Month: August 2018

Both China and Russia didn’t agree with the U.S. decision to impose sanctions on countries that have trade with Iran. The condemnation doesn’t come as a surprise since both countries have close ties that they […]

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Republican Senator Rand Paul has delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, AP/TIME informs. Paul, who defended Trump regarding his meeting with Putin last month in Helsinki, has been visiting […]

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Over the past few weeks, record temperatures, power outages, and water shortages, along with a 50 percent rise in the price of some food items, have triggered scattered protests across Iran, Bloomberg writes. As bad […]

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President Donald Trump’s administration decided to impose new sanctions on Russia over Moscow’s alleged use of a nerve agent against an ex-British spy. The Hill reported that the State Department said in a statement on […]

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Turkey announced that it won’t stop buying natural gas from Iran because it has a long-term supply contract. According to Reuters, Turkey’s energy minister announced Turkey’s decision on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump […]

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As the trade war between U.S. and China is escalating Beijing has announced another round of retaliatory tariffs. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday stated that it will impose 25 percent tariffs on $16 […]

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President Trump compared the growing U.S. economy to a “fine-tuned machine” and again addressed China about its unfair trading practices Tuesday night at a dinner with prominent business leaders at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Fox News informed. […]

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Republican Senator Rand Paul on Tuesday had a meeting with the former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The meeting was part of his week long trip to Russia, The Hill reported. After the meeting, Paul […]

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National Security Adviser John Bolton on Tuesday stated that North Korea made no progress in denuclearization. “The United States has lived up to the Singapore declaration,” Bolton said in an interview on Fox News, referring […]

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North Korea released a detained South Korean citizen on Tuesday, in a rare humanitarian gesture that was welcomed by the South Korean government, The New York Times reported. The returnee was handed over to the […]

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