He was a senior figure in a sovereign government's military.
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The most senior figure arrested is former PetroVietnam Chairman Dinh La Thang.
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But his son is now a senior figure in the White House.
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"People are on edge," said a senior figure in a major Russian company.
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Alpha said farewell to another senior figure in August when Huston Malande left.
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Prince Miteb is the first senior figure known to be released among those detained.
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Win Htein, another senior figure in the NLD, was also critical of the journalists' detention.
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He is the fourth—and most senior—figure from the Trump campaign to be charged.
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Polshikov served as a senior figure in the Latin American department of the Foreign Ministry.
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Jang was the one senior figure in Pyongyang with whom the Chinese had close ties.
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Singaporeans are agog at the unprecedented rebuke of the prime minister from such a senior figure.
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Mr Nizami is the fourth senior figure in his party, Jamaat-e-Islami, to be executed.
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The Taliban's political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will be the most senior figure attending the talks.
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Pell is the most senior figure in the Catholic Church to face criminal charges for alleged assault.
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"It was well briefed, he knows Germany very well" says one senior figure of his speech in January.
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This is the first public announcement that it had killed a specific senior figure from the militant group.
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The trial is the first time such a senior figure in the Holy See has faced criminal charges.
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The most senior figure arrested is former PetroVietnam Chairman Dinh La Thang, among those whose trial started on Monday.
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Speranza is a senior figure in the leftist LEU party, meaning the party will become part of the coalition.
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"If it is not Lindner, then there are not a lot of options," said one senior figure in the party.
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This is the first public announcement from Russia that it had killed a specific senior figure in the terrorist group.
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A United Nations sanctions list describes Chatayev as a senior figure in Islamic State responsible for training Russian-speaking militants.
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Ouattara named Amadou Gon Coulibaly, a close adviser and senior figure in his RDR party, as prime minister on Tuesday.
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"We see Kurz as a model for conservatives in Germany," a senior figure in Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) told Reuters.
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"No senior figure with credible designs on power would again so explicitly blame blacks and Asians for England's failings," he writes.
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As the most senior figure in the judiciary, he understandably felt a need to speak on behalf of our federal judiciary.
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Mr. Tokayev studied in Moscow and served in the Soviet foreign ministry but was never a senior figure in the party.
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Golding was a former senior figure in the far-right British National Party and was elected a local councillor in 2009.
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Koduri was a very senior figure at AMD, and he's evidently taken on a similarly influential role in steering Intel's future direction.
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Khan went to see Harman, who had also been a civil-rights lawyer and was now a senior figure in the Party.
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"Leaders say they want peace but we don't see this on the ground," said Agnes Wasuk, a senior figure in the council.
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Jason Wilkinson Brown, a senior figure in the business banking division, also left that month to join TSB, per the Financial Times.
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Arkebe Oqubay, a founding member of the EPRDF, senior figure within the TPLF and government minister, appears to be in their ranks.
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Al-Sabah quit soccer rather than submit to an ethics check, though he remains a senior figure in the International Olympic Committee.
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Mr. Lee said that he committed no crime but that as a senior figure at Samsung, he felt "responsibility" for the scandal.
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Fulan Nasrullah, a security analyst, said al-Barnawi had been a senior figure within Boko Haram who was previously the group's military commander.
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" Abe Wallach, a former senior figure at the Trump Organization, was quoted in a 2017 Bloomberg article saying: "Donald doesn't do due diligence.
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A former senior figure in the rival Islamist group al Qaeda in Iraq, he is also known as Mohamed Said Abdelrahman al-Mawla.
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It's not clear if she was asking if she was a psychiatrist or neurologist, or if she was a senior figure in her job.
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FEW NIGERIANS will have mourned the death of Mamman Nur, a senior figure in Boko Haram, one of the world's most brutal terrorist groups.
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"We have found an agreement," Riccardo Molinari, a senior figure in the far-right League party, said after a meeting of key government figures.
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One of the suspects charged in the shooting of Nemtsov last year was a former senior figure in Chechen security forces run by Kadyrov.
