But booksellers are fuming, and their political allies with them.
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He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behaviour.
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Leaving the Open Skies Treaty undermines US allies with Russia.
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He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior.
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And they are working with longstanding allies with new vigor.
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We should have our allies with us going against the Iranians.
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RELATED: Syrian air force bombs key US allies with US troops 'nearby'
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Both are nuclear-armed, and are allies with one another to boot.
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Euron seeks out allies who need him — allies with a known weakness.
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And it gets better with each outlet that allies with this Borg.
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Gen X edition, winning allies with savvy gameplay and a wide grin.
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Trump has punished other countries, including U.S. allies, with his trade actions.
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Russia is involved in this race because they're allies with Iran in this conflict, allies with the Syrian government, determined to have their presence felt across the country, and determined to bring the United States into a conversation.
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Still, there may also be an upside for US allies with Tillerson's departure.
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Both are U.S. allies with a shared concern over Iranian influence in the region.
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The warrior then allies with his former enemies to strike back at his homeland.
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But his decision to hit close allies with tariffs has also prompted an uproar.
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Exit polls released Sunday showed the B.J.P. and its allies with a commanding lead.
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When we were prepared to bring our allies with us, China has to listen.
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North Korea continues to threaten the United States and its allies with nuclear attack.
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But I think the place to do this would be with our allies with NATO.
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And what violence did occur was between two US allies, with American taxpayer-financed weaponry.
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Additionally, Trump has picked fights with key allies with the possibility of a steel tariff.
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President Trump has roiled U.S. officials and traditional allies with his approach to foreign policy.
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We make allies with unexpected characters, hoping they might have a secret limo waiting outside.
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The U.S. Treasury took aim at some of Maduro's allies with its sanctions on Friday.
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STIREWALT: Well, remember, when it comes to our traditional allies with Trump, the worse the better.
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The murder has strained ties between Italy and Egypt, traditional Mediterranean allies with strong economic ties.
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Trump's meeting with Putin comes after he alarmed allies with his rhetoric at the NATO summit.
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Condemnation poured in from U.S. allies, with the EU and Mexico saying they would introduce countermeasures.
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He had few friends or allies with such experience to draw upon when he entered office.
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You don't want it to be about the U.S., because we want our allies with us.
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Mattis is running low on allies, with Tillerson and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn out.
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He made few allies with his manner, described as an unhappy blend of grievance, anger and arrogance.
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It could seek to lure away Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies with promises of lucrative infrastructure investments.
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It, too, was divided among the allies, with the Soviets administering the eastern part of the city.
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But rather than make common cause with them, Mr. Trump has angered American allies with this move.
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Still, the United States and its former colony are treaty allies with a long history of cooperation.
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Complicating matters further, the United States and Turkey are NATO allies with a litany of shared issues.
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Qatar has denied accusations by its neighbors that it supports terrorism and allies with regional foe Iran.
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The safety pin allegedly provided anti-racist allies with a way to demonstrate their solidarity to the world.
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Turkey's offensive into Syria began on Wednesday, supporting its rebel allies with Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes.
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Even by bludgeoning our allies with secondary sanctions, pressure on Iran is unlikely to produce the desired result.
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Rally – Brigitte moves faster and provides all nearby allies with armor that lasts until it's removed by damage.
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Regional Islamist groups feel emboldened, knowing they have allies with resources that provide alternatives to status quo politics.
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Mr. Philippe, who was once a top police official, has been enemies or allies with most in power.
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But it's worth exploring why Trump blindsided his advisers and America's allies with a sudden push to withdraw.
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Taiwan has condemned China for luring its allies with promises of easy loans and aid, accusations Beijing denies.
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Russia has for the past decade successively threatened the United States and its European allies with nuclear attack.
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Throughout the process, Trump announced contradictory policy positions, blindsided allies with changing tactics, and publicly bickered with key lawmakers.
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And if we go by a certain standard we won't be able to have allies with almost any country.
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Past participants in RIMPAC have included nations such as Russia that are not treaty allies with the United States.
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He'd been hammering allies with calls for all NATO members to honor commitments to spend 2% of their GDP.
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Trump has clashed with the EU in recent weeks after targeting it, and other U.S. allies, with massive tariffs.
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Trump has found some celebrity allies with his criminal justice work, such as Wynonna Judd and Kim Kardashian West.
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We also need allies with eyes and ears in places we just can't go, like North Korea and China.
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Trump has also peppered aides and allies with requests for updates on polling and other developments in the race.
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He has startled traditional U.S. allies with his favorable talk toward Russia while at times questioning western alliances like NATO.
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Zomlot even tried, unsuccessfully, to court conservative thinkers in Washington as unlikely allies with an ear to the Trump administration.
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If Mr Trump truly wants to put America First, his priority should be strengthening ties, not treating allies with contempt.
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A statement early Monday accused Iran of supplying Yemen&aposs Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies with the ballistic missile.
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In Europe, Washington's ability to offer an alternative supply has finally provided its allies with a substitute to Russian gas.
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HIV+ performers and activists are crucial to the discussion, as are allies with real knowledge of the industry like Domino.
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Helping friends and allies with governance and in defeating poverty may well contribute to a more effective U.S. counterterrorism policy.
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The Trump administration announced last week it would slap those allies with steel and aluminum tariffs, citing national security concerns.
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The president's relative political inexperience also left him open to manipulation by aides and allies with agendas of their own.
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This issue has sparked division within NATO allies, with Germany and France taking a different stance to the U.S. administration.
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Mr. Trump has recently angered allies with new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
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When a well-known artist allies with a streaming company with deep pockets, major labels can be squeezed from the equation.
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Why this matters: Germany and Britain are two of America's key allies, with foundational shared interests and intimate national security relationships.
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Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday that Iran was arming regional allies with rockets and allowing ballistic proliferation.
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But he sought to soften the impact on the United States' closest allies with a more flexible plan than originally envisioned.
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If Sanchez allies with Podemos, he would probably also need to cut another deal with the Catalans to secure a majority.
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Russia retaliated by boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, taking some 14 of its Communist bloc allies with it.
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Trump's move has drawn widespread criticism, including from the president's Republican allies, with many accusing the US of betraying the Kurds.
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Still, Volker's testimony also provided Trump and his allies with fodder, as they've been pushing for it to be released publicly.
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The two NATO allies with the largest number of personnel under arms find themselves on opposite sides of another political issue.
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Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday that Iran was arming regional allies with rockets and allowing ballistic proliferation.
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Trump, on the other hand, seems to be doing whatever rewards his friends and allies, with no real systematic process whatsoever.
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He reportedly sought to soften the impact on the U.S.'s closest allies with a more flexible plan than originally envisioned.
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In particular, Andrew Johnson, who rose to the presidency upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination, outraged his putative Republican allies with his oratorical antics.
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He wants a more powerful army, but can treat allies with contempt and thinks aid and diplomacy are a waste of time.
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"We will work with our allies, with our partners to try to get it to the U.N.-brokered negotiating table," Mattis said.
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Poland and the United States are more than strategic partners; we are close friends and allies with a shared history and values.
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But far more distressing is what Putin is doing in Syria, where he is outplaying America and its allies, with disastrous consequences.
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Some party officials want to see the FN seek allies with other hard-right parties to try and break its political isolation.
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The relationship between Pakistan and the United States has been one of "allies with an up and down history," said Maj. Gen.
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Biden unsettled some allies with his uneven responses to the Burisma attacks, and they view his revived fortunes as a fresh start.
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You need to be able to hear your environment and your allies with clarity, without one being drowned out by the other.
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"It would be strange if twenty-nine allies with different political parties, different history, different geography, always agreed on everything," Stoltenberg said.
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Trump stunned America's European allies with a caustic warning that he would "go it alone" unless NATO members sharply boosted defense spending.
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The local teenagers might as well be from "Bye Bye Birdie" — and they evolve from antagonists to allies with the scantest provocation.
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When history's losers get to define the story, it can create rifts — with allies, with adversaries or even with our fellow citizens.
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In a bid for power, he allies with an outsider – arms dealer Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), who's after Wakanda's rich supply of Vibranium.
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Now we can add internet advocacy groups, long seen as allies with the Googles and Facebooks of the tech world, to the list.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at some allies, with particularly harsh words for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after a summit in Quebec.
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"(The) U.S. and Denmark are close friends and allies with a long history of active engagement across (the) globe," he said on Twitter.
