Section: US & Canada
Trump in Japan for G-20 Summit, Talks With World Leaders
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived Thursday in Osaka, Japan, where he is attending a summit with other leaders from the Group of 20.On the sidelines of the main event, Trump is scheduled to hold a number of bilateral meetings, including those with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and Friday talks...
Trump Lands in Asia for His Most Consequential Overseas Trip This Year
OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump on Thursday began what is likely his most consequential overseas trip of the year, one that will present the “America First” president with a flurry of international crises, tense negotiations and a growing global to-do list. Trump landed in Osaka, Japan, for the annual Group of 20 summit amid a tropical...
Ukrainian Authorities Investigate ‘Attempted Murder’ Of Politician
Police in the Ukrainian city of Konotop have launched an attempted murder investigation after the city’s former mayor, Artem Semenikhin, was brutally beaten in the early hours of June 27. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
President Trump Heads to Asia for Global Talks on Trade, Iran and More
(WASHINGTON) — The fun and flattery are largely over for President Donald Trump as he embarks on his third overseas trip in a month, this time facing a flurry of international crises, tense negotiations and a growing global to-do list. Trump heads first to Osaka, Japan, for the annual Group of 20 summit, then on to South Korea for consultations...
Russia Hails Restoration of Its Council of Europe Voting Rights
Russian officials are hailing the decision by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to ratify credentials of the country’s delegation, restoring Russia’s participation five years after the country was stripped of voting rights. But seven countries including Ukraine said Wednesday that they were recalling their...
Putin, Unclassified
We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him WrongMark Galeotti Ebury Press, 2019, $19.95, 160 pp. Editor’s Note: This is the first essay in a multi-author series on “Getting Russia Right”. Coming next week: Carla Anne Robbins.Mark Galeotti’s new book, We Need to Talk About Putin—subtitled “How the West Gets Him Wrong”—is a...
Trump Heads to Japan for G-20 Summit
Just a month after a state visit to Japan, U.S. President Donald Trump is heading to the East Asian country again.In Osaka, Trump will attend the Group of 20 leaders’ summit, during which he is scheduled to meet one-on-one on the sidelines with such fellow world leaders as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin....
ICE lays claim to Ukrainian driver accused in fatal New Hampshire motorcycle crash
CONCORD, N.H. — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is taking steps to ensure a Ukrainian-born truck driver whose collision with motorcyclists in New Hampshire left seven dead remains in custody even if his criminal case were dismissed. Twenty-three-year-old Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is being held without bail in the Coos County House...
Ex-Trump Aide Manafort to Be Arraigned Thursday in New York
Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump, will be arraigned Thursday in a New York court in Manhattan on state criminal charges, after having been convicted last year on federal fraud charges.Manafort, 70, is scheduled to appear before Justice Maxwell Wiley of the state Supreme Court at 2:15 p.m. EDT (1815 GMT)...
The Making of a Russian Spy
TALLINN, Estonia—Deniss Metsavas was visiting his relatives in Russia in the summer of 2007 when the incident occurred.While out with his cousin at a nightclub in Smolensk, Metsavas struck up a conversation with an attractive woman he hadn’t met before. They hit it off and spent the night flirting and dancing before retiring to a sauna in...
