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EXCLUSIVE: Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine's military access to Elon Musk's satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries
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Full interview with UAE's Lana Nussaibeh coming shortly
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#BREAKING: Lana Nusseibeh, minister of state for foreign affairs of Arab power and close US ally the UAE, told Reuters that she had enter the race to become the 10th United Nations secretary-general, promising to bring the global body's relevance to global diplomacy back.
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"Year after year, the Cuban regime comes to the General Assembly and propagates a lie through ​its annual resolution...It uses excuse after excuse to justify its oppression, to justify the misery of ​the Cuban people, and what we are doing here at the US mission to the UN"
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"The US is ⁠acting as an international delinquent, enforcing collective punishment on the people of Cuba. They are inflicting immense suffering upon the whole population of a peaceful nation," Guzmán said at an impromptu gathering ⁠outside ​the US meeting with dissidents.
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Antoni Slodkowski retweeted
Quick take on the 6th UNSG Straw Poll
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@USAmbUN On the ​question of new contenders joining ⁠the race, Washington's envoy to the UN, Mike Waltz, said after the vote: "Countries, if they want to put more candidates in, that's certainly within their sovereign rights."
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The United Nations has become too risk-averse and its next leader must be prepared to bear the ​cost of diplomatic failure and try again, Rebeca Grynspan, the frontrunner to be the next UN chief, told me on Thursday.
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Grynspan said the UN must also cut jobs, curb bureaucracy and stop agencies duplicating work, arguing that cost-cutting alone would not revive an institution struggling with shrinking resources and declining political clout.
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She spoke ahead of ‌another Security Council poll on Friday to gauge support for a new secretary-general to succeed Antonio Guterres, whose second five-year term ends on December 31.
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Grynspan said ​she expected new names could enter the race after the Friday vote and added: "The game is not over -- we will have to continue working."
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Grynspan said she was the only ⁠candidate who ​has consistently reached nine votes in her favor, but she "wouldn't be surprised" if she got a discouraging vote ​from a veto power. She said such opposition has been overcome in past races.
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