President Trump signaled on Tuesday that he was open to a new arrangement with European allies that would preserve the Iran nuclear agreement by expanding and extending its terms to further constrain Tehran’s development of weapons and destabilizing activities in the Middle East.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived for the first state visit of Donald Trump’s presidency, in a test of whether personal chemistry between the two leaders can bridge a yawning policy divide.

President Trump renewed a threat Monday to make tighter control of the southern border a condition of a broad trade deal that his administration is renegotiating with Canada and Mexico, saying, “Our Country cannot accept what is happening.”

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a late pivot on Monday evening, approved the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state, after Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, bowed to pressure from President Trump and dropped his opposition.

A senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran might quit a treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons if U.S. President Donald Trump scraps the nuclear accord Iran signed with world powers in 2015.

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Colombia’s ELN rebels said Monday they want guarantees they won’t be extradited to the United States while negotiating peace abroad.

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The head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, arrived in Israel Monday night for an unannounced visit, according to Israeli media.

China lambasted the United States on Tuesday for hypocrisy and its own rights problems such as racism and political scandals, in its annual rebuttal to criticism from Washington about China’s human rights record.

This week’s meetings with Macron and Merkel provide an opportunity to reaffirm common interests.

Two experts debate the future of the discipline.

Autocracy’s global ascendance.

The last time they met face to face, at the United Nations in September, French President Emmanuel Macron was puzzled when President Trump and his delegation seemed to have no agenda, carried no papers and took no notes.

President Donald Trump will urge North Korea to act quickly to dismantle its nuclear arsenal when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and isn’t willing to grant Pyongyang substantial sanctions relief in return for a freeze of its nuclear and missile tests, administration officials said.

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he may be heading to Beijing for trade negotiations, suggesting an easing of U.S.-China tensions that have widened to include big-name companies in both countries.

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On the scorching edge of the Sahara Desert, the U.S. Air Force is building a base for armed drones, the newest front in America's battle against the growing extremist threat in Africa's vast Sahel region.

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The reaction of the international community would “not be pleasant” for the United States if President Trump decides to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday.

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President Trump has a dangerous habit of justifying his trade policy on national-security grounds.

The last eight weeks have undoubtedly highlighted the foundation on which America’s Russia policy will be built.

President Trump renewed a threat Monday to make tighter control of the southern border a condition of a broad trade deal that his administration is renegotiating with Canada and Mexico, saying, “Our Country cannot accept what is happening.”

Despite a government attempt to defuse a mounting political crisis, protesters in Nicaragua took to the streets again on Monday by the thousands, as the violent unrest that started nearly a week ago over social security payments has swelled into broader outrage over President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro kicked off his presidential campaign giving away trash trucks and tractors while challenger Henri Falcon laid out plans to de-politicize state oil company PDVSA and dollarize an ailing economy.

Paraguay’s new president, whose father was a key aide to the country’s former military dictator, is set to keep faith with the business-friendly policies that helped the country buck the collapse in commodity prices that undermined economic growth elsewhere in Latin America.

The killing began on a busy lunchtime thoroughfare in Toronto on Monday when a white rental Ryder van ran over a pedestrian crossing the street—then mounted a sidewalk and began plowing into people indiscriminately.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Council of State and Ministers of Cuba, received Monday in Havana Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma, who is making an official visit to Cuba.

The United Nations Refugee Agency on Monday criticized what it called the forced deportation of 82 Venezuelan asylum seekers by Trinidad and Tobago that the Caribbean country’s government insisted was voluntary.

Colombia’s ELN rebels said Monday they want guarantees they won’t be extradited to the United States while negotiating peace abroad.

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With the theme “Unifying the struggles in defense of Indigenous Brazil—For the guarantee of the original rights of our peoples,” more than 2,500 indigenous representatives from over one hundred ethnic groups are expected to participate in the 15th edition of Terra Livre camp movement which began on Monday in Brasilia, Brazil.

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The very ability of the Sandinistas to continue governing appears to be in jeopardy.

The European Union and Mexico on Saturday announced a major update to their existing free trade pact signed nearly two decades ago, a development that will allow almost all goods, including agricultural products, to move between Europe and Mexico duty-free.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became on Saturday the first foreign leader to meet with Cuba’s Miguel Diaz-Canel since he became president of the communist-run island this week, underscoring the importance of the Venezuelan-Cuban alliance.

Paraguay’s conservative Colorado party, which has governed for all but five of the past 71 years, held on to power with its narrowest victory in presidential elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1989.

