The office of Downing Street Chief of Staff is the most senior political appointee in the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, acting as a senior aide to the prime minister, a powerful, non-ministerial position within Her Majesty’s Government. The role of chief of staff initially had executive authority, and at the […]
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Ongoing news reports in the international media have revealed operational details about the Anglophone cryptographic agencies’ global surveillance of both foreign and domestic nationals. The reports mostly emanate from a cache of top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which he obtained whilst working for Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest contractors
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The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States–led coalition which overthrew the Iraq government under Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 1,033,000 Iraqis died in the first three to five
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Heads of state Current heads of state at the time of the release Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of the Congo Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon Abdullah II, King of Jordan Uhuru Kenyatta, President
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Canada is a nation located in North America. Its 10 provinces and three territories stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, totaling 9.98 million square kilometers (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country in terms of total area. Its southern and western border with the United