British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday condemned disparaging comments made by US President Donald Trump about outgoing premier Theresa May and Britain’s ambassador to Washington. “@realDonaldTrump friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country,” Hunt tweeted.
The US Treasury placed two Hezbollah members of Lebanon’s parliament on its sanctions blacklist on Tuesday — the first time Washington has taken aim at the party’s elected politicians. The Treasury named the head of the Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc Hajj Mohammad Raad and MP Amin Sherri to a ...