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Millions of Iraqis are expected to take part in a mass rally against the US military presence in their homeland on Friday amid a fresh wave of public anger triggered by a recent meeting between President Barham Salih and his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Last week, influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada …

European shares reversed course and edged lower on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump threatened to impose high tariffs on imports of cars from the European Union, pushing automobile stocks to a three-month low. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump warned of the tariffs if the …

House impeachment managers begin making their case for removing President Donald Trump from office on Wednesday following a marathon opening session in the Senate’s impeachment trial to approve the rules of the trial. On Tuesday and into the early morning hours Wednesday, Republicans repeatedly rejected motions to subpoena witnesses and …

Republican Dalia al-Aqidi, who intends to run against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in November said Wednesday that as a fellow refugee to the United States, she objects to the way Omar describes the country. The former Iraqi refugee asserted that the Somali-born Omar is “harming” not only her constituents but …

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan started US-monitored talks on Wednesday in the Sudanese capital to try hammer out a draft deal to resolve their dispute over a Nile dam that Ethiopia is constructing, an Egyptian spokesman said. The $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on the Blue Nile, which promises …

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Iran’s recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious, as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries. In a separate statement …

Iraqi President Barham Salih met U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos on Wednesday and discussed reducing foreign troops in the country, the Iraqi presidency said, after Washington spurned an Iraqi request earlier this month to pull out its troops. “During the meeting, reducing foreign troops and the importance of respecting …

President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial begins in earnest Tuesday with a heated debate over the rules, which Democrats charge are an attempt by Senate Republicans to zoom through the process while covering up evidence and ignoring witnesses. Democrats are furious at the four-page organizing resolution from Senate Majority Leader Mitch …

Nadler says White House counsel should be recused House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, who is also an impeachment manager, said White House Counsel Pat Cippolone should be recused from the Senate trial because he is a fact witness. Some background: Earlier today, the House managers sent a letter accusing Cipollone …

Hillary Clinton, nearly four years after a bitter race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, blasted her former primary opponent Bernie Sanders, claiming in a new interview that “nobody likes” him and that Sanders has achieved nothing during his time as a senator from Vermont. “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to …

Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump have agreed to extend negotiations on a dispute over a French tax on digital giants to the end of the year, postponing Washington’s threat of sanctions against Paris, French officials said Tuesday. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, speaking before a Brussels meeting with …

Mexican forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American refugees as they tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States. The refugees waded across a river into Mexico on Monday in a chaotic scramble …

“We will witness the end of the US forces’ presence in Iraq in the current year,” Ali al-Qanemi, a senior member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, told the Baghdad al-Youm news website on Tuesday. He added that the parliament’s decision to expel the US forces is binding …

Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi on Tuesday denounced an earlier rocket attack in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone. In the early hours today, three Katyusha rockets were again fired at the Green Zone. Sirens at the US Embassy reportedly went off …

The White House-released legal brief about President Trump’s impeachment trial was so irreverent of facts that a legal expert suspected that the President himself has dictated parts of it. The brief, released on Saturday, accused Democrats of violating the Constitution and attempting to reverse the results of the 2016 election. …

The global economy has come under pressure from the threat of further trade sanctions by the US, social unrest and the climate emergency, limiting its recovery over the next two years, the International Monetary Fund has warned. In its half-yearly update, the Washington-based lender of last resort said the global …

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali Al-Hakim, in a news conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al Safadi in Baghdad, has said that Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been the cause of recent tensions in the region. U.S. President Donald Trump quit the nuclear …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said that Republican President Donald Trump is “impeached forever” regardless of the outcome of the Senate impeachment trial. In an interview on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Saturday, addressing Trump, Pelosi said, “You are impeached forever. No matter what the Senate …

President Donald Trump reprimanded his top military brass in a 2017 meeting at the Pentagon, calling them a “bunch of dopes and babies” and telling them “you’re all losers,” according to a forthcoming book by two Washington Post reporters. The heated July 20, 2017 meeting has been previously reported — …

Saudi Arabia has reportedly paid $500 million to begin to cover the cost of the US military operating in the Arab country, a US official says. The payment was made in December 2019, according to the CNN report. “Consistent with the President’s guidance to increase partner burden-sharing, the Department of …