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According to Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, Khashoggi was strangled almost immediately after he entered the consulate, and his body was dismembered.
So, too, did a number of corporate executives, including the chief executives of JP Morgan and BlackRock.
With the recent deal, Michel Barnier, the bloc’s chief negotiator, scored a tactical victory.
Iran’s current president, Hassan Rouhani, was his country’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005.
In 2003, Rosneft became an oil giant by grabbing most of Yukos, after that oil firm’s head and chief shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arbitrarily prosecuted and imprisoned for embezzlement and tax evasion.
Through its control of natural gas pipelines, Gazprom is by far Russia’s chief tool for maintaining influence in the former Soviet former republics of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, and even in the Baltic states (now EU members).
(Trump’s chief of staff responded with a veiled threat, warning the director to “be careful.”)
Indeed, her father was murdered by his own intelligence chief, KCIA Director Kim Jaegyu.
The Poverty Line’s Battle LinesWASHINGTON, DC – For a long time, as a college professor and then as the chief economic adviser to the Indian government, I was a happy user of the World Bank’s data on global poverty, tracking trends and analyzing cross-country patterns.
Was it a Freudian slip, campaign fatigue, or a deliberate attempt to reassure old FN troopers that the chief had not gone astray?
Accountability entails a proper legal basis, clear objectives, well defined relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, clear procedures for appointment and dismissal of chief executives, override mechanisms, budgetary accountability rules, and rules supporting transparency.
This explains why US President Barack Obama and his chief negotiator, Secretary of State John Kerry, were dead-set on reaching an agreement with Iran.
With the election of Trump, who has named a white supremacist as his chief adviser and strategist, America could cross into Orwell territory.
Mohamed Atta, the chief hijacker on 9/11, left instructions for his burial, demanding that no woman approach his body and that the men washing him touch his genitals only with gloves.
It turns out that Trump’s decision was taken against the advice – indeed, over the objections – of not just his chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, but also his national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, his treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and his defense secretary, James Mattis.
The chief ideologue of ethnic nationalism in the Trumpian Age, Steve Bannon, is a reactionary Catholic.
Capitalizing on Africa’s Youth DividendTORONTO – When South African university students took to the streets in 2016 as part of the “Fees Must Fall” protest movement, the “decolonization of the curriculum” was among the movement’s chief concerns.
This happens when a “very greedy chief executive…designs a pyramid so that a whole bunch of other people down the line get overpaid… just so it doesn’t look like he’s all by himself, in terms of that fantastic pay-off he’s arranged for himself.”
A commission headed by Sir John Vickers, the Oxford economist and former Bank of England chief economist, wants banks’ retail operations to be “ring-fenced” from riskier trading and investment banking businesses.
As Shang-Jin Wei, the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank points out, progress on these reforms – not what happens in the stock market – is what will determine the fate of China’s economy.
Two days after making that gloomy assessment, the French chief of the defense staff, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, followed suit.
There will be significant repercussions for the rest of the world if America moves to unravel today’s system of open, rules-based global trade – a system of which the US has been the chief architect.
The ECB’s founding chief economist, Otmar Issing, has referred to this as a road to serfdom.
The Taika reforms of 604 AD created a constitutional monarchy in all but name, with political power wielded by shoguns, prime ministers, or chief advisors backed by military power.
PRINCETON – James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief campaign strategist in 1992, famously expressed a bit of established insider wisdom about winning elections: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
The low-key Shanghai party boss is acceptable to Hu partly because the elder Xi was a comrade-in-arms of late liberal party chief Hu Yaobang, Hu’s former mentor.
As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (who was also the chief US prosecutor at Nuremburg) put it, the constitution is not “a suicide pact” – a sentiment echoed by the Israeli jurist Aharon Barak, who emphasized that “civil rights are not an altar for national destruction.”
They gathered momentum after a summer of labor strikes, when Poland’s communist chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, concluded that the country’s economic troubles were too grim to face alone.
Distinguishing between causal and remedial responsibility is crucial, and the UNFCCC’s chief document recognizes common but differentiated responsibilities, as well as respective capabilities.
The chief Jesuit confessor at the papal court used to be called “the black pope,” owing to his simple black cassock (if not his sinister intent).
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