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Thailand cut excise taxes on imported electric cars and the country’s prime minister recently swapped his Rolls-Royce for a BYD as part of a national push to save energy, according to local news reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

He was a close friend and advisor to David Cameron, who served as the U.K.’s prime minister from 2010 to 2016.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Although 14 candidates are on the ballot, analysts say the race has narrowed into a two-horse contest between Hichilema and Mundubile, a 55-year-old former minister.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The paper writes that the prime minister is "confident" that his Justice Secretary Alex Norris will succeed "despite warnings that it will be impossible to prevent release".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Well it just so happened that a minister of immigration, a mullah, a boss man in the government, had taken an eager bite of a peach and broken his left front tooth on the stone.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Economy Secretary Stephen Flynn told the BBC it was important that former first ministers share their views, but added that the election result had produced an "emphatic mandate" for Swinney that spoke for itself.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Felix talks sovereign debt with the man finance ministers consult when even they don’t get it.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

BBC Verify has looked at the reasons why ministers feel the need to resort to these measures.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

He told the ministers that if the U.S. or Israel attacked, Tehran would react forcefully to defend itself and Washington would bear the consequences, according to a readout released by Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Also I believed that the king’s ministers were loyal and the queen’s ladies honest.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Before his career took off, Reilly volunteered for the United Farm Workers and lived an ascetic life, sheltering in church halls, as he ministered to the poor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

In 2016, Francis canonized Argentina’s first saint: José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, a poncho-wearing, mate-sipping “gaucho priest” who ministered in the Argentine peripheries, and was in many ways a 19th-century version of Francis himself.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

I was sick all day Sunday, ministered to by my girlfriend, who fed me chicken soup and bathed my head with wet washcloths.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023

She shooed me out of the room and ministered to Perilee.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Describing her experience ministering as a person of colour, Rev Eileen Cremin said it was "overall positive".

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024

The commission cited Lin’s work ministering to fellow prisoners and translating the Bible into Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

And so he continues ministering to the lepers and outcasts.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver