The Trump administration has reportedly frozen a multimillion dollar aid package granted to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the final hours of Barack Obama’s presidency. Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was told by US officials not to expect the $220� ...[
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President Donald Trump says he is going to establish a "safe zone" in Syria. The new US leader has not given details of the project, however experts have expressed concern about the potential risk of an escalation as a result of the American military inte ...[
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s appearance at last week’s World Economic Forum shows global leadership is shifting, not drifting, toward Beijing. The most vigorous defense of globalization and multilateral cooperation was mounted not by an American sta ...[
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At a forum hosted by NBC on 7 September, Trump suggested oil seizure would have been a way to pay for the Iraq war, saying: “We go in, we spend $3tn, we lose thousands and thousands of lives, and then … what happens is we get nothing. You know, it use ...[
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Trump's ascension to the presidency has ended his inside-out shtick. Much like Barack Obama in 2008, Trump's anti-establishment marketing assault has culminated into an uber-establishment cabinet. Within six weeks of his election victory, Trump has procee ...[
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Following the first statement by the new White House press secretary that the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem was “coming soon,” Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that East Jerusalem should be the official capital of a Palestinian state. ...[
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In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.”… for taking on the CIA and questioning its concl ...[
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Trumpâs critics can do him no bigger favor than using dubious, discredited tactics to attack him. ...[
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Labor and economic equality used to be at the heart of liberal politics. Rich professionals expunged these concerns and have reaped the consequences.
That makes 2016 a disaster for Democrats is not merely the party’s epic wipeout in Washington and the s ...[
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After news of the former revolutionary leader of Cuba's death yesterday, Trump issued a strongly-worded statement calling Castro a "brutal dictator who oppressed his own people."
That was in stark contrast to a statement issued by Russian President Vladim ...[
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange today said the CIA was responsible for paving the way for ISIS as the whistle blowing organisation released more than half a million formerly confidential US diplomatic cables dating back to 1979.
In a statement to coincid ...[
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