Results for “Minister of Interior”

…ught to vivid life after Deng Xiaoping ascended to the Chinese leadership in 1976. Huang had been the country’s Foreign Minister and later a Vice Premier. He was always calm, with an easy and relaxed temperament. One of my favorite images of him was from the mid- 1970s when, whil...

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…d me when he phoned a couple of hours later, it was not the most astute thing to say as a potential candidate for Prime Minister. None of this might have mattered if I’d been able to show I was bringing Labor nearer to defeating Bibi. But the only measure of progress that the me...

…ess than half of the budget the Pentagon provides for military bands alone. In cash-strapped France, on the other hand, Minister of Culture and Communication Aurelie Filippetti was enraged when President Francois Hollande cut the 2013 budget of her department 4.3% to 7.363 billio...

…what was probably the best line in the debate, saying that if Israeli voters were choosing a male model and not a Prime Minister, Bibi might indeed be their man. Yet Bibi was much the more polished performer, and the more focused. No matter what question Margalit asked him, he al...

…nity to advance the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. For the first time, the Palestinians had a prime minister who was respected and admired by the Israelis, because he did not come from the same terrorist background as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Unlike hi...

…here seemed no immediate danger of Egypt’s risking another full-scale war. In Israel, where Golda Meir had become Prime Minister after Eshkol’s death from a heart attack, there was also little appetite for returning to the battlefield. Yet the post-war skirmishes with the Egyptia...

…Iraq.’ And | did.” As if he were merely following divine orders. In July 2003, during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Bush told the newly elected leader, “God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and | struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam,...

… declared, Israel’s government would not be in the hands of David Ben-Gurion or his Labor Zionist heirs. Our next prime minister would be Menachem Begin, who had inherited the mantle of Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism. He’d headed its youth wing, Betar, in eastern Europe, and le...

… Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor. That evening its Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim, the foreign minister of Qatar. Hamad lives across the street in a similarly furnished house—he and Epstein have the same decorator. (Epstein, in his relaxed and amused mann...

…it was a further 24 hours before we Started seriously to work out if there might be some way for us to free them. Prime Minister Rabin was clearly asking himself the same question, however, because on Tuesday afternoon, he called Motta in the Negev. It was now a full 53 hours aft...

…velling, speaking and analysing the world and Australia with undiminished intensity suggesting a man operating as prime minister-in-exile. His idea of leadership is more philosophical than ever, more distant from Bob Hawke or John Howard. His focus is the synthesis between beaut...

…Development Berhad, seeking to claim a portion of those assets. Last month, Malaysian authorities charged f ormer prime minister Najib Razak with embezzling billions in public money from the fund. Clark, the Broidy attorney, told The Journal that Rosenzweig’s firm had been hired...

…PRINGS LATER, the Iranian regime once again is faced with a crisis, this time of an external variety. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens war in between meals, the Pentagon plays war games and policy planners huddle in the White House: Is the Iranian regime ra...

…es and to remain neutral on minor issues. In 2004, China deployed intense pressure on Singapore when then deputy prime minister Lee Hsien Loong paid an unofficial visit to Taiwan. The Chinese were trying to get Singapore to cancel the visit. Singapore adheres to a “One China Pol...