.
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The next step, the sources said, would be for OPEC oil ministers to discuss Gabon's request.
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"I also encouraged both ministers to prioritize direct communication and avoid further military activity," he said.
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The FTA is urging ministers to secure an extension until at least the end of 2020.
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He said he will publish salaries of government employees, from high-ranking ministers to police officers.
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But pressure has been building on ministers to devise additional steps to make the information public.
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"I also encouraged both Ministers to prioritize direct communication and avoid further military activity," he said.
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Dr. Mary Stipp, who ministers to prostitutes, makes it her mission to find the missing girls.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered his cabinet ministers to do their utmost to secure people's safety.
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Zuma has said in parliament that only he appoints ministers to the cabinet and dismissed Jonas' account.
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It is chiefly designed for the President and his high ministers to somehow be called into account.
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On Thursday, Sanchez sent Spain&aposs interior and foreign ministers to Morocco for meetings with their counterparts.
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Dong ministers to hundreds of underground Catholics, some of whom were dismissive of the officially sanctioned body.
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But unease is spreading in Europe over the dispatch of ministers to communities themselves sometimes deeply divided.
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, had to order his ministers to attend Trump's arrival, Haaretz reports.
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The move immediately prompted government ministers to declare their backing for either the "remain" or "leave" campaigns.
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After another disastrous flood in 2013, the president of the day instructed his ministers to be bolder.
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Mr. Abe's cabinet set up a task force of ministers to handle the novel coronavirus on Jan.
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All three candidates are crisscrossing the world, trying to persuade governmental health ministers to swing to them.
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Abdul Mahdi said he would submit a new list of ministers to parliament next week for approval.
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He was also one of the few Japanese prime ministers to win recognition on the world stage.
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"Father, help us," she texted Father Roni Momika, a young priest in Erbil who ministers to displaced Christians.
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It said the attack took place during a visit of Egypt's interior and defense ministers to the area.
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However, in a pointed comment, he urged his ministers to be very careful over who they associated with.
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The government requires ministers to inform the prime minister's office of where they are going, regardless of destination.
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It's fairly common practice for government ministers to briefly sub in for world leaders at summits like G25.
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"We diplomats agreed we should open the door for (social affairs) ministers to discuss the issue," she added.
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"We call on both prime ministers to fundamentally change their attitude with relation to human rights," Amnesty said.
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Hollande has asked his ministers to wait until March 24 before stating publicly which candidate they will support.
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"Dialogue is continuing hour by hour," Trudeau said before meeting with his cabinet ministers to discuss the standoff.
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The plan was first announced during a visit by German and French foreign ministers to Kiev last week.
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Tsipras also urged his ministers to remain focused on concluding the final review of its third international bailout.
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This has prompted the euro zone's finance ministers to demand that Greece proceed with these necessary reforms until Feb.
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Some critics argue that it is up to central bankers, not finance ministers, to cope with the economic cycle.
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She was typically one of the last ministers to agree on her department's budget in the annual financial round.
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Forbes said she was not aware of BoE policymakers coming under pressure from government ministers to keep rates low.
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The lawmakers have summoned several ministers to parliament on Sunday to explain why preventative measures were not in place.
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It also urges congregations and ministers to abide by all laws mandating the reporting of sexual abuse and assault.
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Euclid Tsakalotos, the finance minister, spent January visiting European finance ministers to convince them Greece had met its obligations.
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Mr Gupta must therefore be hopeful that he can strike a good deal with ministers to sweeten his takeover.
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By the following February, Sapin had persuaded Europe's Council of Ministers to call for the withdrawal of €500 banknotes.
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The two neighbors have agreed to form working groups led by foreign ministers to hold talks on a solution.
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He then told the E3 foreign ministers to prepare themselves for an announcement by Trump within the coming days.
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VB leader Tom Van Grieken called on N-VA ministers to break with Michel's refusal to recognize Catalan independence.
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His cabinet this time has lost several ministers to money scandals, but Abe himself has been untainted by scandal.
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Later on Friday Modi will meet with his ministers to discuss forming a new cabinet, a government spokesman said.
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Scott Miller, along with top Afghan security officials and ministers to arrive in Kunduz to oversee the counteroffensive operations.
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Parliamentarian Pauline Latham, a driving force behind the bill, said she would be talking to ministers to galvanise support.
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On Sunday Anez said she had asked all her ministers to resign for a "new stage of democratic transition".
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This will provide plenty of opportunity for ministers to water down or otherwise fiddle with legislation they do not like.
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Rouhani was criticized by reformists two weeks ago when he submitted the all-male list of cabinet ministers to parliament.
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At one point he told ministers to read newspaper articles on his policies instead of bothering him for an explanation.
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Aso was speaking to reporters after a meeting of relevant cabinet ministers to discuss Britain's exit from the European Union.
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The commission's original hope was for ministers to approve the two candidates' EU bids at a meeting on June 18th.
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The conclusion of this report will be key for euro zone finance ministers to decide whether to allow the disbursement.
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Abe has ordered cabinet ministers to consider ways to offset the impact of a higher sales tax on consumer spending.
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It says it is established constitutional convention for ministers to use royal prerogative when making or withdrawing from international treaties.
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He will present the list of ministers to the king before making an announcement in the afternoon, his office said.
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"I think they don't think it is enough," she told reporters before a meeting of EU ministers to discuss trade.
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Temer said in a radio interview that the corruption scandal is "embarrassing" and may lead some ministers to step down.
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"Dialog is continuing hour by hour," Trudeau said before meeting with his top cabinet ministers to discuss the stand-off.
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Prime minister and HDZ leader Andrej Plenkovic must now propose four new ministers to parliament to replace those from Most.
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Critics said it would deter investment by creating uncertainty and giving too much power to federal ministers to veto projects.
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Macron, in Argentina for a G20 summit, said he would convene ministers to discuss the crisis upon his return on Sunday.
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Denmark pushed EU foreign ministers to discuss Ukraine at their last meeting in January, the first debate in almost a year.
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Tillerson met the foreign ministers to try to end the worst dispute in decades among the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states.
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And she plans to protest when necessary, but is relying on ministers to help get her family through this tough time.
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Kuwait will host a meeting on March 26 of OPEC and non-OPEC ministers to review compliance with the production cuts.
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The president has had difficulty, though, in getting her ministers to agree on the appropriate level and scope of budget reductions.
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This was Ardern's first cabinet reshuffle since taking office in 2017, although last year she asked two ministers to step aside.
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Musa said Macron and Erdogan had asked their respective interior and justice ministers to find a way to solve the problem.
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The committee's recommendations are not binding, but carry weight in government decision-making and will be hard for ministers to ignore.
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Suspend all high-level bilateral contacts, including planned visits by royals and government ministers to this summer's World Cup in Russia.
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A British government source said a special cabinet sitting of May's top ministers to discuss Brexit was unlikely before next week.
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That's not great news for religious and other professional officiants, who would like more online ministers to adopt Mr. Elliott's perspective.
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Billy Graham, in which organizers from out of town recruited local ministers to help turn out crowds and engage new believers.
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A new government is expected to be announced later Tuesday and Kostin expected more than 50% of ministers to have changed.
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People refused to leave despite calls by ministers to return to accommodation centres and warnings that onward travel would be impossible.
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Greece has asked for an emergency meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers to discuss the migrant issue, a diplomatic source said.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet on Tuesday with his cabinet ministers to discuss Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd's (KML.
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The debate will come to a head on Thursday when May will host senior ministers to try to broker an agreement.
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She has steadily amassed more power in Congress since, threatening top judges with dismissal and forcing Mr. Kuczynski's ministers to resign.
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The announcement came after the OAS agreed on Wednesday to hold a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Venezuela.
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But it is a sad day when South Africa's courts must resort to threatening ministers to ensure that their orders are enforced.
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But these tests of strength have turned into tests of weakness, as incompetent opposition spokesmen fail to hold incompetent ministers to account.
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Arden made a surprise appearance outside parliament on Wednesday with a group of ministers to welcome the more than 1,000 protesting teachers.
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His departure risks galvanizing other pro-EU ministers to vote against the deal, alongside Brexiteers who have already vowed to reject it.
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Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is lobbying oil ministers to extend output cuts by nine months, sources familiar with the matter said.
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The morning the meeting begins, TV crews from CNBC and others line up outside the building, waiting for the ministers to arrive.
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Earlier this month Abe called on ministers to step up efforts to "lead the world in making the hydrogen society come true".
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"But it will be open to individual ministers to take a different personal position while remaining part of the government," he said.
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The government argues that it is established constitutional convention for ministers to use royal prerogative when making or withdrawing from international treaties.
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Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Monday he expects some of his ministers to resign after they were implicated in the investigation.
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To get started, it would be a very good thing if the European allies sent their finance ministers to the Brussels summit.
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Charles also has a habit of writing testy notes to ministers to question certain policies and press them to adopt different plans.
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Triggering a leadership battle that could draw in some of his closest advisers, Cameron urged ministers to work together in the meantime.
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The Fund will now analyze the terms agreed by euro ministers to see if they would guarantee long-term Greek debt sustainability.
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It can take several rounds of failed negotiations for ministers to understand each others' positions properly and identify possible areas for agreement.
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Well ahead of the planned initial offering, Prince Mohammed directed his ministers to begin pouring money into new ventures around the world.
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For now, Mr. Trump's highly ambitious agenda lacks even a clear schedule for trade ministers to meet and sort out the details.
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Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid have demanded all cabinet ministers to identify cuts of at least 5% to their Whitehall department budgets.
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While it is common for prime ministers to occasionally suspend Parliament for a few days, "he's completely manipulating that," Ms. McNaught said.
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Ethiopia had instead proposed a meeting of water ministers to discuss a document that included an Ethiopian proposal from 2018, it said.
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Hebert expressed remorse about the incident and agreed to meet with local ministers to improve his department's relationship with the West End.
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While it is common for prime ministers to occasionally suspend Parliament for a few days, "he's completely manipulating that," Ms. McNaught said.
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"That can go to business ministers to give us an indication about whether they then want us to implement that," Thompson said.
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It is unusual for cabinet ministers to resign in Canada, particularly during an election year, except for health or other personal reasons.
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He called on the ministers to monitor the sales and ensure that existing constraints to development on all the islands were upheld.
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Temer's efforts to bring Brazil out of recession are going ahead as planned despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal.
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Modi sat through presentations and asked the ministers to ensure steady supplies and stable prices, urging them to find solutions, the source said.
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Critics said it would deter investment in the sector by creating uncertainty and giving too much power to federal ministers to veto projects.
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"In order to not give him that chance ... I told all my ministers to no longer receive consultancy from them (McKinsey)," he said.
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The Turkish government called on the United States to reverse its decision to subject Turkey&aposs interior and justice ministers to financial sanctions.
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The prime minister now has to decide if he has enough support to propose new ministers to parliament or opt for an election.
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France was once a champion of social protest, with unions able to shut down swathes of the economy and force ministers to respond.
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EU leaders have asked euro zone finance ministers to come up with some ideas on how to move forward on EDIS by June.
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The president also has asked ministers to study further the possibility of mixing palm oil-based fuel with jet fuel, the statement said.
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Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski last month called on ministers to give their financial rewards to charity and announced pay cuts for parliament members.
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He made the revelation during a lower house debate on public health and called on ministers to reconsider cuts to sexual health budgets.
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Because Regling's term is nearing its conclusion, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem recently urged finance ministers to put forward names of other qualified candidates.
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Temer succeeded Rousseff in May, vowing to eliminate corruption and restore fiscal discipline, but he has already lost several ministers to bribery allegations.
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The report responds to a request from G20 finance ministers to review how climate-related issued are accounted for by the financial sector.
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Ishihara was speaking to reporters after a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and relevant cabinet ministers to discuss the economic stimulus package.
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It said the government was meeting in Palazzo Chigi, the official meeting place of the Council of Ministers, to decide on the action.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Monday asked his ministers to prepare contingency measures in case of a no-deal Brexit.
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Tebboune also named Kamel Beljoud as interior minister, and instructed the rest of the government ministers to continue ruling in a caretaker capacity.
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Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos also called on the euro zone finance ministers to spell out concrete measures to reduce the Greek debt burden.
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Indonesia's foreign minister left for Jordan on Sunday to meet the Palestinian and Jordanian foreign ministers "to convey Indonesia's full support for Palestine".
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Modi's government on Thursday dispatched officials and ministers to tell the media that the central bank report did not undermine the case for demonetization.
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A new draft text of the rules of the agreement must be ready by tomorrow for ministers to work on, the Polish presidency said.
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In Berlin, Angela Merkel urges her ministers to read "The Sleepwalkers", an account of the political failures that led to the first world war.
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It is notable that the euro zone on its own now constitutes the "qualified majority" needed for the Council of Ministers to approve legislation.
