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Donald Trump Vows “Severe Punishment” If Saudi Arabia Killed Khashoggi

Using the economy as a straw man to avoid cracking down on Riyadh, Trump said that “I don’t want to hurt jobs. I don’t want to lose an order like that,” he said. “There are other ways of punishing, to use a word that’s a pretty harsh word, but it’s true.”

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Jamal Khashoggi

Facing pressure from Congress to act, President Donald Trump vowed "severe punishment" on Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing WaPo reporter Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, as Trump turned up the pressure on the kingdom in an interview to be broadcast Sunday night. "Nobody knows" whether Saudi officials are

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US Accuses Russia of Trying to Seize Syria’s Oil

Pentagon officials have charged that Russia, in its efforts to begin the reconstruction of Syria, really wants to “seize” Syria’s oil and gas resources. 

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Russia is attempting to woo European countries like Germany into a program of reconstruction cooperation in Syria, where broad swaths of the country have been destroyed through seven years of grinding proxy war; however, Pentagon officials have charged Russia with wanting to "seize" Syria's oil and gas resources. This comes as the United States

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Leaked Transcript: Google Lied About “Dragonfly” China Censorship

Google’s project Dragonfly is censored search engine that would blacklist phrases like “human rights,” “student protest,” and “Nobel Prize.”

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The project, code-named Dragonfly, would blacklist phrases like "human rights," "student protest," and "Nobel Prize," and has resulted in at least seven Google employees quitting for ethical reasons. Other employees have circulated a letter recognizing a "code yellow" emergency, suggesting that the Dragonfly initiative violates Google's ethical

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Hawkish US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley Suddenly Resigns

US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who was behind the US embassy move to Jerusalem and a myriad of other controversial policies has suddenly resigned from her post.

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Donald Trump | Nikki Haley

Update (11:00 am ET): During their joint press conference, Trump offered effusive praise of Haley, saying she earned the respect of foreign diplomats during her time as UN ambassador. He added that "maybe" she will be coming back at some point, and that she could have "her pick" of jobs in the administration. When her turn came, Haley praised

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US Navy Proposes a “Global Show of Military Force” as a Warning to China

Where this strategy goes off the rails is that instead of just provoking China in its back yard, the US intends to do it, well, everywhere around the world.

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The trade war between the US and China is turning into a hot war with every passing day. As we reported on Monday, Chinese ships came to actively confronting the USS Decatur while the US ship was carrying out yet another in a series of "freedom of navigation" operations - or "freeops" - in the South China Sea. The Navy destroyer had to maneuver

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Russia Confirms Delivery of S-300 Missile System to Syria

Russia’s Foreign Minister confirmed that transfer was in progress last Saturday, and that the move will “be devoted to ensure 100 percent safety and security of our men in Syria.”

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Russia has formally announced that delivery of its feared S-300 surface-to-air missile system to the Syrian government is now complete. "The work was finished a day ago," Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin during a televised meeting on Rossiya 24 TV on Tuesday, and noted that hardware supplied to Syria consists of 49

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Chinese Warship Comes Within 45 Yards of US Destroyer in South China Sea

The encounter, which comes at a time of strained relations between the world’s two largest economies driven largely by Trump’s aggressive trade policy, was characterized as “unsafe and unprofessional” by Navy officials.

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South Korea and U.S. warships participate in their joint military drill Foal Eagle in South Korea's West sea, March 17, 2013. (AP/South Korea Navy)

If markets have been blissfully ignorant of potential fallout from the simmering US-China trade dispute (even if corporate executives are bracing for the worst), just imagine how they would react to the reality of a military confrontation. Which brings us to an ABC News report published Monday evening detailing just how close Chinese ships came

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