Foreign Policy

The White House on Saturday outlined a $50 billion Middle East economic plan that would create a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighboring Arab state economies, and fund a $5 billion transportation […]

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and will put serious thought into its content, North Korea’s state-run news agency KCNA said, Reuters informed. In a report published […]

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Rising tension between the U.S. and Iran eased at least temporarily on Friday after President Donald Trump said he called off a planned military strike in order to spare Iranian lives, a development that opened […]

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Iranian officials told Reuters on Friday that Tehran had received a message from U.S. President Donald Trump warning that a U.S. attack on Iran was imminent but saying he was against war and wanted talks […]

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Top Chinese and U.S. officials will resume trade talks in accordance with the wishes of their leaders, but China hopes the United States will create the necessary conditions for dialogue, the Chinese commerce ministry said […]

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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in North Korea on Thursday as Beijing looks to bolster its neighbor, hit by U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs, a week before Xi and President Donald Trump […]

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A U.S. military drone has been shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile while in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials said, BBC reports. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it shot down […]

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A rocket hit a site in southern Iraq used by foreign oil companies on Wednesday, including U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil, wounding three people and threatening to further escalate U.S.-Iran tensions in the region, Reuters informs. […]

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Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to make his first state visit to North Korea this week, a surprise move that could rattle his relationship with President Donald Trump, who has twice met the North’s leader, […]

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Venezuela on Monday freed opposition lawmaker Gilber Caro, who was detained in April in what allies said was a violation of his parliamentary immunity, the opposition-controlled National Assembly said on Twitter, Reuters writes. The move […]

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Iran announced on Monday it would breach uranium enrichment limits in 10 days in a move that drew an accusation of “nuclear blackmail” from Washington, but it added that European nations still had time to […]

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Iran’s top paramilitary force is maintaining support for armed groups in the Middle East and finding new sources of funding, defying U.S. efforts to weaken its activities abroad as tensions between Washington and Tehran soar […]

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The Trump administration has decided to delay the release of the political part of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan until Israel holds elections and forms a government this fall, according to two sources, who said that […]

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is blaming Iran for last week’s attack on two ships in the Gulf of Oman, calling on the international community to take a “firm stand towards an exponential regime […]

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Just days after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Iran could be responsible for the attack on two oil tankers that took place in the Gulf of Oman, President Donald Trump reiterated his comments, saying […]

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Over 300 sites in North Korea have been identified as locations of public executions carried out by the hermit kingdom, sometimes drawing hundreds of forced spectators as the part of a campaign to intimidate citizens, […]

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Saudi Arabia’s Abha Airport was struck by a rebel Houthi missile from Yemen on Wednesday wounding 26 people, the Saudi military says.   The missile hit the airport’s arrivals hall, with three women and two […]

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Japan’s government spokesman says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s high-stakes trip to Iran is intended to help de-escalate tensions in the Mideast, and not specifically mediate between Tehran and Washington, Fox News informed. The remarks by […]

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The leaders of the United States and North Korea had two meetings until now, and the second summit that happened in Vietnam was considered to be a failure as nothing new came out of it. […]

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President Donald Trump said Monday that another agreement with Mexico existed, but that for now it was kept secret, a claim the Mexican foreign minister vehemently denied. “We have an agreement on something that they […]

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Iranian authorities have barred the Tehran-based correspondent for The New York Times from working for the past four months, the newspaper said Monday. The correspondent, Thomas Erdbrink, a Netherlands citizen, has reported for The Times […]

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