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Posted on:Thursday, July 12, 2018
An Argentine federal judge investigating the 1994 Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish center bombing has asked Russian officials to arrest a high-level Iranian adviser to the country’s supreme leader in connection with the attack.
Posted on:Thursday, July 12, 2018
President Trump had something in common with the other world leaders at the NATO summit in Brussels — an immigration emergency on their doorsteps.
Posted on:Thursday, July 12, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels have reportedly agreed on a plan to push Middle East allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to start talks on way to put an end to Syria’s seven-year civil war.
Posted on:Thursday, July 12, 2018
U.S. intelligence agencies are closely monitoring Russian military activities in Libya for signs that Moscow may soon build a military base in the divided North African state.
Posted on:Wednesday, July 11, 2018
On the eve of NATO’s annual summit, secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg reported that all 29 alliance members are increasing their military spending, adding that President Trump’s ‘leadership’ on the issue ‘is clearly having an impact.’
Posted on:Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Euroskeptic Tories have failed to stop U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for a soft Brexit and are considering a radical last-ditch move that could bring down her minority government later this year.
Posted on:Wednesday, July 11, 2018
US President Donald Trump says he expects the UK to be in ‘turmoil’ when he visits this week and British politicians are continuing to add to that atmosphere. On Tuesday, two Conservative party vice chairs, Ben Bradley of Mansfield and Maria Caulfield of Lewes, both resigned in protest to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s so-called Chequers Brexit compromise.
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China set a record through May, hitting $152,237,500,000 for the first five months of 2018, according to data released Friday by the Census Bureau.
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The Trump administration raised the stakes in its trade war with China on Tuesday, saying it would slap 10 percent tariffs on an extra $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.

Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The U.N. Security Council says the peace declaration signed by Ethiopia and Eritrea after 20 years as enemies ‘represents a historic and significant development with far-reaching positive consequences for the Horn of Africa and beyond.’
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
A quarter of the world’s children — about 535 million — are living in a country affected by conflict or disaster, the head of the UN children’s agency said Monday.
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The Syrian Civil War, which has lasted more than seven years, has claimed the lives of at least 500,000 people, displaced more than 12 million from their homes and cost others, too many to count, their arms and legs, each victim lost in the fog of war.
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Mexico’s president-elect has complained about President Trump’s immigration policies, but he’s looking to adopt some them for his country, a top aide said.
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Top Trump administration officials are working to stop Germany from allowing Iran to fly more than $350 million in cash out of the country and back to Tehran as part of a bid by the Iranian regime to restock its coffers ahead of a major financial crackdown by America, according to conversations with senior U.S. diplomats and officials on Capitol Hill.
Posted on:Tuesday, July 10, 2018
China’s no-rules approach to armed drone exports has Beijing positioned to dominate the rapidly growing multibillion-dollar market, frustrating American companies while presenting real national security dangers for the Trump administration.
Posted on:Monday, July 9, 2018
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China escalated Friday after months of threats over billions of dollars of tariffs.
Posted on:Monday, July 9, 2018
North Korea on Saturday accused the U.S. of undermining the spirit of last month’s summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un after what it says were ‘regrettable’ talks with a delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Posted on:Monday, July 9, 2018
Britain’s most senior official in charge of negotiating the country’s exit from the European Union resigned Sunday, two days after Prime Minister Theresa May announced she had finally united her quarrelsome government behind a plan for Brexit.

Posted on:Monday, July 9, 2018
Looters pillaged burned and vandalized shops in Haiti’s capital Sunday following two days of violent protests over the government’s attempt to raise fuel prices.
Posted on:Monday, July 9, 2018
Days before President Trump meets with NATO partners ahead of a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. ambassador to NATO warned Sunday that Moscow is attempting to destabilize the transatlantic alliance – among other things, by trying to draw away Turkey.
