Olly Robbins: “At the point of his appointment it was not actually a given he would be vetted… there was not stipulation from No 10 that he should be vetted” The former top official at the Foreign Office, Sir Olly Robbins, says No 10 had a “dismissive approach” to Lord Mandelson’s vetting He was sacked after the PM discovered Robbins did not tell him that Mandelson had failed the vetting process to be the US ambassador – timeline of events Robbins tells the Foreign Affairs Select Committee there was an “atmosphere of pressure” and a “very strong expectation” from No...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: This year too, I met with the Rebbe’s emissary, Rabbi Or Ziv, who brought the tefillin with him. Each time for another warrior, another beloved son, another hero of Israel. Each year, a different story. A different heart. A world and more. “This year, I merited to lay the tefillin of our hero Sean Karmeli, z”l. “Sean, a lone soldier who came from the United States to defend the State of Israel, chose to tie his fate to our people’s fate. Out of deep faith, out of a mission. He fell in battle in Gaza—but his...

Pope Leo XIV heads Tuesday to Equatorial Guinea for the final leg of his four-nation African journey, arriving in a country that presents perhaps the most diplomatically delicate challenge of this trip and his young papacy. The former Spanish colony on Africa’s western coast is run by Africa’s longest-serving president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 83. He has been in power since 1979 and is accused of widespread corruption and authoritarianism. The discovery of offshore oil in the mid-1990s transformed Equatorial Guinea’s economy virtually overnight, with oil now accounting for almost half of its GDP and more than 90% of exports,...

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