Senin, 08 Juli 2019
Inquiry launched into 'inept Trump administration' leaked emails - BBC News - BBC News
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2019-07-08 12:59:38Z
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British trade minister to apologize to Ivanka Trump over leaked cables | TheHill - The Hill
Britain’s trade minister to the United States will reportedly apologize to President Trump
Donald John TrumpDemocratic senator: White House has 'used cruelty to children' as a tool of immigration policy Amash: 'High-level' Republicans privately thanked me for supporting Trump impeachment UN official: US can't ignore that climate change will force 120 million people into poverty MORE’s daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump
Ivana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpHere are the top paid White House staffers Trump Jr. blasts reports of Kushner feud: 'More fake news bulls---' Hillicon Valley: Facebook facility evacuated after sarin scare | Warren, Jayapal question FCC over industry influence | 2020 Dems take on election security | Border Patrol to investigate Facebook group with racist, sexist posts MORE after leaked memos revealed a British ambassador describing the administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
The memos, leaked over the weekend to a British newspaper, from Ambassador Kim Darroch showed that he made disparaging remarks about President Trump in a series of official diplomatic cables, dating back to 2017.
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Reuters reports that British trade minister Liam Fox said he will apologize on behalf of the British government in person to Ivanka Trump during his current visit to Washington.
“I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” Fox said on BBC radio.
He added that “malicious leaks” such as the one that exposed Darroch’s remarks “can actually lead to damage to that relationship, which can therefore affect our wider security interest.”
Darroch, in the leaked comments, was highly critical of what he called instability in the Trump administration.
"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one memo.
It is unclear if the leaked cables mentioned Ivanka Trump specifically.
A spokesperson for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office defended Darroch on Saturday in a statement.
“Their views are not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid. Just as the U.S. Ambassador here will send back his reading of Westminster politics and personalities,” the statement read.
The president on Sunday responded to the reports of Darroch’s remarks, telling reporters that “we are not big fans of that man and he has not served the U.K. well, so I can understand and I can say things about him but I won’t bother,” according to Reuters.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/451934-british-minister-to-apologize-to-ivanka-trump-for-leaked-diplomatic
2019-07-08 11:56:59Z
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New Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis takes over, Tsipras bows out - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - Conservative politician Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece’s new prime minister on Monday after storming to victory on a pledge to create jobs and lure investment to the economically stricken nation.
Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party won an outright majority with 158 seats in the 300-seat legislature. His pledges for more investments, well-paid jobs and fewer taxes won over Greeks worn out by years of EU-prescribed austerity and the euro zone’s highest unemployment.
“Today we get started on the hard work. I have absolute confidence in our abilities to rise to the occasion,” Mitsotakis said after he was sworn in at a ceremony officiated by Greek Orthodox clergy at the presidential palace in Athens.
He was later welcomed by outgoing premier Alexis Tsipras, a leftist who steered Greece out of bailouts, but was blamed for botching negotiations with international lenders and saddling the nation with more debt after he took over in 2015.
“Strong mandate for big changes,” conservative Kathimerini newspaper said on its front page.
Another conservative-leaning paper, Ta Nea, said Mitsotakis now had “absolute domination”, making him an “all-powerful prime minister” for the next four years.
On the Athens stock exchange the change of guard was greeted with profit-taking after a strong rally in previous days. The blue chip share index .ATF shed 1.7%, led by bank shares.
“It’s mostly a ‘buy the rumor, sell the news’ session. Stocks had a strong run, anticipating the election result. Short-term traders are now closing positions, locking in profits,” said investment adviser Theodore Mouratidis.
Leader of New Democracy conservative party and winner of Greek general election Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos during a swearing-in ceremony as prime minister at the Presidential Palace in Athens, Greece July 8, 2019. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
On the fixed-income side, government bond yields tumbled to new all-time lows. The yield on 10-year government paper fell by as much as 14 basis points to 2.014%.
“Greek sovereign debt is trading at yield levels consistent with an investment-grade rating,” said Markus Allenspach, head of fixed income research at Julius Baer in a note. “i.e. the market has priced in a lot of positive development from here.”
Greeks hope the new government can make the economy work better after the country emerged from the close surveillance of its international lenders last year. The economy is now growing at a moderate clip, expanding by 1.3 percent on an annual basis in the first quarter.
EAST MEDITERRANEAN TENSIONS
For Mitsotakis, however, the first test is likely to come from outside Greece, as tensions simmer between its close ally Cyprus and historic foe Turkey over offshore energy reserves.
Cyprus has discovered natural gas offshore in recent years, but its jurisdiction has been challenged by Turkey, which supports a breakaway state in the north of the island.
On Monday Cyprus condemned what it called an infringement of its sovereign rights by Turkey after Ankara sent a second drill ship to explore for oil and gas off the island.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was the first foreign leader to call to congratulate Mitsotakis on Sunday evening, aides to the Greek leader said. On Monday Turkey’s foreign ministry said it hoped bilateral relations could be further enhanced under Mitsotakis’s stewardship.
“To this end, we want to swiftly revitalize existing dialogue channels and start our contacts as soon as possible to address issues on our agenda,” foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said.
Last month, European Union leaders warned Turkey to end its gas drilling in waters around Cyprus or face action from the bloc. Cypriot foreign ministry officials last week said they would take legal action against any company encroaching on its maritime areas without license.
Additional reporting and writing by Michele Kambas; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Gareth Jones
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-election/new-greek-prime-minister-mitsotakis-takes-over-tsipras-bows-out-idUSKCN1U31AN
2019-07-08 11:26:00Z
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UK Trade Minister to apologize after leaked cables call Trump 'inept' and 'clumsy': report - Fox News
The U.K.’s Trade Minister on Monday said he will apologize to Ivanka Trump after leaked diplomatic cables showed Britain’s ambassador to the United States describing President Trump as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
Britain’s Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox is scheduled to meet with Ivanka Trump during his visit to Washington, Reuters reported.
