Vice President Joe Biden is the first high-level U.S.official to visit Poland since President Barack Obama canceled the planned Central European missile shield proposed by former President George W.Bush.

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In Baghdad, a high-level official in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior described, also on condition of anonymity, an elaborate system to divert weapons from Ministry of Interior facilities to local arms traffickers and militias.

NPR: U.S. Weapons from Iraq Making Their Way to Turkey

That ensures high-level official support for the project.

ECONOMIST: Project finance in Taiwan

Groups are demanding the presence of a Brazilian government high-level official at the site to initiate a new round of negotiations respectful of the rights of local people affected by the dam, the NGO said in a press release on Thursday.

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