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U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan. 17 shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the biggest such breach in U.S. history.
Erdinç Çelikkan - ANKARA
Ankara is planning to engage in more intense diplomacy with the U.S. under Donald Trump’s incoming administration, amid news that a Turkish presidential delegation is set to visit Washington D.C. in February to contact the new administration.
Comment(s) 1/18/2017
WASHINGTON – Reuters
President-elect Donald Trump began a long holiday weekend that honors slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by attacking another rights activist and politician who had said he does not see Trump as a “legitimate president.”
Comment(s) 1/15/2017
NEW YORK
With only days for his inauguration, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said “safe zones” funded by the Gulf states should have been built inside Syria to combat the refugee crisis.
Comment(s) 1/16/2017
WASHINGTON
U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan 12 ended a decades-old policy that allowed Cuban migrants who arrived illegally on U.S. soil to stay.
Comment(s) 1/13/2017
BERLIN
NATO is “obsolete,” Germany’s Angela Merkel made a “catastrophic mistake” on refugees, Brexit will be “great” and the United States could cut a deal with Russia: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump unleashed a volley of broadsides on Jan. 15 in interviews with European media
Former Exxon-Mobil CEO and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, has urged the United States to re-engage with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to acquire a seat at the Syria and Middle East table
Comment(s) 1/12/2017
CANCUN, Mexico
A shooting erupted at an electronic music festival in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen early Jan. 16, leaving at least five people dead and sparking a stampede, the mayor said.
CHICAGO
With a final call of his campaign mantra “Yes We Can,” U.S. President Barack Obama urged Americans on Jan. 10 to stand up for U.S. values and reject discrimination as the United States transitions to the presidency of Republican Donald Trump
Comment(s) 1/11/2017
SAO PAULO – Reuters
Twenty-seven inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Jan. 14, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which some 140 inmates have died in gang warfare since the start of the year
CHARLESTON, South Carolina
A U.S. jury on Jan. 10 condemned self-described white supremacist Dylann Roof to death over the massacre of nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church in June 2015 - a crime that shocked the nation