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Quiet As Southern Syria Ceasefire Begins Ahead of Talks
A ceasefire brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan brought quiet Sunday to frontlines in southern Syria ahead...
Quiet As Ceasefire Begins In South Syria
A ceasefire in southern Syria brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan began at noon local time on Sunday, with...
Trump, South Korean President Hold Post-Dinner Talks On NKorea Policy
US President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart held talks Thursday on how to halt North Korea's nuclear...
Republicans Scramble To Revise Faltering Health Care Bill
US Senate Republicans, facing potential collapse of their "Obamacare" repeal effort, were making last-gasp changes...
South Korean President Lobbies US Leaders On North Korea Policy
South Korea's new President Moon Jae-In lobbied US leaders on Thursday to back his policy of engagement with North...
Key US Republican Threatens To Block Arms To Gulf
A top Republican lawmaker on Monday threatened to block US arms sales to members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation...
Trump Throws Ties With Key Ally Qatar Into Crisis
In a series of morning tweets, President Donald Trump threw Washington's relations with Doha into deep crisis on...
In US, Left and Right Go Along With Macron’s Win
The US political establishment gave a broad welcome Monday to France's election of Emmanuel Macron, taking a cue from...
Congress May Be Focus of Debate On US Force Against Syria
Many US lawmakers expressed support immediately after the Pentagon's air strikes on Syria. But President Donald Trump's...
Trump Lifts Rights Conditions On Bahrain Arms Sales
The US State Department is removing human rights conditions on a large sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain, as the...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions Quits Russia Probe
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has bowed to pressure and removed himself from an FBI inquiry into alleged Russian...
Kutcher Passionately Testifies On His Anti-Sex Trafficking Efforts
No one got "Punk'd" Wednesday morning when Ashton Kutcher came to Capitol Hill. The actor testified Wednesday before...
U.S. Lawmakers Push For Answers On Trump Team’s Russia Ties
A crisis over the relationship between President Donald Trump's aides and Russia deepened on Wednesday as a growing...
Trump Foreign Affairs Pick Narrowly Backed
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has narrowly approved Rex Tillerson as US secretary of state, despite concerns...
Senate Democrat Says He Will Oppose Tillerson For State Department
The most senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Monday he would not support President Donald...
Trump Top Nominees Pompeo and Mattis Warn of Russia Threat
President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for defence secretary and spy chief have been talking tough on Russia. General...
‘Fair Assumption’ Putin Behind Hacks
It is a "fair assumption" that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind US election hacks, secretary of state...
Kerry Apologizes For Past Firings of Gay U.S. State Department Staff
U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday apologized to hundreds of State Department employees who were fired after...
UK In ‘front Seat’ For US Trade Deal, Top Republican Says
Britain will be in the "front seat" to negotiate a new trade deal with the incoming Trump administration, a top...