President-elect Donald Trump had a 10-minute phone conversation with Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen on Friday. It's not unusual for the incoming leader of one government to have a chat with the...
It is particularly difficult to foretell what the foreign policy of a US president-elect will be. We have plenty of examples of US presidents who – after coming into office – did not follow...
U. S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a "very engaging, animated" phone conversation, a Duterte aide said on Friday, amid...
US President-elect Donald Trump took a populist tone on the campaign trail, pledging to stand for a beleaguered working class abandoned by the elite. Yet, as he selects his cabinet, observers are...
The bid to legalize marijuana, a drug considered to be harmful to the body, has been long squabbled over in most countries across the globe. However some countries have decriminalized the usage of...
Trump starts 'thank you' tour with raucous rally Donald Trump delivered an unmistakable message Thursday in his first big speech since election night -- the unconventional, impulsive and unscripted...
U. S. President Barack Obama, keen to preserve his legacy on domestic health care and the Iran nuclear deal, is not expected to make major moves on Israeli-Palestinian peace before leaving office,...
President Vladimir Putin says Russia wants to normalise ties with the United States and join efforts in the fight against international "terrorism". Speaking in a live state-of-the-nation address,...
Trump vows to back away from business to focus on White House U. S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to step back from running his global business empire to avoid conflicts of interest...
Republicans in the U. S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of using the tax code to promote exports while slashing corporate taxes, framing it as...
Germany's foreign intelligence chief has warned that Russia could seek to disrupt next year's German elections with cyber attacks. Bruno Kahl said his agency was aware of cyber attacks with no other...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte denounced what he called "bullsh*t" Western threats to seek his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his role in a bloody crackdown on drug...
A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U. S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action...
After Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections (which was, by the way, a surprise only to those indoctrinated, seduced or simply bought), Europe, or to be more precise: the European...
Cuba is mourning its revolutionary leader and former President Fidel Castro, whose death was announced late on Friday and has plunged the country into nine days of mourning. The body of the...
By 146 B. C., the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of endemic battlefield between ancient navies had successfully become the imperial Roman “Mare Nostrum” - our common sea. Rome’s hegemony around...
(Memo: 24 March, 1962) Continuing... We noted in Part I that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah understood there is public policy; there is partisan policy; and there are matters that are personal. That is another...
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U. S. actor Steven Seagal on Friday and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and...
Remember prosperity? Want it back? Here’s the secret formula, which has always worked and would work again: Cut marginal tax rates and restore integrity to the dollar. Donald Trump campaigned on...
US President-elect Donald Trump has called for national unity in an address to mark the Thanksgiving holiday. In the wake of what he called a “long and bruising” election campaign, he said...
