President’s attack on ‘evils’ of socialism likely made with 2020 presidential election in mind Donald Trump has issued his most blunt threat yet to Venezuela’s military – stop supporting Nicolas Maduro or risk “losing everything”. In a speech in which he claimed “the evils” of socialism were also being turned ... Read More »
Donald Trump will declare a national emergency to build a wall along the southern US border after failing to secure funding for the measure through Congress. The president plans on issuing that declaration after he signs the government funding bill that Congress is poised to approve to keep the government ... Read More »
The US could come under attack from space, the government’s Defense Intelligence Agency has warned. Other countries including Russia and China are building technologies that could challenge the perceived advantage and dependence of the American government’s military in space, a new report warns. At its most dramatic, it even suggests ... Read More »
Officials signed a short-term agreement on Sunday to boost South Korea’s contribution toward the upkeep of U.S. troops on the peninsula, after a previous deal lapsed amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for the South to pay more. About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, where the United ... Read More »
Theresa May will return to Brussels later to press EU leaders for legally binding changes to the Brexit deal. The PM will insist the UK will not be “trapped” in the backstop – the plan to avoid the return of Irish border checks should no UK-EU trade deal be in ... Read More »
Hope is real after landmark Taliban talks, but fears remain about what might happen if US troops depart The start of 2019 has brought for Afghanistan a tantalising hope of peace, fragile but very real, as the Taliban sat down for talks first with Americans in Qatar and this week ... Read More »
Luigi Di Maio says ‘winds of change’ have crossed the Alps France’s foreign ministry has said that Italy’s deputy prime minister meeting with leaders of the yellow vest movement is an “unacceptable provocation”. Luigi Di Maio, who also leads the populist, anti-establishment 5-Star party, said he met yellow vests leader ... Read More »
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday no peace deal between the Taliban and the United States could be finalised without involving his government as “the decision-maker”. Ghani’s government has so far been shut out of the evolving peace talks between Taliban negotiators and U.S. envoys to end more than ... Read More »
North Korea is working to ensure its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities cannot be destroyed by military strikes, U.N. monitors said ahead of a meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials to prepare a second denuclearization summit. The U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will meet his North ... Read More »
The oppression of the illegitimate, kleptocratic Maduro regime must end,’ says Jeremy Hunt Russia has warned against “destructive meddling” in Venezuela as Britain recognised opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president. The US, Canada and several Latin American and European countries have disavowed Nicolas Maduro over his disputed re-election last ... Read More »
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