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua announced on Sunday that he was reversing a social security overhaul that had prompted days of protests in which up to two dozen people died.

Mexico’s presidential hopefuls trained all their artillery on frontrunner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the country’s first electoral debate but despite a smart performance by second-placed challenger Ricardo Anaya, the leftist stuck to his guns and emerged largely unscathed.

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El Salvador’s main right-wing party, the Nationalist Republican Alliance, has picked businessman Carlos Calleja to be its presidential candidate at elections in February 2019, the party said on Sunday.

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Colombia’s southern Transandino pipeline was halted after a bomb attack by an illegal armed group spilled crude oil into a river, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Sunday.

Instability in Central America will spill into Mexico and spur more migrants to the U.S.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived for the first state visit of Donald Trump’s presidency, in a test of whether personal chemistry between the two leaders can bridge a yawning policy divide.

Slovakia’s ruling party on Tuesday nominated one of its own to be interior minister, a decision likely to anger protesters who want an independent figure to reassure them an investigation into a murder that has shaken the country would be impartial.

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As voters in Greenland turn out for an election on Tuesday, many hope a new government can get its fragile economy up to speed to realize a long-term goal of independence from Denmark.

Ten days of demonstrations that escalated throughout Armenia forced the resignation Monday of the man who has led the country for the past decade, creating the latest crisis in a post-Soviet state trying to overcome a legacy of weak democratic rule.

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicized basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.

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Police on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos on Monday arrested 120 asylum-seekers for illegal camping, following overnight violence by local residents trying to end their five-day sit-in protest in the heart of the island capital.

French industrialist Vincent Bollore was taken into custody on Tuesday morning at the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre, France.

The Czech and Iraqi defense ministers have vowed to further boost the military cooperation between their states.

Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Turkey on Tuesday.

As part of its effort to find new allies and friends, Pakistan has also sought to establish relationship with Russia, which has shows keen interest in enhancing bilateral cooperation.

Like most Western nations today, France is divided and anxious. President Macron, on a mission to transform his country, now experiences the discontent firsthand. This is his first serious crisis, and he knows that if he loses this battle, his reform agenda will be largely defeated. The stakes are that high.

The chancellor’s approach has been typical of German foreign policy: moralistic, hypocritical—and completely ineffective.

The last time they met face to face, at the United Nations in September, French President Emmanuel Macron was puzzled when President Trump and his delegation seemed to have no agenda, carried no papers and took no notes.

The European Union and Mexico on Saturday announced a major update to their existing free trade pact signed nearly two decades ago, a development that will allow almost all goods, including agricultural products, to move between Europe and Mexico duty-free.

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A Belgian court on Monday convicted Salah Abdeslam, the lone survivor of the group accused of the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016, on charges related to a shootout with police as he was captured in Belgium.

The EU is set to boost legal protection for corporate whistleblowers, saying scandals such as the LuxLeaks tax revelations and Cambridge Analytica data mining underline the importance of shielding those who expose wrongdoing.

Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested on Saturday against government control over the media, which they say helped Prime Minister Viktor Orban to a landslide election victory earlier this month.

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Italy’s president has asked the head of the lower house of parliament to see whether the Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party could form a coalition government, a presidential official said on Monday.

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Germany's center-left Social Democrats on Sunday elected a combative new leader to spearhead their recovery from a disastrous election result while guiding them through a fractious coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has sparked anger with a proposal that two Greek border guards detained in the country since March be exchanged for eight Turkish officers who have sought asylum in Greece.

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Diplomats from the world’s seven leading democracies met here Sunday to discuss ways to counter Russia in Syria and Ukraine and Iran in the Middle East.

In Sudan, crossed by migrants trying to reach Libya, the relationship is opaque but rooted in mutual need: The Europeans want closed borders and the Sudanese want to end years of isolation from the West.

The last eight weeks have undoubtedly highlighted the foundation on which America’s Russia policy will be built.

In addition to being Trump’s ideological opposite, the French president is a beacon for progressives hoping to find their way back to the halls of power across the democratic world.

The region’s leaders need to be held accountable if their countries are to make real progress.

Angolan President Joao Lourenco sacked the chief of staff of the armed forces and the head of the foreign intelligence agency on Monday, his latest moves against officials tainted by graft allegations or links to his predecessor, Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

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Madagascar’s president on Monday demanded an end to unrest he said was intended to divide the country after two demonstrators were killed in a confrontation between police and anti-government protesters at the weekend.

French industrialist Vincent Bollore was taken into custody on Tuesday morning at the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre, France.

