TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he called an urgent meeting later this week with provincial premiers on how to deal with Donald Trump’s threat to impose crippling tariffs on Canadian products. Speaking to reporters one day after the US president-elect promised to slam Canada with a 25% tariff across the ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen pandemic lockdown critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s leading medical research agency. “Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discove...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has directed his top advisers to investigate allegations of impropriety involving his legal adviser Boris Epshteyn, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. ABC News reported on Tuesday that the claims, made by individuals close to Trump’s transition team, accused Epshteyn of leveraging...
ATHENS (AA) – EU member states should fulfill their obligations under international law by complying with the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, says the EU foreign policy chief. Stressing that all EU members are parties to the Rome Convention, which founded the International Crimi...
BERLIN (AA) – Defense ministers from five major European nations gathered in the German capital Berlin to reinforce military support for Ukraine and address concerns about potential shifts in US foreign policy in Donald Trump’s upcoming second presidency. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who hosted the meeting, told reporters tha...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump vowed Monday to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China via executive orders he plans to sign on his first day in office in retaliation for what he says is their involvement in the entry of deadly fentanyl and migrants into the United States. “On January 20th, as one […]
ANKARA (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Pam Bondi for the position of attorney general has raised concerns among legal experts and Justice Department officials on potential shifts in the agency’s priorities under her leadership, according to news reports Sunday. Broadcaster NBC News suggested that the career traj...
ISTANBUL (AA) – John Bolton, who served as national security advisor during Donald Trump’s first term as president, has criticized the president-elect’s decision to pick Sebastian Gorka to lead counterterrorism efforts. Bolton’s remarks to CNN followed Trump’s announcement that Gorka, who briefly served as a deputy advisor during Trump’s...
LONDON (AA) – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will keep following the US in terms of polices on Gaza, but could take a different approach when it comes to the occupied West Bank, says veteran British journalist Peter Oborne. In an interview with Anadolu, Oborne emphasized that Israel’s genocide in Gaza, now in its second […]
ANKARA (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to reshape the Department of Justice, including by firing attorneys involved in a pair of federal cases against him and by pursuing investigations into alleged fraud during the 2020 election, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Trump’s plans, according to the daily, include...