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But this was opposed by Ireland and some Nordic countries, leading French and German finance ministers to focus solely on online advertising revenues instead.
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Parliament removed the transportation and education ministers citing poor performance, bringing the total number of dismissed ministers to five over the last two days.
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Mr. Cameron will require government discipline until he has finished his negotiations with European partners, but will then allow ministers to speak their minds.
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On Sunday, Knesset ministers to the right of Netanyahu moved forward with a bill that would legalize settlement outposts built on private Palestinian land.
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Waqa said that he had not allowed China to speak as protocol dictated that he allow prime ministers and ministers to speak before diplomats.
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Critics said it would deter investment in the sector by creating uncertainty and giving too much power to the federal ministers to veto projects.
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He said he would have to consult with his economy and energy ministers to ensure they could follow through if a decision was made.
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The number of ministers to be shuffled and the nominations are expected to be finalised next week before being submitted to parliament, he said.
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The U.K. is due to leave the EU in little more than a week, prompting ministers to warn of a looming "constitutional crisis" (BBC).
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Abe also asked cabinet ministers to consider ways to limit fluctuations in consumer spending when the government raises the nationwide sales tax in 2019.
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Eager to keep sleaze from weakening his reform drive, President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that he would hold ministers to the highest ethical standards.
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This special status allows these ministers to be tried only by the high court, leading to years of delays and rarely resulting in arrests.
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Against this background, the crash of a Lion Air jet off the coast of Jakarta has caused Indonesia's ministers to debate raising minimum airfares.
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He said he would have to consult with his economy and energy ministers to ensure they could follow through if a decision was made.
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Mr. Corbyn called for legislation, under a War Powers Act, to require prime ministers to consult lawmakers before launching most types of military action.
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In the hours after the ruling, its normally brash and outspoken Duterte privately told his ministers to be magnanimous and not to taunt Beijing.
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Related: This is a Moment in Canadian Politics Indigenous People Have Been Waiting For It's rare for sitting prime ministers to visit remote reserves.
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Most people refused to leave the site despite calls by ministers to return to accommodation centres and warnings that onward travel would be impossible.
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In a bid to reassure markets, Zuma said he expected the addition of "many young ministers" to "add renewed energy into Cabinet and the executive".
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At the same time, Urrunaga was hearing from her government sources that the lumber bosses were putting pressure on cabinet ministers to rein in Osinfor.
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Conricus would not comment on calls by hard-line government ministers to kill kite launchers on the spot, as Israel does to those firing rockets.
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France was once a champion of social protest, with unions able to paralyze swathes of the economy and force ministers to back down on reforms.
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The committees may call on ministers to clarify details in the spending plan and propose changes, the final stage before it is agreed by lawmakers.
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George W. Bush did invite people like Vladimir Putin and assorted prime ministers to his ranch in Texas, but that was just a private home.
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Both the United Nations and EU have ruled that Libya is not safe, though Salvini this week asked EU interior ministers to change that status.
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Congress has forced Kuczynski's former education and finance ministers to resign amid allegations of ethical breaches, while a third minister quit to avoid being censured.
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Mongolia's anti-corruption body has already arrested the former finance minister Bayartsogt Sangajav, one of three government ministers to sign the original 2009 investment deal.
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Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka, an OVP hawk, accused Kern in an interview this week of "failure as chancellor", prompting SPO ministers to round on Kurz.
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Hassan Ali Khaire, who was appointed to the post by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed last month, read out his list of cabinet ministers to reporters.
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She said the decision was driven by the fact that she was almost 75 years old, the age at which Modi expects ministers to retire.
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Earlier on Friday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered his ministers to draft proposals to extend Moscow's food import ban until the end of 2017.
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They were also expected to jointly host a dinner of the Group of Seven foreign and finance ministers to discuss national security and economic issues.
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Orner invited former Australian prime ministers from John Howard to Malcolm Turnbull, as well as former and current immigration ministers to speak on Chasing Asylum.
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Government spokesman Hilaire Bule told The Associated Press on Thursday that he expects the Council of Ministers to approve a relocation plan by next week.
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At the center — though far from centered — is Colleen (Addison Timlin), a nun in training who quietly ministers to the needy in her Brooklyn neighborhood.
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The Commission wants finance ministers to consider "more effective disincentives" for lenders and other tax advisers who assist in tax evasion schemes, the document said.
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Asked by BBC radio in an interview on Monday whether he wanted or expected other ministers to follow his lead, Davis said he did not.
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PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Monday tasked his ministers to prepare contingency measures in case of a no-deal Brexit.
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It is highly unusual for senior British ministers to be photographed with their resignation letters and the picture provoked criticism from some opponents of Brexit.
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She will formally notify Queen Margrethe later on Wednesday of the agreement and is expected to present the new ministers to the monarch on Thursday.
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Teenagers dressed in school uniforms erected checkpoints across the city, forcing the police and government ministers to observe traffic laws that are otherwise poorly enforced.
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President Ashraf Ghani said he had directed deputy ministers to save $1 billion in security and defence spending, while maintaining the quality of security forces.
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In India, Prime Minister Modi has asked his ministers to share their meetings and information on Facebook so they can hear direct feedback from citizens.
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Brexit has been a source of controversy for the U.K. since the referendum was passed in 2016, leading two prime ministers to lose their jobs.
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He also asked all his cabinet ministers to resign, and promised to impose social and economic reforms that were at the heart of the protests.
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Libraries, police stations and community centers were being used as warming centers, and city officials were seeking help from ministers to consider opening more spots.
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After the decision not to allow two Turkish ministers to speak at a Rotterdam rally Saturday, Erdogan called the Dutch "Nazi remnants, fascists" on Sunday.
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"We went from one prime minister to two prime ministers to no prime minister in a span of 20 days," says Thishya Weragoda, a bemused lawyer.
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Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Galant, one of several cabinet ministers to denounce the bill, told Israel's Army Radio that he considered it "de facto Holocaust denial".
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By the mid-20th century, it was less priests and ministers to whom people turned for solace, but to psychiatrists seeking to raise people's self-esteem.
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Meanwhile Boris Johnson skipped an emergency summit of EU foreign ministers to accuse them of a "whinge-o-rama" about a "liberal guy from New York".
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At a news conference in Mexico City, Mexican foreign minister Luis Videgaray said he expected the next negotiating meeting of ministers to be held in July.
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This week the cabinet infighting became so vicious that Theresa May, the prime minister, was forced to tell her ministers to shut up or ship out.
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In a letter issued late last week, the Prime Minister asked the country's premiers and chief ministers to take a firm stance on the vaccination issue.
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"It allows a new generation of gifted ministers to step up and make life better for people across the whole UK," she said in a statement.
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"I've done my best to form this government as quickly as possible," Gentiloni, 62, told reporters after presenting his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella.
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Samuelsen will be joined in government by his sister Mette Bock, who becomes culture minister, bringing the total number of female ministers to nine out 22.
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PARIS (Reuters) - There was a time when angry French workers could down tools and take to the streets en masse to force ministers to back down.
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Stabilization in the stock market came as the new administration, led by new prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, named three ministers to the cabinet over the weekend.
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Ramaphosa, who was sworn in as South Africa's president on Saturday for his first full five-year term, trimmed the cabinet from 36 ministers to 28.
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U.K. industry leaders are calling on ministers to take urgent steps to boost STEM skills, adapt the current apprenticeship model and improve basic numeracy and literacy.
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He said that "we have a great nation to rebuild" and promised that he had put together a team of talented ministers to do just that.
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The group of 11 experts has been working closely with President Emmanuel Macron and his ministers to help shape policies since the beginning of the crisis.
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Mr. Tsipras dispatched three ministers to the areas most affected by the flooding, and convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday evening to assess the state response.
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After Mr. Strache resigned, Mr. Kurz fired Interior Minister Herbert Kickl, a leading Freedom Party member, prompting the remaining far-right ministers to quit in protest.
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One month later, the three men met in New York with a pair of Turkish ministers to discuss the campaign against Mr. Gulen, the indictment said.
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The joint leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Obama inspired dozens of other presidents and prime ministers to announce their targets ahead of Paris.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he asked the National Disaster Management Authority, the military, and federal ministers to provide humanitarian assistance to the region "immediately."
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Davis did not urge other ministers to resign, saying he was in a unique position because the Brexit secretary's job is to sell the government's policy.
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The hardliners need her to resign before the confidence vote can take place, and for that they need some of her cabinet ministers to walk out.
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Macron said after the latest protests in Paris that he would convene ministers to discuss the crisis on his return from a G20 summit in Argentina.
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The difference is that Trudeau is a prime minister, and it's vastly easier for prime ministers to get their agenda passed than it is for presidents.
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In a five-hour cabinet meeting Wednesday, May tried to convince ministers to support the Brexit deal and emerged afterwards to tell reporters she had their backing.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's supreme court on Monday ordered two former ministers to be taken into custody over suspected corruption under former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state television reported.
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He also founded the Abounding Love Ministries in 1980 and ministers to other inmates, according to the AP. Watson will be eligible for parole in five years.
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Its local mission, Impact Waco, works to boost reading scores in elementary students, and ministers to "victims of human trafficking" and men and women dealing with addiction.
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This was necessary, said ministers, to close a deficit that reached $15bn last year owing to the low price of oil, which supplies 90% of government revenues.
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With the mandate in hand, Conte must now huddle with the 5-Stars and League to finalize a list of Cabinet ministers to present to the president.
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Also on Thursday, Salvini asked EU interior ministers to declare Libya a place of safety where migrants can be taken after they are picked up at sea.
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The head of NATO on Wednesday said the alliance will reschedule its upcoming meeting of foreign ministers to accommodate Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
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President Ivan Duque will visit the area on Sunday evening with the housing and transport ministers to meet with relief officials, his office said in a statement.
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Niebuhr's decision not to speak out against lynching encouraged other white theologians and ministers to follow suit, Cone said, because Niebuhr was considered the nation's greatest theologian.
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But May soldiered on Friday, re-appointing senior ministers to her Cabinet and holding talks with a small Northern Irish party about shoring up her minority government.
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In that basket is the black preacher who may view homosexuality as a little icky even as he lovingly ministers to struggling gay members of his church.
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The group agreed to seek a meeting between China and ASEAN's foreign ministers to discuss the South China Sea and other issues, Cambodian Minister Hor Namhong said.
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The 179-page document details the main issues to be addressed, such as spending and which party will name ministers to take cabinet posts in the government.
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Mr. Cohn's breakfast meeting on Monday with a handful of ministers to discuss climate change was the only event the White House has scheduled on the topic.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo has asked his ministers to make "serious" efforts to strengthen the country's foreign exchange reserves amid pressures caused by a global trade war.
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Zuma summoned cabinet ministers to a meeting in Cape Town on Tuesday, eNCA television reported, as pressure builds on the embattled 75-year-old leader to quit.
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She is expected to promote women ministers to several senior roles, and Cameron's long-serving finance minister George Osborne could lose his job, according to media reports.
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"We have directed the relevant ministers to move with speed in implementing all signed agreements," said Zuma, who travelled with around 30 business leaders and seven ministers.
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The gesture might help Kuczynski mend fences with the rightwing opposition party that controls the single-chamber Congress and has pressured three of his ministers to resign.
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On Monday, Andrew Scheer, the Conservative leader, repeated his call for Mr. Trudeau to step down and called on other cabinet ministers to follow Ms. Philpott's example.
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"I propose to undo the (previous) government decision and for salaries (of ministers) to return to where they were before," Kurti said before the cabinet approved his decision.
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Earlier this week, however, Salvini asked EU interior ministers to declare Libya a place of safety where migrants can be taken after they are picked up at sea.
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And the newly elected Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has made it his business to increase ties to First Nations peoples, appointing two indigenous ministers to his cabinet.
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Temer, who vowed to clean up corruption in Brazil's government when he took over from leftist Dilma Rousseff in May, has already lost three ministers to graft allegations.
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Tusk, who spoke with Tsipras earlier on Wednesday, called on euro zone finance ministers to meet on Greece in the coming days to try and resolve the deadlock.
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On Thursday he said he preferred political stability but ducked questions about when he might put his eventual choice of new ministers to a vote in the assembly.
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On Tuesday, May called an extended meeting of her senior ministers to try to formulate a plan as the clock ticks down to Europe's next deadline — April 22.
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Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia has been lobbying oil ministers to agree to a nine-month extension at next week's meeting, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Abe will also order the ministers to compile a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year ending in March to fund the package, NHK said, without citing sources.
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He warned ministers to be careful when it came to imposing any new or higher taxes on certain sectors of the economy in order to raise more revenues.
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LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to appoint government ministers to senior positions later on Friday, broadcaster Sky News reported, citing unspecified sources.
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The government earlier this year passed legislation which allowed ministers to strike reciprocal deals with other EU countries that would allow citizens to be treated free of charge.
