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The Treasury Department on Friday officially removed U.S. sanctions against dozens of Israeli groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as part of President Donald Trump’s major reversal of Biden-era policy in the region. The action carries out Trump’s Day One move to rescind former President Joe Biden’s February 2024 […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on […]

The Trump administration plans to rejoin an international anti-abortion pact alongside countries such as Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus, taking its first formal step to roll back Biden-era global health policies and previewing an expected strategy of seeking to curtail abortion access for millions of women and girls worldwide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed […]

President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Feb. 4, the prime minister’s office announced on Tuesday. Netanyahu is set to be the first foreign leader to meet in person with Trump at the White House since he was inaugurated last week. Trump previewed the visit on Monday […]

The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas finally got U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the phone Tuesday after POLITICO reported Rubio skipped a meeting with foreign ministers, leading to fears Brussels was being frozen out. Posting on X, Kallas said that the pair “discussed global issues where the EU and US have the […]

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday night hammered tech billionaire Elon Musk over controversial remarks he made about Germans needing to get over their “past guilt” for horrific crimes carried out by the Nazis. “I’m so angry about Elon Musk intervening for the far right and Elon Musk also not acting adequate to […]

Police are investigating after the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, godfather of the French far right, was vandalized during the night between Thursday and Friday. A police source told French newspaper Le Figaro on Friday that the cross on the Le Pen family tomb, located in the cemetery in La Trinité-sur-Mer in northwestern France, had […]

A massive trade war looms after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday evening he will “absolutely” slap tariffs on goods from the EU. “Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union? Do you want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer? Absolutely, absolutely,” he told reporters in the Oval […]

DAVOS, Switzerland — Only months ago, Kyiv was terrified a second Donald Trump presidency would force Ukraine to capitulate to Vladimir Putin. Today, it’s pinning its hopes on Trump finally ending three years of carnage. Gathering in Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum, Ukrainians and their backers see the newly inaugurated United […]