342 articles in the World News category.
By Tommy Flynn
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the United States in more than a decade runs Sept. 23–25. President Donald Trump met him and Peng Liyuan on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, a planeside greeting the White House rarely extends. The three-day...
By Tommy Flynn
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the 81st U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that accusations Israel committed genocide in Gaza are “the greatest lie of the century,” that striking Iran’s nuclear program was “one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” and...
By Tommy Flynn
As President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping for a three-day state visit, U.S. and Chinese officials discussed reducing or eliminating Beijing’s 15 percent tariff on American liquefied natural gas. The talks form part of a broader energy and agriculture package...
By Tommy Flynn
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said a permanent U.S. Army base in Poland is “just a question of time” and that the installation would be called Fort Trump. He spoke to Bloomberg Television in New York on Tuesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “It’s hard for me...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent three hours with Iran’s United Nations delegation in New York, the first high-level contact since a June memorandum of understanding in Switzerland. “They had a very good meeting, a very...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held a three-hour mediated session with the Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, just hours after he warned the Assembly he may “annihilate” the Islamic...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that he faces “a big decision” on the war with Iran: accept a deal that lets the Islamic Republic rebuild, or “annihilate” the regime and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.” The remarks...
By Tommy Flynn
The United States plans to reopen a Cold War air base in southern Greenland and station forces at an east-coast outpost now used by Denmark’s Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, three people familiar with the agreement told Reuters on Monday. The sites are Narsarsuaq, where the United...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday when Xi and Peng Liyuan land for a three-day state visit, senior administration officials told reporters. Trump usually receives foreign leaders at the White House. The...
By Tommy Flynn
Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Saturday that American forces have supported the movement of more than 1 billion barrels of crude oil out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz over the past two months. In a video posted to CENTCOM’s X...
By Tommy Flynn
The State Department said Thursday that a “core delegation from the Iranian regime” will be allowed into New York for United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week, even as the United States and Iran remain at war nearly seven months after fighting began on Feb. 28. Officials...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that a European Commission proposal to make Canada the European Union’s first “associate member” could be treated as a “hostile act” against the United States. “I think it’s laughable,” Trump said when asked about the plan after a...