The repressive Taliban government is suspicious of the internet. But a start-up in the country is building blockchain-based tools to transform humanitarian aid.
President Trump said the United States was “watching Iran” and sending a naval force there, despite also saying that his threats had halted executions.
Venezuela’s interim government, in another sign of its willingness to placate the Trump administration, is receiving more deportation flights. Three flights arrived this week.
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Charles Wayne Zimmerman, who had been fulfilling his dream to sail around the world, appears to be the latest American imprisoned as part of Russia’s “hostage diplomacy.”
Top military leaders from 34 countries plan to discuss improving efforts in the Western Hemisphere to fight drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.
The trip by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to the Danish territory came amid pressure from President Trump and appeared to have been meant as reassurance to Greenlanders.
President Trump said that NATO soldiers stayed “a little off the front lines” during the conflict. In Britain, which lost 457 soldiers in the war, the response was swift.
Two women accused the singer, 82, of abusing them in the Caribbean and filed a complaint in Spain, but Spanish officials said that they did not have jurisdiction over the claim.