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Kiev (AFP) - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has already been inaugurated as president of Ukraine -- as a character in the popular TV show "Servant of the People". Now the 41-year-old performer will take the role for real, following a long-shot campaign that sen…

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WASHINGTON (AP) House Democrats will hear from former CIA Director John Brennan about the situation in Iran, inviting him to speak next week amid heightened concerns over the Trump administration's sudden moves in the region. Brennan, an outspoken critic of …

Nearly three decades after the Cold War’s end, it’s no longer clear that American-style liberal democracy has carried the day. Xi Jinping has consolidated power in China on a scale not seen since Mao. Vladimir Putin has served longer than any other Russian le…

Most of his predecessors did nothing of the kind. They understood that the day belonged to the country, not its leader, and they didnt conflate the two. Trump does, all the time, and its alternately annoying, confounding and galling. If youre not thrilling t…

President Donald Trump says he discussed special counsel Mueller's report with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump says Putin described the investigation as "something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse." (May 3) AP TA…

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, left, waits for the start of a meeting at the European Council, in Brussels, on May 13, 2019. FRANCOIS LENOIR/The Associated Press Iran and the United States could trigger a conflict by accident in an already unstable …

Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit Brussels on Monday to discuss "pressing matters" including Iran, a State Department official said Sunday. As a result, the top US diplomat is scrapping a stop expected on Monday in Moscow. But…

3. President Trump said he would tame rogue nations. Now, theyre challenging him. In the course of a week, North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles; a standoff with Iran continued to brew; and in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro remains in powe…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to Russia, arriving in Moscow on Monday and meeting with Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday in Sochi. The trip is an important step in President Donald Trump's pivot back t…