• Companies need to realize that local officials saying something is OK and ministry-level officials giving the green light are not the same thing.

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  • It would approve new press licenses - a task previously performed by the justice ministry - and impose fines for libel, the cabinet said.

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  • In 2007, President Sarkozy suggested the finance ministry - which had been overseeing the dispute and was led by Ms Lagarde - should move the case to arbitration.

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  • These volunteers -- also Shiites with access to the Health Ministry -- are compelled by conscience and faith and take it upon themselves to bury the dead in holy anonymity.

    CNN: Volunteers collect Baghdad's nameless dead

  • Turkey's incidence of births by caesarean section -- more than 45% in 2011, according to the Turkish Health Ministry -- is much higher than the World Health Organization's recommended rate.

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  • Now some of his one-time accusers -- including former employees of the attorney general's office and the country's interior ministry -- are behind bars in the same prison where he was held.

    CNN: Bolivia releases imprisoned American after 18 months

  • Thabo Mbeki, a former South African president mandated as mediator by SADC, reacted with a scathing letter, browbeating Mr Tsvangirai's lot for rejecting the ministry-sharing idea and accusing it of being a Western stooge.

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  • His post, within the Justice Ministry, replaces the previous post of integration minister within the Home Affairs Ministry - a shift which critics claim brings the issue of integration in the sphere of criminal justice.

    BBC: Dutch centre-right takes office

  • Coming from a country where 92% of the population opposes whaling - according to the environment ministry - Sir Geoffrey's priority is to secure a deal that is in some definable way better for whales.

    BBC: Can compromise save the whale?

  • But Mr Soros acknowledged that the move would inevitably lead to greater integration of government budgets - including a European finance ministry - and that there was a lack of democratic legitimacy in Europe for this.

    BBC: George Soros backs joint eurozone debts to solve crisis

  • But two years ago she closed down the Malawian office of her charity Raising Malawi, which was headed by President Joyce Banda's sister, Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo - who now works at the education ministry - and opted to fund 10 schools instead.

    BBC: Malawi's president 'furious' after Madonna criticised

  • But the medical records of 1, 700 patients who died at the hospital in the last seven years are now being studied and more than 20 were now deemed suspicious, Dr Mario Lobato - the chief investigator assigned by Brazil's health ministry - told Globo.

    BBC: Brazil studies Curitiba doctor's link to 300 deaths

  • "From the first moment, diplomatic notes were exchanged and a permanent and professional communication has been maintained between MINREX" -- Cuba's foreign ministry -- "and the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, with the goal of guaranteeing the integrity and well-being of the minors, " the statement said.

    CNN: locates family who fled Florida to Cuba

  • In South Korea, a finance-ministry bigwig says his urgent priority is to persuade young ministry high-flyers, who invariably apply for an American posting, to go to India instead.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • If nothing else than as a question of timing, it is bizarre to be rewarding the perpetrators of this crime -- the Soviet military and Interior Ministry forces -- with even greater access to strategic technologies in the midst of their oppression.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • One concern - apparently addressed in the new justice ministry motion - is an article restricting election campaigning to state media alone.

    BBC: Hungary backtracks in row with EU over constitution

  • Over the past three days, militiamen stormed the headquarters of the Interior Ministry and state-run TV and besieged the Foreign Ministry while publicly calling for the removal of Gadhafi-era officials from government posts and the passage of the so-called "isolation law, " which would bar from political life anyone who held any position even minor under the ousted autocrat's regime.

    NPR: Storming Ministries, Libya's Militias Put Pressure

  • Ahmad Fahim Qayem, commander of the Afghan Interior Ministry quick-reaction force whose primary responsibility is to deal with such attacks, rushed to direct the response.

    WSJ: Karzai Says U.S. Coalition Failed as Kabul Cleans Up

  • This opulent 294-room hotel -- once home to the Ministry of Defense -- reopened in the spring of 2011.

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  • Earlier this week, China Daily quoted an anonymous government source -- allegedly straight from the Ministry of Culture -- saying China is considering lifting a 12-year-old "ban" on game consoles soon.

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  • Earlier this month, Greenpeace claimed Gazprom's oil spill response plan went out of date in July and says that - according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency - the company has not submitted or approved a new one.

    BBC: Greenpeace activists board Russian Gazprom oil platform

  • The foreign ministry seems open-minded, but the interior ministry is firmly against.

    ECONOMIST: Europe and America

  • Mohamed Ibrahim will head the Interior Ministry and Al-Mursi Al-Sayed Hegazy will run the Finance Ministry, MENA said.

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  • Its choice is Sohei Miyashita, a former finance-ministry official, or Yoshiro Moni, a former cabinet-member.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • However, on the Web site of Iran's state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi rebutted remarks by Rumsfeld that al Qaeda leaders are in Iran, adding that his nation has no links to the "fundamentalist and violent" network.

    CNN: Iran denies it harbors al Qaeda terrorists

  • During the day long proceedings and at the conclusion of the Forum, the participants emphasized the need of raising education budget at least up to 4% of the GDP, creating a special budget line for Early Childhood Education (ECE), and creation of an Inter-provincial Forum on Education by the Federal Ministry of Inter-provincial Coordination.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • One of the things that's interesting is that it is a Sunni-led ministry but it's located - these offices were located in a Shia part of town in central Baghdad.

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  • University of Cambridge International Examinations' (CIE) Head of International Education (Ministries), Dr Newman Burdett - who attended both the Kuala Lumpur conference - said the June event had given CIE the opportunity to meet with Ministry personnel face-to-face, and to further strengthen and renew partnerships.

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  • The aftermath of the foreign-ministry bombing was a rare chance to cut Mr Maliki down to size, leaving the former bead-seller from the Damascus souk with no other choice but to strike out on his own.

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  • He wants a small, separate, consumer-protection and competition ministry, with residual industry-related work done by the Treasury.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming government

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