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Conferences are usually an opportunity for Cabinet ministers to make headline-grabbing policy announcements and can often hand the party in question a significant boost in the polls.
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Simsek, widely respected by investors, was the only one of five deputy prime ministers to retain his post after Prime Minister Binali Yildirim reshuffled the cabinet last week.
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Rather than speaking out himself, he has deputized party officials and ministers to fend off claims of a quid pro quo between the governing party and Reliance Group.
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We have already begun the effort to defeat the corruption that has plagued our nation, including requiring cabinet ministers to declare their assets and creating anti-corruption courts.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May won backing from her ministers to take action with the United States and France to deter further use of chemical weapons by Syria.
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In January, the prime minister's office created a new unit focused on Canada-United States relations and assigned certain ministers to focus on certain states, Canadian officials said.
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To avoid any propagation of the virus in parliament, there were only 28 lawmakers and five ministers to listen to Sanchez, leaving the 350-strong assembly unusually empty.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday he had asked the national disaster agency, the military, and federal ministers to provide humanitarian assistance to the affected residents.
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The "national diesel forum", a summit of politicians and car executives, was called yesterday by Germany's transport and environment ministers to address ways to reduce inner-city pollution.
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In Seoul, the South Korean capital, acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn ordered a meeting of security cabinet ministers to assess the test and the North's growing missile menace.
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"It's the beginning of a dialogue," said Francis DeBernardo, the executive director of New Ways Ministry, a group that ministers to and is an advocate for gay Catholics.
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It may be a credit for some foreign ministers to spend hours upon hours with the US secretary of state but it's certainly not a credit in Iran.
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On Sunday, Mr. Erdogan said that "Nazi remnants" were in the Dutch government, after it refused to allow two of his ministers to hold rallies in the Netherlands.
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It was for police, not ministers, to decide whether a criminal offense had been committed and the government did not intend to refer the matter to prosecutors, he said.
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Temer, who assumed the presidency after the controversial impeachment of his predecessor earlier this year, has made only limited public appearances since losing two ministers to a corruption scandal.
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"We would challenge governments, including congresses and parliaments, presidents and prime ministers, to put harmonisation on their agenda," they wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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At the point of Britain's exit existing EU-level sanctions will continue to apply, but the new laws are needed to allow ministers to amend and add to them.
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Parliament voted 325 to 298 in favor of rejecting a House of Lords amendment to require ministers to report on their efforts in negotiations to secure a customs union.
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That would take no deal off the table, as well as creating breathing space for MPs and ministers to reflect once again on what form of Brexit to pursue.
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If the Commission does pursue an EDP, it would require European finance ministers to approve and move it forward at their next meeting in the second week of July.
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He or she should encourage ministers to follow the lead of George Werner, the outgoing education minister, who pared nearly 1,900 dead or retired teachers from the government's payroll.
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Hollande has asked ministers "to fully commit themselves in the election campaign to ensure that Marine Le Pen has the lowest possible score," the spokesman, Stephane Le Foll, said.
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"We would challenge governments, including congresses and parliaments, presidents and prime ministers, to put harmonization on their agenda," they wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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Even though a year has passed since EU leaders instructed finance ministers to reach deals on the various strands of deeper economic integration, none have been agreed in full.
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On April 26th, 19 of the 34 members of the Organisation of American States (OAS), a regional body, voted to convene a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss Venezuela.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Wednesday he expected an emergency meeting of EU interior ministers to discuss the security situation in "the next few days".
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At the point of Britain's exit existing EU-level sanctions will continue to apply, but the new laws are needed to allow ministers to amend and add to them.
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A meeting on Friday of British government ministers to try to agree a position for negotiations with the EU would take the concerns of business into consideration, he said.
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Refugees' rights (24) This would require ministers to seek agreement to maintain the right of unaccompanied child refugees in one EU state to join relatives in Britain after Brexit.
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Ministers and royals I've talked to describe MBS as a workaholic, consuming spreadsheets late in the night, calling ministers to his office and to account way after their bedtime.
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Namibian President Hage Geingob said in a statement he had accepted the resignations after meeting the two ministers to discuss the allegations, adding they were "innocent until proven guilty".
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For this reason, Connor, along with many health campaigners, is urging government health ministers to encourage everyone to cut down on booze, not just those categorised as problem drinkers.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is set to lead the American delegation, and other nations will be represented by finance ministers, rather than foreign ministers, to emphasize the economic focus.
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From NATO via discussions with European Union foreign ministers to the EU's two-day March 22-23 summit, the public focus was to be on a statement condemning Russia.
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The Shanghai currency accord also required G-20 finance ministers to notify each other of major changes in currency policy, and to disclose data in compliance with I.M.F. standards.
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Those will include working with finance ministers to build climate risks into spending and taxation, and a doubling of the scale of agricultural research to support farmers, it said.
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Downing Street has also broken from decades of tradition by choosing to stop sending government ministers to appear on major BBC political shows, like Radio 4's Today programme.
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Joerg Dunsbach, a German Catholic priest who ministers to compatriots in Thailand, speaks sadly of those who die unmourned after emigrating on retirement and losing contact with their families.
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After more than a year of growing pressure from the European Commission, the executive on Wednesday asked the bloc's 28 EU affairs ministers to discuss its concerns on Sept.
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The pledge was made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an official visit by Ramaphosa and government ministers to the oil producing nation, spokesman Khusela Diko said .
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It is visible in the accommodations that countries make, though they would rather not do so, when they send ministers to Beijing and Moscow more often than to Washington.
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Scores of Canadian officials subsequently fanned out across America, from cabinet ministers to consuls general, meeting with more than 300 members of Congress and 65 governors and lieutenant governors.
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Students, some accompanied by their parents, responded by erecting checkpoints across the city, forcing motorists — including police officers and government ministers — to produce valid drivers licenses and car registrations.
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On Saturday, Salvini said on his Facebook page he "felt lonely" and called on fellow ministers to help more over migrants, singling out the Defence Ministry and the Treasury.
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Refugees' rights (24) This would require ministers to seek agreement to maintain the right of unaccompanied child refugees in one EU state to join relatives in Britain after Brexit.
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The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation bill, which had its first reading this month, proposes sweeping new powers for Singapore ministers to deem what counts as misinformation online.
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Ewing, who said Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had asked all ministers to initiate such talks, conceded that finding a way to remain in the EU would not be easy.
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Shukri said they met several ministers to try to convince them that corruption cases against Najib were genuine, but only Muhyiddin and two others were ready to take a stand.
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The Delhi government said it had sought meetings with state ministers to discuss the burning, provoking protest from many who saw the measure as being too little and too late.
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"There will be a clear government position but it will be open to individual ministers to take a different personal position while remaining part of the government," Cameron told parliament.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Andrea Leadsom, leader of Britain's lower house of parliament, said on Sunday she supported Prime Minister Theresa May and did not expect other ministers to resign over Brexit.
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He was himself unseated as prime minister in another leadership challenge in August 2018, one of four Australian prime ministers to be overthrown by their own party in a decade.
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The compromise could allow euro zone finance ministers to give the go-ahead for their next payment of their tranche of aid at their meeting on June 15, Handelsblatt said.
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In early 2016, before Angela Merkel convinced Turkey to keep refugees from Europe's shores, Mr Kurz plotted with Balkan ministers to close the borders across which they had been pouring.
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She thrashed out an agreement at her country residence on Friday only for two of her leading ministers to quit in protest at her plan to keep close trade ties.
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"The Secretary-General urged both foreign ministers to avoid any actions that could further exacerbate the situation between the two countries and in the region as a whole," Dujarric said.
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Newspaper Valor Econômico on Friday said that two European export-credit agencies emailed four of President Michel Temer's cabinet ministers to complain that the restructuring plan benefits only current shareholders.
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The uppermost ranks of EU policymaking are dotted with Dutchmen, from Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, to Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission.
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Oil prices surged on Monday morning following a joint commitment on Sunday from Saudi Arabia's and Russia's energy ministers to extend the existing oil production cut agreement until March 22015.
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Several documents among the 115 pages released to Reuters on Wednesday show Department of Foreign Affairs officials advising staff and ministers to deliver a muted response to events in Nauru.
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Oil prices surged on Monday morning following a joint commitment on Sunday from Saudi Arabia's and Russia's energy ministers to extend the existing oil production cut agreement until March 2018.
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"Target Zero" came to involve almost everyone in the affected countries, from scientists in labs to government ministers to local health officers and elders who could neither read nor write.
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Johnson has set up a "war cabinet" of six senior ministers to make decisions on Brexit and is preparing for a no-deal emergency budget in the week of Oct.
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Publicly, President Ashraf Ghani has challenged the legality of the hearings and asked the dismissed ministers to continue with their jobs until the country's Supreme Court makes a final ruling.
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In the 1980s, the Congo had an active Ministry of Environment serious about protecting the country's natural bounty, and Lukas' group worked with ministers to promote the country's national animal.
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Obama and Biden urged the ministers to move forward with implementation of the Stormont House Agreement of December 2014 and the Fresh Start Agreement of November 2015, the statement said.
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The expanded powers now allow ministers to investigate deals affecting companies that are considered to provide "critical infrastructure", in particular, those producing software for utilities, payment, medical and transportation systems.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has told ministers to show "strength and unity", and to keep details of their discussions private, after reports over the weekend suggested divides over Brexit.
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Due to the Gulf rift, Qatar could no longer attend a traditional closed-doors meeting of Gulf oil ministers to agree policy before twice-yearly talks with all OPEC members.
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She ministers to them with deep concentration, applying long bandages and tender, expert care — and cures them all except a toughie called Big Mean, who refuses to unclasp her jaws.
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It was hilarious just winging it, New York style," said Ms. Hargreaves, 48, who, as on "Homeland," ministers to a troubled family member on the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why.
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The nations' prime ministers had been expected to discuss a draft agreement reached by their foreign ministers to finalize a deal before a European Union summit meeting on June 28.
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He ordered his ministers to estimate how long oil prices would stay around $30 per barrel and what this would mean to Southeast Asia's largest economy and to fuel prices.
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In addition to his solo work and his work with Ekaya, Mr. Ibrahim ministers to students, and has started some education- and research-based initiatives, though many were short-lived.
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After a day of calm following a visit by a delegation of ministers to Ben Guerdane, near the Libyan border, protesters clashed again on Saturday with police, local residents said.
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In a government meeting convened to discuss this, Philippe "tasked ministers to prepare contingency measures that would be necessary ... to mitigate the difficulties linked with this unprecedented challenge", it said.
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The Prince of Wales arrived in a convoy of ten vehicles with police outriders to the entrance where Mr. Chirac was waiting with two of his ministers to greet him.
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A surprise addition that brings the number of deputy prime ministers to a record-setting four, acting energy and environment minister Ribera will focus on the environment and rural depopulation.
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Based on the private-sector advisers' proposals, Abe ordered Economy Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and other cabinet ministers to map out basic guidelines by the next panel meeting later this month.
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The Commission wants the ministers to ask Romania to reduce the budget gap below 3% by 2022 at the latest and take effective action towards that goal by Sept. 15.
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The country's first president in more than half a century whose surname isn't Castro, Mr. Díaz-Canel opened a Twitter account and directed his cabinet ministers to do the same.
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France and Germany have also suffered a series of terror attacks in recent years, upping the ante for ministers to be seen to be taking action to defuse more terrorist plots.
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While Buzzfeed reported on the contents of the analysis, it did not publish the document itself, and there were growing calls from lawmakers Tuesday for ministers to publicly release the analysis.
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The star recently visited Lebanon and Greece on behalf of the United Nations, meeting with both countries' respective prime ministers to discuss how the influx of refugees is affecting their nations.
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Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday won backing from her senior ministers to take unspecified action with the United States and France to deter further use of chemical weapons by Syria.
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The meeting, which is set to run into the evening at Chequers, May's country residence, is a last-ditch appeal to ministers to put Brexit divisions behind them and move forward.
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Even in Britain's baffling constitutional crisis over Brexit, nobody seriously expects the queen, who in theory dissolves Parliament and appoints prime ministers, to have a role in sorting out the mess.
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Putin asked ministers to draft tighter rules for the production and sale of drinks, perfumes and other liquids with more than 25 percent alcohol content as well as medicines containing ethanol.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish National Security Council said in a statement on Monday that it had advised the cabinet of ministers to extend the country's state of emergency by three months.
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In an informal government meeting held on September 6, Tsipras asked his ministers to progress rapidly with the fiscal and structural measures that Greece's lenders set as a prerequisite last June.
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"It's good for PPK and his ministers to exercise, but the fact that they are using mostly Adidas and Nike is not a good example," tweeted congressional deputy Karina Beteta Rubín.
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Widodo told Reuters this week that he had instructed ministers to market the country aggressively to investors, capitalizing on Standard & Poor's May 19 upgrade of its credit rating to investment grade.
