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US President Donald Trump made the border wall a major 2016 campaign promise [Brendan Smialowski/AFP] The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump‘s administration to begin using billions of dollars in military funds to build parts of a border wall with Mexico. Friday’s decision by the conservative-majority court clears the way for Trump to […]

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to meet at the G-7 Summit in Biarritz, France, on Aug. 24-26. | Alex Wong/Getty Images   President Donald Trump warned France on Friday that it will shortly face retaliation over its decision to adopt a digital services tax, which the United States believes will […]

 AFP | The convoy carrying the body of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi leaves the military hospital in Tunis on July 26, 2019. Essebsi, Tunisia’s first democratically-elected president, died on Thursday at 92. A few hours after Essebsi’s death, parliament speaker Mohamed Ennaceur was sworn in as interim president in line with the constitution. The […]

DAMASCUS, (ST)- President Bashar Al-Assad and his Russian Counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday exchanged congratulations on the 75th anniversary of establishing the Syrian-Russian diplomatic ties. In his cable of congratulation, President Al-Assad  stressed that relations between Syria and Russia are based on mutual respect and confidence and that Russia has throughout history proved that it is […]

VOA’s U.N. Correspondent Margaret Besheer contributed to this report from New York. WASHINGTON – At least six of the most severely wounded people in Wednesday’s suicide attack in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, have been airlifted to Qatar for treatmen, Somali government officials said. “A military ambulance jet from Qatari Armed Forces have taken the wounded to […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a submarine factory in an undisclosed location, North Korea, in this undated picture released by North Korea’s Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 23, 2019. KCNA via REUTERS A day after two North Korean missile launches rattled Asia, the nation announced Friday that it had tested a ”new-type […]

In this undated file photo distributed by the North Korean government on May 22, 2017, a solid-fuel “Pukguksong-2” missile lifts off during its launch test at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (AP Photo) The US said Wednesday that Pyongyang had fired a short-range projectile, while South Korean media reported that two had been launched. […]

Mayor for Mogadishu Abdirahman Omar Osman is receiving treatment for the injuries sustained in the blast, according to officials [FILE – Feisal Omar/Reuters] At least six people have been killed and the mayor of Mogadishu wounded in a suicide attack inside his office during a security meeting, officials said. “The mayor was wounded in the blast […]

German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who has been nominated as European Commission President, briefs the media after the Conference of Presidents of European Parliament’s party blocs in Brussels, Belgium, July 10, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] Rising trade tensions, sharp differences on multilateralism await von der Leyen Ursula von der Leyen, the upcoming first female president […]

  Most voters say the chants of “send her back” at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina last week were racist, as were the president’s tweets about four congresswomen of color that inspired the outburst, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found. Fifty-eight percent of voters labeled the chants, which were directed at Rep. Ilhan […]