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Reuters: European anxiety deepens over ‘disruptive’ Trump presidency

BERLIN  – Late last month, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s top foreign policy adviser was asked what a Donald Trump presidency would mean for Germany and …
Reuters

BBC: Aleppo evacuation delayed

The planned evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians from devastated eastern Aleppo has been delayed. Government buses have been brought in but none …
BBC

Belarus launches criminal proceedings against 10 citizens for fighting on both sides in eastern Ukraine

Belarusian Interior Minister Igor Shunevich has spoken of a criminal case concerning around ten citizens of Belarus who took part in hostilities …
Interfax-Ukraine

Associated Press: New Congress poised to greet Trump with Russia probes

WASHINGTON – Congress’ Republican leaders are preparing to greet incoming President Donald Trump with investigations into whether Russia intruded into …
Associated Press

Wall Street Journal: Trump chooses Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump has named Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, a transition official …
Wall Street Journal

Financial Times: Person of the year – Donald Trump

It Can’t Happen Here was the title of Sinclair Lewis’s celebrated 1935 novel about fascism in America. It didn’t then, and many well-informed …
Financial Times

CNBC: China and India set to drive a 10-year global arms race

Emerging global powers China and India are set to drive stronger defense spending over the next decade, according to a new report released by IHS …
CNBC

International Business Times: Trump and associates linked to Russia

The Central Intelligence Agency’s allegations that Russia had a hand in his election win “ridiculous,” President-elect Donald Trump said during an …
International Business Times

Associated Press: Top GOP leader says senate to probe reports of Russia hacking

NEW YORK – The top Senate Republican said on Dec. 12 that Congress will investigate a CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the November election …
Associated Press

New York Times: Rex Tillerson, an aggressive dealmaker whose ties with Russia may prompt scrutiny

HOUSTON – Twenty years ago, as Rex W. Tillerson was rising through the ranks at Exxon, he was charged with negotiating with the government of Yemen to …
New York Times

Business Insider: Trump shakes up decades of diplomacy with 4 phone calls

President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to dozens of foreign leaders on the phone since he won the election. The calls have been somewhat …
Business Insider

The Moscow Times: Russian General blames humanitarian ceasefire for loss of Palmyra

A prominent Russian army general has blamed President Vladimir Putin’s “humanitarian ceasefire” in Aleppo for the Islamic State’s recapture of the …
The Moscow Times

Reuters: Oil prices soar on global producer deal to cut crude output

Oil prices shot to their highest levels since mid-2015 on Dec.12 after OPEC and other producers reached their first deal since 2001 to jointly reduce …
Reuters

Politico: Trump says reports of Russian hacking ‘ridiculous’

President-elect Donald Trump called reports that the Russian government endeavored to help him win last month’s election “ridiculous” and “just …
POLITICO

USA Today: Trump dismisses allegations of Russian election tampering

Donald Trump says it’s “ridiculous” to believe Moscow helped him win the presidency and he rejects intelligence findings that Russia intervened in the …
USA Today

Deutsche Welle: Turkey declares national day of mourning following Istanbul attack

Ankara has declared a day of mourning after a terror strike outside a soccer stadium on Saturday night in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded …
Deutsche Welle

Reuters: Romania elects new parliament, leftists ahead in polls

BUCHAREST – Romanians vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday that is likely to hand power back to the leftist Social Democrats (PSD), who advocate …
Reuters

Deutsche Welle: Separatist Transnistria votes for a new president

Transnistria, a breakaway region of the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, is voting for a new president. Read more here
Deutsche Welle
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