NEW YORK  – Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four-month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market. The U.S. dollar .DXY surged into positive territory for 2018 and broke past key levels against several […]

AMMAN, Jordan — Mike Pompeo has swapped the no-profile, cloak-and-dagger world of covert espionage for the life of a buttoned-down diplomat, representing the public face of the Trump administration’s foreign policy. Making his first overseas trip as secretary of state, the ex-CIA chief traded in a small, unmarked government jet, secret overseas voyages and hush-hush […]

SYDNEY  – Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Saturday the country will send a military patrol aircraft to monitor North Korean vessels suspected of transferring prohibited goods in defiance of United Nations sanctions. Canada also plans to deploy patrol aircraft for such activities, and surveillance planes from both countries will be based in the […]

BRUSSELS  – Barely 12 hours after being sworn in as U.S. secretary of state, Mike Pompeo went straight to NATO headquarters on Friday in what European allies saw as strong support for an institution that U.S. President Donald Trump once called obsolete. In a day of closed-door meetings with NATO foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to […]

China’s new missile is being called the “Guam killer” because it could attack a U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean with a nuclear weapon. Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said the DF-26 intermediate range ballistic missile was now in service and could carry conventional and nuclear warheads to attack targets at land or sea. It has a […]

Beijing (CNN)While the highly anticipated inter-Korean summit will capture much of the world’s attention Friday, another equally consequential meeting will unfold in China on the same day, the outcome of which could affect more than a third of the world’s population. Billed as an “informal” summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]

Contrary to Donald Trump’s promise to withdraw, the Americans “are actively settling down” on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Syria and have no plans to leave, the Russian Foreign Minister has said. Speaking in Beijing on Tuesday, Sergey Lavrov said “a number of countries have explicitly chosen to disintegrate Syria.”According to Russia’s top […]

Idea is to refer chemical weapons issue to UN general assembly, where Russia’s security council veto would not apply. Western nations want to end the months-long paralysis at the United Nations over Syria by referring the issue of chemical weapons use to the entire UN general assembly, where Russia’s security council veto would not apply. The idea […]

White House: Trump’s ‘great relationships’ with foreign leaders doesn’t stop him from ‘aggressive’ negotiating United States President Donald Trump is reported to have flatly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year whether or not he genuinely cared about making peace with the Palestinians. According to the Axios news website, Trump’s blunt inquiry was made during a […]

NEW YORK – A U.S. push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warned as U.S. and North Korean leaders prepare to meet for denuclearization talks. Speaking to reporters in New York on Saturday, Mohammad Javad Zarif also said that […]