Section: Time (USA)
Trump Took Aim at Merkel During the Campaign. Now a Full Agenda Awaits Them at the White House
(WASHINGTON) — If President Donald Trump wanted a close working relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he had a funny way of showing it during his presidential campaign. Trump, who will welcome Merkel to the White House on Friday, spent much of 2016 bashing the chancellor, accusing her of “ruining” Germany for allowing an influx of...
Poland Says 98-Year-Old Minnesota Man Was a Nazi War Commander
The Polish government wants to extradite a 98-year-old man living in Minnesota that it believes is a former commander of an SS-led unit during World War II responsible for the death of civilians and destruction of Polish villages. The man, identified by the Associated Press as Michael Karkoc, led the Ukrainian Self Defense legion during World War...
Moscow Cozies Up to the Right
Bistro Bis, a swanky French joint on Capitol Hill, is a Washington institution that has hosted all sorts of political summits over the years. But the group that piled into the restaurant’s Leaders Room on the night of Feb. 1 was among the more unusual. For four hours, current and former Russian officials dined with two Republican...
Two Foreigners in the UAE Face Long Jail Terms For Having Sex Even Though they Were Engaged
A South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for having sex outside of marriage. Emlyn Culverwell‚ 29, and Iryna Nohai, 27, were arrested in an Abu Dhabi hospital in late January after a doctor discovered that Nohai, who had been suffering from stomach cramps, was pregnant, the BBC reports. Sex...
Jeff Sessions Controversy Could Impact U.S.-Russia Relations, Kremlin Says
(MOSCOW) — The intense attention being given to the new U.S. attorney general’s meetings with Russia’s ambassador could obstruct improved Washington-Moscow relations, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. The spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters he did not know about the meetings last year between...
Sweden Is Bringing Back a Military Draft
COPENHAGEN — Sweden’s left-leaning government on Thursday reintroduced a military draft for both men and women because of what Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist called a deteriorating security environment in Europe and around Sweden. Sweden abolished compulsory military service for men in 2010 because there were enough volunteers to meet the...
Russia and China Veto New U.N. Sanctions on Syria
(UNITED NATIONS) — Russia and China vetoed new U.N. sanctions on Syria Tuesday and the U.S. ambassador accused both countries of refusing to hold President Bashar Assad’s regime accountable for the use of chemical weapons. “They put their friends in the Assad regime ahead of our global security,” new American envoy Nikki Haley told the U.N....
The Only 5 Countries That Meet NATO’s Defense Spending Requirements
Getting NATO allies to spend more on defense is one of President Donald Trump’s most consistent foreign policy proposals. He might be on to something. According to NATO’s own figures, just 5 of the 28 alliance members meet the requirement agreed upon in 2006 that members spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense. Here’s a...
Mike Pence Tries to Reassure a Nervous Europe on U.S. Support
(BRUSSELS) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence moved Monday to assuage European Union fears about the strength of Washington’s support for the union and its commitment to European security through the NATO military alliance. In meetings in Brussels, Pence said he was acting on behalf of President Donald Trump “to express the strong commitment...
Mike Pence Promises the World: We Will ‘Hold Russia Accountable’
(MUNICH) — Vice President Mike Pence vowed Saturday that the United States will “hold Russia accountable” even as President Donald Trump searches for new common ground with Moscow at the start of his presidency. Pence, in an address to the Munich Security Conference, also offered assurances to European allies that the U.S. “strongly supports”...
