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Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is under fire for comments he made about two melons gifted to him by his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi, after a former Japanese envoy called it an insult.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He met his US counterpart Donald Trump last Tuesday, partly to lobby Washington for licences to produce Patriots domestically.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has called on the US to re-open the Strait of Hormuz ahead of his first official one-to-one meeting with his US counterpart Marco Rubio.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bessent’s counterpart, Satsuki Katayama, said Monday that Japan planned to use that facility rather than sell its Treasury holdings to finance future interventions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
At each stop Ulbrickson had to explain, all over again, to his coaching counterpart that, yes, indeed, he planned to send the sophomores off in the junior varsity boat.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Americans are also spending more than their European counterparts on each trip, including shelling out for luxury experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
So as it stands, any freshman with a birthday prior to Sept. 1, 2006, is left with one less year to play than their freshmen counterparts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The bloc has excluded Myanmar's leadership from high-level summits since the putsch, but its foreign minister attended an informal meeting with his regional counterparts last month in Thailand.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
The PM says the situation is a "cause for concern" and government officials were in contact with their Spanish counterparts.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Greg Lippmann watched his counterparts at Goldman Sachs find and exploit someone else’s willingness to sell huge amounts of cheap insurance on subprime mortgage bonds and pretty much instantly guessed the seller’s identity.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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