2019

Trump Endorses Turkish Military Operation in Syria, Shifting U.S. Policy

WASHINGTON — In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday that President Trump had given his endorsement for a Turkish military operation that would sweep away American-backed Kurdish forces near the border in Syria. Turkey considers the Kurdish fighters to be a terrorist insurgency, and has

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Asian shares mixed on US jobs, eyes on China trade talks

Asian shares were mixed Monday, following a reassuring report on U.S. jobs, while investors cautiously awaited the upcoming trade talks between the U.S. and China. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% to 21,358.56. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.5% to 6,551.40, while South Korea’s Kospi edged 0.1% higher to 2,021.89. Markets in China were closed for

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Oh Deer. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 10 Premiere Brings Back An Old Problem.

Just when you thought “The Walking Dead” was turning a corner, here we doe again. The premiere of Season 10 of the AMC series, “Lines We Cross,” was all about setting up the season’s impending conflict with the zombie-skin-wearing Whisperers. And if you didn’t get that there was tension between the two groups, there was

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‘I’m being jailed for four emails from 12 years ago’

Image copyright Matt Connolly The crime for which Matt Connolly was convicted, alongside British co-defendant Gavin Black, is conspiracy to commit fraud by rigging interest rates. The documentary evidence implicating him is four emails between 12 and 14 years old. Connolly, 54, from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and Black, 49, from Twickenham, southwest London, are

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‘We Absolutely Could Not Do That’: When Seeking Foreign Help Was Out of the Question

WASHINGTON — One day in October 1992, four Republican congressmen showed up in the Oval Office with an audacious recommendation. President George Bush was losing his re-election race, and they told him the only way to win was to hammer his challenger Bill Clinton’s patriotism for protesting the Vietnam War while in London and visiting

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