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So I needed some kind of reassuring senior figure to be behind the project, and I could ask him questions any time I wanted.
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The plan envisages blocking several of Pakistan's highways and eventually a countrywide lockdown, Akram Durrani, a senior figure in JUI-F, previously told reporters.
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One son, Mahmoud, is a senior figure in the General Intelligence Service and has been an interlocutor in meetings with American officials in Washington.
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Before he was killed in a drone strike in September 2011, al-Awlaki had become a senior figure in al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen.
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Essebsi had also been a senior figure before 2011, having served as foreign minister under state founder Habib Bourguiba and parliamentary speaker under Ben Ali.
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The 88-year-old Filaret was a senior figure in the Russian Orthodox church before he defied his Muscovite masters and broke away in 1992.
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The bullion producer's plans drew scathing comments from Mantashe, a blunt-speaking former trade unionist and senior figure in the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
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Pell, who says he's innocent and has pleaded not guilty, is the most senior figure in the Catholic Church to face criminal sex abuse charges.
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In 2014, Pope Francis named him prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, effectively making him the Vatican's treasurer and its third most senior figure.
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" Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia has called Mr. Abe "the senior figure" in the region and said he "leaned on" Mr. Abe's "real wisdom.
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A hard-line religious scholar from the Taliban's southern base of support in Kandahar, he was long a senior figure within the group's Islamic courts.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Julia Kloeckner, a senior figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party, on Wednesday took over as agriculture minister in Germany's new government coalition.
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Win Htein, another senior figure in the NLD, who was also critical of the journalists' detention, suggested they had probably been set up by the police.
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All eyes are directed toward the map except for those of the central, and most senior, figure, whose head is raised to meet the viewer's intrusive gaze.
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A lawyer and businessman, Medvedchuk is a senior figure in the Opposition Platform – For Life party and is under investigation for treason over his views on Donbass.
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A senior figure in the food & drink industry told Business Insider that one major retailer saw demand for one line of goods increase by 1,000% last week.
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The home secretary in Britain is responsible for immigration, citizenship, policing and all matters of national security, making him or her an extremely senior figure in government.
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The term "Chung-Chart" was first popularized by Warong Dechgitvigrom, a senior figure in the Democrat Party, the old establishment party which floundered in the March election.
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Though his name surfaced repeatedly among counterterrorism analysts as a possible senior figure involved in the Paris attacks, there has been no concrete confirmation of such involvement.
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The Russian announcement appeared to be a direct challenge to the Pentagon, which claimed a day earlier that one of its drone strikes had killed the senior figure.
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That leaves Andras Fekete-Gyor, the leader of Momentum, a new centrist party; and Antal Csardi, a senior figure within Politics Can Be Different, another young centrist party.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog has arrested a former senior figure at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange operator for suspected misconduct linked to two listings.
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It is a mark of his character, the senior figure says, that Mr. Nauphal persisted, even when LDI struggled to gain traction with investors and fellow fund houses.
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However, a senior figure from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was quoted on Saturday by Mauritania's Alakhbar news agency as saying that Belmokhtar had no Tunisian wife.
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The Russian announcement appeared to be a direct challenge to an American claim made a day earlier that one of its drone strikes had killed the same senior figure.
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Beijing (CNN)Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday appointed a senior figure from her pro-independence ruling party as the island's new Premier amid growing tensions with China.
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Cohn has been advocating for Shahira Knight — a senior figure on the NEC who is well-regarded on the Hill and played a crucial role in passing tax reform.
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PARIS – An Iraqi asylum-seeker is in French custody on preliminary charges of war crimes and terrorism amid reports that he was a senior figure in the Islamic State group.
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Because Mr Poroshenko's government played a role in the ousting of Paul Manafort, at one time a senior figure in Mr Trump's campaign, it might be welcome in Washington, too.
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When I texted a senior figure at a powerful conservative outside group to ask him about Stepien, he called back and admitted he needed to Google his name before responding.
