"Officials spend a lot of time generating proposals – many not commissioned by politicians.
American Special Operations forces could conduct much of the training, as they have with counterterrorism forces in Pakistan and Yemen, American officials said.
Officials from Greece have been locked in talks with creditors over the weekend in an attempt to agree a package of economic reforms.
With a few exceptions, it was hardly possible to imagine Embassy officials or troops in Baghdad taking great risks to get their Iraqi contacts out before we left.
The Guardian has also seen correspondence that reveals Whitehall officials are examining whether Hughes should be stripped of honours he received for his police work.
(It may have banged another nail into the coffin of elected local authorities with its suggestion that electoral officials need closer central supervision and more uniform standards).
Officials are concerned that an airlift back to Australia could take at least 30 hours, during which time the person could die, and a more suitable arrangement would be an evacuation to a closer country.
Such reticence is understandable in a city where many residents assume that officials use construction projects to siphon state funds.
In total, 258,000 workers – about 25% of Qatar's migrant labourer population – will be housed, officials said.
Most workers who will end up living there will be transferred from other accommodation centres in Qatar, but officials have said the number of migrant workers in the country will more than double to two and a half million two years before the World Cup.
Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is to chair the first in a series of meetings that will include national MPs, government figures and regional officials in line with proposals drafted by the OSCE – a transatlantic security and rights group that includes Russia and the US.
