“Make Romania Great Again”. That was the message emblazoned across a cap that US President Donald Trump gave his Romanian counterpart, Klaus Iohannis. The slogan is a tweak of the ones used by Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign. The gift was handed to Iohannis as he visited the White House on Tuesday. Pictures released […] Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron will host his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a rare meeting on Monday before the start of the G7 summit in Biarritz. Macron is hoping to convince Russia to help end the conflict in east Ukraine. The French president believes the arrival of Volodymyr Zelensky as Ukrainian president could be the […] Read more
The United States is set to resume using the death penalty after an almost two-decade moratorium on the practice. The US Attorney General William Barr directed the federal bureau of prisons on Thursday to schedule the executions of five people convicted of murder and in some instances of torturing and raping children and the elderly. […] Read more
Boris Johnson: Diplomatic disaster, EU basher or reincarnated olive – who is the new British leader?
Boris Johnson has been crowned the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, and will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at its most critical moment of modern times. The 55-year-old beat Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the runoff to replace Theresa May. “My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances […] Read more
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced on Sunday that he would resign if Conservative leader candidate Boris Johnson is elected as next British prime minister on Wednesday. “I intend to resign after prime minister’s questions on Wednesday”, Hammond told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. Hammond’s announcement came just before foreign office minister […] Read more
Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a British warship warned them, U.S. officials said. Britain’s Ministry of Defence had no immediate comment. The incident occurred almost a week after […] Read more
President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday not to meddle in the U.S. elections, appearing to make light of a scandal that had led to a two-year investigation into his campaign’s contact with the Kremlin during the 2016 elections. Asked by a reporter whether he would raise the issue during a bilateral […] Read more
Moscow has said it will take “countervailing military measures” should NATO fulfil any threat related to Russia’s nuclear-ready cruise missile system. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that Russia must dismantle the short-range system, or the alliance will be forced to respond, adding that NATO-member defense ministers would now look at next steps “in the […] Read more
As tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate, President Donald Trump approved military strikes on several Iranian targets — but abruptly pulled back from launching them on Thursday night, The New York Times reported. The Times report, published late Thursday, cited multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations of the strikes. […] Read more
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving the administration at the end of the month. President Donald Trump says she is returning to her home state of Arkansas and does not immediately name a replacement. Sanders was press secretary since July 2017 and had an adversarial relationship with the media. “A good editor […] Read more