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The Afghan government and startled allies with troops in Afghanistan, such as Britain, said they had not been consulted and were awaiting confirmation.
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American allies with spies inside or close to ISIS already worry about the safety of their operatives and the quality of their intelligence.
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Later on Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought to allay concerns that Washington had alienated itself from close allies with Trump's decision.
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Britain's global role "will require a level of defense spending beyond what we would expect from allies with only regional interests," Mattis wrote.
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And as the Trump administration threatens U.S. allies with tariffs, Beijing is courting European countries for support in case of a trade war.
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"We are virtually always allies with the E.E.O.C.," said Dara Smith, a lawyer with the AARP Foundation, which is affiliated with the AARP.
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In December, Trump confounded his own national security team and international allies with a surprise decision to withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.
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Most of the 12 apparent victors are "tactical allies with their own points of view," not through-and-through Duterte supporters, he said.
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Its NATO allies, with which Turkey has had increasingly strained relations, particularly with the United States, have no appetite for a wider war.
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" The IJERPH said Coke was "explicit in its intent" to stamp out opposition and build allies with journalists to "negate negative media coverage.
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Ms. Warren's rise in the polls provided her campaign allies with evidence that she didn't need to address electability — she could embody it.
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The United States is allies with all countries involved and in past disputes between the five had mostly stayed out of the fray.
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Both stars have long identified as LGBTQ allies, with Jonas especially going out of his way to bring in a gay fan base.
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And compare that to Obama in 2009, he actually killed a plan that would have armed our Eastern European allies with missile defense systems.
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He's also managed to rankle France, one of our oldest allies, with his bizarre on-again/off-again bromance with French president Emanuel Macron.
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The summit appeared to demonstrate fraying ties between the U.S. and its traditional allies, with one photo seemingly summing up divisions in the room.
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But experts — including the Pentagon — have worried for months that ISIS could reconstitute, and still threaten the US and its allies with terror attacks.
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Sneak around to the sides of a firefight and pluck Soldier away from his allies with a well-placed hook, then finish him off.
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With the additional nerf on its heal effects, Ana players will have to focus a bit more on shooting allies with her Biotic Rifle.
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Both are seeking allies with long-established ties to government as they try to avoid aggravating regulators in China's still developing ride-hailing business.
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Trump has riled key allies with his protectionist policies, including the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
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Mr. DeVos, who cultivated political allies with the deftness of a senior statesman, had also served as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Hooper said the U.S. government was making concerted efforts to speed arms sales approvals and boost sales to help arm allies with U.S. weapons.
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Since then, Mr. Trump has antagonized core allies with tariffs on steel and aluminum while raising the specter of a trade war with China.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being cleareyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held," Mr. Mattis wrote.
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Another official said Shanahan did not provide allies with a timeline of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria and allies expressed scepticism during the meeting.
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Beginning in the late 19th century, Klan members used night rides to terrorize blacks and their white allies with violence, including lynchings and firebombings.
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Our allies — with no interest in becoming collateral damage in a U.S.-Iran conflict — are distancing themselves from the Suleimani hit (notably including Israel).
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The bombing occurred nearly a month after President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team and allies with a surprise decision on Dec.
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Across Southeast Asia, China is energetically bringing nations into its orbit, wooing American friends and allies with military hardware, infrastructure deals and diplomatic attention.
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So the California senator has plenty of allies with immigrant rights groups — but that's not what activists wanted to question her on at the summit.
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It's hard to see where the votes for that would come from in Parliament; there just aren't enough natural Labour allies with lots of seats.
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In addition to its programming, Arts on the Lake has relied on prominent allies with ties to Putnam County to foster its growth and reputation.
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Square is turning point-of-sale companies that at one time could've been considered enemies into allies, with two new partnerships with Vend and TouchBistro.
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A report from the New Yorker says President Donald Trump shocked European allies with an invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House.
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NATO's efforts to reassure eastern allies with rotational forces from the United States or Germany are a crucial first step to restoring balance in Europe.
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The weekend's events mark a troubling turn for diplomatic relations between the two Nato allies, with analysts criticising the short-termism rhetoric employed by Turkey.
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It also means reaching out to potential allies, with narratives that can enlighten them about the ways their privilege can operate… and obfuscate critical issues.
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The editorial is not unusual for North Korean state media, which often responds to perceived threats from the US and its allies with inflammatory language.
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And the series' depictions of the "gyptians" (waterborne nomads whom Lyra allies with) and the Magisterium feel like pastiches of familiar fantasy and dystopian elements.
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Trump has also had a rocky relationship with NATO, rattling allies with threats to withdraw from the alliance if they don't increase their defense spending.
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He has also angered Western allies with his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement and the 85033 Paris climate accord.
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Imposing sanctions on Cuban officials would be the first time Washington has sanctioned foreign officials that it believes are allies with Venezuela, according to Reuters.
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After treating longtime US allies with contempt, Trump has gone out of his way to give passes to and shower praise on longtime American adversaries.
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But Meadows will have a smaller-than-usual coterie within the White House, unlike some of his predecessors who sought to bring allies with them.
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But a binding confidential document signed by both sides revealed that the deal would leave Mr. Deripaska and his allies with majority ownership of EN+.
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The endorsement appeared to convince Sanders largest allies, with many already crossing the picket line since the news of an impending endorsement broke last week.
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Mr. Murphy's predecessor, Chris Christie, a Republican, placed allies with no transit experience in high-ranking positions, a practice that Mr. Corbett wants to end.
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Trump rattled Washington's European allies with comments questioning NATO's mutual self-defense pledge and suggesting that he might recognize Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
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Germany should strive for high readiness and collaboration in synchronizing planning and capabilities development among NATO allies, with major assistance from the UK, France, and Italy.
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The competing narrative between European and American trade officials marks another spat between two traditional allies, with transatlantic relations currently at their lowest point in decades.
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"We cannot allow this dictatorship to threaten our nation or our allies with unimaginable loss of life," he said at a meeting with top military officers.
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This is certain to make the military option even more likely given the Trump administration is forging allies with Venezuela's neighbors from which to establish bases.
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Sessions and Pecker join a growing list of former Trump associates, friends and allies with whom the president is either feuding or entangled in legal battles.
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"Our legislation rights an inequity — a reciprocal benefit that has been withheld from our European allies with little justification," Hatch said Tuesday on the Senate floor.
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In a statement, the coalition accused Iran of supplying Yemen's Houthi rebels and their allies with the missile launched Saturday toward the Saudi capital's international airport.
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The Trump administration has targeted Maduro and his allies with harsh sanctions in recent months, and condemned the Venezuelan government for the treatment of its citizens.
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American intelligence officials say the Al Hol camp, managed by Syrian Kurdish allies with little aid or security, is evolving into a hotbed of ISIS ideology.
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Investigations after Mr. Moi stepped down found that his government had lined the pockets of his family and its allies with as much as $21974 billion.
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The Trump administration has spent the past year trying to pressure its allies, with limited success, to prevent Huawei from building their next-generation wireless networks.
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Many GOP senators are approaching the actions of the president and his allies with caution, even as they rail on the process of the impeachment inquiry.
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Rather than engorge the military-industrial complex, our federal government should be seeking ways to serve our citizens and allies with sustainable and peaceful economic programs.
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In his resignation letter, Mattis also spoke of treating U.S. allies with "respect," another apparent reference to the turmoil created by Trump's sudden decision on Syria.
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And despite speculation that Hungary, which often allies with Poland against Brussels, might support the Polish gambit, Mr Tusk was re-elected by 27 votes to one.
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But so far, the administration has not taken steps to exit the agreement -- a move which would upset key European allies with whom the deal was negotiated.
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Importantly, RILA also represents a handful of ostensible Big Tech allies, with T-Mobile listed as a member, and Accenture and IBM executives sitting on RILA's board.
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There's been a lot written on Trump's hostility to traditional allies, but it increasingly appears that this hostility is specific to allies with centrist or left governments.
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Network hosts are among the president's staunchest media allies, with hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson acting as informal advisers and policy sounding boards for the president.
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On the other, Trump told Sanger and Haberman that he'd refrain from reprimanding allies with poor records on civil liberties because the United States is no paragon.
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One danger, analysts say, is that Mkhwebane will tie up Ramaphosa and his allies with questionable investigations, which will take them months to fight in the courts.