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"Going now with president @jairbolsonaroe and ministers to the CIA, one of the most respected intelligence agencies in the world," Eduardo Bolsonaro, a lawmaker who is traveling with his father, tweeted.
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Within countries there are prime ministers to mediate spending disputes among squabbling department heads, but the EU has no primus inter pares; the budget must be approved unanimously by its leaders.
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We see a similar pattern in politics: In Latin America between 1999 and 2013, female presidents appointed 24 percent more female ministers to their cabinets than the average for their region.
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The three-month state of emergency he declared last week will allow him and his ministers to bypass Parliament in limiting or suspending rights and freedoms, and in passing new laws.
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She made the announcement after President Joko Widodo urged his ministers to make "real progress" to reduce the current account deficit and maintain the rupiah exchange rate at "a fair level".
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LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - A decision by euro zone finance ministers to unlock further aid to Greece is a positive development for the sovereign's creditworthiness, Moody's ratings agency said on Wednesday.
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On Monday, the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe asked his ministers to prepare contingency measures in case Britain exits the EU in March without securing a trade agreement with the bloc.
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On Friday, EU ambassadors reached a deal on a plan that would suspend formal meetings of the Council of the EU for 30 days, allowing ministers to meet instead by videoconference.
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Merkel also confirmed that EU leaders had asked euro zone finance ministers to work out in two weeks details of a special ESM credit line to support economies hit by coronavirus.
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Trudeau has voiced apprehension around invoking the act, but said "nothing is off the table," especially if Canadians don't comply with calls from public health ministers to maintain stringent social distancing.
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On Sunday, David Davis, the hard-line former Brexit secretary who quit the cabinet earlier this year, urged ministers to "exert their collective authority," effectively encouraging them to rebel against Mrs.
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The draft does not go into any detail on what the two main purposes of the future budget — convergence and competitiveness — mean, leaving it to finance ministers to work it out.
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Khalid al-Falih, chairman of state oil giant Aramco and the Saudi energy minister, will be in Vienna along with fellow OPEC ministers to debate whether to extend recent production curbs.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun asked ministers to start working on the 2021 state budget, the information minister said after the new cabinet convened on Thursday at the presidential palace.
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Against the euro, sterling hit its weakest level in 2018 after the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe asked his ministers to prepare contingency measures in case of a no-deal Brexit.
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Kinnock complained that the bill, which will allow ministers to use delegated powers to rewrite hundreds of laws after Brexit without full parliamentary scrutiny, would turn parliament into a "spectators' gallery".
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It is due to form a package with Britain's withdrawal agreement, nearly 600 pages of a legal treaty, that was published last week and prompted several of May's ministers to quit.
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Tidal Lagoon Power chief executive Mark Shorrock called the review a "watershed moment for British energy", and said he looked forward to working with ministers "to bring this new industry to life".
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From Japanese government ministers to the Afghan president or an Israeli general, every speaker thanked America for a certain selflessness in the way that it handles being the strongest country on earth.
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Background: The penalties follow a November briefing by French and Danish foreign ministers to the EU seeking sanctions against Iran for thwarted terror attacks in their countries in the fall of 2018.
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ABC's Insiders has a doozy of a mashup to finish the year, adding Australia's prime minister, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and other ministers to the bars from your favourite sitcoms and films.
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"The widely-anticipated decision by OPEC+ ministers to extend their output agreement to March 22019 provides guidance but it does not change the fundamental outlook of an oversupplied market," the IEA said.
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Widodo on Wednesday ordered ministers to recalculate the price of aviation fuel to ease upward pressure on air fares, and called on state energy firm Pertamina to lower its jet fuel prices.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A decision by the Turkish cabinet of ministers to donate up to 100,000 tonnes of breadstuff flour to civilians living in Syria was published in the Official Gazette on Friday.
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Australia's political expense system allows ministers to claim the cost of travel for their spouse if it is in Australia and for official purposes, although critics question the legitimacy of the trips.
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Her plan to keep Britain linked to EU customs rules in exchange for continued access to the bloc's single market for goods prompted her Brexit and foreign ministers to quit in July.
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The Canadian official told journalists in a briefing that the meeting provides an important opportunity for ministers to find out more about the positions of U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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MONDAY, MARCH 11 ** BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to meet in Brussels LONDON - Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Jonathan Haskel to deliver a speech at University of Birmingham - 1300 GMT.
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MONDAY, MARCH 11 BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to meet in Brussels LONDON - Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Jonathan Haskel to deliver a speech at University of Birmingham - 1300 GMT.
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There is no reason why it should rest solely upon the foreign and defense ministers to explain to the public why spending on defense is key to maintaining our way of life.
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Mr Abadi has tried to shrink the cabinet from 22 ministers to 16 (he previously cut 11 posts), and to replace the political appointees with technocrats who might actually do their jobs.
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Sources in both the Conservative and opposition Labour parties expect the government to offer some concessions to avoid a defeat, amending powers which allow ministers to rewrite some laws without consulting parliament.
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In an attempt to anticipate future dollar requirements, Widodo asked ministers to assess how much foreign currency would be needed to pay for imports related to large infrastructure projects underway, Nasution said.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece expects euro zone finance ministers to focus on short- and medium-term debt relief for Athens when they meet on May 24, government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili said on Tuesday.
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"While the promoters of hate, death and violence delight in their destabilization plans, President Nicolas Maduro has ordered a deployment of ministers to ensure the Venezuelan people are attended to," he said.
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A draft joint statement prepared ahead of the EU leaders' conference, which was seen by Reuters, would ask the bloc's finance ministers to work out details of the latter in a week.
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Students Pour Into Dhaka's Streets to Demand Safer Roads Young people also erected checkpoints across the city, forcing the police and government ministers to observe traffic laws that are otherwise poorly enforced.
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" He also said that Saudi agents could have used government jets without his knowledge, adding, "I have officials, ministers to follow things and they're responsible, they have the authority to do that.
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"My idea is to present the new ministers to parliament for approval after the local (municipal) elections" on May 21 and June 4, Plenkovic told reporters while on a visit to Vienna.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus has appointed an independent panel including two former ministers to examine its anti-corruption practices after Britain and France launched fraud and bribery investigations into the sale of jetliners.
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May, 61, has lost two ministers to scandals and her foreign minister, Boris Johnson, is facing calls to resign over remarks he made about a jailed Iranian-British aid worker in Iran.
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"Many see as a provocation and a hypocrisy the way you speak about Christianity," wrote Burkhard Hose, a priest who ministers to the students of Wuerzburg University, in an open letter to Soeder.
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BEIRUT, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun asked ministers to start working on the 2021 state budget, the information minister said after the new cabinet convened on Thursday at the presidential palace.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A planned meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the North Korean crisis is not scheduled to take place before the Christmas break in late December, a Canadian official said on Tuesday.
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"When it comes to publishing tax returns, the prime minister has made clear that he was willing to be transparent, that it's right for potential prime ministers to also do so," she said.
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Earlier this month, Cameron bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the EU once talks had been completed, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
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He has provoked the alliance into re-examining the fundamental reason for its existence, prompting Congress to spring to its defence and ministers to write editorials explaining why the world still needs NATO.
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Negotiations continue to clean up a messy text ahead of a Saturday night deadline to have a document ready for ministers to wrestle over in the second and final week of the conference.
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Netanyahu followed that up by limiting working ties and high-level visits with the embassies of those countries who voted for the resolution and instructing his ministers to limit travel to those countries.
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ATHENS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Greece wants euro zone finance ministers to "acknowledge progress" it has made under its bailout when they meet in Brussels on Thursday, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte summoned top ministers to discuss next year's budget as investors concerned about Rome's spending plans sold Italian bonds and the national statistics bureau said the economy would keep slowing.
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They also endorsed a requirement for ministers to make fortnightly reports on progress towards re-establishing Northern Ireland's collapsed, devolved executive and to give lawmakers an opportunity to debate and approve those reports.
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But by agreeing to the government's demand for parliament to endorse May's timetable for Article 50, Labour lawmakers were accused of falling into a trap — allowing ministers to begin the divorce without consultation.
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A belief is growing that power is concentrated among Buhari's chief of staff and an inner circle at the presidential villa, making it difficult for ministers to get the attention of the president.
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Speaking to the women's wing of his AK Party, Erdogan said he gave orders for assets in Turkey belonging to the U.S. interior and justice ministers to be frozen "if they have any".
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Lee, the eldest son of Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, has said publicly that it is up to his cabinet of young ministers to decide who should lead them going forward.
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On Tuesday, lawmakers voted 294-293 in favor of a change to legislation passing through parliament which would require ministers to make fortnightly reports on progress toward re-establishing Northern Ireland's collapsed executive.
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This would have been an irrelevant encounter with an unimportant hack except that practically everybody, from fellow ministers to advisers to European leaders, turns out to have experienced a version of it. Mrs.
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Humberto Chavez, a chaplain who ministers to backstretch workers was dubious about the possibility of a raid since immigration officials seemed to be targeting immigrants with criminal records, not conducting wide-scale sweeps.
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In early September, Macron sent his foreign and defense ministers to Moscow to reset strained EU relations with Russia without telling the bloc's Brussels-based foreign policy branch beforehand, three EU diplomats said.
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It justifies opposing the latest Brexit legislation, which transfers European Union laws to British ones, because the government wants to allow ministers to make some alterations to the laws with very little scrutiny.
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And having bridled under an act of Parliament that makes it hard for prime ministers to call a general election at a time of their choosing, he is now moving to scrap it.
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The other decree calls for former ministers to receive monthly salaries equal to 30 percent of the current minister's, a $1,000 monthly housing stipend and one international flight per year in business class.
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When asked if an interim decision by British ministers to allow Huawei a limited role in 5G networks would affect security cooperation with Britain's biggest ally, Trump said he would work out the issues.
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Steinmeier said EU states would only act once they received a Libyan request, and that the issue would be addressed at a dinner for EU foreign and defense ministers to discuss Libya on Monday.
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His comments come at a time when British Prime Minister Theresa May is fighting for her political survival, after a draft divorce deal with the EU prompted a flurry of government ministers to resign.
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LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Greek government bond yields touched a six-month low on Tuesday before a meeting of European finance ministers to review Greece's bailout and discuss the potential for a debt restructuring.
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These included accepting a pre-vote period of official government "purdah", constraining what it could publish; allowing cabinet ministers to back Leave without resigning; and avoiding direct "blue-on-blue" attacks on fellow Tories.
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Rajoy on Wednesday edged potentially closer toward forming a government after cutting a deal with his most likely partner, liberal newcomers Ciudadanos, to elect one of his ministers to the post of parliament speaker.
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France and Germany are pushing for a reform of EU competition rules to take a more global rather than solely European view of mergers and potentially to allow EU ministers to have a say.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Boris Johnson urged British government ministers to join the campaign to leave the European Union in a newspaper interview on Saturday, again defying Prime Minister and fellow Conservative David Cameron.
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A favorable report would clear the way for euro zone finance ministers to disburse new loans, without which Greece would default on its debt in July when it faces a 1.83 billion euro repayment.
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Speaking before the latest round of talks began in Brussels today, Barnier voiced frustration at the government's "ambiguity" and the failure of ministers to publish a position paper on UK's potential financial liabilities. bit.
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Once the budget is approved by parliament, Abe will tell his cabinet ministers to front-load about 10 trillion yen in public works projects set for the 2016/17 year, the officials told Reuters.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's ruling party named new ministers to the key posts of finance, interior and water resources on Thursday, days after President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the government amid a deepening economic crisis.
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"I think this first-ever visit by G7 foreign ministers to the peace memorial park is a historic first step towards building momentum toward a world without nuclear weapons," Kishida said in a statement.
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Most of his congregation fled when the city was conquered by the jihadists of Islamic State (IS); now he ministers to what is left of it in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdish region.
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ON JUNE 23rd Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, flew to the Natuna archipelago in the South China Sea, along with several ministers, to hold a cabinet meeting on board a warship patrolling the surrounding waters.
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At a cabinet meeting earlier this year, Modi assessed progress on some key infrastructure projects and asked ministers to focus on those that would sustain the most jobs, a close aide to Modi said.
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The French government brought in the Iranian foreign and finance ministers to discuss things without even letting the president of the United States know," the now-vocal Trump critic said on CNN's "New Day.
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The pound lost ground after Foreign Minister Boris Johnson added his name to the clutch of British cabinet ministers to quit in protest over Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for leaving the European Union.
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"The visit of the former prime ministers to Saudi Arabia carries the features of a promising future for strengthening relations between the two countries," Lebanon's LBC TV cited Bukhari on its website as saying.
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"I don't think Maric will be removed, and, after that, Plenkovic would have around a month to secure a majority for new ministers to replace those from the Most party," analyst Davor Gjenero said.
