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Pence Reassures Japan On North Korea, Promises To Work With China
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reassured Japan of American commitment to reining in North Korea’s nuclear and missile ambitions on Tuesday, after warning that U.S. strikes in Syria and Afghanistan showed the strength of its resolve.Pence arrived in Tokyo from South Korea, where he assured leaders of an “iron-clad” alliance with the United...
Pope Denounces ‘Vile’ Syria Attack In His Easter Message
Pope Francis used his Easter address Sunday to speak out against the most recent bombing in Syria.In an “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) speech with an audience of thousands, Francis called for the support of those working to bring peace to Syrians, who are “so greatly suffering from a war that continues to sow horror and death,” he...
Will Russia Accept An Investigation Into Gas Attacks In Syria?
UNITED NATIONS – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN envoy Vladimir Sakronkov said Syria was blamed for a nerve gas attack on April 4 before an independent investigation had even been conducted.Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, called for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to undertake a...
Erdogan Is Popular For The Same Reason Duterte, Modi And Putin Are Popular
MANILA, Philippines ― On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s charismatic president, will face his biggest electoral test yet: A game-changing referendum that will decide whether he will become an all-powerful president until 2029.The failed 2016 coup against the Turkish government provided Erdogan the perfect pretext to fully consolidate...
Trump Says NATO Accepted His Demands, Declares It No Longer Obsolete
WASHINGTON – Although candidate Donald Trump threatened to “dissolve” NATO if member nations didn’t pay up, President Trump on Wednesday praised the group as a “great alliance” – thanks, he suggested, to changes made because of his demands.Appearing beside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a White House news conference, Trump said...
Trump’s Former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort To Register As Foreign Agent: Reports
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort will register with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent, according to reports by The Associated Press and NBC News.Manafort reportedly led lobbying efforts on behalf of the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, a front group for former Ukrainian President...
Lithuania To Push Military Spending Above NATO Target
Lithuania will keep increasing military spending after hitting NATO’s recommended level of 2 percent of economic output in the next two years, its finance minister said, as Russia builds up capabilities on the borders of its Baltic neighbors.Relations with the West were damaged by Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and deteriorated...
Putin: U.S.-Russia Ties Worse Since Trump Took Office
Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump, as Moscow delivered an unusually hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria.Any hope in Russia that the Trump administration would herald less confrontational relations has been dashed in the...
Here’s Why U.S.-Russia Military Conflict Over Syria Is Looking More And More Likely
MOSCOW ― The Russia-U.S. relationship is rapidly getting back to “normal” ― mutual rejection and confrontation. Just days ago, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow this week was anticipated with hope that the two countries would at last start working on a new agenda and preparing a meeting of their presidents. But the...
Nikki Haley Asks Russia ‘How Many More Children Have To Die’ After Syria Gas Attack
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued sharp criticism Wednesday of Russian actions in Syria, asking the U.N. Security Council, “How many more children have to die before Russia cares?”Haley’s statement was a response to a chemical weapons attack the day before in Syria’s Idlib province that killed scores of people,...
