Foreign Policy

The Trump administration is calling for a transitional government in Venezuela made up of the opposition and some members of President Nicolas Maduro’s Socialist Party and is laying out for the first time how U.S. […]

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Iran’s president on Sunday lashed out at criticism of its lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, saying the government has to weigh economic concerns as it takes measures to contain […]

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Saudi Arabia halted entry and exit into Jeddah governorate on Sunday while hundreds of German tourists were repatriated from the United Arab Emirates as the coronavirus continued to spread in the region, Reuters writes. The […]

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U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents on Friday remanded in custody retired Venezuelan general Cliver Alcala, three people familiar with the matter said, after he agreed to work with prosecutors who charged him, President Nicolas Maduro […]

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Support for the demands of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong has grown even as rallies have paused due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a survey conducted for Reuters that also showed a widespread lack […]

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Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007, “may have passed away some time ago,” according to U.S. intelligence officials. The statement came after Levinson’s family released a statement of […]

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The UN on Thursday dispatched a total of 51 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, a northwestern Syrian city where millions of people are in desperate need of assistance, Anadolu Agency reported. Trucks entered the […]

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Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee has detained a man suspected of planning a bomb attack in the capital, Nur-Sultan, on behalf of Islamic State, the security body said on Thursday, Reuters reported. The man had an […]

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Trains carrying factory employees back to work after two months in locked-down cities rolled out of Hubei province, the center of China’s virus outbreak, as the government on Wednesday began lifting the last of the […]

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India is likely to agree to an economic stimulus package of more than 1.5 trillion rupees ($19.6 billion) to fight a downturn in the country that is currently locked down to stem the spread of […]

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There was music legend Lionel Richie and Greek composer Yanni and Italian opera star Andrea Bocelli. And then, out of the winter desert in Saudi Arabia, the Iranian singers took to the stage, Middle East […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been tested for the new coronavirus and does not need to undergo such a test because he is healthy and has no symptoms, the Kremlin said on Friday, Reuters […]

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Shelling by Kurdish forces on the rebel-held Afrin city and its countryside in northern Syria killed five people including children on Wednesday, a war monitor reported, according to Xinhua. The shelling also wounded 15 others […]

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that some information about coronavirus cases was being “insufficiently communicated” by Middle East states, Reuters informs. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said there […]

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China announced early on Wednesday that it was retaliating against U.S. restrictions on Chinese journalists, with actions that include rescinding the press credentials of American correspondents with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and […]

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“There’s nothing now. Nothing at all,” said Yasser Aboud, as he looked away from his family’s few remaining belongings, dumped on the floor of the bare single room that would now be their home in […]

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Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., blasted China’s handling of the coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures”, Fox News informed. Nunes, the ranking member on the House Permanent […]

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