The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to issue new regulations on website accessibility later this year that could take a broad view of the ADA's jurisdiction over websites.

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The job, attached to the foreign ministry, requires Mr von Thadden to take a broad view of relations with France and to offer new ideas for improving them, inside and outside government.

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However hard governments try to take a broad strategic view, day-to-day events inevitably dominate.

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He added that when people "looked at the Middle East today" he thought that in the "broad sweep of history, people will take a different view of it".

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