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After Mr. Davis's surprise resignation, there was an ominous silence from Mr. Johnson on Monday morning, although he was supposed to host a meeting in London of foreign ministers to discuss the western Balkans.
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EU leaders agreed last December that a "budgetary instrument of competitiveness and convergence" should exist, then left its financing, size, governance and purpose for finance ministers to decide by their next summit in June.
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The history: The roots of impeachment date back to ancient Germany, but the first known instance came in England in 1376 with the removal of ministers to King Edward III, according to the Economist.
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Meanwhile, Canada on Friday said it plans to host a meeting of trade ministers to discuss how to reform the WTO, but it left the U.S. and China out of the meetings for now.
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As his campaign gathered steam, Zelenskiy brought reform-minded former ministers to his team as advisers, providing a measure of reassurance to investors who nevertheless found his answers on policy questions vague at times.
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The pound GBP= lost ground after Foreign Minister Boris Johnson added his name to the clutch of British cabinet ministers to quit in protest over Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for leaving the European Union.
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He is scheduled to present a list of ministers to parliament for approval later on Wednesday, but lawmakers told Reuters he was struggling to please all sides and that the process might face further delays.
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The government suffered an eighth defeat when lawmakers backed an amendment requiring ministers to seek parliamentary approval for their negotiating mandate in the next round of Brexit talks on Britain future relationship with the bloc.
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini had invited ministers to an informal night-before dinner to discuss the foreign policy impact of Brexit, but diplomats said that date was now in doubt following Johnson's nomination.
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Although Mr Johnson has required all his ministers to sign up to the possibility, several are known to have been fretful about the consequences, including Michael Gove, who is in charge of preparing for it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A meeting of British Prime Minister Theresa May's top ministers to discuss a draft European Union divorce bill on Wednesday was overrunning and was not expected to finish until at least 1.00 p.m.
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In the books, Septon Meribald is a priest for the Faith of the Seven who ministers to the small folk in villages around Westeros and comes into contact with Brienne and Podrick in the Riverlands.
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Two years ago in Town of Greece v Galloway, the justices ruled 5-4 that it was fine for a town board to invite mostly Christian ministers to launch their monthly meetings with a prayer.
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His charge that Mr Blair encouraged Labour ministers to connive in turning a blind eye to a broken system and then fiddled the numbers by giving so-called "bogus" asylum seekers work permits unfortunately sticks.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to skip an April meeting of NATO foreign ministers to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, giving a cold shoulder to many of Washington's closest allies.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Soon after Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office in 22017, he ordered his ministers to give private companies first pick of profitable infrastructure projects, until then usually grabbed by state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 6 (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma summoned cabinet ministers to a meeting in Cape Town on Tuesday, eNCA television reported, as pressure builds on the embattled 75-year-old leader to quit.
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If passed, the amendment would force the House of Commons to sit on September 4, October 9 and then every two weeks until December 18, and oblige ministers to regularly update Parliament during that period.
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The scandal had already prompted Bulgaria's justice minister and two deputy ministers to resign following reports they bought spacious apartments in an upmarket Sofia suburb at below-market prices from the same real estate developer.
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"We saw this as a call to action to promote Dublin as an alternative to London," said Ms. Bushnell, who has been meeting with Irish ministers to discuss how to entice entrepreneurs away from Britain.
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Devolution (to be confirmed) Amendments to be discussed on Wednesday: Customs union (1) This amendment would require ministers to report what efforts they had made to secure a customs union by the end of October.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The decision by British Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet of top ministers to back a draft Brexit agreement was made by majority rather than unanimous, a senior eurosceptic Conservative lawmaker said on Wednesday.
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Mental health experts have welcomed the government's new initiative, while also urging ministers to put forward a comprehensive road map to ensure that the new funding and initiatives meet the demands of those in need.
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"The party has confirmed it has been speaking to ministers to find a sensible deal for the entire UK and for the Irish Republic," BBC Northern Ireland Political Correspondent Enda McClafferty said in a report.
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"Borrell received a strong mandate from the EU foreign ministers to engage in diplomatic dialogue with regional partners, to de-escalate tensions and seek opportunities for political solutions to the current crisis," the statement said.
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However, London's High Court ruled in November that she could not start the formal exit process without parliament's assent, prompting ministers to appeal to the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the United Kingdom.
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The virus first entered Eurasia in 2007g in Georgia via wild boar imported from Africa, said Andriukaitis, who chaired a meeting September 17 with Belgian ministers to discuss the handling of cases found in Belgium.
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"The party has confirmed it has been speaking to ministers to find a sensible deal for the entire UK and for the Irish Republic," BBC Northern Ireland Political Correspondent Enda McClafferty said in a report.
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Devolution (to be confirmed) Amendments to be discussed on Wednesday: Customs union (1) This amendment would require ministers to report what efforts they had made to secure a customs union by the end of October.
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"There will be a clear government position but it will be open to individual ministers to take a different personal position while remaining part of the government," Cameron told parliament during an update on his renegotiation.
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The renewed wave of short-selling and fall in oil prices will intensify pressure on OPEC oil ministers to reach a deal before the end of the month or risk triggering an even deeper sell-off.
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The green light marked an initial victory for Kuczynski in a Congress controlled by the right-wing Popular Force party, which summoned his ministers to defend his proposed policies in several special sessions in recent weeks.
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This weekend, keeping the aspirations of those young people deep in my heart, I will host a meeting gathering G7 foreign ministers to Hiroshima for the first time in history, determined to discuss the issue thoroughly.
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IMF DEALS As his campaign gathered steam, Zelenskiy brought reform-minded former ministers to his team as advisers, providing a measure of reassurance to investors who nevertheless found his answers on policy questions vague at times.
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Obama also emphasized the need for their two countries' foreign ministers "to continue pursuing initiatives, together with the broader international community, to diminish the violence and alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people," the official said.
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It's an RAF Voyager – typically used as a refueling jet – which has had a £10 million ($12.9 million) makeover and is taking Cameron and a number of other key ministers to the NATO summit in Warsaw.
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That came as the European Union said Britain could be heading for a potentially disorderly exit in 10 days as Prime Minister Theresa May met with ministers to work out ways to break the Brexit deadlock.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the European Union in an upcoming referendum, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had ordered his ministers to stop receiving consulting services from U.S. firm McKinsey, after a government deal with it came under fire from the main opposition.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece expects euro zone finance ministers to deliver on promised debt relief this week so that it can at last plan its financial future "like any ordinary country", the government spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Italy would need the backing of a large majority of euro zone finance ministers to have a new ECB board member appointed - which is unlikely unless Rome proposes a non-party technocrat, an EU official said.
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Senior bankers expected special treatment from the government after Britain voted to leave the EU. They expected ministers to champion their cause, above other industries, to retain unrestricted access to the single market for financial services.
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"They instructed their water and energy ministers to draw up in one month a report that thrashes out ways to resolve all outstanding issues regarding the dam," an Ethiopian official who attended the talks told Reuters.
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This week, he caused four ministers to leave his cabinet, three of whom were members of the closely allied MoDem party and one who had played a large part in building Macron's own Republique en Marche.
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Former Conservative leader William Hague backed May's message, calling on ministers to come to an agreement rather than quitting which, he said, "will show they were not fit to hold their office in the first place".
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will continue to seek investment from around the world, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday after a meeting of senior ministers to discuss a new economic and industrial strategy.
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After losing three ministers to congressional pressure, Kuczynski said last month that it was time for him to consider pardoning Fujimori's father, imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori - widely seen as a bid to appease Popular Force.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to make a statement at around 1700 GMT on Wednesday outside her office after meeting senior ministers to discuss her Brexit deal, a Downing Street official said.
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Further increases in capital requirements could only harm banks' capacity to finance the economy, the letter said, urging EU finance ministers to "consider the ramifications" of the new rules for Europe at a meeting in July.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told his ministers to ease pressure on labor union leaders on Wednesday, after threats by the European Union to remove the Southeast Asian country's duty-free trading access.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Legal changes to Britain's deal to leave the European Union will be difficult but recent trips by British ministers to Brussels have been productive, the prime minister's effective deputy, David Lidington, said on Monday.
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For the ministers to reach unanimity, as they've agreed to do, Belgium will need to overcome determined opposition from parts of the country, including French-speaking Wallonia, where the regional parliament last week refused the deal.
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Buckland indicated the government would look into the possibility of adopting Grieve's push for ministers to secure parliamentary approval for their Brexit plans if they fail to negotiate a deal with the EU. It paid off.
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While in Kiev, Pompeo will meet with President Volodymr Zelensky as well as the foreign and defense ministers to "highlight US support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the State Department said in its trip announcement.
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The Times -Theresa May has summoned ministers to a special cabinet meeting at which she will seek to bind Boris Johnson to her vision of Brexit on the eve of a key speech this week. bit.
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In an emergency meeting, EU foreign ministers, to be joined by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, were meeting in Brussels on Friday to find ways to push the United States and Iran away from open conflict.
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In an emergency meeting, EU foreign ministers, to be joined by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, were talking in Brussels on Friday to find ways to push the United States and Iran away from open conflict.
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Sending his defence and foreign ministers to Moscow in September and ending a four-year freeze on such high-level diplomatic visits, Macron is seeking to bring Moscow back into the fold of leading industrialised nations.
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Abela also appointed new ministers to the posts of foreign affairs, home affairs and justice as he looks to overcome concerns within the European Union over rule of law in the 28-member bloc's smallest nation.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May secured cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the EU, overcoming rifts among her ministers to win support for "a business-friendly" proposal aimed at spurring stalled Brexit talks.
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Mr. Erdogan has been shunned by several European leaders since February and March, when he lashed out at their refusal to allow his ministers to campaign on European soil during the lead-up to his referendum.
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More recently, AI professor Toby Walsh from New South Wales authored a similar open letter, and just last week over 300 Canadian and Australian scientists penned open letters asking their respective Prime Ministers to support a ban.
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Prices have risen since the start of the year, however, leading some OPEC oil ministers to declare that the market was finally rebalancing anyway as non-OPEC supply withered, despite OPEC's decision to maintain record production levels.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May is in the process of trying to convince senior ministers to accept a draft European Union divorce deal that opponents say threatens both her government and the unity of the United Kingdom.
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At a meeting in Detroit on Wednesday, executives will urge federal and Ontario government ministers to ensure that the province's cap-and-trade program will not hurt the Canadian auto industry's long-term competitiveness with U.S. rivals.
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Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Monday he expects some of his ministers to resign after they were accused of wrongdoing by Odebrecht executives in plea bargain testimonies and placed under investigation by a Supreme Court justice.
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It provides an opportunity for leaders and their ministers to reach an understanding about the preferred direction of prices next year ("As oil plunges, the real OPEC meeting will be at next week's G20", Bloomberg, Nov. 23).
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Temer's efforts to bring Brazil out of its worst economic recession since the 1930s are going ahead as planned despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff told Reuters on Thursday.
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Omer Celik, the spokesman for the ruling AK Party, told reporters at a party summit chaired by Erdogan that the president had told his party and ministers to receive consulting services from Turkish firms from now on.
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A spokeswoman for Schaeuble's conservative-led finance ministry said that everybody wanted a solution "in the interest of Greece", adding it was up to euro zone finance ministers to find a solution during their talks in Brussels.
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DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 0.7055.07 Germany Industrial Output MM Jan1230 US Retail Sales MM JanEU Finance ministers to meet in Brussels1300 Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Jonathan Haskel to deliver a speech at University of Birmingham.
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The Belgian failure to hold Bakraoui prompted two Belgian ministers to offer to resign and raised questions on procedures to monitor or hold suspected Islamist militants returning from the Middle East to their native countries in Europe.
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Details of the French initiative to move beyond the current stalemate have emerged slowly: There was a plan for a meeting of interested foreign ministers to be held in Paris, without the Israelis or Palestinians in attendance.
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Portugal, which was asked by EU finance ministers to bring its deficit below 3 percent this year is on track to do so, the Commission forecast and the shortfall will fall further next year to 2.2 percent.
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But Schaeuble, speaking in Sendai, northern Japan, said he expected the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers to come to an agreement at a meeting next Tuesday, adding he had already spoken to IMF chief Christine Lagarde.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's newly-appointed deputy prime minister hinted at a future leadership role in a speech on Wednesday in which he echoed a pledge made by previous prime ministers to support the city-state's labor movement.
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So far May has resisted, vowing to press on despite opposition from lawmakers and other ministers to her bid to get her Brexit deal through parliament by softening her stance on a second referendum and customs arrangements.
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Monday's reports also came exactly a year after at least 800 people died when another boat sank in the Mediterranean, in an incident that caused an international outcry and prompted European Union ministers to hold crisis talks.
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"I have asked the National Disaster Management Authority, the military and all our federal ministers to immediately provide all humanitarian assistance on an emergency footing to the affected people in AJK," Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted.
