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Trump reaffirms US considering 'all options' in Venezuela
Trump spoke at a meeting where he hosted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has backed the US-led campaign to pressure Maduro.
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Trump complains he is being blamed for New Zealand attack
"The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand," Trump told his more than 59 million followers on Twitter.
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Trump vows 'VETO!' after bipartisan US Senate rebuke on wall
The 59-41 vote was a bipartisan repudiation of Trump’s decision to circumvent Congress and take money already designated for other programmes and redirect it to pay for his US-Mexico border wall.
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Palestinian president slams US dropping 'occupied' in report
Donald Trump is expected to unveil his long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the coming months.
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Venezuela, blaming US for six-day blackout, orders diplomats to leave
Chief Prosecutor Tarek Saab said on Tuesday he was asking Venezuela’s pro-Maduro Supreme Court to open an investigation into opposition leader Juan Guaido for participating in the alleged “sabotage.”
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Trump to seek another $8.6 billion for border wall
The 2020 budget request, which is set to be formally unveiled Monday, would far exceed the $5.7 billion Trump demanded last year.
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Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, condemn US strategy on Venezuela
They warned recent sanctions could 'exacerbate the country's grave economic crisis, causing immense suffering for the most vulnerable in society who bear no responsibility for the situation.'
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Trump ex-campaign chief Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison
It was the stiffest prison sentence given so far to an associate of the president in Mueller's probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election but was significantly lighter than many expected.
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Zimbabwe govt hires top Washington firm to improve its relations with US
The US renewed targeted sanctions for another year this week, accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government of undermining democracy.
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Trump warns Kim over 'rebuilding' of North Korea rocket site
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met last week in Vietnam to negotiate on getting rid of North Korea's nuclear arsenal, but the summit broke up early with no progress.
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Zimbabwe says rapprochement with West still on despite US sanctions
US President Donald Trump on Monday extended by one year sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government’s policies still posed an 'unusual and extraordinary' threat to US foreign policy.
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Former Trump campaign chief to be sentenced, could face life in prison
Paul Manafort was convicted by a Virginia jury in August of five counts of filing false income tax returns, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to report a foreign bank account.
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North Korea rebuilds part of missile site as Bolton warns of more sanctions
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and two US think tanks reported on Tuesday that work was underway at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station at Tongchang-ri, even as Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a second summit in Hanoi last week.
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Trump extends US sanctions against Zimbabwe by a year
The sanctions are expected to remain in place until the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa changes Zimbabwe’s laws restricting media freedom and allowing protests.
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Democrats launch sweeping probe targeting dozens in Trump orbit
With controversies swirling around Donald Trump, the powerful House Judiciary Committee's chairman sent strongly worded letters to family members of the president, including sons Don Jr and Eric, as well as political confidantes and related entities.
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Crippling or bearable? The UN sanctions squeezing North Korea
The cash-strapped regime has been under multiple UN sanctions for decades over its weapons programmes and has blamed them for its economic woes.
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Trump on former lawyer Cohen's testimony: 'He lied a lot'
US President Donald Trump insisted that Michael Cohen's testimony Wednesday had provided no evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia in the 2016 US election.
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'No agreement' reached at Kim-Trump nuclear talks
The Hanoi summit was supposed to build on their initial historic meeting at Singapore that critics said was more style over substance.
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Kim, Trump meet for second day of summit talks
The leaders are scheduled to meet face-to-face this morning before signing a declaration at 2:00 pm (0700 GMT) today.
