Section: Egypt Independent (Egypt)
Trump says media ‘doesn’t want to report’ extremist attacks
President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of deliberately minimizing coverage of the threat posed by the Islamic State group, saying news outlets “have their reasons” for not reporting what he described as a “genocide” underway at the hands of the group.The president did not immediately offer evidence to support...
Kremlin disagrees with Trump’s assessment of Iran
The Kremlin said on Monday it did not agree with US President Donald Trump’s assessment of Iran as “the number one terrorist state” and wanted to deepen what it described as already good ties with Tehran.The Kremlin was responding to comments Trump made to Fox News in an interview aired at the weekend in which he complained that...
Kremlin disagrees with Trump’s assessment of Iran
The Kremlin said on Monday it did not agree with US President Donald Trump’s assessment of Iran as “the number one terrorist state” and wanted to deepen what it described as already good ties with Tehran.The Kremlin was responding to comments Trump made to Fox News in an interview aired at the weekend in which he complained that...
Trump talks to Putin, other world leaders about security threats
President Donald Trump discussed Syria and the fight against Islamic State with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in one of several calls with world leaders that the new US president used to put his stamp on international affairs.Trump’s call with Putin was their first since the New York businessman took office and came as...
243 million migrants around the world since 2015: UN report
Recent years have seen a significant rise in the number of migrants around the world, according to research conducted by the United Nations, which reported 243 million migrants around the world as of 2015, representing 3.4 percent of the world’s population.Indy 100 British news website published a list of more than 10 countries that welcome...
China should be barred from South China Sea islands: Trump’s secretary of state nominee
US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing on Wednesday, saying China should be denied access to islands it has built in the contested South China Sea. In comments expected to enrage Beijing, Rex Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before the US...
Germany says can’t figure out Trump’s foreign policy goals
German officials who have held talks with members of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have not been able to figure out what kind of foreign and security policy his administration wants to pursue, a spokesman said on Friday.”It ultimately remains the case that there still is no clear, coherent and comprehensive...
Trump aide says US sanctions on Russia may be disproportionate
A top aide to the president-elect Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that the White House may have disproportionately punished Russia by ordering the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies. Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on ABC’s “This Week” that Trump will be asking questions of US...
U.S. evicts Russians for spying, imposes sanctions after election hacks
President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian suspected spies and imposed sanctions on two Russian intelligence agencies over their involvement in hacking U.S. political groups in the 2016 presidential election.The measures, taken during the last days of Obama’s presidency, mark a new post-Cold War low in...
Police break up blockade of Poland’s parliament amid political crisis
Police early Saturday forcefully broke up an hours-long blockade of exits from the Polish parliament by protesters who said ruling party lawmakers violated the constitution by illegally passing the budget for next year. The passage sparked the biggest political standoff in years in European Union member Poland and the sharpest escalation of the...
