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Netanyahu Says Spoke Again with Trump About Iran 'Threat'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Sunday he had spoken three times with US president-elect Donald Trump over the past few days about the "Iranian threat" to Israeli security. "In the last few days, I have spoken three times with President-elect Donald Trump... Talks were designed to further tighten the strong alliance ...

UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief to Visit Iran

The United Nations' atomic watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, will visit Iran in days for talks with senior officials, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. “The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency will arrive in Iran on Wednesday at the official invitation of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the official IRNA news agency ...

Trump Completes Swing State Sweep by Taking Arizona

Donald Trump’s stunning victory was solidified on Saturday as he claimed Arizona, making a clean sweep of key battleground states, just as Joe Biden pledged a “peaceful” transition of power. The outgoing president will host his fiercest political adversary in the Oval Office on Wednesday to begin preparations for Trump’s historic return to ...

Biden and Trump to Meet at White House on Wednesday

Joe Biden will meet with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday after the US leader pledged an orderly transfer of power following the Republican's decisive election victory. Biden and Trump will meet at the Oval Office at 11:00 am (16:00 GMT), the White House said Saturday, with the clock ticking down to the ex-president's ...

Iran Urges Trump to Reconsider "Maximum Pressure" Policy

Iran on Saturday urged US President-elect Donald Trump to reconsider the "maximum pressure" policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term. "Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past," Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters on Saturday. These ...

EU Foreign Policy Chief in Kyiv After Trump's Win

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived Saturday in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of Europe's backing in the first visit by a top Brussels official after Donald Trump's poll win. The volatile Republican's victory in the United States election has set nerves jangling in Ukraine and Europe that Trump could end Washington's support for Kyiv's fight ...

Iran denies conspiracy accusations against Trump

Iran deemed as 'totally baseless' on Saturday the U.S. accusations that Tehran is involved in assassination plots in the United States, specifically targeting President-elect Donald Trump. Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday called the allegations that Tehran was behind a plot against Trump "totally unfounded." The Foreign Ministry "rejects ...

Iraqi PM Hopes Trump will End MidEast Wars

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expressed hopes during a phone call with US President-elect Donald Trump that he would keep his "promises to work towards ending wars" in the Middle East. Amid Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon, Sudani -- who was named premier by a majority bloc of Iran-backed political factions -- has been in a ...

US Charges Iranian in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Donald Trump

According to reports from Reuters, U.S. authorities have charged an Iranian man in connection with a plot allegedly ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to assassinate Donald Trump, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday. In a statement, the Justice Department said Farhad Shakeri, 51, had informed law enforcement ...

From Habib to... Boulos?

Will the 1982 scenario be repeated? At the time, Philip Habib, an American of Lebanese descent, was US President Ronald Reagan's emissary charged with resolving the Lebanese crisis. Mr. Habib was to transfer the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Yasser Rafat from Beirut to Tunisia and move Palestinian arms to Syria. Will US ...

USA: President-Elect Trump at 301 Electoral Votes, Harris at 226

The final state calls are coming in for the US presidential election, with President-elect Donald Trump at 301 electoral votes, well past the 270 needed for victory, and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris at 226, US networks said. Nevada was the latest to be called Friday, with six electoral votes going to Trump, yet another flip of a swing ...

Reforming Europe's Economy Urgent Following Trump Win, Says EU

Reforming Europe's economy is all the more urgent following Donald Trump's US election win, warned the author of a blockbuster report, Mario Draghi, ahead of talks Friday with EU leaders in Budapest on tackling the challenge. Although Europe's public reaction to the Republican's return has been cautious, officials are on full ...