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+21 +6China downplays tensions with U.S. as Xi prepares to meet Trump
Let's see.
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+18 +3The Real Russian Threat to Central Eastern Europe
Neo-fascism. Russian disinformation. State-sponsored ethno-nationalism. And all around unwillingness to do much about any of it — yet.
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+11 +1A timeline of events that unfolded during the election appears to support the FBI's investigation into Trump-Russia collusion
The FBI is now examining whether members of President Donald Trump's campaign team colluded with Russian officials to undermine Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. The probe into Trump's ties to Russia are part of the bureau's broader investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, FBI Director James Comey confirmed during a House Intelligence Committee hearing last Monday.
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+17 +5He dreamed of a strong Poland in a strong Europe. Jerzy Rencki 1926-2017
Few Poles managed to make it right to the top of European institutions. One of them that did was Jerzy Rencki – a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising, a former Oflag prisoner and the Honorary Director-General of the European Commission in the 1990s. He died in Paris on March 5 at the age of 91. His remarkable life reads like a blockbuster film script.
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+12 +3Donald Trump just hit out at North Korea and China
Donald Trump has accused North Korea of “behaving very badly” – and said that China has done “little to help”. The US President said on Twitter: “North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been ‘playing’ the United States for years. China has done little to help!” His words came as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said military action against North Korea was an “option on the table”.
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+10 +5Trump Wants To Cut UN Funds More Than 50%
President Trump’s administration has told the State Department to cut more than 50 percent of U.S. funding to United Nations programs, Foreign Policy reported. The push for the drastic reductions comes as the White House is scheduled to release its 2018 topline budget proposal Thursday, which is expected to include a 37 percent cut to the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development budgets. It's not clear if Trump's budget plan, from the Office of Management and Budget, would reflect the full extent of Trump's proposed cuts to the U.N.
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+34 +3Immigrants want to come to America and not shoot anyone. No wonder Trump has banned them
The foundation on which my country was built is being gleefully shredded by an impetuous, whimsical tyrant. The total sum of terrorist-related deaths committed on American soil by the seven proscribed countries is a sobering zero.
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+30 +7Zuckerberg to Trump: ‘We are a nation of immigrants’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out today against the immigration policies of President Donald Trump.
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+21 +3Trump's 1st Week Reshapes U.S. Relationship with Canada
In Donald Trump's first week as president he's already signed a dozen or so executive orders and memorandums that will fundamentally change relations with his nearest neighbours for years to come.
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+15 +6Le Pen headlines 'European counter-summit' in Germany
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen was set to headline a European gathering of eurosceptic and far-right leaders in Germany on Saturday as they seek to put on a united front in a year of high-stakes elections.
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+30 +9Hundreds of U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia
Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbor Russia.
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+2 +1The rise of Poland's far right has key lessons for those who hope Trump is a one-term president
Poland's move to right-wing populism in 2015 eerily parallels the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
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+5 +2Amnesty: UK 'utterly disingenuous' about human rights in Bahrain
British ministers have acted like overexcited cheerleaders for Bahrain’s woefully inadequate human rights reforms, Amnesty International has said, ahead of an expected visit next month by Theresa May on the sidelines of the annual Gulf Cooperation Council summit. Ministers ought to be confronting the awkward reality that the institutions set up in Bahrain with UK support “are seriously flawed and widely seen as a PR exercises”, Amnesty said.
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+14 +3Russia has charged its economy minister with corruption
The arrest is a sign of escalating conflict among the Kremlin elite
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+8 +3The Party That Wants to Make Poland Great Again
In just a year, Law and Justice has shown how a far-right nationalist government in Europe really governs — and how far it can push the limits of democracy.
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+42 +4Russia withdraws signature from international criminal court statute
Tribunal has failed to live up to hopes of international community, Moscow says day after court report on Russian annexation of Crimea
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+10 +2How Donald Trump thinks about foreign policy
Trump actually has a philosophy on foreign policy, and its terrifying.
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+25 +5U.S. orders family members to leave consulate in Istanbul
The State Department cited fears of attacks by extremist groups in ordering family members of employees to leave the consulate in Turkey.
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+6 +2The Taliban hostages you’ve never heard of
Why is the Taliban keeping this North American family alive?
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+30 +6U.S. Warship Challenges China's Claims in South China Sea
A U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, drawing a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area.
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