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Korean Diplomats Meet ahead of Trump-Kim Summit
Biegun said last week that Kim committed to "the dismantlement and destruction of North Korea's plutonium and uranium enrichment facilities" during his summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September and at a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in October. [Full Article...]
Bolivian President Expresses Support for Maduro During Meeting in Venezuela
A swift end to the tumult appears unlikely as both Guaido and Maduro dig in for a protracted conflict with geopolitical dimensions. Following the USA -led campaign against Venezuela's democratically elected President Maduro, EU lawmakers voted 429 in favor to 104 against, with 88 abstaining, at a special session in Brussels to recognize Venezuelan Congress head Guaido, who illegally declared... [Full Article...]
Pelosi ‘Wants Open Borders’ And ‘Doesn’t Mind Human Trafficking’
President Donald Trump's latest tweet about the border outright told all foreigners to "KEEP OUT!" Trump has repeatedly threatened to declare a national emergency on the border, which he says would allow him to transfer money from elsewhere in the government to build his promised border wall without congressional approval. [Full Article...]
Criminal Court agrees to consider extradition of Bahraini footballer
The Bangkok court set an April 22 date for a next hearing. Al-Araibi was arrested in December as he was transiting to Australia via Suvarnabhumi Airport with his wife. In 2012 he was arrested and detained for three months accused of vandalizing a police station during a protest. It was reported that Bahrain, after learning of his stop in Bangkok , had asked Thailand to arrest him. [Full Article...]
The Queen could be evacuated if Brexit leads to civil unrest
The Sunday Times reported that it "agreed not to disclose" the secret location that the queen and her family would be moved to. The plan would see the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ferried out of London to a top secret location elsewhere in the country. [Full Article...]
Trump leans toward declaring state of emergency on border
White House speechwriters and policy staffers have been working for weeks on the address, with the president offering considerable input, scribbling notes in his trademark black Sharpie scrawl on drafts of sections prepared by Stephen Miller and other top speechwriters, according to one White House official who, like some others, was not authorized to publicly discuss the speech and spoke on condi... [Full Article...]
Percent Of Trump's Private Schedule Is 'Executive Time,' According To Leaked Docs
By comparison, Trump had 77 hours of scheduled meeting time in place and 51 hours of total travel time. Axios spoke to Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency , who said "there's nearly no [historical] parallel" for Trump's less-than-busy schedule. [Full Article...]
Trump steps up attacks on Pelosi for opposing border wall funds
The Republican president also said there is a "good chance" he will follow through on his previous threats to bypass the US Congress and declare a national emergency to obtain funding for a wall. "I think Nancy Pelosi is hurting our country very badly by doing what she's doing and, ultimately, I think I've set the table very nicely", Trump said Thursday in a wide ranging interview with The New ... [Full Article...]