foreign affairs

plural noun

Definition of foreign affairs

: matters having to do with international relations and with the interests of the home country in foreign countries

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What's so interesting about this is that this comes in the wake of the news that the royal Fab Four (Meghan, Harry, Prince William, and Kate Middleton) just lost their foreign affairs advisor Sir David Manning. — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Had a Private Meeting Yesterday—Could It Be a New Royal Cause?," 1 Mar. 2019 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, formerly the finance minister and foreign affairs minister of Nigeria, as well as a former managing director at the World Bank, was the leading challenger to Jim Yong Kim when he was nominated in 2012. — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, "U.S. Contemplates Appointing First Female President of World Bank," 24 Jan. 2019 The Russian state has never interfered and has no intention of interfering in the U.S. elections,’’ Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Friday. — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, "Moscow accused of US election meddling in indictment," 13 July 2018 Putin has been at this for 20 years — and has met with four U.S. presidents, and has been working foreign affairs and international security issues his whole life. — Joshua Tucker, Washington Post, "Will it be ‘happy talk’ — or will Trump and Putin focus on arms control and other critical issues?," 13 July 2018 But the North Korean dictator did not meet with Pompeo during his visit this month, viewed widely by foreign affairs analysts as an intentional slight given that the two had met on Pompeo's two previous visits to Pyongyang. — David Nakamura, chicagotribune.com, "Trump releases 'nice note' from Kim Jong Un praising progress despite setbacks in talks," 12 July 2018 The minister of foreign affairs summoned the ambassador for a scolding. — New York Times, "In Troubled Cameroon, U.S. Envoy Is Accused of Election Meddling," 12 July 2018 Bob Seely, a Tory lawmaker and member of the foreign affairs parliamentary commitee, saw grounds to be concerned about what Trump might do. — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, "U.K. Worries About What Trump Could Promise Putin," 28 June 2018 The embassy was bombarded by phone calls thanking South Koreans, Korea's Yonhap news agency said, including one from Mexico's undersecretary for foreign affairs. — Afp, chicagotribune.com, "'We are all Koreans;' Mexico fans mob Korean embassy after World Cup victory," 28 June 2018

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