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HONG KONG, June 26 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog has arrested a former senior figure at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange operator for suspected misconduct linked to two listings.
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Juncker's claim that the agreement meant "there is no need for prolongation" prompted suggestions in London that the EU's most senior figure had ruled out any fresh delay to Brexit.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Monday appointed a former senior figure in the country's army as deputy supreme commander of the armed forces, state media reported.
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Roberto Fico, a senior figure in the governing 5Star movement, was asked whether he was concerned about markets, whose reaction has been to increase the cost of borrowing for Italy.
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Mr. Kalbitz, the head of the party in the state of Brandenburg and another senior figure in The Wing, has previously acknowledged having belonged to groups close to neo-Nazis.
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Iraqi leaders had no immediate reaction, although Karim al-Nuri, a senior figure in the Badr Organization, an influential Iraqi Shiite militia, said there may not be much direct effect.
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A senior figure who would command the respect not only of those involved but also the leaders of Afghanistan's meddlesome neighbors — who will need to be consulted — would be ideal.
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Fredericks, one of the most senior figure at the IAAF and IOC, said he had done nothing wrong in receiving the money from Diack, the son of former IAAF president Lamine.
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"There is no consensus on what to do," said a senior figure in business circles who was in St Petersburg last week to hear Putin address investors at an annual forum.
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The uncompromising stance of Iran's most senior figure poses a challenge to President Hassan Rouhani, the architect of last year's nuclear deal who hopes to open Iran's economy to the world.
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In 2015, the prime minister's eldest son, Hun Manet, a senior figure in Cambodia's military, was placed in charge of a new effort to drum up support in countries including Australia.
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He was the most senior figure vying to succeed May to reject a threat to leave with no deal by the end of October, saying lawmakers would block any such move.
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And Ukrainian disclosures that Paul Manafort, a senior figure in the Trump campaign, had received a large payment from Mr Yanukovych were among the reasons Mr Trump was forced to fire him.
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The witness, Gordon Sondland, had previously said he had no knowledge of such a quid pro quo, making his new testimony a powerful admission by a senior figure in the Trump administration.
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In emails that were displayed in court, for instance, the speaker beseeched William Brooke, then a senior figure in the Business Council of Alabama, an interest group, to help him find work.
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The witness, Gordon Sondland, had previously said he had no knowledge of such a quid pro quo, making his new testimony a powerful admission by a senior figure in the Trump administration.
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And she looks back at Elizabeth Bishop, already a senior figure in Rich's poetic youth, a closeted lesbian who represented a tradition — "diffuse, elusive, often cryptic" — that Rich was working to escape.
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Analysts said they believed Mr. Bolton urged the prince, a respected senior figure in the region, to use his influence with Prince Mohammed to bring the war in Yemen to a close.
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After his ouster in 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood won a plurality in Egypt's first free parliamentary election and a senior figure in the group, Mohamed Morsi, won Egypt's first free presidential election.
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" Monika Grütters, the German government's most senior figure for culture, said in a statement that the German and international museum worlds had lost "one of their most striking and most controversial personalities.
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During the night Ajit Pawar, who is Mr Pawar's nephew and also a senior figure in the NCP, had defected to the BJP, claiming to bring most of its deputies with him.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Uber's European policy chief Christopher Burghardt is quitting to join the electric vehicle charging network company Chargepoint, the companies said on Tuesday, becoming latest senior figure to leave the taxi app.
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Fears that followers of former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra could be blamed prompted a senior figure in their Puea Thai Party to issue a sharp denial on Saturday.
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He became the most senior figure to be detained since mass protests broke out earlier this year demanding the removal of the ruling elite and the prosecution of people demonstrators see as corrupt.
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The fall in the currency, as well as in government bond prices, was triggered by London Mayor Boris Johnson - a senior figure in Cameron's Conservative Party - throwing his support behind the exit campaign.
