Section: US & Canada
Lesser-known walls: How Trump’s presidency is intensifying fear in the Baltics
Donald Trump isn’t the only one talking about walls as of late. In the Baltic region, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are building walls along the Russian border — a sort of line in the sand in the face of renewed aggression. And like Trump’s effort, they may further stoke already simmering tensions, Don Murray writes. …read more...
Division over America’s loss of global leadership: Fears of isolationism and fears of recklessness
The UN is anxious and apprehensive about the new US president, his secretary of state, and his UN envoy, not just in terms of the relationship with the UN general secretariat under Antonio Guterres, but also in terms of the impact of bilateral US-Russian and US-Chinese relations on regional issues being examined by the international organization....
B.C. father-son team developing technology to 3D print in space using moon dust
VANCOUVER — For Alex and Sergei Dobrianski, the building blocks of an upcoming revolution in the space industry are found in moon dust. Over the past five years, the father-and-son team has been developing the technology to send a 3D printer to the moon that can extract and use the various fine-grained metals coating the lunar surface to build...
How Trump Could Turn America’s Syria Policy Upside Down
Click here for reuse options! The Middle East expects big changes under Trump, and they’re likely to get them. DamascusNot for at least three quarters of a century have the American people elected a president who so openly disparages, discards and seemingly abhors the principles, standards, policies, ideas, and institutions at the center of...
How Trump Could Turn America’s Syria Policy Upside Down
Click here for reuse options! The Middle East expects big changes under Trump, and they’re likely to get them. DamascusNot for at least three quarters of a century have the American people elected a president who so openly disparages, discards and seemingly abhors the principles, standards, policies, ideas, and institutions at the center of...
Trump, Putin discuss ‘mutually beneficial’ trade, security
var _ndnq = _ndnq || []; _ndnq.push([’embed’]); By JULIE PACE and VIVIAN SALAMA WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had an hourlong discussion Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin — the first since Trump assumed office last week — raising questions over the fate of U.S. sanctions against Moscow and whether the two will...
Trump and Putin connect over Middle East and repairing relationship
President Donald Trump had a “positive call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, during which the two promised to cooperate on destroying ISIS in Syrian and repair U.S. and Russian relations.The discussion was part of a diplomatic effort to connect over the phone with foreign leaders from countries including Japan,...
On first phone call Trump, Putin talk sanctions, says Kremlin
(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has held his first conversation with America’s newly inaugurated leader, attention turns to the fate of...
Trump, Putin Discuss ‘Mutually Beneficial’ Trade, Security
WASHINGTON—Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has held his first conversation with America’s newly inaugurated leader, attention turns to the fate of U.S. sanctions against Moscow and...
Can you say awkward? 5 painful moments from Donald Trump and Theresa May’s joint press conference
British Prime Minister Theresa May talks to media with U.S. President Barack Obama after their bilateral meeting in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, alongside the G20. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Credit: AP) What happens when an American authoritarian meets a British arch-conservative? The public found...
