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Trump says he holds Putin responsible for election hacking
Posted on:Thursday, July 19, 2018

President Trump said Wednesday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is ultimately responsible for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, and that he warned Mr. Putin ‘we can’t have this’ meddling in the future.

Trump urges Erdogan to free US pastor held in Turkey
Posted on:Thursday, July 19, 2018

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter to free an American pastor held in Turkey for nearly two years on terror charges.

Nikki Haley Slams Human Rights Council as ‘Greatest Failure’ of the UN
Posted on:Thursday, July 19, 2018

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday the United Nations’ Human Rights Council is the ‘greatest failure’ of the international organization given its continued support to dictatorial regimes and entrenched bias against Israel.

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Race for Russian warship’s ‘5,500 boxes of gold’ – rumoured to be worth US$133 billion – after wreck found in waters off South Korean island
Posted on:Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Divers off the South Korean island of Ulleungdo have discovered the fabled wreck of the Dmitrii Donskoi, a Russian warship that was sunk in 1905 and is rumored to still contain 5,500 boxes of gold bars and coins said to be worth US$133 billion.

Trump: ‘Not one’ European country has been improved by mass immigration
Posted on:Wednesday, July 18, 2018

President Trump doubled down on previous comments he made regarding mass migration to Europe, saying ‘not one’ European country has been improved by a massive influx of immigrants and refugees.

Trump backs off siding with Russia over US intelligence
Posted on:Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he simply misspoke when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

Trump says Iran in turmoil since US withdrew from nuke deal
Posted on:Tuesday, July 17, 2018

US President Donald Trump asserted Monday that Iran was being roiled by nationwide riots since he pulled out of an international nuclear deal and that Washington supports the protesters.

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EU to sign its biggest free trade deal with Japan
Posted on:Tuesday, July 17, 2018

The European Union and Japan will sign one of the world’s biggest free trade deals later on Tuesday.

US Open to Direct Talks With Taliban, Officials Say
Posted on:Tuesday, July 17, 2018

The United States is open to holding direct talks with the Taliban to encourage negotiations between the militant group and the Afghan government to end 17 years of war, U.S. officials said Monday.

Trump sides with Putin over U.S. intel
Posted on:Tuesday, July 17, 2018

President Trump on Monday stood beside Russian President Vladimir Putin and rejected the findings of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election, drawing bipartisan blowback from lawmakers dismayed by his performance on the world stage.

Khamenei lashes ‘satanic’ US peace plan, vows to destroy ‘fabricated’ Israel
Posted on:Tuesday, July 17, 2018

The head of Iran’s theocratic regime, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, took to Twitter on Monday to denounce the Trump administration’s expected peace plan as a “satanic and vicious plot” and promise that the ‘fabricated Zionist regime will be eradicated.’

The $247 trillion global debt bomb is ticking
Posted on:Sunday, July 15, 2018

The untold story of the world economy is the potentially explosive interaction between the spreading trade war and the overhang of global debt, estimated at a staggering $247 trillion. That’s ‘trillion’ with a ‘t.’ The numbers are so large as to be almost incomprehensible.

Seized archive shows Iran nuke project was larger than thought, had foreign help
Posted on:Sunday, July 15, 2018

The archive of Iranian nuclear documents seized by the Israeli Mossad from a Tehran warehouse in January shows that Iran’s program to build nuclear weapons ‘was almost certainly larger, more sophisticated and better organized’ than was suspected, unnamed nuclear experts were quoted as saying in the New York Times on Sunday, after being shown selected documents from the haul by US reporters.

U.S. rejects E.U. requests for exemptions from Iran sanctions
Posted on:Sunday, July 15, 2018

The United States rejected appeals from the European Union to give exemptions to EU countries that would be affected by sanctions on Iran.

With low expectations, Trump pressured to get tough with Putin on election meddling
Posted on:Sunday, July 15, 2018

President Trump walked into a meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin expecting to get little or nothing out of high-stakes talks, while inviting criticism from Democrats and Republicans back home for his kid-glove treatment of the former KGB officer.

Analysis: Iran role in Syria key item at Trump-Putin summit
Posted on:Friday, July 13, 2018

When President Donald Trump meets Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday, the Syrian conflict will be one of the most immediately pressing issues on a wide-ranging agenda.

Mission accomplished: Trump says NATO members agree to spend more on defense
Posted on:Friday, July 13, 2018

President Trump’s bare-knuckles diplomacy agitated NATO allies, but he said it paid off.

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Donald Trump warns Theresa May a soft Brexit will ‘kill’ any trade deal with the US
Posted on:Friday, July 13, 2018

Theresa May will come under intense pressure to secure a future trade deal with the United States as she sits down with Donald Trump just hours after he warned that her soft Brexit blueprint would ‘kill’ Britain’s chances.

Trump stirs up NATO meeting with objection to Russian-German gas pipeline
Posted on:Thursday, July 12, 2018

President Trump on Wednesday stoked divisions in Europe by wading into the middle of an intense fight over the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, a project that critics fear will give Moscow new leverage in the region and could create a geopolitically dangerous Russian-German economic alliance.

Setting out vision for future ties, May presses Brexit plans
Posted on:Thursday, July 12, 2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out a blueprint on Thursday for what her government calls ‘a principled and practical Brexit’, putting at its core a plan for a free trade area for goods that has angered many in her party.

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