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The Facebook COO and Lean In author is rolling out Together Women Can, an initiative that encourages women to mentor and become allies with their female colleagues.
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Trade was a major issue for Trump during the presidential campaign, and Democrats have found themselves to be frequent allies with the president-elect on U.S. policy.
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But North Korea is testing America's nuclear umbrella — its commitment to defend its allies with nuclear weapons if necessary — in a way no nation has in decades.
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Other groups it frequently allies with in amicus filings, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, didn't submit Hyundai amicus briefs.
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Once close allies with deep historical ties, Cairo and Istanbul have in recent years fallen on opposing sides of some of the Middle East's biggest political rifts.
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In the first game, the protagonist, Solid Snake, hits his two female allies with dumb pickup lines within the first 30 seconds or so of meeting them.
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Mr. Pence has long seen the issue similarly and the two gained allies with the arrival of Mr. Pompeo and John R. Bolton, the national security adviser.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being cleareyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held," he wrote in his resignation letter.
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When the US makes a bad decision, even a historically terrible one, it has the capability to drag at least some of its chief allies with it.
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Trump has alarmed U.S. allies with his combative rhetoric and his calls for an "America First" agenda that many see as a threat to retreat from the world.
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READ: The Mueller probe is hammering Trump's allies with insane legal bills Immediately after the raid, a lawyer for Cohen had said millions of documents might be privileged.
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As in the past, the key role has been played by Saudi Arabia, in conjunction with its close allies, with Riyadh persuading other producers to lend symbolic support.
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The US has heavily assisted its Gulf allies with mid-air refueling and intelligence for their air campaign, which has been blamed for causing hundreds of civilian casualties.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, allies with Israel against Iran, were supportive but made clear that the plan needed to be combined with a political solution.
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Trump slammed European countries for what he said are unfair trade practices and defended his decision to levy them and other allies with hefty steel and aluminum tariffs.
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On the right, Americans for Prosperity allies with many other conservative groups, but the network itself keeps a close focus on a core set of mostly economic issues.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being cleareyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held," Mr. Mattis wrote in his resignation letter.
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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has threatened the United States and its Asian allies with nuclear war and repeatedly tested missiles in defiance of international sanctions.
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Living in stacked slums in Columbus, Ohio, Wade escapes into the game world, where he finds an assortment of allies with their own colorful (and sometimes misleading) avatars.
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The polls, by Kantar-Sofres and Ipsos/Sopra Steria, projected the main opposition force would be conservative party The Republicans and its allies with between 125 and 133 seats.
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He underlined that the party had survived previous crises, such as the departure in the late 1990s of Bruno Megret, once a political star who took allies with him.
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"Consultations with our allies, with like-minded partners, on how to respond to China's assertive international strategy have been frequent and are gathering momentum," a U.S. official told Reuters.
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At the same time, we should begin fostering alliance-like links among our existing allies with strategic partners such as India and, in Latin America, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico.
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Trump has indicated that the U.S. government will remain allies with Saudi Arabia, saying sanctions or punishment taken against the kingdom over Khashoggi could cause oil prices to spike.
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Clinton allies with knowledge of the Democratic front-runner's ground game in Iowa say they believe the results will be close but they think they'll come out on top.
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" Clinton also vowed to work against nuclear proliferation and "ensure that no terrorist is ever able to threaten our country or our allies with a weapon of mass destruction.
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The memo also suggests that the U.S. could provide its allies with the 85033G network in an effort to protect the countries against China's growing influence in this space.
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Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel though there has been a thawing of the relationship between the U.S. allies, with a shared concern over Iranian influence in the region.
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Saudi Arabia charged that Iran had committed "a blatant act of military aggression" by providing its Yemeni allies with a missile fired at the Saudi capital over the weekend.
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And I think this year we&aposre going to have some significant improvement in that so we can actually share some very important things with our allies, with industry.
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On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that Trump threatened European allies with 25% auto tariffs if they failed to enforce a dispute mechanism against Iran over the nuclear deal.
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Co-sponsors of the landmark nuclear deal include some of Washington's closest allies, with Britain, France and Germany — as well as Russia and China — all signatories to the agreement.
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While the two are not the same and their supporters do not perfectly overlap, of all the candidates, they are the closest ideological allies with the most aligned interests.
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He appears even more obsessed with nuclear weapons than his father and predecessor, Kim Jong-il, and has threatened South Korea and its allies with pre-emptive nuclear attack.
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He's been courting his congressional allies with golf, a World Series game and frequent phone calls — all to develop an echo chamber of support from his allies in Congress.
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Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has expressed discomfort with the prospect of tying aid to an investigation into Biden and is not exactly the closest of allies with the president.
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That period, known as the Jim Crow era, saw the establishment of American apartheid: segregated public facilities, race riots and white racists murdering blacks and their white allies with impunity.
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The U.S. needs to provide its regional allies with financial assistance, limited military aid, and intelligence to help disrupt these sorts of relationships before there's another attack on U.S. soil.
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Or will they choose to continue to stray away from its longstanding democratic norms and alienate its NATO allies with behavior characteristic of autocratic regimes adversarial to the free world?
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Trump may very well be "sending a signal" or hoping to instill goodwill in allies with these pardons, but the path for each of these criminal figures has been straightforward.
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The church has its own piece of gay liberation history: Pflag, the first American organization aimed at uniting allies with members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, was founded there in 1972.
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That led to calls from several House Democrats, who are close allies with Israel, to Ambassador Ron Dermer and even to Netanyahu in an effort to get the decision reversed.
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Since Mr. Obama hosted that meeting, the United States has offered over $33 billion in weaponry to its Persian Gulf allies, with the bulk of it going to Saudi Arabia.
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The keystone of this strategy is becoming a credible, constant nuclear threat to the United States, while periodically driving a wedge between Washington and its allies with fake peace gestures.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being cleareyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held," he wrote to Trump in his public resignation letter.
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"David Cameron has decided to reward his political allies with honors as if they are confetti and I think he discredits the system," Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, told Sky News.
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Ron Wyden, criticized the USMCA as insufficient and hit Trump for driving away American allies with his use of tariffs, adding that "there is no discernible strategy" in the President's behavior.
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Ironically, both are US allies, with Qatar providing a base for US aircraft flying missions in the Middle East and the UAE contributing pilots and planes to the anti-ISIS coalition.
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But I will say very strongly that they're a very important ally, and if we go by a certain standard, we won't be able to have allies with almost any country.
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The inspector general's report also provides the president and his allies with a convenient counterpoint to a new memoir by James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director Mr. Trump fired last May.
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It is revealing that the U.S. cannot trust its allies with the sort of intelligence that led to the killing of the most high-profile terrorists of the past 20 years.
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While Egypt, which has received billions of dollars in American aid, remains close allies with the United States, their relationship has been strained recently over Mr. Sisi's harsh treatment of dissidents.
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If he simply tries to repeat his earlier threats of the United States' leaving the alliance, or presents the allies with yet another "bill", the outcome is bound to be disastrous.
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"As @realDonaldTrump destroys US credibility & humiliates his 'allies' with "little games", we're delighted to engage with responsible powers today in Tehran to further move toward political solution in #Syria," Zarif wrote.
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It essentially places the YPG -- allies with the US in the fight against ISIS -- on the same side as forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who the US opposes.
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" The agreement, Vogel writes, "contains provisions that free him from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt while leaving him and his allies with majority ownership of his most important company.
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Secretary of State Tillerson rattles European allies with plans to skip his first NATO meeting Secretary of State Tillerson rattles European allies with plans to skip his first NATO meeting President Trump's regular criticism of NATO already had America's European allies on high alert, and a new report that the U.S. Secretary of State plans to skip his first NATO meeting next month will only heighten fears about the nation's commitment to the alliance, analysts warn.
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Captain Joseph Trench Niez, the 28-year-old navigator on a B-52 bomber stationed on the Pacific island of Guam, enthuses about reassuring allies with sorties around the Philippines and Japan.
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If Trump did, in fact, disclose code-word-clearance information, it should generate a stampede of Republicans abandoning the president and American allies with whom we share secret information reacting with fury.
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Trump "made clear that the United States will continue to strengthen its ability to deter and defend itself and its allies with the full range of its military capabilities," the statement said.
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America needs a president who can rise above pettiness and anger, treat real allies with respect and who understands the needs of adversaries -- even while he may not agree or accept them.
