On December 8, the Russian government officially announced its agreement with Sudan to build a modern port and establish a navy base for at least 25 years. The new port, along with Russia’s base in the Syrian city of Tartus, … Read More
Workers destroy fowl at a poultry farm in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, where a highly pathogenic avian flu strain was found. (Eiji Hori) The farm ministry has issued a nationwide warning about a potentially unprecedented spread of avian flu, which has … Read More
Image: Reuters Encouraging as this economic pickup is for the period immediately ahead, Beijing’s demographics casts a long and ominous shadow. Some people say that China’s leadership is all but magical. It has beaten the coronavirus pandemic before the United States or … Read More
Those who have known President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. for decades say they expect him to move carefully, providing reassurance with a few big symbolic acts. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said he wanted to bring an end to a … Read More
President Trump will be handing Joseph R. Biden Jr. a difficult cleanup act in America’s relations with many countries. But it may not take much for Mr. Biden to improve the mood. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is inheriting a … Read More
The U.K., Germany, and France on Monday released a statement calling recent moves by Iran in relation to its nuclear program “deeply worrying” — just as the fate of the 2015 nuclear deal, and the U.S. role in it, remains … Read More
Germany’s health minister and the country’s Leopoldina sciences academy said harder measures were necessary to reduce infections. Saxony became the first state to impose a hard lockdown starting next week. With German coronavirus caseloads plateauing, but not sinking, calls for … Read More
INGRAHAM: Got it. All right. I’m Laura Ingraham, this is The Ingraham Angle from a busy Washington tonight. Can you believe it, one week to go and the president is still out on the trail as we speak? Omaha, Nebraska … Read More
Arancha González Laya said Brexit had demonstrated ‘the illusion of independence.’ Spain’s Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya | Pool photo by Andre Pain/AFP via Getty Images With Brexit negotiators now under orders to turn matters over to their political bosses, … Read More
Immigration policy would be the most dramatic and immediate reversal of Trump policies when Biden takes office. The most dramatic reversal in the Biden administration versus the Trump administration will come on President Donald Trump’s signature campaign issue from 2016: … Read More