Isolated at home, Guatemala president moves close to US with Israel move
Analysis: At a time his stock has fallen at home due to corruption allegations raised by UN-backed investigators, Jimmy Morales wins friends in Washington by… Read More ›
Analysis: At a time his stock has fallen at home due to corruption allegations raised by UN-backed investigators, Jimmy Morales wins friends in Washington by… Read More ›
Damascus – Syrian army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and… Read More ›
The leader of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, said on Friday that his country should “seriously consider” moving its embassy. Despite the… Read More ›
Washington – President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who was sentence to 27 years in prison… Read More ›
Goldman Sachs estimated that GDP growth would increase 0.3 percentage points above their baseline in 2018 and 2019. The analysts for the Penn-Wharton Budget Model said the… Read More ›
The Iranian government’s official news agency referred to them as members of a “devious Christian cult.” Four Iranian converts to Christianity were arrested last… Read More ›
While President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was appropriate, it should have been accompanied by his overall peace plan, former US Ambassador to… Read More ›
San Francisco – Apple has bought Shazam, the maker of a song-recognition app that Apple’s digital assistant Siri has already been using to help… Read More ›
The finance ministers from the five-largest European economies sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warning that the GOP tax bill could be… Read More ›
Budapest – A lawmaker from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling party posted a photo of a dead pig on Facebook with what critics said… Read More ›
Two of the three congressional committees investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election are being gripped by partisan infighting. The Senate Judiciary Committee is… Read More ›
President Donald Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday and direct the State Department to begin the process to move… Read More ›
Unless domestic reaction becomes unexpectedly explosive, Riyadh, Cairo and Amman can be expected to confine their responses to verbal missives that will soon subside. … Read More ›
“To the best of my knowledge, those are not his views,” said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Michael Oren, a former ambassador to… Read More ›
Let’s be clear: just because Prince Harry’s new fiancée Meghan Markle isn’t a princess doesn’t mean Americans won’t call her “Princess Meghan” until the… Read More ›
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other armed Palestinian groups are thought to possess very few weapons in the West Bank. Weapons used by Palestinian groups… Read More ›
In a more perfect universe, at least from Israel’s vantage point, the Americans would be a fourth party around that negotiation table, and, as such,… Read More ›
“Our primary goal is to prevent the next war.” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is seeking an extra NIS 4.8 billion over the next three… Read More ›
Washington – Conservation groups decried U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision this week to allow trophy hunters who kill elephants in two African countries to… Read More ›
Europe, normally in line with the US, has opposed placing fresh sanctions on the Islamic State. BRUSSELS – Any move by the European Union… Read More ›