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Trump had alienated some corporate leaders and U.S. allies with his comments since violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the aftermath of a white nationalist protest against the removal of a Confederate statue.
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As much as we have nowhere else to go, I think we need to do more to form allies with the Indigenous community because we have a mutual enemy, which is colonialism.
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The deal contains provisions that free him from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt while leaving him and his allies with majority ownership of his most important company, the document shows.
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Up until Mr. Kim's surprise overture, North Korea has routinely disparaged the South as an American puppet and warned that it could strike the United States and its allies with nuclear missiles.
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"We are good allies with Denmark, we protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world, and the concept came up," the President said in New Jersey before heading to Washington.
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Op-Ed Contributor For decades North Korea threatened American "imperialists" and our South Korean allies with a "sea of fire" and retribution for trying to contain their conventional and nuclear weapons programs.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain was reported to be angry with Mr. Trump for not informing him or other allies with troops in Iraq about the decision to kill General Suleimani.
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Trump has alienated some corporate leaders and U.S. allies with his comments since violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the aftermath of a white nationalist protest against the removal of a Confederate statue.
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What you want is you want the breakup of this deal to be about Iran, you don't want it to be about the United States, because we want our allies with us.
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The president's first address to Congress came after a turbulent debut on the world stage, when he unnerved allies with erratic statements on diplomatic issues and tempestuous phone calls with foreign leaders.
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Weekend talks between the U.S. and China ended in an impasse, and G-26 finance ministers meeting in Canada issued a rare rebuke to the U.S. for hitting even allies with tariffs.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis is warning North Korea the U.S. would respond to any use of nuclear weapons by the communist state against America or its allies with an "effective and overwhelming" response.
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Remember we were talking backstage about Ebola, part of the reason why we didn't have a pandemic of Ebola is that the United States led our allies with our military to contain it.
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According to Brown, Republicans fear that if they speak out against Trump, the president will campaign against them and his allies with vilify them on social media and powerful platforms like Fox News.
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" "My view on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion on these issues.
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If intelligence is shared among the U.S. and its allies, with priorities outlined for each country, it will provide the right kind of guidance to tackle collaborations between terrorists and illicit crime networks.
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Ryan said he was encouraged by the results of efforts to work with China to reduce tensions, but that it was unacceptable North Korea might be able to strike allies with nuclear weapons.
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The election of Ursula von der Leyen as next president of the EU Commission triggered the latest clash between the two allies, with Di Maio backing her and Salvini giving the thumbs down.
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The United States must provide its Syrian allies with equipment that gives them at least a chance to keep the pressure on ISIS while preserving themselves and their hard-won gains against ISIS.
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But non-OPEC output is still expected to grow at almost twice the rate of world oil demand in 2020, presenting OPEC and its allies with a continuing challenge to balance the market.
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But non-OPEC output is still expected to grow at almost twice the rate of world oil demand in 2020, presenting OPEC and its allies with a continuing challenge to balance the market.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of undermining the US and its allies with comments he made at the G7 summit.
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That Trump would surprise staffers and allies with a morning tweet is not new; he regularly sets his own tone for the day on Twitter based on cable television and his own mood.
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The existence of an investigation provides the president and his allies with unlimited opportunities to speculate about the outcome, while the inspector general is bound by confidentiality restrictions until the report is released.
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Apart from the practice of favouring allies with government contracts, politicians have a habit of replacing officials across the government machinery with their own cronies every time there is a transfer of power.
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There, a group of Ukrainian prosecutors with grudges against Western-backed anti-corruption efforts found common cause with a network of Trump's allies with a long history of digging up dirt on Democrats.
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Oil gained on Wednesday ahead of an expected extension to production curbs by OPEC and its allies, with further support from industry data showing a larger than forecast drop in U.S. crude stockpiles.
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Over a hundred DACA recipients, community leaders, and allies with Make the Road New York, NAKASEC, and the Home Is Here campaign marched 230 miles to the steps of the US Supreme Court.
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Trump has alienated many senior members of his own Republican Party, some corporate leaders and U.S. allies with his recent comments after violence at a Virginia rally organized by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
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They say that from 2003 PT governments installed an organised scheme of graft in Petrobras which funnelled money to the party and its allies with the aim of securing a permanent hold on power.
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The global order was created after the second World War by the U.S. and its allies with one of its central tenets being free and open trade, which was now under threat, she said.
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Mr. Trump has also demonstrated a willingness to risk war with China over both Taiwan and the South China Sea, conflicts that none of America's allies (with the possible exception of Japan) would welcome.
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A few days later came reports that the president had shared highly classified intelligence about the Islamic State — which the United States had not even shared with its allies — with the Russian foreign minister.
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Diplomats said if needed the UAE can always send troops back to Yemen, where Abu Dhabi has built strong local allies with tens of thousands of fighters among southern separatists and coastal plains fighters.
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Of course, things don't go quite as planned and Harley becomes unexpected allies with Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) and pickpocket Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco).
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It has budgeted to sharply boost military training and exercises aimed at reassuring European countries concerned about Russia, which seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 and has worried NATO allies with its strategic bomber flights.
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Bishop said both countries were still working through the details of the agreement, which sparked a rare diplomatic spat between the two staunch allies, with Trump berating Australia's prime minister in an angry phone call.
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Trump has said the supplies should provide European allies with an alternative to Russian energy and his Energy Secretary Rick Perry has called the exports "freedom gas," postures that have drawn criticism from Russian officials.
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Side-effects of this treatment: This would undermine the unholy alliance struck with Tehran and Moscow against traditional Middle East allies, with a positive ripple-effect forcibly anticipated regarding relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," Mattis wrote.
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CAIRO — Since King Salman of Saudi Arabia arrived in Cairo on Thursday for a five-day visit, the leader of the oil-rich kingdom has lavished his Egyptian allies with promises of aid and investment.
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A crucial question is whether the administration's strategy of pummeling allies with attacks, threats and tariffs can yield not just revised trade agreements, but also the trust needed to undertake a concerted campaign against China.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion on these issues," Mattis wrote.
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Tillerson is on a visit to Europe during which he has reassured allies with tougher rhetoric against Moscow than that of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has sought better relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The week started with the Summit of the Cruel Scions, following the Summit of the Scorned Allies, with President Trump "crashing around the world like a hormonal musk ox," as The Financial Times put it.
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Mick Mulvaney is causing heartburn among White House lawyers and Donald Trump's allies with his stunning briefing in which he acknowledged that the administration withheld Ukraine aide because of Trump's desire for a political probe.
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And visitors had no access to the tanks and armored vehicles Trump promised at the rally, visible only to the Republican donors and allies with access to the VIP seating area adjacent to the monument.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," wrote Secretary Mattis.
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It occurred nearly a month after President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team and allies with a surprise decision to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, declaring Islamic State had been defeated there.
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Italy's coalition government comprises anti-establishment parties with a brief to shake up EU institutions while U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened allies with hefty tariffs on car imports in addition to unilaterally imposed metal duties.
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One danger, analysts say, is that Mkhwebane will tie up Ramaphosa and his allies with questionable investigations that could take them months to fight in the courts and distract them from tackling the country's economic woes.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday they had agreed to intensify trade consultations between the two longtime allies, with an aim to expand investment and trade between their countries.
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The past two U.S. administrations have made similar demands of our European allies with the belief that, if NATO is to remain the most successful military alliance in history, all members must be on equal footing.
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Flynn coauthored a book, "Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies." with Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative academic who was a longtime, bitter critic of the Iranian regime.
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A lot of this is Erdogan's boilerplate loud bark, but he has surprised even his allies with his bite before, in taking on the US allies in the fight against ISIS -- the Syrian Kurds -- last year.
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The Foreign Ministry in Taiwan, which has denounced China for luring its allies with promises of easy loans, expressed "deep thanks" for the message of support and pledged to further deepen cooperation with the Marshall Islands.
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The deal sparked a rare diplomatic spat between the two staunch allies, with Trump berating Australia's prime minister in an angry phone call that led to quick moves in Washington to reaffirm the strength of the relationship.
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At the start of Turkey's now almost week-long cross-border offensive, Turkish tanks, artillery and warplanes provided Syrian rebel allies with the firepower to capture swiftly the Syrian frontier town of Jarablus from Islamic State militants.
