September 18, 2017 Two Italian policemen suspended after alleged sexual assaults of American students Two Italian policemen who allegedly sexually assaulted two American students in Florence while on duty were suspended Saturday on a precautionary basis, authorities said.
September 18, 2017 Samantha Power's collaborator at U.N. now her attorney for congressional probe Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is expected to testify this fall behind closed doors to the House Intelligence Committee as part of its Russia probe, and one of the big unanswered questions will be why, during her final year as chief U.S. envoy to the U.N., she apparently made hundreds of requests for the unmasking in U.S. intelligence intercepts of the identities of American citizens.
September 18, 2017 More Americans affected by Cuba health attacks, US says Two more Americans have been confirmed to be affected by unexplained health attacks against U.S. diplomats in Cuba, the United States said Tuesday, raising the total number of victims to 21.
September 18, 2017 Clinton State Department silenced them on Benghazi security lapses, contractors say EXCLUSIVE: Security at the State Department's Benghazi compound was so dire that another contractor was brought in to clean up the mess just two weeks before the 2012 terror attack – and was later pressured to keep quiet by a government bureaucrat under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to two men from the American security company.
September 15, 2017 Senators to Tillerson: Expel Cuban diplomats, consider US embassy closure over attacks Top Republican senators pressed the Trump administration on Friday to expel Cuban diplomats and consider closing the U.S. embassy in Havana over the mysterious “acoustic” attacks on Americans stationed on the island.
July 6, 2017 US ambassador to Turkey denies US supported failed coup Turkish reports suggesting the United States may have supported the failed coup in Turkey were "categorically untrue," U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass said Monday, adding that "such speculation is harmful to the decades-long friendship between two great nations."
July 6, 2017 China rejects tribunal's ruling on South China Sea land grab A tribunal at The Hague ruled in a sweeping decision Tuesday that China has no legal basis for claiming much of the South China Sea and had aggravated the seething regional dispute with its large-scale land reclamation and construction of artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and the natural condition of the disputed areas.
July 6, 2017 Iran announces indictments against US citizen, legal resident, 2 others Iran announced indictments Monday against four people including an American with dual citizenship and a U.S. permanent resident, prompting a rebuke from the State Department.
July 6, 2017 US evacuates non-emergency staff from South Sudan as cease-fire fails to hold The United States on Monday announced it would evacuate all non-essential staff from South Sudan as a fifth day of explosions and gun battles in the capital city of Juba raises the specter of a return to civil war.
July 6, 2017 Russian TV shows guard tackling, fighting US diplomat outside embassy A state-owned Russian television station on Thursday broadcast video of what it claimed to be a brawl between a U.S. diplomat and a Russian security guard at an entrance to the American Embassy in Moscow.