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One source with knowledge of the matter said Mahathir had been angry that he came under pressure from pro-Anwar ministers to set a clear timetable for a handover at a meeting of the coalition on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the European Union in an upcoming referendum, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
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The results of the survey come at a time when U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is fighting for her political survival, after the government's draft divorce deal with the EU prompted a flurry of cabinet ministers to resign.
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In an encouraging sign, the United States, the European Union and Japan signed an agreement on the sidelines of the recent G20 meeting with energy and environment ministers to accelerate the development of hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies.
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Kate D'Annunzio of Rachel's Vineyard, a Pennsylvania-based group that ministers to women who have had abortions, said Francis has "clarified" that now priests have the power to do both: forgive and welcome women back into the church.
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"The Scottish government's key objections to the bill as introduced relate to the provisions on the competence of the Scottish parliament and government (...) and those on powers for UK and Scottish ministers to alter domestic law," it said.
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In a letter addressed to Denmark and Sweden on March 28, the Commission said it was inviting all EU states to voice their concerns and would seek approval from EU energy ministers to negotiate an agreement with Moscow.
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"We will try to close these differences and baseline assessments and then we will go to the political level, because in the end it is up to the ministers to decide if Greece has done enough," Dijsselbloem said.
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It has also reinforced the sense that the government is at the mercy of events that it cannot control: future revelations could force more ministers to resign or compel the government to withdraw the whip from erring MPs.
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The draft communique also instructs trade ministers to "develop proposals to ensure that the WTO continues to be relevant" and increase funding for the International Monetary Fund, but will soften its language on climate change, the FT said.
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The United States called on the three countries to repeal the tax and urged other Gulf states not to implement it, while Switzerland asked Gulf finance ministers to consider modifying the tax, a Geneva trade official told Reuters.
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In the meantime, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, urged euro zone finance ministers to start talks on Greek debt relief together with discussions on reforms, according to a letter published by the Financial Times.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has picked prominent ministers to run for parliament next month, strengthening the ruling AK Party's chances of winning a majority but putting their future role in government into question, party officials say.
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Hillary Clinton in 2012 During her time as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton had an uncovered head in meetings with Saudi and Gulf Arab foreign ministers to discuss several issues including Iran, oil policy and the Afghanistan war.
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He called on ministers to outline their plans at the Conservative Party's annual conference in October, and no later than when new finance minister Philip Hammond gives his first budget statement which is likely to be in November.
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A spokeswoman for the conservative-led finance ministry added that everybody wanted a solution "in the interest of Greece", adding it was up euro zone finance ministers to find a solution during talks in Brussels later on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday told her top ministers to keep engaging with businesses over Brexit, and that firms expect her successor to keep up infrastructure investment and continue developing an industrial strategy.
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The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union was in disarray on Sunday as Prime Minister Theresa May faced a possible plot by ministers to topple her and parliament prepared to grab control of Brexit from the government.
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"I have hopes but no expectations that they would wrap up everything before the Eurogroup on Friday," the source said referring to the regular meeting of euro zone finance ministers to be held in Amsterdam on April 22.
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Spain was asked by EU finance ministers to cut its deficit to 4.2 percent of GDP last year, from 5.9 percent in 2014, but verified data last week showed it ended up with a 5.1 percent shortfall instead.
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Macron made the announcement to reporters in Brussels on Thursday, Bloomberg News reports, amid decisions from the French and Dutch finance ministers to withdraw from the 2018 Future Investment Initiative set to take place in Riyadh this month.
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The news was cheered by investors hoping May can convince her ministers to back the draft agreement if there is to be enough time for a proposed Brexit summit of EU leaders in late November to approve it.
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The meeting at Chequers, May's country residence, which is set to run late into the evening, will see her appeal to ministers to put Brexit divisions behind them and move forward by backing her white paper policy document.
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Under the Egyptian-brokered accord, the Fatah-backed government headed by Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah will run Gaza and the West Bank and Palestinian officials said there were no plans to add Hamas ministers to the government.
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The Times newspaper quoted a senior source as saying the government was prepared for resignations after the cabinet meeting where May would ask ministers to back concessions to Labour party to get a Brexit agreement over the line.
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It has won the backing of factions in western Libya and on Monday the GNA's leadership issued a statement commissioning its ministers to start work in a caretaker basis in Tripoli, until they take the oath of office.
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On Sunday, Mr. Tsipras said that he had accepted Mr. Kammenos's resignation and would also accept any other resignations, a statement widely understood as leaving the door open for ANEL ministers to remain in the leftist-led coalition.
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Also, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that G7 major economies will take "concerted action" to limit damage from the epidemic, with the group's finance ministers to discuss the best approach by phone this week.
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OTTAWA — When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prevailed in Canada's election last year, he promised "sunny ways" and later pledged to hold his cabinet ministers to high ethical standards when it came to conflicts of interest and fund-raising.
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EU leaders have asked euro zone finance ministers to produce by mid-December a "a roadmap for beginning political discussions" on EDIS, the last missing element of the euro zone's banking union, which Germany has blocked for years.
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So now the summit will only ask euro zone finance ministers "to work on the design, modalities of implementation and timing of the budgetary instrument for convergence and competitiveness," according to a draft seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Aides close to Temer have told Reuters that it could take months for ministers to be charged, meaning Padilha and other key cabinet members likely will stay in their posts long enough to secure the pension reform's passage.
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Aware of the dangers of high expectations and the limited wiggle room French public finances allow, Macron had visibly instructed his ministers to play down the scope of the announcements he said he would make before mid-April.
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Rishi Sunak, a deputy finance minister, said the government aimed to re-submit the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to parliament for ratification before Christmas to allow ministers to start work on other priorities such as "levelling up" the country.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming rifts among her ministers to win support for "a business-friendly" proposal aimed at spurring stalled Brexit talks.
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Representatives from Botswana and Namibia will join Angolan Ministers to celebrate this unique collaboration and additional protection for National Parks all abutting the Okavango Delta, with the objective of creating safe and green corridors for wildlife and communities.
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During a special event in parliament aimed at encouraging more women to get involved in politics, some of the attendees turned their backs on Trudeau as he spoke, prompting several of his Cabinet ministers to come to his defense.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is sending three cabinet ministers to the United States to stress the merits of NAFTA, officials said on Thursday, paving the way for key talks that could either sink or save the trade pact.
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The comment was made in the Supreme Court by James Eadie, who is acting for the government in an appeal against a ruling that would oblige ministers to seek parliament's assent before triggering Article 50, the EU's exit clause.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will give a short statement to media later on Wednesday after she finishes a meeting of her senior ministers to win their approval for a draft Brexit divorce deal, a Downing Street official said.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May persuaded most of her senior ministers to back the draft Brexit agreement that has finally been struck with the EU — now all she has to do get it approved by a largely hostile Parliament.
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From 2014, Moscow and Riyadh have grown closer through a bilateral effort both at the top leadership level and through their ministers to work on what is known as the OPEC+ deal on reducing oil output to stabilize prices.
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LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Nurses, midwives and cleaners working in Britain's publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS) called on ministers to boost their salaries by 3.9 percent, in the latest push against a government-imposed cap on pay rises.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron will push to give more power to European finance ministers to set bank capital rules to boost credit flow in the economy, his adviser, French European parliamentarian Sylvie Goulard said on Wednesday.
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As his career progressed, so did his spare-time role as a pastor with another successful multinational concern, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), a Nigeria-based organisation that ministers to the country's diaspora and all other comers.
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He also instructed two conservative ministers to draw up a list of tough conditions that Arab local councils must adhere to in order to get money from a $3.8 billion programme designed to improve conditions in the Arab sector.
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The European Union warned that Britain could be heading for a potentially disorderly exit in 10 days time as Prime Minister Theresa May met with ministers to figure out ways to break the deadlock over terms of the departure.
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In a letter, the 50 big firms called on EU energy ministers to lift all regulatory barriers to PPAs, to which firms are increasingly turning to source electricity needed for energy-intensive data centers or to run heavy machinery.
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Mattis joined defense ministers to discuss the individual plans that NATO countries have submitted for the first time to show how they will reach a target to spend 2 percent of economic output on defense every year by 2024.
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The scandal, which sparked outrage in Bulgaria, has also prompted justice minister and two deputy ministers to resign following reports they bought spacious apartments in an upmarket Sofia suburb at below-market prices from the same real estate developer.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's former Brexit minister David Davis, who resigned on Sunday over Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for leaving the European Union, said he was not calling on other ministers to quit and May could survive his resignation.
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ALGIERS, June 19 (Reuters) - An Algerian prosecutor has referred former prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia, a current minister and two ex-ministers to the supreme court over corruption allegations, the Algiers public prosecutor's office said in a statement on Wednesday.
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With that in mind, May said she was planning to summon ministers to Chequers, her country residence, for an "away-day" aimed at ending months of squabbling and agreeing the contents of a so-called 'white paper' policy document.
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French President Francois Hollande told government ministers to do all they can to ensure the biggest defeat possible for far right leader Marine Le Pen in the May 7 vote for the presidency against Emmanuel Macron, his spokesman said.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A month after Cyril Ramaphosa took the helm of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) in December, he called an urgent meeting with then-President Jacob Zuma and senior ministers to save state power firm Eskom.
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I do remember being there, writing a variety of stories about tech in India and having to visit a minister and I ... it was like 20 ministers to get to the one minister who's just like essentially a mayor.
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"There are some very serious questions for ministers to answer now that residents are asking at Grenfell Tower, and very important reassurance to give to many, many people who live in similar tower blocks throughout the country," said Healey.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government does not expect European Union finance ministers to unanimously agree to a digital tax on Tuesday and is continuing to strive for minimum corporate tax rates at the global level, a source said on Monday.
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Hammond has no direct part in Brexit talks which begin in Brussels on Monday but his new confidence means he is likely to press May and other ministers to prioritize the economy in the complicated negotiations for Britain's EU departure.
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LONDON (Reuters) - As Britain's banks brace for a "hard Brexit" that could sever their links with the EU market, they are changing lobbying strategy and focusing efforts on eurosceptic cabinet ministers to try to secure a transitional period for their industry.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will give a short statement to media later on Wednesday after she finishes a meeting of her senior ministers to win their approval for a draft Brexit divorce deal, a Downing Street official said.
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The chancellor continued: not only would he avoid gimmicks and leave it to ministers to decide what to do with their money, but he would even cut the number of annual "major fiscal events" by creating a single, autumn budget.
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In voting for that plan, the upper chamber rejected a proposal put forward by May's government to give parliament a symbolic vote on next steps, but which stopped short of giving MPs the power to force ministers to change course.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - An amendment to Zambia's constitution allowing ministers to stay in office after parliament dissolves has sparked a row ahead of elections in August, in which President Edgar Lungu and his Patriotic Front party are seen facing a stiff challenge.
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Only the EU can make safety technologies mandatory for new vehicles, prompting eight European ministers to write to the Commission in February asking it to speed up the review process and present a proposal "well before the end of 2017".
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BRUSSELS, May 6 (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund urged euro zone finance ministers to start talks on Greece's debt relief together with discussions on Athens' reform programme, according to a letter published by the Financial Times on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will give a short statement to media later on Wednesday after she finishes a meeting of her senior ministers to win their approval for a draft Brexit divorce deal, a Downing Street official said.
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BEIRUT, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The head of the Maronite Christian Lebanese Forces party Samir Geagea said he asked his party's ministers to resign from the government on Saturday, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri amid widespread national protests.
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LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday told her top ministers to keep engaging with businesses over Brexit, and that firms expect her successor to keep up infrastructure investment and continue developing an industrial strategy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May won backing from her senior ministers to take unspecified action with the United States and France to deter further use of chemical weapons by Syria after a suspected poison gas attack on civilians.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has ordered his ministers to tackle student protests that have shut down most universities, a cabinet spokesman said on Thursday, amid concerns over the impact of the disruption on state finances and the economy.
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Nicholas Cheeseman, an academic at Oxford University, reckons that of 91 presidents and prime ministers to have held office on the continent in civilian regimes since 1989, 45% once either served in the armed forces or were guerrillas before becoming politicians.
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This is why they want change, and the hurdles ahead: The French want a broader definition of relevant markets, recognition that markets are not set in stone but evolve quickly, and powers for EU ministers to override a Commission decision.
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The parliamentary debate is yet another headache for a prime minister, who has lost two ministers to scandals and faces calls to fire her foreign minister, Boris Johnson, over remarks he made about a jailed Iranian-British aid worker in Iran.