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Check it out: "If I'm going to change things, I'm going to need allies—allies with power," Offred says in the trailer, as she tries to sow the seeds of rebellion in Yvonne Strahovski's character, Mrs. Waterford.
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Trump has rattled some allies with his vow to "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatens the United States and his dismissal of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.
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Saudi Arabia does not recognise Israel and lifting the airspace ban would reflect what appears to be thawing ties between Israel and the kingdom, both U.S. allies with a shared concern over Iranian influence in the region.
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Uruguay's ruling coalition, the Frente Amplio, can be described as center left; Uruguay has been one of the few countries in the region that has remained allies with nearby Venezuela, putting it at odds with the Trump administration.
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In a speech delivered at the Hudson Institute, a short walk from Congress and the ongoing Kavanaugh brouhaha, the vice-president castigated the Chinese for bullying investors, buying allies with cheap loans, "tearing down crosses" and much else.
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Only this month the foreign minister, Wang Yi, swatted aside charges that China is burdening African allies with too much debt, saying that Chinese loans merely respond to African demands for assistance, and always abide by local laws.
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Read: The Mueller probe is hammering Trump's allies with insane legal bills "Even a blind person can see that the true target of the special counsel's investigation is President Trump, not defendant," Judge T.S. Ellis wrote in June.
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Trump has rattled some allies with his vow to "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatens the United States and with his dismissal of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.
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"It very much rides on the tone used," she said, adding that there was a "very fine line" between making clear to Britain the limits of what it could ask for and alienating potential allies with excessive stridency.
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But they did not appear to quell behind-the-scenes security contacts developed in recent years between Israel and U.S. Gulf allies, with Washington's urging, over their common enemy Iran, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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As missile defense becomes more reliable, on the chance that a rogue actor targets us or our allies with a limited nuclear strike, it is going to become less and less likely that it will reach its target.
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The surprise announcement comes at a time of worsening friction over trade between the United States and other countries — including close allies — with tariffs, threats of tariffs and complaints with the World Trade Organization flying back and forth.
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But he said it was clear that policymakers should worry less about outdoing their allies with corporate tax cuts, and instead consider steps to crack down on profit-shifting, such as taxing profits where companies register their sales.
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Behind it all was a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the army and its allies, with Buddhist mobs and the country's security forces subjecting Rohingya Muslims to slaughter, rape and the complete erasure of hundreds of their villages.
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While the United States has armed and trained the SDF through years of fighting IS, Washington held back from supplying its Kurdish allies with a more sophisticated arsenal, reflecting the needs of the battle but also Turkish concerns.
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But the case risks exposing faultlines among the allies, with some European capitals already chafing at existing EU sanctions against Moscow while Mr Trump has still not imposed a fresh round of sanctions requested by Congress last year.
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While the United States has armed and trained the SDF through years of fighting IS, Washington held back from supplying its Kurdish allies with a more sophisticated arsenal, reflecting the needs of the battle but also Turkish concerns.
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Trump's foreign policy has unnerved McCain and Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has said publicly that the president risks alienating U.S. allies with this Twitter attacks on the likes of North Korea's leader.
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Antagonizing our allies with threats of tariffs and advocating ruinous policies like reengaging Russia while it continues mischief in the Ukraine, Middle East, and anywhere else President Putin can project his large but second rate military is foolish.
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The conclusions of the panel indicate growing uneasiness among Western allies with alleged rights abuses under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto leader who already facing opprobrium over last year's murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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The U.S. Defense secretary on Friday warned North Korea that his government would respond to any use of nuclear weapons by the communist state against America or its allies with what he described as an "effective and overwhelming" response.
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"This sale is consistent with U.S. initiatives to provide key allies with modern systems capable of being networked to defend against regional instability," a State Department spokesperson, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said ahead of the announcement.
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The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State has supplied its Syrian allies with armored vehicles for the first time, expanding support since U.S. President Donald Trump came to office, a spokesman for the Syrian groups told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Russia is a threat because it assassinates Putin&aposs critics with chemical weapons, shoots down civilian airliners, arms the Taliban, supports Iran, violates its treaty obligations, targets NATO allies with nuclear missiles and annexes the territory of its neighbors.
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The meeting, Kim's third with a top Beijing official in just over a month, is another indication of the warming relations between the two fractious allies, with Wang praising North Korea's commitment to denuclearization during his two-day visit.
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Romania, a country of 20 million people which hosts a U.S. ballistic missile defense station and is one of Washington's staunchest allies with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, remains among the poorest, most corrupt members of the European Union.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," Mattis wrote in his resignation letter.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's president, who has angered European allies with charges of fascism and anti-Turkish skullduggery, took grievances to the sporting arena on Monday, accusing the International Olympic Committee of playing tricks to stop Istanbul hosting the event.
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But it is in the Western Pacific, where China has been constructing military bases and wooing new allies with multibillion-dollar projects, that hostilities would likely erupt if a miscalculation ever turned a trade war into a shooting war.
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Trump hosted a discussion on Tuesday on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or, if necessary, to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.
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The regime believes the US and South Korea plan to invade and topple its government, and having the ability to strike the US or its closest allies with a nuclear weapon serves as a clear deterrent against that outcome.
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In his resignation letter in December, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis emphasized that his views on "treating allies with respect and also being cleareyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors" — Russia, for example — were not shared by Mr. Trump.
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At a summit in Canada, the president of the United States rejected associating the country with "the rules-based international order" that America had built after World War II, and threatened the country's closest allies with a trade war.
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Still, Volker's testimony also provided Trump and his allies with fodder, as he told lawmakers that he didn't know about any "quid pro quo" linking US military assistance to the announcement of Ukrainian investigations into Biden and the Democrats.
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Dubbed "World War Zero," the activist group's goal is to unite "unlikely allies with one common mission: making the world respond to the climate crisis the same way we mobilized to win World War II," according to its website.
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U.S. crude oil futures jumped 3.7% to $58.17 a barrel ahead of an expected extension to production curbs by OPEC and its allies, with further support from industry data showing a larger than forecast drop in U.S. crude stockpiles.
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President Donald Trump brought his chaotic style of governing to the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, irritating and befuddling allies with charges and jibes before declaring success for convincing his counterparts to pay more for their mutual defense.
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The White House said in a statement after the Abe call Trump "made clear that the United States would continue to strengthen its ability to deter and defend itself and its allies with the full range of its military capabilities".
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LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron was accused on Friday of cronyism that would "embarrass a medieval court" after he rewarded a long list of his political aides and allies with some of Britain's highest honors to mark his resignation as prime minister.
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At the summit he harangued democratic allies, with whom America has upheld the international order for the past 70 years—after having just celebrated autocrats, such as Egypt's Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, on his visit to Saudi Arabia (see article).
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" In his resignation letter, Mattis wrote that he believed in "treating allies with respect," and that the US "must be resolute and unambiguous" in how it approaches countries like China and Russia, "whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours.
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That expression on Jamie's face as he leaves the scene isn't just anger and shock at hearing how his son really died — it's also the dawning realization that his sister will never, ever be a safe person to be allies with.
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Many U.S. lawmakers, Trump's fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, have been deeply concerned about Syria policy since December, when Trump confounded his own national security team and allies with a surprise decision to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.
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Saudi Arabia does not recognise Israel and lifting the 70-year-old airspace ban would reflect what appears to be thawing ties between Israel and the kingdom, both U.S. allies with a shared concern over Iranian influence in the region.
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At-times violent protests have rocked San Juan and its historic colonial capital district since the July 13 release of leaked text messages between Rosselló and his closest allies, with an estimated 500,000 people attending the largest demonstration on Monday.
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"America and Europe are not opponents...We are partners and allies with common values and interests," Maas said, adding it was good that the two would also work on unfair trade practices and on a reform of the World Trade Organisation.
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In a harbinger of the abolitionist movement, the likes of Catharine Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, and Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke out for them, and deluged Jackson's legislative allies with petitions—the congressional phone lines of the day—bearing thousands of names.
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This is a shame, since it makes no sense for any president, Democrat or Republican, to have the ability to use nuclear weapons against a country that has not attacked the United States or its allies with such weapons first.
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Trump has rattled some U.S. allies with his vow to "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatens the United States, for deriding Kim as a "Rocket Man on a suicide mission" and for dismissing as pointless any diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang.
