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Qatar Ideal First Diplomatic Crisis For Oilman Tillerson

The Qatar crisis presents Rex Tillerson with his first challenge as Washington's top diplomat and an opportunity for...

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Hundreds Gather For the Funeral of Otto Warmbier

Friends and family members are gathering in Ohio to say goodbye to an American student who just six died days after...

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Pentagon Chief Blasts N.Korea Over US Student Who Died

North Korea's treatment of an American student who died after being released from detention in a coma was inhuman and...

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Trump Congratulates New Saudi Crown Prince, Raises Qatar Row

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated Saudi Arabia's newly appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,...

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Saudis, Allies Have List of Demands For Qatar

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have drawn up a list of demands to be presented to Qatar, US Secretary of State Rex...

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No Autopsy For US Student Detained By N. Korea

The family of Otto Warmbier has asked that no autopsy be performed on the body of the US student who died days after...

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US and China Officials Meet Under North Korea Cloud

Senior US officials will meet their Chinese counterparts Wednesday to seek a tougher line on North Korea's nuclear...

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Democrat Eyes Anti-Trump Upset In Photo-Finish Georgia Race

Voters in Georgia cast ballots Tuesday in the priciest US congressional race ever, a $60 million political nailbiter...

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Oil Giants Endorse Carbon Tax After Trump’s Paris Exit

Major oil producers, including for the first time ExxonMobil, expressed support on Tuesday for a new US carbon tax,...

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Ukraine’s Poroshenko Scores Trump White House Meeting

US President Donald Trump greeted his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in the White House on Tuesday as...

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Iran Protests Against Tillerson ‘transition’ Remarks

Iran has called in the Swiss charge d'affaires, who looks after US interests, to protest against comments by Secretary...

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US Tries To Use Better China Ties To Press North Korea

Washington will host two of China's most senior officials Wednesday to deepen the dialogue between the world's greatest...

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3-Day Mourning Declared In Portugal For 61 Fire Victims

Portugal has declared three days of mourning for the 61 victims of one of the country’s deadliest forest fires. Four...

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Forest Fires Kill 43 In Central Portugal

A catastrophic forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 43 lives, officials say. Many died while trying to flee the...

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Portugal Forest Fires Kill 43 Near Coimbra

A catastrophic forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 43 lives, officials say. Many died while trying to flee the...

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Tillerson Skips OAS Meeting To Focus On Gulf Crisis

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday cancelled his attendance at next week's Organization of American States...

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Tillerson Skips OAS Meeting To Focus On Gulf Crisis

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday cancelled his attendance at next week's Organization of American States...

International

Russia ‘may Have Killed IS Head Baghdadi’

Russia's defence ministry is investigating whether one of its air strikes in Syria killed the leader of the Islamic...

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Turkey FM In Doha As UN ‘alarmed’ By Gulf Crisis

The search for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis intensified Wednesday as Turkey's foreign minister landed in...