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"This (the jobs cuts) is disconcerting considering the high unemployment rate in the country," said Mantashe, a senior figure in the ruling African National Congress who once headed the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Hunt, a senior figure in the government who is viewed as a potential future prime minister, dismissed "siren voices" who say Brexit negotiations are not going well and said people should ignore them.
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That may be Angela Eagle, a senior figure of the softer left and the daughter of a printworker, or a more centrist figure like Tom Watson, who was elected deputy leader last year.
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Melbourne, Australia (CNN)Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell will stand trial on multiple counts of historical sexual abuse, the most senior figure in the Catholic Church to face criminal charges for alleged assault.
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A senior figure in the anti-Brexit movement said there was particular concern about four constituencies in particular: Exeter, Portsmouth South, and Stroud in the south of England, and Cardiff Central in Wales.
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Although current Chief Executive Gonzalo Gortazar is the most senior figure at Caixabank, Faine will continue to serve as chairman of La Caixa foundation, which controls Caixabank through an intermediary holding firm, Criteria.
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A senior figure in the campaign for a new referendum said that Johnson was "concentrating the hearts and minds" of MPs who previously had not backed the campaign for a second Brexit referendum.
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A German man who joined IS in Syria and was trained to carry out attacks in Europe recounted that Adnani was the senior figure in the terrorist group's intelligence and special forces operations.
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Richard Shelby — a senior figure in the state's politics and a respected Republican — said in a televised appearance that his state could "do better" than electing the former chief justice of Alabama's supreme court.
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While the group has refrained from publicly endorsing efforts to legalize hashish, its most prominent political ally, House Speaker Nabih Berri, backed the move last month, becoming the most senior figure to do so.
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The Vatican treasurer is the most senior figure in the Holy See to ever face criminal charges, and the past three weeks of evidence has revealed details of multiple allegations of historical sexual abuse.
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Relations between Ankara and Cairo have been strained since the Egyptian military, then led by Sisi, ousted President Mohamed Mursi, a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
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A deal struck among Italy's main political parties over a new electoral law has unraveled, a senior figure from the ruling Democratic Party said after his group lost a parliamentary vote on a proposed amendment.
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Last year, Alejandro Gutierrez, a senior figure in Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was arrested in connection with alleged diversion of millions of dollars in public funds by the PRI during 2016 state elections.
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Jesus Ortega, a former campaign manager for Lopez Obrador and senior figure in the center-left opposition Party of Democratic Revolution, said the Pemex move appeared motivated by the president's need to satisfy his base.
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VW is also still looking for a senior figure to help it deal with U.S. authorities after an aborted attempt to hire ex-FBI chief Louis Freeh for that role, one of the sources said.
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By the time I graduated in 1972, he was living underground, a senior figure in the Provisional I.R.A. When I met him in 1994, Martin McGuinness was decisively stepping away from those decades of violence.
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ROME (Reuters) - A senior figure in Italy's ruling 5-Star Movement was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of corruption, dealing an embarrassing blow to group that has always tried to project a squeaky clean image.
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In the group was Pervez Khattak, a senior figure within Mr. Khan's party and the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhthunkwa Province, who said he would force the issue by continuing to try reaching the capital.
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Although there is no public record of a relationship between him and the royal court, such a senior figure in the Saudi medical establishment was unlikely to join a rogue expedition organized by an underling.
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"The bullets that were fired yesterday were Rapid Support Forces bullets and we hold the military council responsible for what happened yesterday," Khalid Omar Youssef, a senior figure in the DFCF, told a news conference.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior figure in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has proposed setting up "border centres" along the frontier with Austria to speed up the repatriation of those asylum seekers deemed unqualified to stay.
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Meanwhile another senior figure in PH, Lim Guan Eng, the chief minister of the state of Penang, conveniently faces two sets of corruption charges (he is accused of buying a house at an artificially low price).
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Last week, Mr. Ghani fired one of his campaign allies, Ahmad Zia Massoud, his "special representative for good governance and reform" who had been the most senior figure from the Tajik ethnic faction in his campaign.
