White House Weighs Replacing Tillerson With CIA Chief
The White House is discussing whether to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, two White House officials said.
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North Korea: US urges all nations to cut ties
The US has urged all nations to cut diplomatic and trade ties with North Korea after the country's latest ballistic missile test.
bbc.com
North Korea: Russia accuses US of goading Kim Jong-un
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme.
bbc.com
EU says needs concrete evidence from Turkey to deem Gulen network as terrorist
The European Union does not share Turkey’s view that the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is a terrorist organization and would need to see “substantive” evidence to change its stance, the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator said.
reuters.com
Turkish gold trader implicates Erdogan in Iran money laundering
A Turkish-Iranian gold trader on Thursday told jurors in a federal court in New York that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally authorized a transaction on behalf of Iran.
reuters.com
John McCain says he will support the GOP tax bill, giving the plan an enormous boost
Republican John McCain of Arizona said in a statement Thursday that he’s decided to support the Senate tax bill – helping GOP leaders get one step closer to passing their overhaul.
bloomberg.com
More Venezuelan Oil Company Officials Arrested for Corruption
The attorney general said that Interpol has placed the search and arrest of other executives complicit in the corruption and embezzlement ring on "red alert."
telesurtv.net
Protesters barricade streets and clash with police in Honduras over disputed presidential election
Protesters have barricaded streets and clashed with police in Honduras following a presidential election that has produced no clear results after four days.
ibtimes.co.uk
Brit fighting Isis in Syria killed while clearing mines
Ollie Hall was killed in an explosion in Raqqa on Saturday (25 November), where he is believed to have been clearing mines with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
ibtimes.co.uk
American Air Accidentally Gave Too Many Pilots Christmas Off
American Airlines Group Inc. is rushing to resolve a scheduling fault that gave time off to too many pilots in December – a flaw that has left more than 15,000 flights without enough crew during the holiday rush, according to a union for the carrier’s pilots.
bloomberg.com
Study finds dogs are brainier than cats
There’s a new twist to the perennial argument about which is smarter, cats or dogs.
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