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US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he has ordered sanctions on Iran’s national bank following the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. The announcement was made in the Oval Office, where he and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison were scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting. Trump did …

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, has dropped out of the race to become the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate – and leaves the campaign with a scornful message from the current president ringing in his ears. Mr. de Blasio made his announcement in a television interview, saying: “I …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says that US-allied Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates apparently want to “fight Iran to the last American.” In a post on his Twitter account on Friday, Zarif responded to earlier remarks by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit to …

The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that …

US President Donald Trump has named Robert C. O’Brien – a hostage affairs envoy he sent to Sweden to try and negotiate the release of jailed rapper A$AP Rocky this summer – as his new National Security Advisor. Trump announced O’Brien’s nomination on Wednesday, saying that he has “worked long …

Corey Lewandowski, the outspoken Republican operative who served as Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has appeared before Congress as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s first official hearing in a Democratic-led impeachment investigation. Mr Lewandowski, a 45-year-old political commentator currently mulling a bid for Senate in his home state of …

Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday ruled out talks with Washington after Donald Trump blamed Tehran for a crippling attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. “Iranian officials, at any level, will never talk to American officials … this is part of their policy to put pressure on Iran,” Iranian state TV quoted …

The delivery of the second battery of Russian S-400 missiles to Turkey was completed on Sunday with the controversial defense system expected to become fully active in April 2020. Efforts to mount the missile system and train military personnel to use it were continuing, a Turkish defense ministry statement said. …

US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped among Republican voters, according to a new poll. The latest Hill-HarrisX poll released Friday found that 83 percent of GOP voters said they approve of Trump’s job performance, a 2-point drop from an identical poll conducted last month. Meanwhile, a CNN poll …

The US government has concluded within the past two years that Israel has been placing surveillance devices near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, DC, according to a US media outlet. In contrast to other instances of foreign spying, however, President Donald Trump’s administration has not rebuked …

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to fully enforce a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a key element of his hardline immigration policies. The court said the rule, which requires most immigrants who want …

US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will ban flavoured e-cigarettes, after a spate of vaping-related deaths. Mr Trump told reporters vaping was a “new problem”, especially for children. US Health Secretary Alex Azar said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would finalise a plan to take all …

President Donald Trump has fired national security adviser John Bolton. Trump tweeted Tuesday that he told Bolton Monday night that his services were no longer needed at the White House. He says Bolton submitted his resignation on Tuesday morning. Trump tweeted that he “disagreed strongly” with many of Bolton’s suggestions, …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that peace negotiations with Afghanistan’s Taliban are dead and that Washington will not enter any future agreement without “commitments” from the militants. Appearing on a round of cable news shows Sunday morning, Pompeo told Fox News that negotiations with the Taliban are …

A major Taliban suicide attack on an affluent area of Kabul has killed at least 16 people and injured more than 100 others. The attack came just hours after the US said it had agreed on a deal “in principle” with the Taliban for the withdrawal of around 5,000 troops …

Donald Trump has caused unnecessary confusion by saying Hurricane Dorian – now the joint most powerful storm to make landfall on record – was forecast to hit Alabama, when in fact the state is not among those experts believe is threatened. Three other states – Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia …

Hurricane Dorian strengthen into an “extremely dangerous” storm as it barrels towards the US, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said. Dorian is now a Category Three hurricane. The storm is expected to hit Florida as a 130mph (209km/h) category four. Forecasters warn it could be the state’s deadliest storm …

Donald Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned on Thursday after she shared information about the president’s family with journalists, US media reported. Westerhout’s unexpected departure came after Trump learned that she had talked about his family and White House matters with reporters at an off-the-record session during the president’s recent …

Donald Trump has suggested he should be given “stolen time back” due to “how unfairly” he has been treated by the FBI and its investigations into him. “The disastrous IG Report on James Comey shows, in the strongest of terms, how unfairly I, and tens of millions of great people …

Warsaw and Washington have agreed on six locations for new US troops to be stationed on Polish soil, the country’s defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, said on Friday. In June, Poland signed a deal to increase the American military presence on its soil to counter what Warsaw describes as “Russia’s growing …