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RFE/RL: Putin, Erdogan pledge cooperation to help bring end to Syrian conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing improved bilateral ties, pledged to work together to help …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Washington Post: Rex Tillerson is afraid of the media

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to China, Japan and South Korea next week for what would ordinarily be viewed as an early-term showcase …
Washington Post

The Guardian: Bernie Sanders says ‘Trump lies all the time’

Bernie Sanders has launched a withering attack on Donald Trump, accusing him of being a pathological liar who is driving America towards …
The Guardian

Reuters: G20 plan to stave off debt crises stalls as no country takes lead

LONDON – Global efforts to create a market for growth-linked bonds that could help avert debt crises have stalled because none of the wealthy …
Reuters

Washington Post: How Trump is trying to change politics through the use of language

From the start of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged “total change,” delivering his promises with a scorched-earth political vocabulary — …
Washington Post

Reuters: South Korean court throws president out of office, two dead in protest

South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on March 10 over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates, …
Reuters

BBC: More US states challenge Trump travel ban

The US states of Washington and New York have joined Hawaii in a legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. Read more …
BBC

CNN: Does North Korea have any friends left?

It took two years after Kim Jong Un’s rise to power in 2011 for a single world leader to visit North Korea. Read more here. 
CNN

Reuters: Turkey’s Syria plans face setbacks as Kurds see more US support

Turkey has lost momentum in the war for northern Syria as the United States draws on Kurdish allies in the assault on Islamic State-held Raqqa, but …
Reuters

Reuters: EU snubs Poland by keeping Tusk in top post

The leaders of the European Union delivered a withering snub to Poland’s right-wing government on March 9 by steamrollering its objections and …
Reuters

Reuters: US to host 68-nation meeting on countering Islamic State

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host a 68-nation meeting in Washington this month to discuss the next moves by the coalition fighting …
Reuters

Lukashenko doesn’t want to prohibit people from taking to streets

All conditions should be created in Belarus for a civilized dialogue between the government and the public, in particular on the issue of public …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: CIA leak shows lack of progress in combating ‘insider threats’

The disclosure this week of documents describing secret CIA hacking tools shows that intensified U.S. government efforts to prevent leaks by …
Reuters

Reuters: Greece says bailout review deal close, labor issues remain open

Greece and its international lenders are close to a deal on its bailout review but differences remain on labor issues, the government’s spokesman said …
Reuters

Reuters: Sturgeon says Scotland could hold independence vote in ‘autumn of 2018’

Scotland could hold an independence referendum in the autumn of 2018, just months before Britain is due to leave the European Union, Scottish First …
Reuters

BBC: Poland threatens ‘whole EU summit’ over Tusk vote

Poland has threatened to derail March 9 EU summit as it attempts to block the re-election of Donald Tusk as president of the European Council. Prime …
BBC

Reuters: China developing stealth drones to evade anti-aircraft missiles

China’s largest missile maker is developing military drones with stealth abilities that can evade anti-aircraft weapons, the official China Daily said …
Reuters

Deutsche Welle: Merkel calls for EU unity ahead of summit

Ahead of meeting her fellow European leaders at a summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reiterated her government’s call for unity …
Deutsche Welle
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