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WASHINGTON (AP) — In bluntly vulgar language, President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal, according to people briefed on the extraordinary Oval Office conversation. Trump’s contemptuous description of an entire continent […]

Austria’s new far-right interior minister sparked an outcry Thursday by saying that his government wants to “concentrate” asylum-seekers, employing a word widely associated with Nazi camps. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (R) hands over the letter of appointment to Interior Minister Herbert Kickl during the inauguration ceremony of the new government in December . […]

TOKYO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday headed to the Baltic states and other European nations as he seeks to drum up support for his hawkish stance on North Korea. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie wave goodbye before leaving for a six-nation European visit, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.  Photo: AFP Despite a […]

US President Donald Trump canceled a visit to London scheduled for early this year, saying he was disappointed with the “Obama administration having sold” the US embassy in the British capital. President Trump has canceled a visit to London scheduled for early this year. (Reuters) “(The) reason I canceled my trip to London is that […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has emerged a winner in the latest crisis around the Korean Peninsula, Russian president Vladimir Putin said. He believes Pyongyang is now trying to defuse tensions. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un © KCNA / Reuters  “I believe, Mr Kim Jong-un has certainly won this round,” Putin told journalists at […]

Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg appealed to US president Donald Trump’s business instincts over the Paris Agreement in a press conference following a bilateral meeting at the White House. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix During the White House press conference, Solberg rebuffed Trump’s claim that the Paris climate accord “would have taken away our […]

M© Justin Tallis, AFP | File photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange taken on May 19, 2017. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was “naturalized” as an Ecuadorean on Dec. 12, at his request, Ecuador’s foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that she was seeking a “dignified” solution to his situation with Britain. Britain said earlier on […]

US President Donald Trump is set to decide whether or not to reimpose wide-ranging sanctions on Iran, the latest in a series of actions that put into question the survival of the 2015 nuclear agreement between world powers and the Islamic Republic. Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to “rip up” the deal signed by his […]

Russia has never interfered in US internal affairs and is not planning to do so, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. He added that it is the US that “interferes everywhere” and should expect reciprocal action.   Putin: US interferes in other countries’ affairs, should expect mirror reply No country would tolerate foreign interference in its […]