FILE: Britain's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox arrives for a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London. (AP)
“I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” Fox told BBC radio.
Ambassador Kim Darroch described the Trump administration as “diplomatically clumsy and inept” and said he doubted it would become “substantially more normal,” in one of several memos published by the Mail on Sunday.
Trump condemned Darroch, asserting that he has “not served the U.K. well,” and saying: “We are not big fans of that man.”
Fox also cautioned that the leak of confidential memos could damage relations between the two countries.
“Malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic and can actually lead to a damage to that relationship which can therefore affect our wider security interest,” Fox said.
Fox News' Gregg Re contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uk-trade-minister-to-apologize-to-ivanka-trump-after-leaked-cables-call-president-trump-inept-and-clumsy-report
2019-07-08 08:37:41Z
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UK Trade Minister to apologize after leaked cables call Trump 'inept' and 'clumsy': report - Fox News
The U.K.’s Trade Minister on Monday said he will apologize to Ivanka Trump after leaked diplomatic cables showed Britain’s ambassador to the United States describing President Trump as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
Britain’s Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox is scheduled to meet with Ivanka Trump during his visit to Washington, Reuters reported.
FILE: Britain's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox arrives for a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London. (AP)
“I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” Fox told BBC radio.
Ambassador Kim Darroch described the Trump administration as “diplomatically clumsy and inept” and said he doubted it would become “substantially more normal,” in one of several memos published by the Mail on Sunday.
Trump condemned Darroch, asserting that he has “not served the U.K. well,” and saying: “We are not big fans of that man.”
Fox also cautioned that the leak of confidential memos could damage relations between the two countries.
“Malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic and can actually lead to a damage to that relationship which can therefore affect our wider security interest,” Fox said.
Fox News' Gregg Re contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uk-trade-minister-to-apologize-to-ivanka-trump-after-leaked-cables-call-president-trump-inept-and-clumsy-report
2019-07-08 08:21:10Z
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Mitsotakis vows to make Greece 'proud' after landslide win - Aljazeera.com
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has vowed that Greece will "proudly" enter a post-bailout era of "jobs, security and growth" after his centre-right New Democracy party won a landslide over leftist Syriza, which had been in power since 2015.
With almost all of the votes in Sunday's snap election counted, official results showed New Democracy gaining 39.85 compared with 31.53 for Syriza, led by outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
"A painful cycle has closed," Mitsotakis said in a televised address, adding that Greece would "proudly raise its head again" on his watch.
"I will not fail to honour your hopes," he said as early congratulation calls came from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and outgoing European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.
The election result gives New Democracy an outright majority with 158 seats in the 300-member Greek parliament. This marks a significant shift for the crisis-hit country that was run for almost a decade by fragile coalitions of ideologically divergent parties united by their stance either in favour or against Greece's bailout deals.
"I asked for a strong mandate to change Greece. You offered it generously," Mitsotakis said in his victory speech. "From today, a difficult but beautiful fight begins."
For his part, Tsipras said his party's loss was "anything but a strategic defeat" following an election showing that was much stronger than expected.
"I can assure the Greek people that from the benches of the opposition we will be present to protect the interests of people of toil and creativity," he said, after calling Mitsotakis to congratulate him on his victory.
The other parties that passed the three percent threshold to enter the Greek parliament were the centre-left Movement for Change (KINAL), at 8.10 percent (22 seats); the Greek Communist Party, at 5.3 percent (15 seats); newcomer Greek Solution, a far-right party, at 3.7 percent (10 seats); and MeRa 25, another recently formed party that is led by Yanis Varoufakis, a former Syriza finance minister, at 3.44 percent (nine seats).
The official handover of power will take place on Monday, when Mitsotakis, 51, will be sworn in as Greece's new prime minister.
Financial pain
Mitsotakis, the son of a former prime minister, campaigned on the promise of further reforms with a focus on fewer taxes, attracting investment and improving the job market.
The election came as Greece struggles to emerge from a nearly decade-long financial crisis that saw its economy plunge by a quarter and hundreds of thousands of mostly young people head abroad seeking better economic opportunities.
Syriza, which before the crisis was on the fringes of the country's political landscape, stormed to power in January 2015, replacing a New Democracy-led government amid widespread discontent over years of tough fiscal measures imposed by Greece's bailout creditors: the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
But despite its promises to end austerity, the Syriza-led government seven months later caved in to the demands of its lenders, signing onto a third bailout deal and raising taxes further. Still, it managed to regain power in a snap election in September 2015 and form a coalition government with the nationalist Independent Greeks party.
Greece exited its last bailout in 2018 but is still under fiscal surveillance from its creditors. Its economy is expected to grow by around two percent this year but financial woes remain, including an unemployment rate of 18 percent, the eurozone's highest.
Along with the chronic financial grievances, mainly from Greece's shrinking middle class, Tsipras's government has also come under fire for mismanaging crises, including the response to a devastating fire near Athens last summer that killed 102 people, and for brokering a widely unpopular deal to resolve a decades-long dispute over the name of neighbouring North Macedonia.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/pm-elect-vows-greece-proud-landslide-win-190708035649498.html
2019-07-08 07:49:00Z
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Minggu, 07 Juli 2019
Ben Jennings on the leaked Trump cables – cartoon - The Guardian
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- Ben Jennings on the leaked Trump cables – cartoon The Guardian
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/jul/07/ben-jennings-on-the-leaked-trump-cables-cartoon
2019-07-07 17:08:00Z
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