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Mike Pompeo / Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) The United States delivered Russia a 60-day ultimatum on Tuesday to come clean about what Washington says is a violation of an arms control treaty that keeps missiles out of Europe. NATO allies led by Germany pressed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting in […]

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pay their respects as former President George H.W. Bush lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images For President Donald Trump, there was once no worse insult than being “a Bushie.” That, a former White House official told POLITICO earlier this year, […]

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe arrives to announce the suspension on rising fuel taxes in Paris on Dec. 4, 2018. (AFP Photo) French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced Tuesday new concessions to “yellow vest” protesters, saying planned increases in the price of fuel would be suspended for six months. “No tax merits putting the unity […]

Spain’s right-wing VOX party leaders celebrate results after the Andalusian regional elections in Seville, Spain, on December 2, 2018. © REUTERS / Marcelo Del Pozo The wave of right-wing resurgence that has flooded Europe following the refugee crisis has reached Spain. An upstart anti-immigrant party has entered the parliament in Spain’s Andalusia and might yet […]

Stephane Mahe, Reuters | Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace on December 2 2018. French leader Emmanuel Macron faced growing pressure on Monday to find a way out of the deepest crisis of his presidency after protests over taxes sparked Paris’s worst rioting in decades. As dozens of people were brought to court over Saturday’s clashes, […]

An Indian policeman looks on after receiving treatment for a head injury following reports of mob violence at Chingravati village in Bulandhahr, India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, on December 3, 2018. (AFP Photo) A violent mob rampaged through villages in northern India on Monday after the discovery of suspected cow carcasses, setting vehicles ablaze and […]

© KCNA / Handout via Reuters In the latest episode of the political romance between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the American president said he is ready to fully grant the North Korean leader’s wishes if he sticks to the denuclearizes of his country. Donald Trump asked South Korean President Moon Jae-in to relay the […]

The trade war truce followed months of economic tensions between Washington and Beijing [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] China has agreed to “reduce and remove” tariffs below the 40 percent level currently in place on US-made vehicles, US President Donald Trump has said, after the two countries agreed to a trade war ceasefire. In a Tweet on Sunday night, Trump said: […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – In the final days of his presidency, George H.W. Bush committed the U.S. military to a mission many would later regret, ordering more than 20,000 troops into Somalia to “save thousands of innocents from death.” Within months, the image of dead U.S. soldiers dragged through the streets of Mogadishu profoundly changed the […]

A handout photo made available by the US Marine Corps shows US Navy Vice Adm. Scott A. Stearney delivers remarks during a change of command ceremony in Bahrain, July 03, 2018. (EPA Photo) The commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the U.S. Fifth Fleet has been found dead in his residence in Bahrain. […]