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DUBLIN — The police are investigating the gangland-style killing of a former senior figure in an Irish Republican Army splinter group who was ambushed from behind by two masked gunmen in the southwest city of Cork.
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But private American cybersecurity investigators say the F.S.B., where Mr. Mikhailov was the second-most senior figure in the Center for Information Security, operated a group nicknamed Cozy Bear that stole data but never released it.
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LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Uber's European policy chief Christopher Burghardt has quit to join the electric vehicle charging network company Chargepoint, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, the latest senior figure to depart from the taxi app.
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China's "steel dumping" has antagonized Europe and the U.S., but a senior figure at one giant mining company preferred to encourage the country's still-high demand for metals and alloys rather than blame it for low prices.
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However, in a Daily Telegraph article he became the most senior figure vying to succeed May to reject a threat to leave with no deal by the end of October, saying lawmakers would block any such move.
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A star-studded guest list included actor Michael Caine, Irish rockstar Bob Geldof, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and British Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a senior figure among those who want the UK to leave the European Union.
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"The bullets that were fired yesterday were Rapid Support Forces bullets and we hold the military council responsible for what happened yesterday," Khalid Omar Youssef, a senior figure in the DFCF, told a news conference on Tuesday.
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Externally, GSK might try to snare a senior figure from a rival drugmaker, such as Novartis' respected pharma head David Epstein, or else look beyond the drugs sector to an executive with broader experience in consumer products.
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"This move will slaughter pluralism, competence, respect for the rules and respect for professionalism within (RAI)," said Michele Anzaldi, a senior figure in the center-left Democratic Party and a member of RAI's oversight committee in parliament.
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Hundreds of others, including fellow actors, took turns to demonstrate outside the presidential administration and, as time wore on, others, including a senior figure in the ruling pro-Putin United Russia party, spoke out in his favor.
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"As a senior figure in Trump's administration," rather than just a member of his campaign up to a point, "Flynn may be in a position to know high-level details regarding alleged collusion with Russia," Whiting told me.
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The most senior figure detained, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, more than 70 years old, had once been recorded in London making comments distancing himself from the crown prince's policies but had since appeared submissive, at least in public.
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MADRID (Reuters) - A senior figure in Spain's center-right Ciudadanos quit the party on Monday over regional deals it has struck with the far right, underscoring tensions across an increasingly fragmented political scene following national and local elections.
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Aside from a failed attack on the South Sulawesi governor in 2011, it was the first time in recent history that militants had been this close to an assassination of such a senior figure in Indonesia, she said.
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Indeed, he may be the most sensible senior figure in the Trump national security apparatus -- and if the United States faces a terrorist attack on its soil during Trump's tenure, that may be more vital than we currently realize.
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"Remaining independent is worth much more than the price we would have to pay for a few managers from big companies who are mostly foreigners and can hardly speak German," said Christoph Blocher, a senior figure in the SVP.
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A beleaguered graduate student, desperate to become a professor — an advancement that depends on his ability to come up with a large bribe for a senior figure in his field — is tormented by the barking of a neighbor's dog.
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Governor Javier Corral's national profile exploded in late December when his prosecutors arrested a senior figure in President Enrique Pena Nieto's party for his role in an alleged scheme to siphon $13 million of state funds for electoral campaigns.
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"You claimed to be populist, but horrible crimes have been committed in this country in the name of populism, racial laws approved and genocide committed in Europe," said Graziano Delrio, a senior figure in the center-left Democratic Party.
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Bishop Epiphanius was viewed as a senior figure in a reformist Coptic movement that has been gaining momentum inside the church under Pope Tawadros, said Samuel Tadros, an expert on the Coptic Church at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
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In the build-up to the meeting, much has been made of a potential threat to Abbas's authority from Mohammed Dahlan, a former senior figure in Fatah who now lives in self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates.
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" Alexander Dobrindt, a senior figure in the Christian Social Union (CSU) - the Bavarian sister party of Merkel's CDU - told the same newspaper that Germany's Christian heritage was non-negotiable, adding: "We won't consider introducing Muslim public holidays in Germany.
