Month: August 2017

A pair of top State Department officials, including the lead envoy to the UN, have announced they will leave their posts, Foreign Policy reported on Sunday. Tracey Ann Jacobson, a career foreign service officer responsible […]

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North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast early Saturday local time, U.S. officials said, The Hill reports. U.S. Pacific Command said three short-range missiles were launched from Kittaeryong, Kangwon province, with two […]

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The Trump administration imposed new economic sanctions on Venezuela on Friday, modestly ratcheting up the pressure on the embattled government of President Nicolas Maduro for increasingly repressive policies, The New York Times reports. The sanctions […]

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An American service member remains missing after a Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday in what U.S. military officials are calling a training accident, The Washington Post reports. U.S. forces […]

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With photographs obliquely showing a new rocket design, North Korea has sent a message that it is working on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) more powerful than any it has previously tested, weapons experts said […]

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President Donald Trump said on a phone call with his Egyptian counterpart on Thursday that he wants to improve the United States relationship with the country, just days after the U.S. announced it would withhold […]

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Presidential adviser Jared Kushner met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday to try to jumpstart moribund peace talks, but after months without progress the Mideast envoy faces growing skepticism on the Palestinian side, AP […]

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American and Canadian diplomats working in Havana have been diagnosed with serious health conditions including mild traumatic brain injuries and damage to the central nervous system, CBS News reports. CBS reviewed a doctor’s evaluations of […]

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Vice President Mike Pence made a quick trip Wednesday afternoon to this Miami suburb, home to the nation’s largest Venezuelan community, to reinforce and reiterate the Trump administration’s commitment and support for those fighting against […]

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