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Putin dances, speaks German at Austrian FM’s wedding

When Austria’s foreign minister gets married, you can expect politicians to be there – but maybe not a foreign head of state. However, one of Karin Kneissl’s guests was Vladimir Putin, who arrived with a bouquet of flowers.
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Tags: Austria, Kalmyk dances, Karin Kneissl, Kuban, Kuban Cossak Choir, President Putin, Royal Weddings, Vladimir Putin, Wedding, Wolfgang Meilinger

Pentagon chief spokeswoman under investigation

Dana White, one of Secretary James Mattis’ most senior civilian advisers, is being investigated by the Defense Department Office of Inspector General for allegedly retaliating against staff members after she used some of them to conduct her personal errands and business matters, sources say. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports.

Tags: Barbara Starr, Dana White, Defense Department, Investigation, Pentagon, USA, Washington

USA: Eleven years old and locked up

The separation of migrant children from their parents at the border was part of President Trump’s zero tolerance policy towards immigrants.
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Tags: Florida, Migrants, Orlando, Patricia Sulbaran Lovera, President Trump, Rescuing child, Save the Children, USA, zero-tolerance

The world watches as Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki

The world’s two disrupters-in-chief started the day trying to out-disrupt each other – President Putin’s opening gambit, arriving an hour late, leaving President Trump twiddling his famously small thumbs.
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Tags: Channel 4 News, Donald Trump, Finland, Helsinki, President Putin, President Trump, Putin meeting, Vladimir Putin

Watch Trump and Putin speak ahead of one-on-one meeting

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak with the media before they engage in a one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

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Trump’s UK visit ends in controversy ahead of Putin meeting

Donald Trump has left Scotland after four eventful days in the UK.
This morning he described the EU as the foe of the United States.
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Tags: Cathy Newman, Donald Trump, Mark Galeotti, Prague, President Putin, Putin meeting, Scotland, Vladimir Putin

Anderson Cooper: Trump doesn’t know how NATO works

CNN’s Anderson Cooper says that President Trump’s attacks on NATO are predictable, but not based in fact.

Tags: Anderson Cooper, Donald Trump, Military planes, NATO, President Trump, USA

US-China Trade War escalates

The United States hits China with a new list of an additional $200 billion on Chinese products to be hit with tariffs. To discuss the new tariffs, Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute; Michael Johns, the Co-founder of the National Tea Party movement; Jessica Stone, CGTN’s White House Correspondent; Victor Gao, the director of the China National Association of International Studies.

Tags: CGTN, China, Cold War, Trade War, US-China Trade War, USA

Trump asked advisers about invading Venezuela

Last August, President Donald Trump asked several top foreign policy advisers about the possibility of invading Venezuela during a meeting about diplomatic sanctions the US was enacting on the autocratic government, a senior administration official familiar with the comments said.

Tags: Donald Trump, Military planes, USA, Venezuela

Senate panel agrees Putin tried to help Trump

Breaking with their House Republican counterparts, the Senate Intelligence Committee said that the intelligence community properly concluded in January of 2017 that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump when Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.

Tags: Donald Trump, President Putin, President Trump, Russia, USA, Vladimir Putin