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Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior figure in the League said his party faithful would battle to prevent "our tax money" being spent on "welfare giveaways" for the southern poor and predicted rocky ties with 5-Star lawmakers in parliament.
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Osborne, who was senior figure in the failed campaign to keep Britain in the EU, has spent years trying to expand London's role as a global hub for trade in China's renminbi and India's rupee, as well as Islamic finance.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A senior figure in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday a shooting attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran that killed 24 people was a continuation of the activities of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - A senior figure at the world's biggest asset manager said on Monday that Britain going it alone outside the European Union would be devastating for the City of London as a global financial centre and endanger jobs.
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A graduate of Moscow State University and a close adviser to Kim Jong Il, Jon worked for more than four decades as a senior figure in the production and development of North Korean arms before retiring from public life in 2011.
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Nearly every other senior figure in the governing Conservative Party was either sidelined or put in political peril by the vote on Europe, leaving a leadership vacuum that she is now filling with support from across the party's fractious elements.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A senior figure in Uruguay's longtime ruling party said on Monday it had failed to drive home its achievements with voters, as it appeared increasingly likely it would lose power in a second-round vote next month.
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Chiwenga was also a senior figure in the western region of Matabeleland in 1983 during the so-called Gukurahundi massacres, in which the army's North Korean-trained 5 Brigade cracked down on supporters of Mugabe's liberation war era rival, Joshua Nkomo.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia dismissed a senior figure in its fast-changing entertainment sector on Monday, state-owned TV said, removing an official responsible for bringing shows, festivals and concerts to the conservative kingdom under sweeping economic and social reforms.
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However, in an article in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday he became the most senior figure vying to replace May to reject a threat to leave with no deal by the end of October, saying lawmakers would block any such move.
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When he was initially charged in June last year, Pell said he hoped to clear his name in Australia and return to his post in Rome, where he is a trusted senior figure in the Holy See, alongside Pope Francis.
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A senior figure in Iran's government, who sits just a few seats away from President Hassan Rouhani at cabinet meetings, has fallen ill with coronavirus, making her Iran's seventh official to test positive, including one prominent cleric who has died.
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But in an unprecedented move the State Department froze nearly $100m in military and economic aid to Egypt, citing human-rights concerns, a move that a senior figure in the Obama administration applauds and calls "a significant piece of pain to impose".
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior figure in South Korea's conservative ruling party said on Monday his country should have nuclear weapons, as concern over how to respond to rising tensions with North Korea loomed as an election issue ahead of parliamentary polls in April.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau's anti-corruption agency has begun an investigation into a former senior figure in the public prosecutions office, an official and lawmakers said on Sunday, the most high-profile graft case in the world's largest gambling hub in a decade.
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Another person identified as a "senior figure" told The Guardian that umpires felt Ramos was "hung out to dry" after the incident and that "no one is standing up for officials" amid reports that the incident is fueling talks of a boycott.
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Howatson had previously been jailed in 2010 for convincing a couple in Spain to allow him to stay in their villa under the pretense he had the funds to buy it, and claiming he was a senior figure in the Metropolitan Police.
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The latest extraditee was Ramon Villarreal, aka "El Mon", a senior figure in the Beltran Leyva Cartel, who was flown out at the weekend to be tried in Texas for the murder of a lawyer of incarcerated former Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cardenas.
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For the first time since the referendum on Britain's exit, there is "an opportunity to have a much better relationship with the European Union," said Roland Rudd, a senior figure in the defeated "remain" campaign and founder of Finsbury, a communications company.
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Alexander Dobrindt, a senior figure in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) - the sister party to Merkel's CDU - told regional newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine that Kemmerich's election was "a grave mistake" and that the logical consequence would be to hold a new election in Thuringia.
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"The Spanish banks aren't processing the transfers when we bring them the invoices, but ICBC processes them whenever we do business with them," Zhou Jianjun, the senior figure in one network monitored by police, told an associate in a call on April 22, 2012.
