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OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump on Thursday began what is likely his most consequential overseas trip of the year, one that will present the “America First” president with a flurry of international crises, tense negotiations and a growing global to-do l…

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump plans to hold nine bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, the White House said on Wednesday. Here are the scheduled times for Trump’s talks. THURSDAY Dinner meeting with Australian Prime M…

BRUSSELS (AP) Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper made it clear to Turkey on Wednesday that it will face economic sanctions if it goes ahead with the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, as the standoff between the two NATO allies dragged on. E…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is slated to meet one-on-one with at least eight world leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, later this week, a senior U.S. administration official said on Monday. Trump will hold talk…

4. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces election recriminations. The defeat of his candidate in the mayoral race in Istanbul, his hometown, was the biggest loss of his political career, and means that the opposition now controls five of the six most …

Turkish opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won a landslide victory in Istanbul’s re-run mayoral elections June 23, inflicting a heavy defeat on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose rise to power began with winning the city’s mayorship in 1994 and who has sa…

THIS TIME around, there was no room for doubt. In late March Ekrem Imamoglu had won the Istanbul mayoral election by a fraction of a percentage point. On June 23rd he won the re-run by a landslide. Mr Imamoglus victory in the rerun was the best showing for a…

Turkey's ruling party is set to lose control of Istanbul after a re-run of the mayoral election, initial results show. The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, has a commanding lead with more than 90% of votes counted. He won a surprise …

A son of the late former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has accused incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and a number of other officials of "killing" his father. Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president who was arrested after being overthr…