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He has rattled longtime foreign allies with his sometimes bellicose statements and stoked social and political divisions at home, most recently with his attacks on mostly black professional football players who kneel in protest against racial injustice during the national anthem.
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"America and Europe are not opponents...We are partners and allies with common values and interests," Maas said, adding it was good that the two would also work on unfair trade practices and on a reform of the World Trade Organization.
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Anton Gerashchenko, a prominent Ukrainian lawmaker, said any decision by Trump to support Putin's interests in Ukraine would "extremely negatively affect all U.S. positions in the world because America was believed only when they defended their allies with their own strength".
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"He is the president of a country that is allies with us and we have to give a certain amount of respect to the office of the president, even if we think the incumbent is a complete idiot," said Milne.
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But threatening the U.S. and its allies with ICBM tests has produced the opposite effect with American military forces increasing their anti-missile power on the Korean peninsula as well as boosting the number of B-1B bombers to the region.
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Government forces and their allies, with Russian backing, have advanced in recent months and imposed a siege on the rebel-held sector of Aleppo since early July, when they closed the main road from opposition areas out of the city.
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Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel and lifting the 70-year-old airspace ban would reflect what appears to be thawing ties between Israel and the kingdom, both U.S. allies with a shared concern over Iranian influence in the region.
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In turn, this has provided the President and his allies with the political basis for declaring a complete victory, for further attacking the integrity of the special counsel investigation, and for laying the groundwork for an attack on congressional inquiries.
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Mr. Hwang also called on his government to look aggressively for "ways to effectively strengthen the United States' extended deterrence" for South Korea, referring to Washington's ability to deter attacks on its allies with the help of its nuclear forces.
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But by the end of the 20th century their insights had been smothered by corporate power and its political allies, with predictable consequences: We live with a narrow politics where democratic deliberation rarely touches fundamental questions of power and ownership.
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What is striking about Mr. Trump's interactions with foreign leaders is that his eagerness to believe is hardly universal — and is rarely extended to the leaders of the United States' closest allies, with whom the president has had remarkably rocky relations.
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At drugmaker Roche, for instance, the Hoffmann and Oeri families control 45 percent of shareholder votes with 8.3 percent of the total investment, while watchmaker Swatch is run by the Hayek clan and their allies with roughly 20 percent of the share capital.
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So it is with Jason Bourne, where much of the screen time is dominated by a new character, a computer whiz named Heather Lee, who sometimes allies with Bourne and sometimes seeks to bring him down, depending on her goals at the moment.
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There is every reason to predict that Trump will treat the allies with contempt while lavishing praise on Putin, even though Trump's own intelligence chief has declared that the Russians not only interfered in the last election, but continues targeting American democracy.
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Trump has also angered U.S. allies with tariffs on aluminum and steel ordered in May, citing national security concerns in order to place duties on imports from some top steel-producing allies including Canada, which issued a blistering statement on the measures.
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"Going with an untrusted supplier like Huawei or ZTE will have all sorts of ramifications for your national security and ... since we are military allies with almost all members of the European Union, on our national security as well," the official said.
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In his resignation letter on Thursday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis emphasized that his views on "treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors" — China and Russia, for example — were not shared by Mr. Trump.
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Kirchner and her former allies with treason, because they had sought "impunity for the Iranian nationals accused of the attack on the AMIA headquarters and to normalize relations between the two states," referring to the community center, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and adviser John Bolton were always unlikely foreign policy allies, with Bolton skeptical of Trump's outreach on North Korea and efforts to woo Russian President Vladimir Putin and supportive of an Iraq war hated by his boss.
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However, the former Conservative leader has also chosen to honour some of her closest advisers and allies, with her Director of Communications Robbie Gibb, chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins, European adviser Peter Storr and de facto deputy David Lidington all receiving knighthoods.
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I engaged with our allies, with Ukraine and with Russia in negotiations to implement the Minsk Agreements, holding a firm line on insisting on the withdrawal of Russian forces, dismantling of the so-called People's Republics and restoring Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Still, allies with sore memories of a showdown with Trump at the last NATO summit in July 2018 will now also have to contend with two other presidents in attendance who have made NATO a foil: France's Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan.
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" In a separate statement with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea, Mr. Tillerson also denounced North Korea's latest ballistic missile test and promised that the United States would defend its allies with the "full range of its nuclear and conventional defense capabilities.
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However, it would feel to me naive not to grasp that, at the very least, what has been said in tribute to McCain -- either intentionally or unintentionally -- amounts to the broadest sounding so far of global disquiet among America's allies with Trump.
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Abe's government believes Japan may be better placed to prise Southeast Asian nations away from Chinese influence than its U.S. allies with a gentler approach that emphasizes a common Asian heritage, two sources with knowledge of the diplomatic strategy told Reuters earlier.
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I engaged with our Allies, with Ukraine, and with Russia in negotiations to implement the Minsk Agreements, holding a firm line on insisting on the withdrawal of Russian forces, dismantling of the so-called "People's Republics," and restoring Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Even if he allies with the Liberals, however, "the most immediate casualty could be the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion," Dejardins analysts said of the C$7.4 billion ($5.4 billion) federally approved pipeline project through British Columbia that both NDP and the Greens oppose.
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HUTCHISON: One thing I will say is that in all of the disagreements that we have seen at the G7 and with allies with whom we are now having trade talks and negotiations and tariffs, that has not come up in the NATO context.
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The only people who get to make a case for their worldview being right and just in this world are the villains that we're meant to extinguish, and every other moment for talking and reflection is dominated by allies with abhorrent or ignorant opinions.
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In a letter to the president dated Thursday, Mattis wrote about his beliefs in "treating allies with respect," and that the US "must be resolute and unambiguous" in how it approaches countries "whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours," including China and Russia.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could remain in the Paris climate accord under the right conditions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday, signaling a shift in tone from the Trump administration, which angered allies with its decision to pull out of the agreement.
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South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian military planes that they said flew over an island in the Sea of Japan claimed by both of the US allies, with South Korea firing flares and over 300 warning shots at a Russian warplane.
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Peter Ambler, the executive director of Giffords' group, echoed Lloyd, arguing the group believes gun control advocates will notch more victories this year because they now have "allies with gavels," a nod to the fact Democrats will now be the chairs of House committees.
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There are signs that North Korea's submarine missile program is expanding as it prepares its second test, adding to the risk that the nuclear-armed country could one day threaten the U.S. or its Asian allies with yet another powerful weapon in its arsenal.
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"The DPRK must also know that while the United States and its partners are seeking to solve this crisis peacefully, we will not hesitate to defend the U.S. homeland, our troops in the region, and our treaty allies, with overwhelming military force," they wrote.
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For one thing, talking tough and stupid on trade in itself damages U.S. credibility: If we go around threatening our most important allies with retaliation against policies they don't even have, how can we expect them to trust us — or support us — on anything else?
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"It's a very difficult situation for us as artists because this is a community center, and it's a Latin American community center specifically, that's done a lot of really, really incredible work and we want to stand as allies with the center," Williams told Hyperallergic.
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In art communities that rarely discuss sexual trauma, even as it occurs within the communities, and in a cultural climate in which the #MeToo movement remains necessary, Fryd's book provides survivors of sexual trauma and their allies with deserved acknowledgement and sometimes cathartic release.
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What is clear, from interviews with advisers and allies with the various campaigns, is that the top candidates like Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren believe they are sufficiently established in the race that they can continue to command attention for their candidacies and messages.
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Trump and military officials met to discuss "a range of options to respond to any form of North Korean aggression or, if necessary, to prevent North Korea from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons," the White House said in a statement.
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Read : The Mueller probe is hammering Trump's allies with insane legal bills The model, Karen McDougal, has said she had an affair with Trump before selling the rights to her story to The National Enquirer for $150,000 during the waning months of the presidential campaign.
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Trump on the other hand has raised doubts about the bedrock pacts of the international system such as NATO and US alliances in Asia, is yet to define his "America First" creed and has spooked Eastern European allies with his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Previous American administrations refused this gambit because it equated legal and legitimate operations by allies with an illicit weapons programme condemned by the UN. They were also well aware that Beijing was self-interestedly seeking to see a big chunk of America's presence in Asia negotiated away.
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By Steve Holland and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump overrode his top national security aides, blindsided U.S. ground commanders, and stunned lawmakers and allies with his order for U.S. troops to leave Syria, a decision that upends American policy in the Middle East.
