By Austin Davis and Anila Shuka (DW) – The appointment of the controversial US ambassador to Germany signals renewed American interest in solving the conflict. But it also has potential to further sour relations between Berlin and Washington.
President Donald Trump selected the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, as his administration’s special envoy between Serbia [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — In the wake of Iranian initiated missile/drone attacks which significantly crippled the Saudi Arabian petroleum industry and threatened to bring the Persian Gulf region closer to the brink of a military confrontation, the Trump Administration and its allies have pursued a tough but decidedly restrained policy of deterrence rather than [...]
By Kane Farabaugh – DECATUR, ILL. (VOA News) – Continuous wet weather disrupted the spring planting season for Southern Illinois farmer Jim Raben, meaning he is anticipating a lean harvest this year.
“For our area and probably for our farm, probably 20, 25% prevent plant,” he told VOA at the 2019 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois. [...]
By Barbara Wesel (DW) - Emmanuel Macron proved himself to be a master of diplomacy at this year’s G7 by outmaneuvering the US President on Iran. In doing so, he’s also taken over as Europe’s foreign policy leader, says DW’s Barbara Wesel.
The French president invested an enormous amount of preparation time and political capital so [...]
By John J. Metzler - Bondville, VT — For those of us of a certain age, we vividly remember where we were on July 20, 1969 the date of America’s successful Lunar landing.
On a cool July southern Vermont evening my parents and I visited friends to watch what was expected to be a live transmission from the [...]
By Ken Bredemeier (VOA News) – U.S. President Donald Trump has found his latest target for acerbic ridicule — a hijab-wearing Muslim newcomer to Congress named Ilhan Omar. She is a Somali refugee but naturalized U.S. citizen whom Trump views as something less than a patriotic red, white and blue American.
Trump railed against the lawmaker Wednesday [...]
WEBPUBLICA (New York/Osaka) – American and Russian diplomats are preparing the ground for possible nuclear disarmament talks, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has said at a G20 summit in Osaka. The two sides suspended the key INF treaty earlier this year, DW (Deutsche Welle) reported quoting other news agencies.
Moscow and Washington are mulling new talks on limiting [...]
By Diana Hodali and Emad Hassan (DW) – US President Donald
Trump’s son-in-law has finally presented his economic plan that envisages prosperity for the Palestinian people. Expectations were high, but political realities are conspicuous by their absence.
Kushner launches Palestinian prosperity plan
The Middle East Economic Plan, dubbed “Peace to Prosperity” is the brainchild of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Amid the global gallop towards economic protectionism, there’s the political temptation to use tariffs which undeniably produce a feel good factor for politicians and polemists, but whose bottom line is paid by the consumers.
The current trade tensions between the United States and China has all the ingredients of a turgid [...]
By Keno Verseck - During his visit to the White House, Hungary’s prime minister received a lot of compliments. But the US president’s positive opinion of Orban is not shared by his administration, comments Keno Verseck.No other EU head of government has courted US President Donald Trump like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. During Trump’s election [...]
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