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Trump to Reaffirm NATO ‘Commitment’ at May Summit: White House

The White House confirmed Tuesday that President Donald Trump will join fellow NATO leaders for a key May summit in Brussels, as the US administration seeks to quash questions about Trump’s support for the alliance. The Trump administration has been scrambling to reaffirm its commitment to Washington’s military alliances — ...

March 22, 2017

World

Trump Tweets Hearing on Russia Allegations ‘Fake News’

President Donald Trump on Monday shot down as “fake news” allegations that he worked with Russia, which US intelligence says tried to tilt the US election in Trump’s favor. His tweet came just as FBI and NSA chiefs were to speak to Congress on what ties Trump may have with ...

March 20, 2017

World

N. Korea Tensions at ‘Dangerous Level’, Tillerson Warns

Korean Peninsula tensions were at a “rather dangerous level”, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday as he pledged the US would work with China to address the North Korean problem. “I think we share a common view and a sense that tensions in the peninsula are quite high ...

March 18, 2017

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Military Action against N. Korea an ‘Option’: Tillerson

Military action by the United States against nuclear-armed North Korea is an “option on the table” if the threat from the rogue regime escalates, Washington’s top diplomat Rex Tillerson said Friday. The strong comments from the secretary of state, in Asia for his first foray into crisis management, appear to ...

March 17, 2017

World

US president-elect Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Trump Hosts Merkel after Snowstorm Delay

Donald Trump hosts Germany’s Angela Merkel at the White House Friday, a meeting delayed by a snowstorm and still clouded by a storm of words between the two ostensible allies. The cautious German chancellor and the impulsive US president will hold talks in the Oval Office, hoping to narrow differences ...

March 17, 2017

World

Americans in Chicago Protesting against Trump's Travel Ban

Trump’s Second Bid at Travel Ban Knocked Down by Two U.S. Judges

First in Hawaii, then Maryland — a pair of judges halted President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban before it could be enforced, slamming it for discriminating against Muslims and handing the administration another setback on a core campaign issue. Decisions by federal judges Derrick Watson and Theodore Chuang blocked a ...

March 16, 2017

World

Trump Budget Proposes Cutting US Funds for UN Climate Programs

US President Donald Trump proposed Thursday to eliminate funds linked to the United Nations climate change programs in his first national budget. The cuts included an end to US participation in the UN’s Green Climate Fund.

March 16, 2017

World

US soldier during Raqa offensive (archive)

US Mulling Sending More 1000 Troops to Syria

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the White House reportedly are considering initial proposals from the Central Command that would send 1,000 more troops into Syria allegedly to accelerate the fight against ISIL Takfiri group in Raqqa. The proposals, first reported Wednesday by The Washington Post, would build on suggestions ...

March 16, 2017

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Devin Nunes, the Republican head of the congressional committee

Top Lawmakers See No Evidence for Trump Wiretap Claim

Senior US lawmakers say they have seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped his New York home and office building. “We don’t have any evidence that that took place,” Devin Nunes, the Republican head of the congressional committee looking into the allegation, ...

March 16, 2017

World

Tillerson: 20 Years of efforts to Denuclearize N. Korea ‘Have Failed’

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that two decades of efforts to stop North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have not worked and that a new approach is needed. “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea ...

March 16, 2017