Trump Starts Foreign Tour In Saudi As Scandals Mount At Home
US President Donald Trump landed in Saudi Arabia Saturday for the start of an eight-day foreign tour, taking his first ...
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Trump Aims To Mend Muslim Ties On First Foreign Trip
US President Donald Trump will seek to rebuild relations with the Muslim world on his first foreign trip starting Saturday ...
Mood At White House Grim As Sense of Crisis Mounts
Less than four months ago, a keen set of young up-and-comers strode into the White House in their best high ...
Trump Takes Perilous First Steps On World Stage
From Riyadh to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Rome, Brussels and Sicily, Donald Trump leaves a swirl of domestic woes behind Friday to ...
Trump and the Hard Grind of Presidential Travel
Most US presidents make their first foreign trip an easy-peasy one-day hop to visit friendly neighbors in Canada or Mexico, ...
Some NATO Allies Favour Joining Anti-IS Coalition
Some NATO allies believe joining the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq could send a ...
NATO Chief Says ‘trusts All Allies’ On Intelligence Sharing
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that he had complete confidence in allies' sharing of sensitive intelligence, amid an uproar ...
US Presses Idea of NATO Taking Over Training of Iraq Troops
The top US military commander floated the idea late Wednesday of NATO assuming some responsibility for training troops in Iraq ...
EU, US To Discuss Possible Airline Laptop Ban Wednesday
The European Union will hold high-level talks with the United States in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss a possible US ...
Trump Weighs Further US Troops For Afghanistan
Hanging in a corridor outside the Pentagon press office, a blow-up of a Time magazine cover shows a weary US ...
US To Discuss With EU Possible Laptop Ban On Flights
US and EU officials are due to discuss the possible extension of a US ban on laptops and tablets in ...
UAE Princesses Accused of Servant Abuses
Eight Arab princesses are on trial in Brussels for trafficking and abusing servants during a stay there. Sheikha Hamda al-Nahyan ...
German Economic Growth Speeds Up
Higher consumer spending has helped to boost growth in the economy Germany's economy grew strongly in the first three months ...
NATO Mulls Sending Thousands More Troops To Afghanistan
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that military chiefs wanted a few thousand more troops from the alliance to ...
FIFA Delays Decision On Israel West Bank Clubs
FIFA said on Tuesday it was "premature" to take any final decision on the controversial issue of Israeli clubs in ...
Trump Delays Decision On Paris Climate Deal
President Donald Trump delayed a decision to honor or walk away from the Paris climate accord until he returns from ...
DR Congo Police Surround Opposition HQ In ‘tomb Row’
About 100 riot police surrounded the main opposition party HQ in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa Tuesday, an AFP correspondent ...
In US, Left and Right Go Along With Macron’s Win
The US political establishment gave a broad welcome Monday to France's election of Emmanuel Macron, taking a cue from President ...
French President-Elect To Fight ‘forces of Division’
Emmanuel Macron has vowed to fight "the forces of division that undermine France" after easily winning the run-off election for ...
How Macron Faces A Battle To Govern Without Traditional Party Support
Emmanuel Macron is already facing a battle to govern France after his election victory - because he does not have ...