Sentence examples for capital officials from inspiring English sources

Before Sept. 11, the agency did not have a station in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, officials said.

Mr. Bailey became a partner in the company and provided start-up capital, officials said.

The police detained twin sisters on suspicion that they were planning a suicide bombing in Rabat, the capital, officials said.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A land mine killed the spokesman for Mogadishu's mayor on Saturday, the latest casualty in a vicious Islamic insurgency in Somalia's capital, officials said.

The military is investigating how detailed plans for its new elite counterterrorism squad headquarters ended up in a trash bin on the streets of the capital, officials said.

In Milan, Italy's financial capital, officials said a judicial investigation would be opened to examine possible charges of fraud and providing falsified information to auditors.

It had ministries, oil wells, a ragtag army, an often-shifting capital, official cars (Achebe had one) and a famous airstrip.

The Arab capitals' official statements mostly voiced sympathy for the loss of life.

The wounded were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital, Quetta, officials said.

The two army officers were gunned down in separate parts of the capital, security officials said.

Twelve children and one adult died after a hippopotamus overturned a boat near the Niger capital, Niamey, officials have said.