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"We have to win the peace," Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference, saying he expected NATO defense ministers to start planning for a bigger mission at a meeting in Brussels on Thursday, with a decision to launch the mission in July.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia expects the European Union's foreign ministers to accept its membership application next week, the start of a long path towards joining that could yet be overshadowed by a Bosnian Serb referendum that threatens to expose deep ethnic divides.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - A prosecutor has referred Algeria's former prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia, along with a minister and two ex-ministers, to the Supreme Court over graft accusations in an ongoing crackdown on the former ruling elite, authorities said on Wednesday.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will add more ministers to its supreme military council, the government said in its official gazette on Sunday, adding that deputy prime ministers, and the heads of the justice, interior and foreign affairs ministries would become members.
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Mr. Lorenzana said that Beijing had invoked an agreement between the Chinese and Philippine foreign ministers to maintain the status quo in the area, and not to occupy any new land features, in an effort to reduce tensions in the area.
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"We do know more about the substance and the police will be making a further statement this afternoon in order to share some of that," Rudd told reporters after chairing a meeting of top ministers to discuss the Skripal incident.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May secured cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming deep rifts among her ministers to win support for "a business-friendly" proposal to try to spur stalled Brexit talks.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming rifts among her ministers to win support for "a business-friendly" proposal aimed at spurring stalled Brexit talks.
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In the latest of several speeches by ministers to lay out Britain's Brexit plans, Davis told business leaders in Austria that fears of Britain plunging into a "Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction" after leaving the EU are unfounded.
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Questions also remain about how Mr. Kurz will be able to govern in the months before the new national elections, with opposition figures and members of his own conservative People's Party calling for all Freedom Party ministers to quit their posts.
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Mr. Macron instead assigned his culture and foreign ministers to help fulfill an objective he set a year ago: to ensure that the cultural treasures of sub-Saharan Africa be accessible in Africa through restitutions, but also exhibitions, exchanges and loans.
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"Looking back on it, it's pretty much a consensus that we may have pulled our troops out too rapidly, reduced the numbers a little too rapidly," Mattis told a news conference following a meeting of NATO defense ministers to discuss Afghanistan.
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SANTIAGO, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has instructed her ministers to reduce the 2016 fiscal budget by as much as $549 million, as income from copper has fallen due to slumping prices, Finance Minister Rodrigo Valdes said on Monday.
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In a country where the state has a monopoly on mass media, he said he had asked all ministers to appear on a televised roundtable before the meeting of the national assembly this week to be held accountable for their work.
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"The average is about 1.69 million bpd and it is getting better by the day," Nigerian oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu told reporters in Vienna, where he attended a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC ministers to review the deal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May repeatedly refused on Friday to rule out allowing her senior ministers to get as so called free vote, which allows lawmakers to vote against the wishes of their party, on the draft Brexit deal.
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The two vetoes are likely to spur efforts by France and Germany to loosen EU competition rules so as to take a more global than solely European view of mergers and potentially to allow EU ministers to have a say.
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Some Lords, from all parties, have indicated their support for an amendment to her Brexit blueprint, the EU withdrawal bill, which would require ministers to report what efforts they had made to secure a customs union by the end of October.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May has called government ministers to a Thursday cabinet meeting on Syria, which media reports said was likely to lead to London joining in a military response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria.
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In a summit statement on Friday, EU leaders said they endorsed an agreement on Tuesday among the bloc's Europe ministers to review Albania and Macedonia's progress in June 2019 and open talks at a conference by the end of next year.
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Leaders of all EU countries except Britain, which is to leave the bloc in March, endorsed an agreement reached earlier by their finance ministers to give some new powers to the euro zone bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
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In order to placate Bennett, Israeli media reports said Netanyahu had promised the ministers to clear the way for expanded settlement construction in east Jerusalem and in major West Bank settlement "blocs" that Israel hopes to keep under a future peace deal.
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Former CIA Director James Woolsey claimed in an interview on CNN Friday that at a meeting he himself attended during the campaign, Flynn met with Turkish government ministers to discuss how to return Gulen to Turkey without going through the legal extradition process.
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UK trade union Unite, which has 1,200 members working at the firm, said it would support opposition Labour Party proposals to ban the company from bidding for public contracts until its future is clear, also calling for ministers to lay out contingency plans.
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The idea, under which the SPD would contribute ministers to a Merkel-led cabinet, would allow the party to support Merkel's conservatives in areas where both parties were in agreement but leave other areas subject to ad hoc haggling between parliamentary parties.
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"European Parliament negotiators struck a deal with EU ministers to set up an ESMA supervisory committee ... and impose stricter rules on third country ones, depending on systemic risk," the parliament said in a statement, referring to the European Securities and Markets Authority.
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Accused by opposition lawmakers of being "asleep at the wheel" when India's Tata Steel put its entire British operations up for sale last week, Prime Minister David Cameron also met ministers to discuss the options for a business which employs 15,000 people.
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Iranian political analyst Hamid Farahvashi said Rouhani had nominated lesser known ministers to ease tensions with parliament which sacked the ministers of labor and of economy and finance earlier this year, blaming them for the collapse of the rial currency and surging inflation.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Interim President Michel Temer's will press ahead with ambitious plans to balance the budget, reform pensions and draw private money into the energy sector despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff said on Thursday.
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Her cabinet office minister David Lidington told parliament the release of such documents as requested by Labour would undermine the need for ministers to have "frank discussions", the ability of officials to give advice and the privacy needed to prepare for negotiations.
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President-elect Trump should have his new Treasury Secretary convene a summit of both IMF and World Trade Organization (WTO) finance ministers to adopt WTO style sanctions to the IMF in order to ensure that markets, not governments, set relative currency valuations.
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As soon as she took office, Mrs May appointed three pro-Brexit ministers to supervise Britain's departure from the EU. David Davis is the secretary of state at the new Department for Exiting the European Union, which will co-ordinate the Brexit process.
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Chile's peso, down 0.5%, led declines among the regional currencies as President Sebastian Pinera faced new protests after he replaced eight cabinet members including his interior and finance ministers to tame the biggest political crisis since Chile's return to democracy in 1990.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France has called for European Union finance ministers to discuss a U.S. tax overhaul approved by the Senate at the weekend over concerns about the impact on EU subsidiaries in the United States, French finance ministry sources said on Monday.
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He said the decision to postpone the meeting of euro zone finance ministers to next week or the week after that, depending on progress in negotiations was good, because having a meeting only to announce lack of agreement would send a bad signal.
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The criticism came at the first meeting of EU ministers to discuss the plan, which was presented by the Commission last month and entails a 3 percent levy on the digital revenues of large multinational corporations, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dominic Raab tripped up on Michel Barnier's Brexit staircase — that is how EU negotiators see how the reworking of a draft deal reached a month ago led to new demands on Britain that prompted him and other ministers to resign.
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Alexis Tsipras reshuffled his government on Friday and urged his ministers to work hard to rapidly complete the review, which includes labor reforms and fiscal issues Athens has agreed to implement under its bailout by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
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Mr. Froman for months has been meeting with lawmakers to address their complaints and with other nations' trade ministers, to goad their countries to act on their T.P.P. commitments now – on labor rights, for example – so that he can reassure Congress's doubters.
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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Theresa May called cabinet ministers to a brainstorming session about the withdrawal, pledging to examine "the next steps" for Britain and to identify "opportunities that are now open to us as we forge a new role" in the world.
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Prime Minister Theresa May, who is meeting senior ministers to discuss the government's strategy, is under pressure to offer a detailed vision for future ties with the EU, but she is not expected to come up with a firm decision this week.
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is lobbying oil ministers to agree next week on a nine-month extension to OPEC-led supply cuts, sources familiar with the matter said, as Riyadh seeks to ensure a price-sapping glut is eradicated.
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A failure by ministers to reach an accord could delay plans by Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, to sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement in Brussels later this month, and would also highlight a growing hostility to globalization and open markets.
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The Solomon Islands, one of Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies, has formed a team of ministers to talk to Beijing ahead of a possible switch in ties that could be unveiled as early as this week, the chief of a parliamentary panel said.
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JAKARTA, March 18 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday asked his cabinet ministers to calculate the impact of falling global oil prices on domestic subsidised and non-subsidised fuel prices to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Earlier on Thursday, Governor Mark Carney -- whose own term was extended this week until January 2020 to help smooth the post-Brexit transition -- was spotted entering Prime Minister Theresa May's official residence before she met senior ministers to discuss a 'no deal' Brexit.
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Who knows, maybe he will change his mind if the American Embassy, by chance yet in keeping with its ecumenical mission, manages to persuade a few of the Republic's ministers to participate in an iftar after obediently listening to the sunset prayer.
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Monday's meeting emphasized the "urgency of the situation and the need for ministers to continue to be engaged at all levels to resolve this quickly to minimize these very real impacts on Canadians," according to a statement released by the prime minister's office.
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The leader of the opposition Conservatives, Andrew Scheer, said that Philpott's resignation "clearly demonstrates a government in total chaos led by a disgraced prime minister," according to CNN affiliate CTV, calling on other cabinet ministers to either resign or demand Trudeau step down.
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So, forget about the political mission migrating from an ineffective European Council (forum of heads of state and government), or from a German rubber stamp Eurogroup (a gathering of euro area finance ministers), to the sideshow of unelected technical staff at the ECB.
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"I have directed the new ministers and deputy ministers to work tirelessly with their colleagues to bring about radical socioeconomic transformation and to ensure that the promise of a better life for the poor and the working class becomes a reality," Zuma said.
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It's a part of what the English essayist Walter Bagehot called the "dignified" part of government, something that exists to humble the "efficient" elected part, to force ministers to remember that they serve the country, not simply their own parties and interests.
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In April, Angelo Bonelli, the national coordinator of Italy's Green Party, wrote to the country's culture and environment ministers to express his concern about the sale of the Isola delle Femmine and a handful of islands also advertised on real estate websites.
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May's cabinet on Wednesday endorsed the draft to end Britain's four decades in the bloc, a nearly 600-page, dense legal text that is far from certain to pass in the UK parliament and prompted several British ministers to resign on Thursday.
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Davis, who again criticized the government of which he was once part for accepting "the EU's language on dealing with the Northern Ireland border" in December, said it was now up to the so-called cabinet of top ministers to exert their influence.
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Parliament will re-open in May with an address by President Halimah Yacob, and Lee said on Tuesday he was asking the next generation of ministers to draft the government's agenda for the address to "give Singaporeans a better sense of them and their thoughts".
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READ MORE: Trump wants to send Assad a message – but his options are all bad British Prime Minister Theresa May called ministers to an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the British response, although it was unclear whether she would seek parliamentary approval for a strike.
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Mahathir, known for challenging royalty during his earlier 22-year tenure as prime minister, said in a blog post last week that everyone "from the Rulers to the Prime Minister and Ministers, to the civil servants and ordinary citizens" are subject to the law.
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LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May called on her government to do its duty and agree a plan for Britain's future outside the European Union, a last-ditch appeal to ministers to put Brexit rows behind them and take a "step forward".
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On Thursday the government published a set of advice notices for Britons on how to prepare for the possibility of a "no-deal" Brexit, and May held a meeting of her top team of ministers to discuss the government's plans for leaving without an agreement.
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They also backed a requirement for ministers to make fortnightly reports on progress towards re-establishing Northern Ireland's collapsed executive, to give lawmakers an opportunity to debate and approve those reports and if, parliament has been suspended, to recall it in order to do so.
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Last month, Duterte sent his foreign and defense ministers to Moscow to explore arms deal after a U.S. senator said he will block the sale of 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines due to concerns with the rising death toll in a war on drugs.
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Its task is to provide a check on Britain's overmighty executive, a voice for the losers in the ruthless first-past-the-post electoral system and, by holding ministers to account for shoddy legislation and bad behaviour, to act as a spur to good government.
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Euro zone officials were skeptical, however, if the mission to Athens can sign off on all the reforms and produce a staff level agreement by the end of the week, in time for euro zone finance ministers to approve the report on Feb. 20.
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EU cyber exercises are not new, but officials said the idea of the exercise was to put the onus on defence ministers to act by simulating a temporary loss of military operational command, even if they would have more support in a real-life situation.
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Mahathir, known for challenging royalty during his past 22-year tenure as prime minister, said in a blog post last week that everyone "from the Rulers to the Prime Minister and Ministers, to the civil servants and ordinary citizens" are subject to the law.
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If the djinn is especially powerful, however, the afflicted may seek the aid of Christian exorcists; as VICE reported in 2012, the Coptic Orthodox priest Father Samaan Ibrahim regularly ministers to Muslims at the church he built in the Cairo slum known as Garbage City.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday blocked efforts by the World Trade Organization to draft a declaration for ministers to agree on next month, a move that reflects President Donald Trump's view that the WTO does not give his country a fair deal.
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Greece wants euro zone finance ministers to approve the reforms' deal at a scheduled Eurogroup meeting on May 22 — a key condition for unlocking vital loans — but also agree on a formula to make its debt sustainable in the medium-term and long term.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands, one of Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies, has formed a team of ministers to talk to Beijing ahead of a possible switch in ties that could be unveiled as early as this week, the chief of a parliamentary panel said.
