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(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 campaign after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Sunday (July 9), citing three advisers to the White House. Trump’s then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attended the meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Trump won the Republican nomination, the Times […]
Agence France Presse — United States film star Shia LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia early Saturday after becoming “aggressive” towards a police officer and behaving in a “disorderly” fashion, authorities said. According to the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, LaBeouf was arrested in the early hours after he approached a bystander and a police officer, asking for a cigarette. He was released hours later after posting a $7,000 bond, Pete Nichols, spokesman for the Chatham County […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin exchanged a handshake for the first time on Friday as they arrived for the G20 summit in Germany, the Kremlin said. “They shook hands and said they will meet separately and see each other soon,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The billionaire tycoon and the ex-KGB agent’s meeting later Thursday in the German port city of Hamburg promises to be […]
Americans celebrated Independence Day on Tuesday (July 4) with fireworks, acts of gluttony and escapes to the beach, even for people in New Jersey where legislators brokered a last-minute deal to reopen state parks. In keeping with tradition, cities across the country will launch fireworks after dark, perhaps the most emblematic way to commemorate July 4, 1776, when the American colonies’ Declaration of Independence from Britain was adopted. The document enshrines the rights to life, […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold a first meeting with United States leader Donald Trump on Friday, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, the Kremlin said Tuesday. “It has been agreed for July 7,” top Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies, without giving further details. The much-hyped maiden encounter between the two leaders comes as Trump’s camp is under intense […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An American warship on Sunday sailed close to a disputed island in the South China Sea occupied by Beijing, as part of an operation to demonstrate freedom of navigation in the waters, a United States official said. The destroyer USS Stethem passed less than 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) from tiny Triton Island in the Paracel Islands archipelago, which is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam, the official told AFP. […]
Rodrigo Duterte ends his first year as Philippine president on Friday as a hugely popular leader. The 72-year-old has upended decades of foreign policy, steering away from traditional ally the United States while bringing the Philippines closer to China and Russia. An overwhelming majority of Filipinos support him, according to a series of surveys by pollsters over the past 12 months, with the most recent one showing 75 percent were satisfied with his administration’s performance. “People […]
(Reuters) — Both the United States and Russia have made clear that they have been trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into the Syrian conflict, a Syrian analyst said Tuesday. Despite the efforts to reach a political settlement for the Syrian crisis, the situation on the ground has grown increasingly complex over the past few months. In mid-March, Syrian government forces and the opposition engaged in the most intense fighting in almost a year in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China’s top diplomat told President Donald Trump that Beijing was willing to keep working with Washington to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula — days after the United States leader implied that Chinese efforts had failed. The meeting between State Councillor Yang Jiechi and Trump at the White House on Thursday also came after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged China to step up diplomatic and economic pressure on […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Monday denounced North Korea as “a brutal regime” after the death of a 22-year-old US student released by the reclusive country in a coma last week. Speaking moments after news of Otto Warmbier’s death was announced publicly, Trump hit out at Pyongyang. “It’s a brutal regime,” the president said during a White House event. “Bad things happened but at least we got him home to his […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Officials in Maryland and the United States capital Washington will sue President Donald Trump for accepting payments and benefits from foreign governments through his business empire, news reports said Sunday night. The suit to be unveiled Monday centers on the so-called emoluments clause, which bans US officials from taking gifts or other benefits from foreign governments. A nongovernment organization that centers on ethics issues filed a similar suit in January. […]
The United States on Monday gave the Philippines hundreds of machine guns, pistols and grenade launchers, which a local commander said would be used against Islamist militants battling troops in a southern city. The weapons, including machine guns capable of firing thousands of rounds a minute, were handed over at a ceremony in Manila that highlighted a decade-old American counter-terrorism assistance program to the Philippines worth about $150 million. “This equipment will enhance the (Philippine […]
