Also amid raids on Islamist groups that Tehran alleges are backed by Israel & the US...

Follows surprising statement from US Amb. Huckabee last week condemning settler 'acts of terror'...

Kremlin: "constructive & frank" and lasted exactly one hour

...associated with the continuing degradation of the water and energy infrastructure...

Mirror closures of consulates & culture centers...

Trump threatened decertification and a 50% aircraft tariff earlier this year...

Even the mainstream US media is increasingly turning against him...

"What fear is there in the population that we may have underestimated?"

Brent crude reaches 6-week high...

Indefinitely perpetuating the Ukrainian Conflict through these means indefinitely delays the full implementation of the US' planned "Pivot (back) to (East) Asia"...

Greenland's icecap is doing just fine... It's still much larger than it has been for most of the last 10,000 years and if it is shrinking at all, it is doing so no faster than a century ago.

Abdullah Muhaysini, a Salafi-jihadi cleric from Saudi Arabia, was frequently seen on camera directing young suicide bombers in Syria...

More diverse partnerships and new connectivity corridors have expanded their diplomatic flexibility.

A new Ministry of Finance report shows how China's provinces have had to turn increasingly to Beijing for help with widening budget gaps...

"We don't want this trade war. We didn't start it."

The bipartisan inquiry follows a record Entity List expansion and cites pending cases, transshipment risks, and concerns about declining detention activity.

We ended last week with the Dutch thinktank acknowledgement that "The world as we knew it no longer exists.” We start this week knowing many are going to be profoundly uncomfortable with the new world that replaces it...

One wonders how seriously Putin takes Trump's envoys...

The announcement follows meetings between U.S. and Cambodian officials in an effort to improve relations, after Phnom Penh suspended joint exercises in 2017...