affair
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Last week, the State Department’s assistant secretary for consular affairs urged Americans visiting the Middle East to leave via commercial air travel.
From MarketWatch
He managed many affairs in his father’s powerful office, which still oversees military and clerical matters as well as a business empire worth billions of dollars.
"We need to organise the supply of about 22 shipments of LNG for March and April," economic affairs minister Kung Ming-hsin said Monday, while noting 20 of those shipments had already been secured.
From Barron's
The BBC has written to the Iranian embassy in India and India's external affairs ministry seeking clarification on the movements of the three Iranian naval vessels after Delhi granted them permission to dock.
From BBC
“We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs. This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader,” Araghchi said.
From Los Angeles Times
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