U.S. warship seizes suspected Iran missile parts set for Yemen
A Navy warship has seized a "significant cache" of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that such sophisticated components have been taken en route to the war there. The seizure from a small ...
The top U.S. career diplomat on Tuesday unambiguously rejected a theory promoted by President Donald Trump that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election. Asked at a hearing by Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez if he had evidence of Ukrainian meddling in the election, David ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that a cache of leaked documents proves that Chinese authorities are engaged in massive and systemic repression of Muslims and other minorities in western China, as a number of foreign governments expressed serious concern about the scale ...
Mike Pompeo suggests debunked, Trump-pushed Ukraine election meddling theory should be probed
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday suggested that Ukraine should be investigated over allegations that it interfered in the 2016 election, a debunked theory advanced by President Donald Trump that witnesses told the congressional impeachment inquiry was spread by Russian spy agencies. Pompeo ...
Documents link Giuliani and Pompeo in 'smear campaign' against envoy to Ukraine, group says
Documents released late Friday show Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled. The State Department released the documents to the group American Oversight in response ...
U.S. to send Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan to G20 foreign ministers meeting in Nagoya
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan will travel to Nagoya to attend a two-day foreign ministerial meeting of the Group of 20 major economies starting Friday, the State Department said. Sullivan will engage in discussions on a broad range of issues, including trade and ...
Ambassador says he worked with Giuliani at Trump's 'express direction' for Ukraine quid pro quo
Ambassador Gordon Sondland told House impeachment investigators Wednesday that he worked with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine at the "express direction" of President Donald Trump and pushed for a political "quid pro quo" with Kyiv because it was what Trump wanted. "Mr. Giuliani was expressing the ...
U.S. and Montenegro plot cyberwarfare ahead of 2020 elections
Deployed inside the sprawling communist-era army command headquarters in Montenegro's capital, an elite team of U.S. military cyber experts are plotting strategy in a fight against potential Russian and other cyberattacks ahead of the 2020 American and Montenegrin elections. With its pristine rocky mountains, lush ...
U.S. angers Palestinians with reversal on Israeli settlements
The Trump administration Monday softened the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, reversing four decades of American policy and further undermining the effort to gain Palestinian statehood. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is repudiating the 1978 State ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is canceling one of four sanctions waivers that had allowed foreign companies to work with Iran's civilian nuclear program without U.S. penalties. The waivers are one of the last remaining components of the 2015 nuclear deal the Trump administration withdrew ...
For U.S. diplomats, public impeachment hearings could be catharsis and maybe a circus
On the first day of November, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent an internal email to thousands of State Department staff that began: "As champions of American diplomacy, we are in the truth-telling business." While the email seen by Reuters focused on global policy ...
President Donald Trump raged against impeachment Wednesday, tweeting that the process was "BULLSHIT" and calling for the lead investigator in Congress to be charged with treason. Trump — accused of leaning on Ukraine's president to dig up dirt on one of his main 2020 election ...