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Read more: The Mueller probe is hammering Trump's allies with insane legal bills The FBI raided Cohen's office and hotel room after prosecutors received a referral from the team of investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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This area should be of interest not only because of drugs and money transfers; in the post-Soleimani era, it may be used to plan or coordinate attacks against America and her allies with the usual Iranian "plausible deniability" of not originating operations from Iranian territory.
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Trump announced last week that he would impose a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum on Mexico, Canada and the EU. Trump first announced the steel and aluminum tariffs in March but provided select allies with a temporary exemption.
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Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, effectively empowering China; has been the only nation to pull out of both the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal; and has threatened Washington's closest allies with a series of debilitating tariffs.
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But there have been positive signs in recent years, which are likely to be overshadowed by Trump's bristling anger at US allies, with many diplomats fearing that Brussels will see a repeat of the G7 summit in Canada, which Trump blew up, raising doubts about Western cohesion.
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While officials in Washington say China is nowhere near gaining the capacity to keep American forces out of the South China Sea, analysts say the buildup will make it more difficult for the United States Navy to quickly defend allies with weaker militaries, like the Philippines.
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Kuttner believes that America stopped supporting its manufacturing sector partly because it got into the habit, during the Cold War, of rewarding foreign allies with access to American consumers, and eventually decided that exports of financial services, rather than of manufactured goods, would be the country's future.
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While Mr. Trump has governed from the hard right for most of his presidency, he has at times confused some of his aides and allies with seemingly ad hoc, gut-driven proposals that conflict with Republican orthodoxy like seizing guns from the mentally ill without due process.
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The postponement provided Mr. Bhalla and his allies with an additional 48 hours to try to block a sale that they say is a political favor to a successful company and an attempt to circumvent Hoboken's ability to decide how land within its borders should be used.
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Rather than risk alienating key allies with whom the U.S. has traditionally relied upon for U.S.-bound traveler data and other critical intelligence, a more effective approach for the President to take would be to strengthen these partnerships in a way that induces further cooperative information-sharing.
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The U.S. leader, who will visit South Korea on the trip, has rattled some allies with his vow to "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatens the United States and with his dismissal of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.
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The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, speaking on Thursday to a meeting of his allies with media analysts, said Rama should step down, then his party would talk to the ruling Socialists about setting up an interim government to prepare free and fair elections.
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"My only plea to President Trump, or whoever is the American president, is approach things in a way that keeps your allies with you and keeps the western world united because we're going to need that as we go through this big geopolitical change," the former Prime Minister said.
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If we can be allies with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, we can put up with Kim Jong Un. It is unfortunate, but Kim is the only thing standing between stability and real danger on the peninsula (and the unraveling of the U.S. position in Asia).
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"He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends, including the British prime minister, the mayor of London, the German chancellor, the president of Mexico and the pope," Clinton said, listing some of the allies with whom Trump has verbally sparred in the last year.
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The revelation that Mr. Ohr engaged with Mr. Steele has provided the president's allies with fresh fodder to attack the investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, casting it as part of a vast, long-running conspiracy by a "deep state" bent on undermining Mr. Trump.
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Trump has also angered European allies with tariffs on foreign steel and other products, and is now threatening a 100% tariff on French luxury handbags, cheese and champagne in retaliation for France's 3% tax on major digital services companies — many of which are American — operating in the country.
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The ACU's nuclear reactor plan aimed to provide Washington's Middle East allies with nuclear power in a way that didn't risk nuclear weapons proliferation and also helped counter Iranian influence, improve dismal U.S.-Russian relations, and revive the moribund U.S. nuclear industry, according to the documents seen by Reuters.
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"Cuba could lose one of its few political allies with crude oil production and export capacity able to enter into a barter agreement of services such as doctors and teachers for oil," said Jorge Pinon, director of the Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
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He was talking about Trump's pardon of Conrad Black... And Trump's broader pattern of issuing pardons for political allies with "no apparent sense of shame" and "no blowback from his fellow Republicans..." "Mueller Holds Enticing Hope For Democrats" That's one of the headlines on the front page of Friday's NYT.
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O'Rourke failed to answer the questions, got beat up by the other candidates, and double-turned himself (a debate term for contradicting his own argument.) He opined that we should have allies with us when we step in to help end atrocities like genocide, and in the same breath mentioned Rwanda.
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Manafort called into a closed-door House Republican conference as other Trump allies with ties to GOP legislators — Rick Dearborn and former speaker Newt Gingrich — tried to convince reluctant lawmakers that it was time to get on board with Trump (who, they insisted, was done going after the federal judge).
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The MHP, allies with Erdogan's AK Party, outstripped expectations on June 24 to win more than 11 percent of the vote, meaning the AK Party, which lost its sole majority in parliament after nearly 16 years, will now have to rely on its allies to pass legislation in the assembly.
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Cuba could lose one of its few political allies with crude oil production and export capacity able to enter into a barter agreement of services such as doctors and teachers for oil, said Jorge Pinon, director of the Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
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" 'Range of options' The White House said Tuesday that Trump and his national security team were briefed and discussed "a range of options to respond to any form of North Korean aggression or, if necessary, to prevent North Korea from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons.
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Read more : The Mueller probe is hammering Trump's allies with insane legal bills "As I testified before the House Intelligence Committee under oath, my 24-word exchange with someone on Twitter claiming to be Guccifer 2.0 is benign based on its content, context, and timing," Stone told The Daily Beast.
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LONDON — President Trump put his brand of confrontational and disruptive diplomacy on full display Thursday, unsettling NATO allies with a blustering performance in Brussels and then, in a remarkable breach of protocol, publicly undercutting Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain in an interview published hours after landing in her country.
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The uproar over his candidacy is also providing Mr. McConnell and his allies with evidence that the effort to oust establishment Senate Republicans being led by Stephen K. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump, could be disastrous if Mr. Moore is an example of who they intend to support.
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But in practice, MBS has alarmed US allies with his erratic behavior, escalated a Saudi war in Yemen against Iran-backed rebels that has killed thousands of civilians and sparked a public health crisis, and emerged as a ferocious leader who has caused repeated awkward questions for the White House.
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A confidential document disclosed last week by The New York Times showed that the terms of the agreement may have been less punitive toward Mr. Deripaska than advertised, leaving family members and allies with substantial stakes in the company and potentially freeing him from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
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After pulling the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement and aggravating allies with trade tariffs on steel and aluminum, a potential success with Kim would have created an opportunity for the former New York businessman and his supporters to tout his unconventional style as beneficial to the world.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with his top defense officials for a briefing and discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.
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In the Charles Koch poll, Americans voiced strong support for pursuing diplomatic solutions rather than military interventions, including working with the UN. How can we reconcile broad support for U.S. international engagement and commitment to our allies, with the concurrent desire to step back from being the world's problem-solver-in-chief?
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Said intelligence agencies have also upped the pressure on allies, with the CIA allegedly telling other members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance (a joint signals, military, and human intelligence-sharing arrangement between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S., and the UK) that Huawei is funded in part by the Chinese military.
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"If I'm going to change things, I'm going to need allies: Allies with power," June says as images of Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) and Serena Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) flash onscreen, hinting that former foes might join June's quest to free herself — and fellow handmaids — from the confines of sexual exploitation in future episodes.
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To the Editor: Re "Trump Plays Down U.S. Commitment to NATO and Role Abroad" (front page, July 21): Donald Trump has boasted that it is his intent to threaten our allies with losing our support, in order to coerce them to make what he views as a more adequate contribution to mutual defense.
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The U.S. leader, who began a visit South Korea on Tuesday, has rattled some allies with his vow to "totally destroy" North Korea if necessary to defend the United States or its allies, and with his dismissal of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.
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But this is a very significant way, as we have mentioned, to begin this trip, to begin it in Hawaii, which looks out over this very potentially dangerous part of the world and a part that he will visit, where he&aposll try to shore up relations with our allies -- with Japan, with South Korea.
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Spurred by the Paris attacks in November and the assaults in Brussels last month, the United States has rushed to provide allies with intelligence from a variety of technical and human sources, as well as to offer long-term structural fixes to the Europeans' failure to share intelligence effectively and to tighten porous borders.
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"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed over four decades of immersion in these issues," he wrote in his resignation letter, adding Trump should select a secretary of defense "whose views are better aligned" with his own.
