government official
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"Boats carrying armed Houthi fighters reached Mayyun Island after government forces withdrew from it yesterday," the local government official told AFP, referring to an island also known as Perim.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We are trying to be ready for a prolonged war,” a senior government official said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Cook’s personality was on full display when Dailey set up a technical demo for a senior government official involving the Vcommunicator, a late-2000s-era iPod Touch with specialized real-time translation software.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
A 50-year-old father and his young sons were left "pale" and "exhausted after swallowing a lot of seawater" before being rescued, local government official Amorn Chomchoey told AFP.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
By the early twentieth century, Bigheart and other Osage knew that they could no longer avoid what a government official called the “great storm” gathering.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