Zimbabwe has established special courts to deal with cases of political violence, the police said on Monday, part of the government’s drive to curtail unrest and intimidation ahead of the first post-Robert Mugabe elections set for July.

Former Malawi President Joyce Banda will return home on Saturday after spending more than three years in self-imposed exile because of graft allegations, a spokesman for her political party said on Monday.

Gambian President Adama Barrow has confirmed that two generals under the Jammeh regime who sneaked back will be put before court-martial for professional breaches.

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Everyone and everything is a target in South Sudan's civil war, as attacks against health facilities and aid workers increase, a new report says.

The bitter divisions in the Middle East have spilled over into the Horn of Africa, forcing governments to choose sides.

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As it changes its rules and outlook, I am confident that Zimbabwe can be welcomed not only into the Commonwealth but also the wider family of nations.

On the scorching edge of the Sahara Desert, the U.S. Air Force is building a base for armed drones, the newest front in America's battle against the growing extremist threat in Africa's vast Sahel region.

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Local business leaders at a banquet in Ethiopia’s capital last week were hoping the new prime minister Abiy Ahmed would tell them he planned to loosen the state’s grip on the economy.

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Thousands marched in Madagascar’s capital on Monday to protest against new electoral laws and the death of two people in a similar march at the weekend, a Reuters witness said.

Ghana and Israel have reaffirmed their commitments to boost relations, with Israel facilitating Ghana’s socioeconomic development through its expertise in agriculture, communication, cyber security, health and other key areas.

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Rival forces in the Somali army shot at each other in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, with one group trying to storm a former United Arab Emirates-run training center, soldiers and residents said.

Cameroon security forces have been cited as engaging in significant human rights abuse in respect of armed combat they are engaged in across three regions of the country, a United States government report has said.

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In Sudan, crossed by migrants trying to reach Libya, the relationship is opaque but rooted in mutual need: The Europeans want closed borders and the Sudanese want to end years of isolation from the West.

‘Something was wrong, horribly wrong,’ says the country’s president of the Zuma era. Now he must restore faith in the African powerhouse and its politics.

President Trump signaled on Tuesday that he was open to a new arrangement with European allies that would preserve the Iran nuclear agreement by expanding and extending its terms to further constrain Tehran’s development of weapons and destabilizing activities in the Middle East.

A senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran might quit a treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons if U.S. President Donald Trump scraps the nuclear accord Iran signed with world powers in 2015.

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Syrian government forces and their allies unleashed airstrikes and intense shelling in a new operation Tuesday targeting underground tunnels used by the Islamic State group in the capital, Damascus, state TV said.

A humanitarian crisis is emerging in Egypt’s volatile northern Sinai province, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

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The head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, arrived in Israel Monday night for an unannounced visit, according to Israeli media.

The Czech and Iraqi defense ministers have vowed to further boost the military cooperation between their states.

Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Turkey on Tuesday.

An Egyptian military court on Tuesday convicted the country's former anti-graft chief of insulting the armed forces and sentenced him to five years in prison, according to two defense lawyers.

The Philippines apologized on Tuesday for what Kuwait viewed as violation of its sovereignty after the Southeast Asian nation’s embassy “rescued” several domestic workers from their employers’ homes amid reports of abuse.

An Erdogan victory is looking less inevitable with a move by the Republican People's Party that will allow the right-wing Good Party to contest elections in June and perhaps draw former President Abdullah Gul into the running to once again.

The reaction of the international community would “not be pleasant” for the United States if President Trump decides to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday.

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The family of Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, a Palestinian man linked to the militant group Hamas who was shot dead in Malaysia, have accused Israeli spies of carrying out an assassination halfway across the world—a claim the Jewish state rejects.

The international monitoring group investigating a suspected chemical weapons attack on a Syrian town said its experts had finally been able to visit the site on Saturday after repeated delays and they collected samples for analysis.

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Ghana and Israel have reaffirmed their commitments to boost relations, with Israel facilitating Ghana’s socioeconomic development through its expertise in agriculture, communication, cyber security, health and other key areas.

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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has sparked anger with a proposal that two Greek border guards detained in the country since March be exchanged for eight Turkish officers who have sought asylum in Greece.

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Diplomats from the world’s seven leading democracies met here Sunday to discuss ways to counter Russia in Syria and Ukraine and Iran in the Middle East.

At least 20 people were killed in two Saudi-led coalition air attacks in northwestern Yemen, residents and medical personnel told Al Jazeera.

In his first statement in 10 months, the Islamic State’s spokesman on Sunday called for violence against neighboring Arab nations, suggesting that the group’s focus was turning closer to home.

