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Hong Kong protesters hold US flags and praise Donald Trump

Protesters took to the streets again, one week after pro-democracy candidates won a landslide victory in district council elections.

02/12/2019

Mexico

Shootouts in northern Mexican town kill 21, fueling debate on cartels

Clashes between police and suspected cartel gunmen in a northern Mexican town killed 21 people this weekend, authorities said, adding fuel to a debate sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed to designate the gangs as terrorists.

01/12/2019

Spain

"Point of no return" is hurtling towards us, says UN head

"Point on no return" is hurtling towards us, says UN head

01/12/2019

Europe Decoded

China anger over new US law that backs Hong Kong protesters

It's likely this will worsen already fraught relations between Washington and Beijing

28/11/2019

USA

Euroviews. Thanksgiving honors refugees who made a new home in America. Trump's policies do the opposite ǀ View

Instead of welcoming asylum seekers with open arms, the president has posited that our country is full. He couldn't be more wrong.

28/11/2019

USA

Trump again denies investigation link to Ukraine amid new revelations

Trump used the visit to the must-win state of Florida — the first rally in a swing state in months — to defend himself on several fronts.

27/11/2019

USA

Trump uses pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys to make impeachment joke

At the annual White House event on Tuesday, the president joked that the birds had been summoned "to appear in Adam Schiff's basement on Thursday."

26/11/2019

USA

Giuliani associate willing to testify Nunes met with ex-Ukranian offic

Nunes has been one of the president's most ardent supporters as he faces impeachment proceedings.

23/11/2019

USA

6 key points from ambassador's explosive impeachment testimony

Sondland pointed the finger at Trump, Pompeo, Bolton and several other key administration figures over hours of explosive public testimony.

20/11/2019

USA

White House insists Trump's surprise medical exam was 'routine'

"Also began phase one of my yearly physical," Trump tweeted early Sunday. "Everything very good (great!). Will complete next year."

17/11/2019

USA

5 things we learned from Marie Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony

There weren't any surprises. But Yovanovitch may have helped Democrats paint a bigger picture surrounding the White House's dealings in Ukraine.

15/11/2019

USA

'Intimidation': Fury as Trump attacks impeachment witness in real-time

President Donald Trump's Twitter attack on an impeachment witness during her testimony on Friday drew a furious response from Democrats.

15/11/2019

USA

Euroviews. GOP's constitutional objection to impeachment is objectively false — and alarming ǀ View

Some Republican lawmakers and pundits claim the president should be allowed to confront the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint set off the current firestorm over Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. This argument is utterly preposterous.

15/11/2019

USA

Euroviews. The impeachment hearing eviscerates Trump and shows how he broke the rules of diplomacy ǀ View

In contrast to their day jobs promoting American interests, often through discrete conversations, Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe, were asked to publicly testify against an administration and a president they continue to serve.

14/11/2019

USA

5 things we learned from US diplomats' impeachment testimony

There were some big surprises during the U.S. diplomats' more than five hours before the House Intelligence Committee.

13/11/2019

USA

Watch: Erdogan visits Trump after US-Turkey diplomatic tension

US president Donald Trump welcomed his Turkish counterpart, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.

13/11/2019

USA

Euroviews. Turkey's Erdogan is playing Trump at their White House meeting ǀ View

US President Donald Trump invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to come to Washington Wednesday to demonstrate his dealmaking prowess. Instead, the meeting is only going to further erode the already strained relations between the two countries.

13/11/2019

USA

Trump 'cared more about his own political interests than Ukraine'

A witness testified at Wednesday's first public impeachment hearing that President Donald Trump seemed to care more about his own political interests than about Ukraine's welfare as the US leader assessed ties with that country.

13/11/2019

Living

Kanye West to make sustainable shoes, while supporting Donald Trump

The American rapper announces his brand is going green.

08/11/2019

USA

Euroviews. Even local elections are now about Trump. That's bad for the GOP ǀ View

Races for a seat on the Loudoun County, Va., Board of Supervisors don’t usually attract national media coverage. Juli Briskman changed that on Tuesday. The former government contractor won a seat on the nine-member board in Virginia’s fourth-most populous county. By Wednesday she had appeared on CNN

08/11/2019