US President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate” Turkey’s economy if it carries out a military offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria, drawing a response from Ankara which warned Washington against “shadowing” the country’s strategic partnership with “terrorist propaganda”. Trump’s threat on Sunday came amid tensions between the United States and Turkey over the fate of Washington’s Syrian Kurdish allies in the […]
Continue reading …House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, along with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, took issue with the president’s remarks Saturday to Fox News. | J. Scott The Democratic chairmen of three powerful House committees appeared to suggest on Sunday that President Donald Trump attempted to “obstruct […]
Continue reading …US threatens sanctions over Russia-Germany gas pipeline Richard Grenell. Photo: DPA The US ambassador to Germany has warned of sanctions against firms linked to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia, the American embassy in Berlin confirmed on Sunday. A letter envoy Richard Grenell sent to several businesses “reminds that any company operating in the […]
Continue reading …Fabio Marchi, AFP | Italian ultra-leftist militant Cesare Battisti arrives escorted by police to the headquarters of the Federal Police in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, on October 5, 2017, after a judge ordered his detention. Cesare Battisti, an Italian sought by Rome for four murders attributed to a far-left group in the […]
Continue reading …US President Donald Trump hid details of his conversations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Washington Post has reported. The Washington Post report, published on Sunday, comes two days after the New York Times disclosed that the FBI had opened an investigation into Trump’s relations with Russia. Citing current and former officials in the White House, the Washington Post reported […]
Continue reading …Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, the Saudi teen who locked herself in a Bangkok hotel room and used Twitter to plead for asylum, is welcomed in Toronto by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland on Saturday. (RICK MADONIK / TORONTO STAR) Her whirlwind first day in Canada began in front of dozens of photographers and reporters at Pearson airport, as she […]
Continue reading …The FBI counterintelligence probe into President Donald Trump is separate from the previously known criminal investigation into whether the president obstructed justice. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed a New York Times report on Friday that said the FBI opened an inquiry into President Donald Trump shortly after he fired FBI […]
Continue reading …A missile attack reported at Mazzeh air base in Syria, September 2, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter) Syrian air defense batteries opened fire on “hostile Israel missiles” near Damascus Friday night, the official news agency SANA reported. A military source told the news agency that “at 11:15 p.m. Israeli warplanes coming from the direction of the […]
Continue reading …Nuruddin Farah Yinka Olatunbosun reflects on the substance in the words of the Somali novelist, playwright and scholar with 22 years of self-imposed exile, Nuruddin Farrah, during his last visit to Nigeria at the Ake Book and Arts Festival in Lagos Nuruddin Farah’s first novel,From A Crooked Rib, published in 1970 was considered a critique […]
Continue reading …Incumbent prime minister and Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven is questioned by media on Thursday. Photo: Naina Helen Jåma/TT Sweden’s four-month political deadlock may be reaching a conclusion, as Swedish media reported that a deal had been made. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet cited sources that the Social Democrats and Green Party had reached a deal with the Centre […]
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