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Trump aide Hope Hicks declines to answer some questions in Russia probe
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s longtime aide Hope Hicks is declining to answer questions about her time in the White House in a closed-door interview Tuesday with the House intelligence committee. The panel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and any contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia. As one of Trump’s closest aides,…
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Syria is a moral defeat for Europeans
After 1945 Europe said “never again” but never again is happening before our eyes in the Middle East, says Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède. Syrian civilians flee airstrikes in eastern Ghouta, February 2018. Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images Syria is a European crisis as well as a Middle Eastern one, and the world’s worst human rights disaster…
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Trump Accelerates US Embassy Transfer to Jerusalem
Much to the chagrin of the Palestinian Authority, US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he’d be accelerating the transfer of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The US mission is slated to being moving in phases to its consular facility in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Arnona starting in May. The first…
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The threat of regional conflagration in Syria
The demise of Isis threatens yet more dangerous times to come. The carnage caused by Bashar al-Assad’s forces in El Ghouta has been of a more savage intensity even than the siege of Aleppo © EPA Please use the sharing tools found via the email icon at the top of articles. Copying articles to share…
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‘It’s an act of war’ North Korea condemns US sanctions – warns against maritime blockade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5zWFMmeGM&t=34s
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Trump’s right: Obama was asleep at the switch on Russia
Editor’s Note: Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor, is a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and former campaign adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell. He is a partner at RunSwitch Public Relations in Louisville, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter @ScottJenningsKY. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. (CNN)For those of…
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For now, U.S. wants Europeans just to commit to improve Iran deal
Iranian workers stand in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, about 1,200 km (745 miles) south of Tehran, in October 2010. | REUTERS WASHINGTON/PARIS/MUNICH – The United States has sketched out a path under which three key European allies would simply commit to try to improve the Iran nuclear deal over time in return for…
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Conservatives urge Trump to grant pardons in Russia probe
As special counsel Robert Mueller builds his case, relatives of former national security adviser Michael Flynn are among those pressing the president to use his unique legal power and ‘put these defendants out of their misery.’ Former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump are pictured during the presidential campaign in New…
