In Japan, Angela Merkel warns against treating North Korea naively

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Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Emperor Akihito on the second and final day of her visit to Japan. Later events with students and scientists covered topics from North Korean disarmament through to cows’ digestion. Angela Merkel had a third and … Read More

Trump: US military to stay in Syria, Iraq to combat Iran and ‘to protect Israel’

“We’re going to be there, and we’re going to be staying. We have to protect Israel,” he told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday. “We have to protect other things that we have. But we’re—yeah, they’ll be coming back in … Read More

Central American caravans advance amid shifting border policies

Thousands head north, some obtaining humanitarian visas in Mexico, while others fear US’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. Families rest in the Huixtla town plaza Sunday after their 41 kilometer trek north from Tapachula, in southern Mexico [Sandra Cuffe/Al Jazeera] Tapachula, … Read More

Iran RAMPS UP uranium enrichment amid fears of nuclear weapons use – ‘300 tons by 2025’

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IRAN is preparing to ramp up its production of ‘yellowcake’, a precursor to the enriched uranium used in both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, in the latest sign of Tehran’s plans to step up its atomic activities. Iran news: 30 … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 1 February 2019

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Greetings from Tyler, The mainstream media’s hair caught fire this week. It seems that President Trump had the audacity to disagree with top “intelligence” officials who say Iran poses no nuclear threat. Evidence has surfaced that the regime is still … Read More

In reversal, Trump now says he and intel chiefs in agreement

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday.  Photo: AP WASHINGTON A day after he lashed out at U.S. intelligence agency chiefs over their assessments of global threats, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course and said that … Read More

Schumer urges Coats to stage intelligence intervention with Trump

“I applaud you and your colleagues in the Intelligence Community for being clear-eyed about the threats we face, but you cannot allow the President’s ill-advised and unwarranted comments today to stand,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in his letter. … Read More

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