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Fears that followers of former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, including an opposition movement sympathetic to the Shinawatras known as the "red shirts", could be blamed prompted a senior figure in their Puea Thai Party to issue a sharp denial.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The date Britain leaves the EU could be pushed back by a couple of weeks to give time for legislation to be approved by lawmakers, the leader of Britain's lower house of parliament said, the most senior figure to make such a suggestion.
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Fears that followers of former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, including an opposition movement sympathetic to the Shinawatras known as the "red shirts", could be blamed prompted a senior figure in their Puea Thai Party to issue a sharp denial on Saturday.
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LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The date Britain leaves the EU could be pushed back by a couple of weeks to give time for legislation to be approved by lawmakers, the leader of Britain's lower house of parliament said, the most senior figure to make such a suggestion.
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"If thousands of judges and public prosecutors who obviously had nothing to do with the coup are getting removed, then this is an attack on the democratic state under the rule of law," said Oppermann, a senior figure in the SPD which shares power with Merkel's conservatives.
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The couple's 10 children from previous relationships attended the service, as did Rebekah Brooks, who returned to run Murdoch's British newspapers in September, Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp, and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a senior figure among those who want Britain to leave the European Union.
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Smirnov, a senior figure in Soviet and Russian sport as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from 1971 to 2015, told a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation meeting of delegates from governments and the Olympic world, that the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs was a global problem.
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Under a plea bargain arrangement, Sheela and Ma Anand Puja—another senior figure in the group—admitted their roles in a 1984 food poisoning attack that affected more than 750 people, which was intended to influence a local election and remains the largest biological terror attack in US history.
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Moshe Ya'alon, who once served in Netanyahu's Likud party and is now a senior figure in the opposition Blue and White party, wondered on Twitter whether every Israeli operation would have to be approved by Washington and if Israeli soldiers would have to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The big picture: Gordon Sondland's additions to his House testimony are the "first admission by a senior figure who had direct contact with Mr. Trump that the military aid for Ukraine was being held hostage to the president's demands for investigations into his political rivals," the NY Times reports.
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EeGeo's co-founders — CEO Ian Hetherington and Rian Liebenberg — respectively came from Sony (Hetherington's previous startup, Psygnosis, was acquired by Sony and was central to the development of the PlayStation and its gaming efforts) and Google (Liebenberg was a senior figure in Google's engineering team, creating Hangouts and much more).
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Luz del Alba Rubio told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the former Washington National Opera director kissed her without her consent at his apartment after luring her there under the guise of reviewing one of her singing performances, an invitation she accepted due to Domingo's status as a senior figure in the opera world.
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In a lecture last month, a senior figure in the world of Orthodox Christian theology, Father John Behr, said that Christianity's situation in the West was now quite similar to what it was in 2nd century Rome: lacking any state authority to shore it up or enforce uniformity; facing persecution in certain places; and culturally and liturgically diverse.
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LONDON — New pledges made by Prime Minister Theresa May to target the UK's boardrooms with stricter rules on things like corporate pay and mergers have not gone down well with the country's business leaders, with one senior figure accusing the prime minister of "giving little sign of listening to what companies need," according to the Financial Times.
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"The automakers are not going to help and may be part of the opposition," wrote Myron Ebell, a senior figure at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank in Washington that disputes that climate change is a problem, in a May 2018 email sent to supporters and an official at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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When you read news analyses claiming that Trump's deal with Democrats to keep the government running for a few months has somehow made him a moderate independent, remember that it's not just Pruitt: Almost every senior figure in the Trump administration dealing with the environment or energy is both an establishment Republican and a denier of climate change and of scientific evidence in general.
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Last year, the Holy See's ambassador to the UN in Geneva said it was necessary to use force to protect the religious minorities of Iraq from IS. Another senior figure in the Vatican, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, has begun the process of rethinking Catholic attitudes to war in an age overshadowed by global terror, by "non-state actors" wielding lethal force and by grey areas between peace and war.
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