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Anxious European Leaders Seek an Early Audience with Trump
Jan18

Anxious European Leaders Seek an Early Audience with Trump

European leaders, anxious over Donald Trump’s unpredictability and kind words for the Kremlin, are scrambling to get face time with the new American president before he can meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose provocations have set the continent on edge. One leader has raised with Trump the prospect of a U.S.-European Union...

Anxious European leaders seek an early audience with Trump
Jan18

Anxious European leaders seek an early audience with Trump

European leaders, anxious over Donald Trump’s unpredictability and kind words for the Kremlin, are scrambling to get face time with the new American president. The leaders want to meet with Trump before he can meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose provocations have set the continent on edge. One leader has raised with Trump the...

Putin: Obama Administration Trying to Undermine Trump
Jan17

Putin: Obama Administration Trying to Undermine Trump

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin took a parting shot at the Obama administration Tuesday, accusing it of trying to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimacy with fake allegations and “binding the president-elect hand and foot to prevent him from fulfilling his election promises.” In his first public remarks about an unsubstantiated...

In U.N. lawsuit, Ukraine demands Russia end support for separatists
Jan17

In U.N. lawsuit, Ukraine demands Russia end support for separatists

Ukraine filed a lawsuit at the United Nations’ highest court demanding that Russia immediately halt its support for pro-Moscow separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine.The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry accused Russia of “acts of terrorism and discrimination in the course of its unlawful aggression” in the filing to the International Court of...

Putin says US administration trying to undermine Trump
Jan17

Putin says US administration trying to undermine Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the outgoing U.S. administration of trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump by spreading fake allegations. Putin, speaking at a news conference Tuesday, described a dossier on Trump as part of efforts by President Barack Obama’s administration to “undermine the legitimacy of the...

Hundreds of U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia
Jan16

Hundreds of U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia

Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway’s Arctic neighbor Russia.Officials played down any link between the operation and NATO concerns over Russia, but the deployment...

Germany invites Russian minister on EU sanctions list to G20 meeting
Jan13

Germany invites Russian minister on EU sanctions list to G20 meeting

Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev, who is on a European Union list of Russians banned from entering the bloc, will next week attend a meeting in Berlin with his G20 counterparts at Germany’s invitation.European Union leaders last July extended economic sanctions against Russia first imposed in 2014 after it annexed Crimea and...

Spain’s Envoy to UK Resigns Amid Outcry Over Plane Crash
Jan13

Spain’s Envoy to UK Resigns Amid Outcry Over Plane Crash

MADRID — Spain’s ambassador to the United Kingdom resigned Thursday amid increasing calls for him to be sacked over his handling of 75 deaths in a 2003 crash of a military jet. Ambassador Federico Trillo said he decided to step down “in order not to interfere with the government’s work.” Trillo was chosen for the London...

US Troops Enter Poland, 1st Deployment at Russia’s Doorstep
Jan12

US Troops Enter Poland, 1st Deployment at Russia’s Doorstep

WARSAW, Poland — American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia. Some people waved and held up American flags as U.S. troops in tanks and other vehicles crossed into southwestern Poland from Germany and...

Tillerson says China should be barred from South China Sea islands
Jan12

Tillerson says China should be barred from South China Sea islands

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state has set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing, 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 on Wednesday before the...