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President Trump's announcement that the U.S. is slapping new tariffs on its neighbors and confidants, is driving a wedge between the U.S. and its closest allies, with finance ministers of G7 nations lambasting the White House for undermining open trade, per the AP. The big picture: Trump's trade war is extending far beyond China.
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They're also reliably boosted by a few allies with large followings — conservative NeverTrumper Rick Wilson, the anonymous Twitter account Counterchekist, and financial analyst Eric Garland (best known as the "time for some game theory" tweetstormer.) The Palmer Report, and its creator, little-known journalist Bill Palmer, is kind of a popularizer of the Russiasphere.
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Trump has alienated many senior members of his own Republican Party, some corporate leaders and U.S. allies with his comments after violence at a Virginia rally organized by neo-Nazis and white supremacists In a surprise move, Trump on Friday fired chief strategist Steve Bannon, known as an economic nationalist and an advocate of "America First" policies.
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In addition to his sprint, 76 carries an accurate and powerful assault rifle that can also launch rockets, and he's capable of healing himself — and allies — with a medkit that he drops on the floor His only real complexity comes in the deployment of his ultimate ability, earned after a certain amount of time spent playing a match.
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The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution expressing support for NATO as President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE roiled allies with escalating calls for increased spending from alliance members.
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President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is rewarding allies with top roles in his administration as he prepares to enter the Oval Office in January.
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"By failing to allocate sufficient visas to provide our Afghan allies with a path to safety, we fail to keep the faith with them — and with our troops and diplomats who rely on them to succeed in their mission," Betsy Fisher, the policy director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, said in a statement last week.
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"This administration has vision that matches the view of the kingdom with regards to the role of America in the world, with regards to getting rid of terrorism, with regards to confronting Iran, with regards to rebuilding relations with traditional allies, with regards to trade and investment," Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, told reporters on Thursday.
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The plan is part of an effort to shore up a cornerstone of American military strategy in the three decades since the end of the Cold War: the ability of the United States to respond to a threat of aggression toward its allies with such overwhelming power that it would be foolish for potential adversaries to try.
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House Democrats negotiating for the whistleblower's testimony have reportedly been considering extreme measures to protect the anonymous intelligence official's identity, which could be revealed by Trump and his allies with little or no legal consequence, experts say — the only person in the executive branch legally obligated to protect the whistleblower's identity is the intelligence community's inspector general, Michael Atkinson.
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"We've got allies with us against China's unfair trade practices," said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin BradyKevin Patrick BradyRepublicans' rendezvous with reality — their plan is to cut Social Security The Social Security 2100 Act is critical for millennials and small business owners House panel releases documents of presidential tax return request before Trump MORE (R-Texas).
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For victory, it depends on allies with strong regional bases, who are expected to do well in first-past-the-post seats in their core areas: the Northern League with around 13%; the Brothers of Italy, a small party with neo-fascist roots that is strong around Rome; and, in the south where the pollsters agree this election will be decided, the NcI.
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I think it's part of making good decisions is that I know he at least has had visibility to all aspects of the decision he's about to make, and that's my role as Secretary of State, is to provide him that full 360 visibility of what these decisions mean for our foreign affairs with allies, with partners, and with adversaries.
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I said — from that point on — what I was argued against in the beginning, once he started to put the troops in, was that in fact we were doing it the wrong way; there was no plan; we should not be engaged; we didn't have the people with us; we didn't have our — we didn't have allies with us, et cetera.
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"We will not be doing anything additional until the secretary of state and the President have further figured out at what point we're going to start working alongside our allies with Russia in the future, that has not happened yet and it would be premature for me to go into any more detail at this point because we're not doing any more than this," he added.
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With democracy under attack around the world and a Republican president who praises dictators from Russia to China while insulting America's neighbors and allies; with equal rights and voting rights under attack and the most dishonest and divisive president in American history ripping apart our national unity, nothing is more urgently needed than Democrats uniting to end the Republican one-party rule in Washington.
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In the last couple years, Stoltenberg has had to walk a tightrope as President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE rattles allies with threats to leave the alliance if members do not pay more for their own defense.
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Biden should use the debate to paint a vivid and compelling portrait of how he would debate and defeat Trump and the horrific values he represents, from acting like America's first Confederate president who appears to believe that working-class voters are racist, and systematically praises foreign dictators and attacks American allies with actions that alarm and appall friends of freedom around the world.
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The document is replete with commitments to American principles like the rule of law, equal rights and freedom of religion and the press, all described as a "lasting force for good in the world" — and all, in one way or another, under fire from Mr. Trump and his allies with their incessant denigration of the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, federal judges, Muslims and the media.
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The result, however, was so much closer than had been predicted that some in May's own party are calling for her resignation The small but very wealthy Persian Gulf monarchy of Qatar found itself hit by a surprise trade, airspace, and diplomatic blockade initiated by a group of America's leading Arab allies, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt leading the pack.
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"I wanted to send by my silence a very clear message: that the people of the United States of America know who we're dealing with, and that we're going to continue to stand firmly and stand strong with resolve and with our allies until the regime in North Korea ceases to threaten our country and our allies with nuclear and ballistic missiles," Pence said.
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"This legislation makes a strong bipartisan statement that it would be reckless to pull troops from South Korea while North Korea still threatens our allies with nuclear and conventional weapons, and that if we are going to withdraw from Syria, we should do it with a plan, not a tweet," said Mr. Malinowski, who was assistant secretary of state for human rights in the Obama administration.
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Though the U.S. sanctioned several individuals accused of coordinating and executing the plot to assassinate Khashoggi, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE issued a statement last Tuesday in which he indicated that the U.S. government will remain allies with Saudi Arabia.
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The rhetoric from Trump has irked some allies, with French President Emmanuel MacronEmmanuel Jean-Michel MacronNATO is not brain dead yet Trump, NATO chief to meet at White House Macron: NATO experiencing 'brain death' MORE this week saying the alliance is undergoing a "brain death" due to a lack of commitment from the U.S. "I don't know [whether Article Five remains in effect]," Macron said, referring to the collective defense agreement.
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We know Kim Jong Un is advancing his nuclear and ballistic missile program at a faster clip than in the past and that, while we can't say for sure he can effectively target an American mainland city with any degree of accuracy, he certainly has the reach to cause significant damage and loss of life to Hawaii, Guam and our Japanese and South Korean allies -- with or without nuclear warheads.
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If Democrats want to become relevant again, they would be well served by talking less to impress each other and their allies with how clever and heroic they are, and thinking more on how they can also change so as to regain the trust of Americans who have come to see Democrats as elitist, out-of-touch partisans who only care about the people that agree with them 100 percent.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has repeatedly warned that the U.S. could take military action against North Korea if the isolated Asian nation continues to threaten the U.S. and its allies with nuclear strikes.
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What I had wished the president had done is to recognize the benefits we&aposve gotten from the Iran nuclear deal in constraining their nuclear program and getting us searching inspections of Iran&aposs nuclear activities and work more closely with our European allies, with the Germans, the French, the British to reach a second deal, a bigger deal that would rein in their ballistic missile program, their human rights violation in their support for terrorism.
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"This is evil the likes of which we have witnessed rarely in our time around the world, and I wanted to send by my silence a very clear message, that the people of the United States of America know who we're dealing with and that we are going to continue to stand firmly and stand strong with resolve and with our allies until the regime in North Korea ceases to threaten our country and our allies with nuclear (weapons) and ballistic missiles," Axios quoted Pence as saying.
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Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE (R-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee chairman who's close allies with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and represents a GOP stronghold in California's San Joaquin Valley.
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Recently, Russia has taunted the U.S. and its regional allies with a variety of provocations: A return to nuclear saber-rattling Military buildup and attack simulations across the Baltic NATO border A disregard for arms control, including the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaties Aggressive flybys of U.S. military vessels and consistent violations of Baltic airspace and sea lanes The Baltic states all stepped up their own commitments: each of the three will reach its defense spending target (2% of GDP) in 2018.
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President Trump's decision to withdraw roughly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, along with the resignation of his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, stirred fears in the Asia-Pacific region on Friday that the United States was abandoning its leadership of decades-old alliances crucial to stability and peace since World War II. The surprise announcements came after President Trump said he was pulling American forces out of Syria, a decision that prompted Mr. Mattis to resign with a statement about the need to "treat allies with respect and also being clear eyed" about potential enemies.
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