An Iranian newspaper says the country's Central Bank has officially banned the use of cryptocurrencies in financial transactions in order to "prevent crimes such as money laundering and terrorism."

Religious leaders in Iraq are calling on voters to exercise caution in the upcoming elections and avoid casting votes for corrupt politicians.

Prince Mohammed knows that a fearful enemy is a key to his own strength.

Fatih Mehmet Maçoglu, the mayor of Ovacik, a village in eastern Turkey, drew national attention when he delivered on his campaign promise of transparency and accountability.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in plans to raise the issue of Japanese citizens who were abducted decades ago by North Korea in his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week.

China failed to get India’s support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers’ meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice-breaking trip to China this week by India’s prime minister.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday, naming one of his potential successors, Chan Chun Sing, as trade minister and giving additional duties to two other ministers tipped as contenders.

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Police in central India killed at least 34 Maoist militants, with more bodies pulled out of a river on Tuesday, two days after security forces ambushed a band of fighters in a forest deep in the interior of Maharashtra state, authorities said.

China lambasted the United States on Tuesday for hypocrisy and its own rights problems such as racism and political scandals, in its annual rebuttal to criticism from Washington about China’s human rights record.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited survivors of a deadly tour-bus crash, which killed dozens of Chinese tourists, and personally offered condolences to China’s ambassador in Pyongyang, state media said.

Indonesia’s top anticorruption court on Tuesday sentenced a former speaker of the country’s Parliament to 15 years in prison for embezzlement, one of the most high-profile convictions in the graft-plagued nation’s history.

As part of its effort to find new allies and friends, Pakistan has also sought to establish relationship with Russia, which has shows keen interest in enhancing bilateral cooperation.

Myanmar and South Korea have held ministerial talks on enhanced cooperation in trade and investment in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar News Agency reported Tuesday.

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The Philippines apologized on Tuesday for what Kuwait viewed as violation of its sovereignty after the Southeast Asian nation’s embassy “rescued” several domestic workers from their employers’ homes amid reports of abuse.

Now that it has risen to the top of the global economy, China must adopt the necessary reforms to become fully compliant with the international rules that it accepted upon joining the World Trade Organization in 2001. Its current policy will only lead to a serious trade conflict with the U.S.

How long can Japan keep up its balancing act between Russia and the West?

A violent rape is the appalling consequence of the ‘battle of Hindus versus Muslims.’

President Donald Trump will urge North Korea to act quickly to dismantle its nuclear arsenal when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and isn’t willing to grant Pyongyang substantial sanctions relief in return for a freeze of its nuclear and missile tests, administration officials said.

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he may be heading to Beijing for trade negotiations, suggesting an easing of U.S.-China tensions that have widened to include big-name companies in both countries.

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The family of Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, a Palestinian man linked to the militant group Hamas who was shot dead in Malaysia, have accused Israeli spies of carrying out an assassination halfway across the world—a claim the Jewish state rejects.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry halted propaganda broadcasts across its heavily guarded border with North Korea, a move it said was a show of good faith to Pyongyang ahead of an inter-Korean summit later this week.

Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by India’s cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl.

At least 57 people waiting to obtain national voter ID cards were killed Sunday in a sidewalk suicide bombing in the Afghan capital, the Public Health Ministry said. Another 119 were reported wounded in the blast, which immediately raised questions about whether the government will be able to secure the registration and voting process.

China's first homegrown aircraft carrier looks set to begin its maiden sea trials after pictures appeared online on Monday of it being towed from its berth in the northeastern port of Dalian.

China on Monday reassured Pakistan that relations between the two countries were as firm as ever and would “never rust,” ahead of a meeting this week between President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that could unnerve Islamabad.

India’s vice president on Monday rejected an unprecedented petition by seven opposition parties to impeach the top judge for “misbehavior,” saying that the allegations were “neither tenable nor admissible."

A Pakistani ethnic rights group drew over 8,000 people to a rally in Lahore on Sunday, despite pressure from security officials to call off the event focusing on human rights violations in areas bordering Afghanistan.

Dozens of Chinese have been arrested in Cambodia on suspicion of extorting money from people in China via a telecoms scam, police said on Monday.

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The reign of Xi Jinping.

A much-touted bond with the U.S. president has left PM Shinzo Abe largely empty-handed.

As a result of progressive social policies and a bit of historical luck, Bangladesh has gone from being one of the poorest countries in South Asia to an aspiring "tiger" economy. But can it avoid the risk factors that have derailed dynamic economies throughout history?