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… prison sentence. Such decisions about walk-ins are not made without due consideration, often at the highest level of a government, because exfiltrating a defector can result in diplomatic ruptures and political embarrassments. Conversely, it raises espionage concerns when an ad...

…as microscopic, any risk of civilians being subjected to terror, panic and very possibly agonizing death meant that the government had to take precautions. The obvious first step would be to distribute gas masks. But in a series of meetings with Misha and Dan, I emphasized this w...

…slamist extremism and violence that -- barring a dramatic improvement in relations between the Bedouins and the central government in Cairo -- threatens Egypt and the region at large. Sinai's lawlessness recently sparked an international incident: On Aug. 18, gunmen carried out a...

…n account of Mr. Cheney’s experiences during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he essentially commanded the government’s response from a bunker beneath the White House while Mr. Bush — who was away from Washington and hampered by communications breakdowns — played a p...

…made some significant missteps. Most important, the country was ill-prepared for plunging oil prices that have battered government revenues and growth. China has had three decades of supercharged growth and competent government policy. But in the past few years, Beijing went on...

… +44 20 7996 5515 [email protected] See Team Page for Full List of Contributors A Transforming World Markets Government This report ties into the enterprise-wide Investment Themes recently introduced in A Transforming World. In particular, the Saudi National Transform...

…ily and South China Morning Post. For 30 years, Dr. Kuhn has worked with China’s state leaders and advised the Chinese government. He spoke at the launch ceremony of President Xi Jinping’s book, The Governance of China; he provided live commentary on CNN for Xi’s policy address...

…RGAN, Daily News Staff Writer BODY: A circuit judge will decide today whether the public will be privy to the federal government's non-prosecution deal with Jeffrey Epstein, which was sealed when the convicted sex offender pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two felony counts. Epst...

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…y charged massages and/or sex in exchange for money. The motion filed Monday says the agreement is illegal because the government did not protect the “Congressionally mandated rights of victims before it entered this agreement.” Alicia Valle, special counsel for the U.S. Attorn...

…st outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. Amid rumors that Egypt might recall its ambassador from Tel Aviv, the Egyptian government also brushed off a rare Israeli statement of regret as "not in keeping with the magnitude of the incident and the state of Egyptian anger." In Sinai...

…eaded guilty to both FCPA and wire fraud counts where the scheme included overbilling the sub- sidiary’s customers—both government and private—and using part of the overcharged money to pay kickbacks to the customers’ employees. The wire fraud charges alleged that the subsidiary...

…street protests of its own for more than two years. It managed to control them, and their calls for more representative government or outright regime change, with massive, often deadly, force. Yet even as the government spun the Arab protests as Iranian inspired, Iran's Green Rev...

14 divided to form a government, or might fall under the domination of the Muslim Brotherhood. Pro-democracy activists reject those claims. They tell me that they've been trying to establish formal contacts with both the US and EU to help the major democracies "acquire a more b...

… admit backing down Epstein's attorneys applied relentless pressure, they say tliTaild"`"" In recent court filings, the government was fore. to ans,Aer questions about its negotia- tions, fin.ly admitting in 2013 that federal prosecutors had back. down under relentless pressure b...