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    U.S. Vice President Biden Making Final Ukraine Visit
    Jan16

    U.S. Vice President Biden Making Final Ukraine Visit

    U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ukraine for talks with the country’s leaders to underline U.S. support for Kyiv and also mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea
    Jan16

    Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

    BANGKOK (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest developments in the...

    Donald Trump Says Brexit Will Be ‘A Great Thing’
    Jan16

    Donald Trump Says Brexit Will Be ‘A Great Thing’

    (NEW YORK) — Wading into foreign affairs days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump said Britain’s decision to leave the European Union would “end up being a great thing” and predicted the bloc would continue to break apart. The incoming president, in an interview published Sunday, said European countries are reacting to an...

    Trump Wants To Cut Russia Sanctions In Return For Nuclear Arms Deal
    Jan16

    Trump Wants To Cut Russia Sanctions In Return For Nuclear Arms Deal

    LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia for its annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he told The Times of London.Trump, in an interview with the newspaper published online on Sunday, was deeply...

    Trump calls NATO ‘obsolete,’ promises to reward Putin for invading Ukraine … and whines about SNL
    Jan16

    Trump calls NATO ‘obsolete,’ promises to reward Putin for invading Ukraine … and whines about SNL

    Taking time out of his busy schedule of insulting civil rights icons with racist tweets, popular vote loser and Putin puppet Donald Trump has shared a few thoughts on foreign policy: On Russia, he suggested he might use economic sanctions imposed for Vladimir Putin’s encroachment on Ukraine as leverage in nuclear-arms reduction talks, while...

    Five Reasons the Paris Conference Failed
    Jan16

    Five Reasons the Paris Conference Failed

    As we said repeatedly in the build-up to Sunday’s gathering in Paris of representatives of 70 countries to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue, AJC has long supported the search for an enduring peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state accord. It is precisely in that spirit that we voiced our concerns about...

    Trump eager to work with Putin
    Jan16

    Trump eager to work with Putin

    President-elect Donald Trump signaled an openness to working with Russian President Vladimir Putin on a nuclear reduction deal to ease American sanctions. Trump’s interview with the Times of London, published Sunday afternoon, comes amid ongoing questions in the U.S. in the days before his inauguration this Friday about Putin’s...

    Russian ‘Kompromat’ Remains Alive and Well
    Jan15

    Russian ‘Kompromat’ Remains Alive and Well

    Amid the political maelstrom surrounding the leaked, and wholly unverified, accusations of the Kremlin’s possession of compromising information on U.S. President Elect Donald Trump, a new Russian word entered the global lexicon, “kompromat.” “The Kremlin has no kompromat on the president-elect of the United States, Donald...

    Russia-US ties hard to mend, interests differ sharply
    Jan15

    Russia-US ties hard to mend, interests differ sharply

    U.S. intelligence agencies have accused Russia of meddling in the U.S. election through hacking, to help Trump win, claims that Russia has rejected. U.S. and EU officials also have accused Russia of hacking other Western institutions and voiced concern that Russia may try to influence this year’s elections in Germany, France and the...

    Russia-US ties hard to mend, interests differ sharply
    Jan15

    Russia-US ties hard to mend, interests differ sharply

    MOSCOW (AP) – The Kremlin hopes that Donald Trump will move to improve badly strained Russia-U.S. ties once he takes office. Relations between Moscow and Washington are at their lowest point since the Cold War amid the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and other issues. It would be challenging … …read more Source: The...