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    US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this month as part of his first foreign trip, wading directly into the tangled diplomacy of Middle Eastern politics. Trump said he would also visit the Vatican along with his swing through the Middle East, which was added to a trip that includes a NATO meeting in Brussels on May 25 and the Group of Seven summit in Sicily on May 26. In a speech in the Rose Garden at an event on religious liberty, Trump cast his trip as an effort to build cooperation and support between Muslims, Christians and Jews for fighting terrorism. Our task is not to dictate to others how to live but to build a coalition of friends and partners who share the goal of fighting terrorism and bringing safety, opportunity ...

    Prior to and following the November election, many questions were raised about Melania Trump’s unwillingness to play an active role in her husband’s presidency. In recent months, rumours about the poor state of Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage have plagued the couple, and now it seems the First Lady may have just confirmed them. The slip-up occurred on Tuesday evening when the First Lady liked a tweet written by left-wing blogger Andy Ostroy that showed a GIF of Melania smiling at her husband on election day and grimacing as soon as his back was turned, and referring to Donald Trump’s election promise to build a border wall between the US and Mexico. The tweet read, “Seems the only #Wall @realDonaldTrump‘s built is the one between him and @FLOTUS #Melania #trump.” (Mela...

    With or without Donald Trump’s help, Kim Jong-un could easily plunge the planet into its third world war inside a century. Of course this one would be vastly more destructive than the Great War, where even the use of aircraft was in its infancy though sadly not chemical weapons or World War II, which ended with the first and so far only use of nuclear weapons in war. To date Donald Trump has played a strong hand. He has installed anti-missile defences against the North inside South Korea. He is doing, more or less, what President Kennedy did in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and what President Reagan did in the Cold War in the 1980s: practising brinkmanship, demonstrating strength, displaying resolve. The South Koreans are having elections now, and their new government, af...

    US President Donald Trump said he would be ‘honored’ to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un under the right conditions, dialing back threats of military action against the regime Monday. As Pyongyang threatens to carry out a sixth nuclear test that would further enflame tensions on the Korean peninsula, Trump appeared to offer the prospect of a diplomatic off-ramp. ‘If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him I would, absolutely. I would be honored to do it,’ Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg. ‘If it’s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that,’ Trump said. In recent weeks Trump has threatened and berated the regime, fearing it may be months away from marrying nuclear and long range missile technology—making a strike against the w...

    Donald Trump is locked in a stand-off with North Korea’s erratic leader Kim Jong-un and a regime that appears intent on developing an arsenal of nuclear missiles. But in a candid exchange, that hints of his own insecurities as US president, Mr Trump on Sunday suggested he had some empathy with a young leader who took power unexpectedly while entrenched interests manoeuvred around him. People are saying is he sane? I have no idea, said Mr Trump in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News to mark 100 days in office. President Trump calls North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a pretty smart cookie; more on @FaceTheNation https://t.co/PxCxmqKc0z pic.twitter.com/p8zyU1tciM — CBS News (@CBSNews) April 30, 2017 I can tell you this: He was a young man of 26 or 27 when he took over from hi...

    Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clinton's defeat: Her base didn't turn out, Donald Trump's did and the difference was too much to overcome. But new information shows that Clinton had a much bigger problem with voters who had supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but backed Trump four years later. Those Obama-Trump voters effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his group's analysis, about 70 percent of Clinton's failure to reach Obama's vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters. Canter and other members of Global Strategy Group have delivered a detailed report of their findings to senators, congressmen,...

    President Donald Trump said Saturday he will not be happy if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, and he declined to rule out a U.S. military response to such a provocation. I don't know. I mean, we'll see, Mr. Trump said of possible military action during an interview with CBS News John Dickerson that will air Sunday on Face the Nation and Monday on CBS This Morning. The interview came just one day after North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile Friday from the western portion of the country. The launch, which failed shortly after lift-off, came after recent U.S. pressure on North Korea to cease its provocative behavior. Mr. President, you and the administration said to North Korea, Don't test a missile. They have tested a missile. Is the pressure not working? D...

    Retired Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who says he shot and killed Osama bin Laden, poses for a portrait in Washington. The hunt for Osama bin Laden took almost a decade and cost hundreds of millions of pounds. When the architect of the horror of 9/11 was finally tracked down to a high-security compound in Pakistan in May 2011, a team of elite US Navy Seals was sent in to action. Among them was Robert O’Neill, who became known as the man who killed Bin Laden. Here, from his book The Operator, Robert tells how he came face to face with the most wanted man on the planet… We were in Pakistan and we knew we could get shot down at any minute. Thoughts start running through your mind: How does it feel when a helicopter blows up? How long does it take to die? The copter door opened. W...

    After 19 years living and working in the US, paying taxes and raising a family, Mario Hernandez Delacruz, was deported to a country he had not seen for two decades. His daughter, Estrella Garcia, and one of her younger sisters, drove him to the airport in the family’s Jeep Wrangler where he caught a flight to Mexico. On the way, they talked about their plan to carry on appealing his right to live in the US; on the way home, there were just tears. Mr Delacruz has been forced to leave his family in Michigan (Courtesy of family) My mother has been so depressed. My two sisters - aged 15 and 12 - cannot concentrate at school. I’ve have to carry on because I’m now the head of the family, said Ms Garcia, seated in family’s modest home in south-west Detroit. I don’t think [Trump] ...

    US President Donald Trump said that North Korea disrespected China by attempting to launch another ballistic missile. President Donald Trump said Friday that North Korea had "disrespected" China by attempting to launch another ballistic missile. Trump has said he is counting on Chinese President Xi Jinping to encourage North Korea to give up its pursuit of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. Trump has also said he thinks Xi will do the right thing. China is North Korea's benefactor. But Trump has also threatened to go it alone if Xi fails to deliver. South Korea's military said Friday afternoon that North Korea had fired the missile from an area near the capital of Pyongyang, but provided no details. U.S. and South Korean officials said the launch apparently fa...