Section: Time (USA)
Russia Is Happy With Donald Trump’s Choice of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State
Many Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have a good relationship with Exxon Mobil Corp’s Rex Tillerson, the Kremlin told reporters on Tuesday. Tillerson was selected by President-elect Donald Trump as Secretary of State on Monday night, his transition team confirmed. Tillerson, whom Trump called a “world class player”...
Why Angela Merkel Isn’t Ready to Be the ‘Leader of the Free World’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows what it’s like to be underestimated. Her political party, the Christian Democratic Union, was a stodgy old boys’ club when she first joined in the early 1990s, and most of her rivals tended to dismiss or ignore her, the pastor’s daughter with the chemistry degree—even as she passed them on...
Russia Accuses Ukraine of Trying to Sabotage Donald Trump’s Campaign
A top official in the Russian government has accused Ukraine of attempting to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov said Ukraine had “planted” stories about Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, in the U.S. media. “Ukraine seriously complicated the work of...
Vladimir Putin Says He Wants to Cooperate With Donald Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he wants to reset relations with the United States when President-elect Donald Trump takes office in order to work together on range of issues, including terrorism. “We are ready for cooperation with the new U.S. administration,” Putin said in a speech at the Kremlin, according to a Bloomberg...
President Obama and Vladimir Putin Speak at APEC Conference in Peru
(LIMA, Peru) — President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and Ukraine on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru, in their first known conversation since Donald Trump was elected the next U.S. president. The two leaders were seen chatting at the start of the opening session of the...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Will Run for a Fourth Term: Report
(BERLIN) — Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor in general elections next year, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday. Dpa, citing sources at the Berlin headquarters of Merkel’s Christian Democrat party, reported that the 62-year-old chancellor also will run to be re-elected as the party’s...
The West Can’t Stand Up to Russia in the Donald Trump Era
At the end of October, one of the Russian navy’s main battleships, a guided-missile destroyer called the Smetlivy, set out from its homeport in Crimea and headed west through the Black Sea and into the Aegean. It had two stops to make. The first was in Greece—a member of NATO and the European Union—where the ship was invited to a maritime...
Obama Meets with European Leaders in Berlin to Talk U.S. Relations
BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the leaders of key European countries in Germany on Friday to discuss an array of security and economic challenges facing the trans-Atlantic partners as the U.S. prepares for President-elect Donald Trump to take office in January. Obama’s meeting with the leaders of Germany, Britain, France, Italy...
The U.S. Voted Against a U.N. Anti-Nazi Resolution. Here’s Why
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States was one of three countries to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism on Thursday, citing freedom of speech issues and concerns that Russia was using it to carry out political attacks against its neighbors. The resolution entitled “Combating glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism...
The Foreign Policy Challenges That Will Fill Up President Trump’s Inbox
As a general philosophy, we should expect the pragmatic, antitrade and somewhat isolationist themes of the campaign to become the core elements of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Discussions will return of abandoning NATO, building a “big, beautiful wall” on the Mexican border, working more closely with Russian President Vladimir...
