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Tensions are rising in the South China Sea, and a US ally there has already drawn ‘red lines’ with China NOW WATCH: Here’s why so many nations want to control the South China Sea — and what China wants to do See Also: Amid rising tensions with China, Japan just sent armored vehicles to foreign […]
Elvira Nabiullina has earned an unusual degree of freedom to clean up Russia’s messy banking system and stabilize its economy against volatile markets and looming sanctions. Her skills have won her praise from Vladimir Putin—as well as from abroad.
Turkey’s president has warned the US that it will lose a valuable ally unless it changes its approach to the case of an American held in Turkey on espionage charges. Washington is threatening Ankara with sanctions over the issue. Talking to Turkish media about US threats of sanctions if Ankara doesn’t release Pastor Andrew Brunson, […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz is one of the most media-friendly members of Congress. He has agreed to do an “ungodly” number of profile interviews. He’s one of President Donald Trump’s top defenders on TV. That has made him an outsize presence in Congress, even as a freshman. The second time we ever […]
Amazon Christine Shawcroft resigned from the Labour party’s NEC after she briefly supported a council candidate who had made anti-semitic remarks on Facebook. She will be replaced on the NEC by Eddie Izzard, the comedian. One of Labour’s biggest party donors, who has given £1.5 million to the cause over the years, has resigned in […]
West Virginia cast a higher percentage of its votes for Donald Trump (68.6 percent) than any other state in the union in 2016. It also had a higher proportion of drug overdose deaths (52 per 100,000 people) than any other state — for the seventh year running. It’s Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s job to […]
The Russian embassy has cautioned the White House not to fall victim to British propaganda and its expulsion of Russian diplomats in the wake of the Skripal poisoning scandal, after US media reported on possible punitive measures. On Friday, reports began to emerge that President Donald Trump is close to expelling a number of Russian […]
Pat (played by Connor McIntyre) has been terrorising residents of Coronation Street for months. The ITV soap has been rocked by three shocking deaths because of him and bets have been on for who will be the one to bump him off. Now it seems the answer could lie close to home as his wife […]
Larry Downing/Reuters A witness in the Russia investigation has testified that Trump associate Erik Prince helped arrange a 2017 meeting in the Seychelles islands with a Kremlin ally as part of an effort to establish a backchannel of communication between the US and Russia, and to discuss US-Russia relations under the Trump administration. The revelation […]
A top Republican fundraiser close to President Trump was in negotiations to earn tens of millions of dollars if the Justice Department dropped its investigation into a multibillion-dollar graft scandal involving a Malaysian state fund, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
