Japan top currency diplomat says watching for any build-up of yen carry trades: report – CNBC
Newly designed Japanese 10,000-yen banknotes move through a machine at the National Printing Bureau's Tokyo plant in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The yen's sustained weakness has raised concerns about a possible resurgence of cost-push inflation, possibly weighing on private consumption. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Atsushi Mimura, a Japanese foreign exchange diplomat, said […]
Japan top FX diplomat says watching for any build-up of yen carry trades, NHK reports By Reuters – Investing.com
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's top foreign exchange official, Mimura Atsushi, said authorities are “constantly keeping a close eye on the market” as a renewed increase in yen carry trades could increase market volatility, NHK reported in an interview on Friday. According to NHK, Mimura said it was highly likely that the yen carry trades that […]
North Korea diplomat flees to South in highest ranking envoy defection since 2016 – report | North Korea
A South Korean newspaper reported that a senior North Korean official in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to defect to South Korea since 2016. Before defecting to South Korea, Ri Il-gyu, 52, was in charge of political affairs at the North Korean embassy in Cuba. Chosun Ilbo […]
EU Diplomat Released in Prisoner Swap for Iranian War Criminal
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday in which Tehran released an Iranian convicted of war crimes in Stockholm for involvement in a 1988 mass execution in Iran, as well as a European Union diplomat and another man. The detention of the two Swedes likely began with […]
India’s Top Diplomat Wants Permanent Security Council Seat ‘as Soon as Possible’
In comments on Tuesday, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar reiterated that the government of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council “as soon as possible” but that it will take time to achieve this goal due to resistance from current permanent members. Speaking in the […]
Interrogated by Cruz, Diplomat Gives False Testimony About Biden’s Billion Dollar Bribe
During a November 30th hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a senior State Department official gave false testimony about a billion dollar bribery scandal involving Joe Biden. The official, George Kent, is President Biden’s appointee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Estonia. At Kent’s nomination hearing, Senator Ted Cruz (R–TX) questioned him about Biden’s actions in Ukraine while Kent […]
Iran president, top diplomat found dead after helicopter crash
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead on Monday after their helicopter crashed in a foggy area, Iranian state media reported. . Officials’ bodies were searched for several hours as state television did not reveal the immediate cause of the crash. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei announced that First […]
U.S. Diplomat Shares Why She Quit Over Biden’s Approach to Israel War
A US diplomat who resigned over President Joe Biden’s handling of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has said he feels the US is on the “wrong side of history”. Hala Harit, the first US diplomat to resign over the Biden administration’s policies regarding the war between Israel and Hamas, said she had no […]
First US diplomat to resign over Biden’s approach to Israel-Hamas war says she was silenced
For the past 18 years, Hala Rharrit has served in the State Department, and for the past year and a half, she served as an Arab language spokeswoman until announcing her resignation due to the Biden administration’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war. “I had full intentions of continuing on in my career until I reached […]
Dem mayor’s spox defends meeting with controversial Chinese diplomat who praised CCP
The Democratic mayor’s spokesperson has repeatedly praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and defended his controversial recent meeting with Chinese diplomats. Fan Ping, who has been the consul general at the Chinese Consulate General in New York since 2018, said he recently “met with Mayor Parker of Philadelphia and Vice Mayor Liu Guiping of Tianjin.” […]