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This is not the first time Mr. Netanyahu has struggled with corruption investigations — he is sometimes referred to as Mr. Teflon for the trouble the police have had getting accusations to stick — nor is he the first of the country's prime ministers to do so.
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The leaders also disagreed on the idea of setting up a precautionary credit line from the euro zone's ESM bailout fund, instead buying time by telling their finance ministers to work out more details of how this would work over the next two weeks.
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By opposing the Conservative Party's detailed plan for withdrawal (rather than the principle of withdrawal), and pressing for some sort of membership of the Customs Union, Labour might force ministers to change course — and, if it's lucky, bring down the government in the process.
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Reports that only 30 or 40 Holocaust survivors would attend the centerpiece event at Yad Vashem — out of nearly 800 guests in total, including many politicians and wealthy donors to the various organizations involved — led several government ministers to offer up their seats to survivors.
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The acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, who will remain in office until a new president is elected, declared that the lack of a president amounted to a national "emergency" and called cabinet ministers to put the country on a heightened state of military readiness.
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But since a joint visit by the German and French foreign ministers to Ukraine's capital last week, a gloomier view has taken hold: that political dysfunction in Kiev has all but doomed the chances of it delivering on its own commitments under the peace agreement.
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Kerry has pointedly avoided new bilateral negotiations with Lavrov, and his invitation to the Turkish, Saudi, Qatari and Iranian foreign ministers to join them for talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, will broaden the discussion to include the most powerful backers of Syria's government and rebels.
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LONDON, June 10 (Reuters) - British foreign minister Boris Johnson has been asked by five other ministers to launch a bid to replace Theresa May as the country's prime minister after she failed to win a parliamentary majority in an election last week, the Sunday Times reported.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is facing an "economic crisis" due to its huge oil imports, two local TV channels cited Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari as saying on Thursday, ahead of a meeting of key ministers to discuss the falling rupee and the nation's widening trade deficit.
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By a vote of 245 to 218, the unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords, supported an amendment to her Brexit blueprint, the EU withdrawal bill, requiring ministers to negotiate continued membership of the European Economic Area, meaning that it would remain in the single market.
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Officials had not previously estimated a cost to businesses for either of the two customs options, and the potential 20 billion pound price tag for "max fac" is likely to increase pressure on May from businesses and more pro-European ministers to go for the customs partnership.
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The Turkish foreign ministry said it "would not allow" the assassination to damage relations, while officials also confirmed that a meeting between the Turkish, Russian and Iranian foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Syria, scheduled to take place on December 20th in Moscow, would go ahead.
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The return of the missions of experts means that they will be able to finalize what is called a "staff level agreement" on Greek reforms in exchange for loans, which is necessary for the ministers to give a political go-ahead to the review and disbursements.
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A source close to Moreira Franco, however, told Reuters he had drafted his resignation letter and considered leaving to lessen the fallout for the government, which has lost four ministers to graft allegations in the six months since Temer took over from impeached leftist Dilma Rousseff.
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"We are aware there are some technical issues and technical concerns, but these are technical concerns not political problems, so we still have three or four weeks before the next Ecofin (a regular meeting between EU finance ministers) to fix those technical issues," Le Maire said.
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OPINION: Obama administration was hypocritical on UN's Israeli settlements vote In addition, travel by Israeli ministers to those countries will also be limited, the officials said, noting that Israeli ambassadors in the countries will still be able to continue working with the governments of their host nations.
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EU officials said on Tuesday the prospect of Britain leaving the economic bloc without a deal in 10 days time was growing as UK Prime Minister Theresa May summoned ministers to try to clinch approval for her deal, which has been rejected three times by lawmakers.
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The Trump administration turned down an offer by two Chinese vice-ministers to travel to the United States this week for preparatory trade talks because of a lack of progress on two important issues, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on the talks.
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On Thursday the British government published a set of advice notices for Britons on how to prepare for the possibility of a "no-deal" Brexit, and May held a cabinet meeting of her top team of ministers to discuss the government's plans for leaving without an agreement.
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LONDON — British and European Union officials reached a long-awaited draft agreement on Tuesday on Britain's troubled withdrawal from the bloc, opening the way for a high-stakes meeting of Prime Minister Theresa May's most senior ministers to consider the plans, the prime minister's office said.
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"I am here with three government ministers to express firstly the solidarity of the international community following what happened after Hurricane Irma and to say that all of France stands side by side with those who lost everything, some even lost their loved ones," Mr. Macron said.
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Mr. Netanyahu also instructed his ministers to reduce their diplomatic activities and contacts with counterparts from the countries that had voted for the resolution for the next three weeks, until the American administration changes, and to minimize travel to those countries, according to Israeli news reports.
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"We're against people wearing the full veil in Germany - it has no place in our country and it doesn't comply with our understanding of the role of women," de Maiziere told journalists before meeting conservative state interior ministers to discuss security issues in the wake of the attacks.
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"It has never been my style to hide from a challenge and I'm not going to start now," it quoted May as replying, in what it called a signal that she was prepared to bring in new ministers to her cabinet and axe those who had caused her problems.
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Stung by criticism of ignoring the concerns of rural India where over two-thirds of the country's 1.25 billion people live, the government on Wednesday fielded as many as three cabinet ministers to underline the importance of the scheme whose budget will more than double in three years.
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Last month, Duterte sent his foreign and defense ministers to Moscow to discuss arms deals after a U.S. senator said he would block the sale of 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines due to concern about a rising death toll in a war on drugs launched by Duterte.
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Despite these clear, shared benefits for Beijing and Washington in particular, as countries send their senior ministers to Geneva in an attempt to finalize an agreement, China has arrived with a lengthy shopping list but little flexibility or currency in its pockets to pay for what it wants.
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"The cabinet has approved to delegate a number of ministers to discuss with the Chinese side the following projects: a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in the energy sector; an initial cooperation memorandum in the field of crude storage," a cabinet statement on state news agency SPA said.
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King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia is leading an entourage, including 25 senior princes and 10 ministers, to China later this month, part of a month-long tour of the Asia-Pacific, as the kingdom is seeking to hedge against an unpredictable and divided White House.
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Leaders asked finance ministers to work out more details of the euro zone budget, which would also be open to countries that locked their currency in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II, the euro waiting room, by June 2019, a deadline that falls shortly after European Parliament elections in May.
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Mr Blair's insouciance towards the detail of policy allowed ministers to implement foolish manifesto commitments to scrap Tory public service reforms, such as liberating schools from the dead hand of local-authority political control, or introducing modest market mechanisms into the National Health Service, reforms that were already showing positive results.
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They said that unless Cunha is able to provide evidence against senior ministers to President Michel Temer, or against the president himself, it is unlikely they would be willing to negotiate any plea bargain with Cunha, given the amount of bribes and wide-ranging graft he stands accused of committing.
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Greece is required by its euro zone creditors to pass wide-ranging reforms and sell state assets under an 86 billion euros ($92 billion) bailout programme, but negotiators have not been able to agree on labour and energy reforms or Greece's 2018 fiscal targets, leaving ministers to close the remaining gaps.
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Foreign minister Dominic Raab said the government would "test to the limit" what the law would require ministers to do, and the Daily Telegraph reported that his office was exploring how it could sabotage any extension request by making it clear to the EU that it did not want a delay.
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This turn of events has prompted some senior government ministers to publicly hint that a backstop that only applies to Northern Ireland may now be the best option left open to Downing Street — if Johnson is to fulfil his promise of leaving the world's largest trading bloc by Oct. 31.
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It is extremely rare for sitting prime ministers to visit reserves, and the trip, organized with the local chief and council of Shoal Lake 40 in coordination with VICE and the office of the prime minister, will be part of an upcoming VICELAND documentary on the issues plaguing indigenous communities.
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An infuriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to order his ministers to attend the airport welcome ceremony, the Hebrew daily newspaper Haaretz reported, after he learned that most of them were planning to skip it because there was no time scheduled for Mr. Trump to shake their hands on the tarmac.
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LONDON — Acknowledging bitter divisions within his Conservative Party and his cabinet over Britain's role in Europe, Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament on Tuesday that he would allow government ministers to campaign for or against remaining in the European Union in a referendum that could take place as early as this summer.
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"We have to act resolutely to change the face of the Sahel region or risk seeing this region of the world fall irreversibly into chaos and violence," he told the conference, after asking leaders and ministers to stand for a moment of silence for two French soldiers killed this week in Mali.
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The family lives in Christ — if my visit overlaps with a Sunday, I join the congregation Pete ministers to in the church on the family property, an old-school Virginia holding of corn, cotton and soybeans, with lots reserved for the family farm, a small publishing house and a bed-and-breakfast.
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But he can't be sacked because he is a leading Brexiteer—one of the first cabinet ministers to tell David Cameron that he was going to campaign for Brexit—and so is effectively protected by the 100-strong phalanx of pro-Brexit MPs (a phalanx that, incidentally, includes another serial bungler, Iain Duncan-Smith).
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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Tuesday said the risk of a so-called hard Brexit was "not yet off the table" and France's prime minister has asked his ministers to prepare contingency measures in case Britain crashes out of the EU. The pound sank to 90.98 pence against the euro, its lowest since Sept.
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BRUSSELS, March 26 (Reuters) - HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EU-DEAL European Union leaders agreed after six hours of wrangling on Thursday to task the euro zone finance ministers to work out in two weeks details of a special credit line within the single-currency zone's bailout fund to support economies hit by coronavirus, diplomatic sources said.
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Katz said recent public visits by Israeli ministers to the Gulf "are part of a wider trend of strengthening ties between Israel and the Gulf countries based on common interests and a mutual recognition of the potential benefits for both sides, both in terms of contending with common challenges and threats as well as opportunities".
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And recent efforts by traveling British ministers to try to pull individual member states away from Barnier's common negotiating stance, as well as perceptions that May herself was trying to bypass the EU's point man and parley directly with her peers in Salzburg, also backfired, prompting the 27 others to rally even more closely together and behind Barnier.
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Britons at large have remained deeply split since the narrow June 2016 vote to leave the EU. By a vote of 348 to 225, the Lords supported an amendment to her Brexit blueprint, the EU withdrawal bill, requiring ministers to report what efforts they had made to secure a customs union by the end of October.
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"We are going to have a ministerial meeting of IEF in Algeria next month, and there is an opportunity for OPEC and major exporting non-OPEC ministers to meet and discuss the market situation, including any possible action that may be required to stabilize the market," Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said in a statement.
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READ: Turkey's currency is tanking — and Trump just made it much, much worse Turkey accuses Brunson, who ministers to a small Presbyterian congregation in the Turkish city of Izmir and has lived in Turkey for 23 years, of having links to Fethullah Gülen — a U.S.-based Turkish cleric whose network Ankara says was behind the failed coup.
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"We are going to have a ministerial meeting of IEF (International Energy Forum) in Algeria next month, and there is an opportunity for OPEC and major exporting non-OPEC ministers to meet and discuss the market situation, including any possible action that may be required to stabilize the market," Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih had said.
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Both the 1974 report and the new one trace the origins of impeachment from monarchical England, where it was developed to hold the king's ministers to account, to colonial America, where the framers of the Constitution believed it was a necessary remedy to ensure that the leaders of the new republic did not corrupt it for their personal benefit.
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REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes RSVP, regrets only: Tillerson bails on NATO meetingThe secretary of state plans to skip what would have been his first meeting with NATO foreign ministers to stay home for a visit by China's president Xi Jinping, and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving Moscow priority over them.
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Because there are so many prime ministers to get through, those who do appear spend only a short time onstage, but after the play opened, in 2013, Morgan found he couldn't stop thinking about the unlikely relationship between Elizabeth and Churchill, a sheltered young woman and a worldly old man who were drawn together, it seems, by feelings of reciprocal awe.
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Meanwhile two ministers said on Sunday that Johnson would not seek a delay at the EU summit next month - but notably declined to spell out how he would nevertheless obey the new law if no deal is agreed with the EU. Foreign minister Dominic Raab said the government would "test to the limit" what the law would require ministers to do.
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Twelve years after Miranda's death and Felix's dismissal from the festival, Estelle — the personification of the "auspicious star" that delivers Prospero's enemies to the island — asks him to lunch to deliver some news: The literacy program is on the fiscal chopping block, but she's pulled some strings and arranged for two cabinet ministers to visit and watch a performance, mostly for the photo op.
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It was a telling bit of tit-for-tat in the feud between the prime minister and Britain's public broadcaster — one that has run the gamut from petty snubs, like the boycott of a popular BBC radio show by Mr. Johnson's ministers, to real economic threats, like a proposal to stop prosecuting people for failing to pay the compulsory license fee that funds the BBC's operations.
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