Foreign Policy
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A U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama. In the May 2018 cable published by the Mail on Sunday, U.K. Ambassador…
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The United States is prepared to engage with Iran without pre-conditions about its nuclear program but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Iran responded by calling the offer “word-play” and asked for action instead. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Saturday that…
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Donald Trump is looking forward to negotiating with a “fully independent Britain” after Brexit, according to his national security adviser. John Bolton said the US president had been a supporter of Brexit, and hoped to do a trade deal with the UK soon. Mr Bolton told Sky News: “President Trump has made it clear that…
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Sen. Angus King said Thursday he wants to know who is provoking whom as tensions heighten between the United States and Iran, as both sides are taking actions against each other. “I can’t reveal what I have seen in a classified setting,” the Maine Independent senator told CNN’s “New Day,” after revealing he’s reviewed some of the…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia by train on Wednesday, a day before his much-anticipated summit with President Vladimir Putin that comes amid deadlocked diplomacy on his nuclear program. Kim, dressed in a black coat and a fedora, first met with Russian officials at Russia’s Khasan train station near its border with…
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President Donald Trump said in an interview set to air Saturday that he sees no need for a summit with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. “No, no I don’t need a summit,” the president told “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “I think we’ve done very well without the summit. They understand we stopped. We’re saving…
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Venezuela has plunged further into political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro’s future as the country’s leader. Image shows Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro Maduro started a second term on January 10 following a widely-boycotted election last year that many foreign governments refused to recognize. On Wednesday, Juan Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, declared…
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The trade talks between China and the U.S. will proceed to the next step as scheduled after the latest vice-ministerial level negotiations concluded on Wednesday, spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Gao Feng said at a briefing on Thursday. Image: Gao Feng Both sides had extensive, in-depth and detailed exchanges, and agreed to…
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ushering in a new era for Turkey after weekend elections saw him win a presidency granting him the vastly expanded executive powers he has long sought. The feat was achieved through support from a small nationalist party after his governing party realized its parliamentary majority slip. Critics have reacted with…
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