Trump to wade into Middle East politics on first foreign trip U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this month, kicking off his first foreign trip, where he will work to reinvigorate traditional alliances in the region. Trump said he would also […]
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As Trump woos China’s Xi, Dalai Lama has to wait on the sidelines When Donald Trump was elected in November, the Dalai Lama said he was keen to meet the incoming U.S. president, but since then Trump has cozied up to China's leader Xi Jinping, making it less likely the […]
Squeezed by global powers, South Koreans seek 'Korea first' in new leader Jason Lim, a 36-year-old South Korean engineer living in Washington D.C., thinks it's important to try and maintain a solid alliance with the United States – but not at any cost. Lim and many other South Koreans say […]
U.S. coaxes Mexico into Trump plan to overhaul Central America The United States is plotting an ambitious attempt to shore up Central America, with the administration of President Donald Trump pressing Mexico to do more to stem the flow of migrants fleeing violence and poverty in the region, U.S. and […]
Dozens of Fairfax journalists down pens in protest over job cuts More than 100 journalists at Australia's oldest publisher, Fairfax Media, protested outside the company's offices on Thursday at the start of a rare week-long strike in opposition to a decision to axe a quarter of its editorial staff. Fairfax […]
Macron, Le Pen clash on euro, terrorism, in French pre-election TV showdown Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron clashed over their vision of France's future, the euro and ways of fighting terrorism in an ill-tempered televised debate on Wednesday before Sunday's run-off vote for the presidency. The […]
Suicide attack on NATO convoy in Kabul kills eight civilians A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday killed eight people and wounded at least 28, officials said, in an attack on a convoy of armored personnel carriers used by the NATO-led Resolute Support mission. The blast hit […]
North Korea says American was detained for 'attempted subversion' North Korea said on Wednesday an American man it had detained in late April, the third U.S. citizen being held by the isolated country, was intercepted because he was attempting to commit "hostile acts". The state-run KCNA news agency said the […]
Le Pen as president would seek French electoral law change aide Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen would try to change France's electoral law by referendum if she wins the presidency on Sunday and her National Front (FN) party fails to win a parliamentary majority in June, a senior FN official […]
Assange lawyer asks Swedish court to tear up detention order Julian Assange's lawyer has requested a Swedish court rescind a detention order against the WikiLeaks founder over an alleged rape and allow him to go to Ecuador to be safe from extradition to the United States. Assange, 45, has been […]
