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New York (AP) — Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year, the Associated Press reports. The charges center on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence …

ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Tuesday that unless his nation wins a drawn-out battle in a key eastern city, Russia could begin building international support for a deal that could require Ukraine to make unacceptable compromises. He also invited the leader of China, long aligned with Russia, to visit. If Bakhmut fell …

United States Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday jointly released a statement on President Joe Biden’s ten-year plans for implementing the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability. The implementation, they said is in partnership with Haiti, Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, and Coastal West …

As decided at the last round of the EU-U.S. High-Level Consultations on the Indo-Pacific on 2 December 2022, the European Union and the United States of America conducted a joint naval exercise on March 23 and 24, 2023, according to the State Department. The joint naval exercise took place in the framework of the EU and U.S. patrolling and exercising …

Beirut (AP) — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria, and U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the Pentagon said. Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people, according to report by Associated Press. …

The British High Commission has said the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, is prepared to take action against those who engaged in or incited electoral violence during the just-concluded general elections in Nigeria. The commission said the UK was already collating names of perpetrators and would impose sanctions “including preventing people from obtaining UK …

London (AP) — A senior Nigerian politician and his wife were found guilty Thursday of conspiring to transport a street trader to the U.K. as part of an organ-harvesting plot. Ike Ekweremadu, who was deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and a lawyer, and his wife, Beatrice, were accused of arranging the travel of a 21-year-old man to the U.K. …

United States Department of State and the Office of the Chief of Protocol have announced the 28th Experience America trip to Boston, Massachusetts with members of the foreign Diplomatic Corps between March 26 and 28, 2023.  Information from the office of the State Department’s Spokesperson said more than 30 foreign ambassadors – representing countries across 5 continents – will join …

New York (AP) — A New York grand jury investigating Donald Trump over a hush money payment to a porn star appears poised to complete its work soon as law enforcement officials make preparations for possible unrest in the event of an indictment. Trump over the weekend claimed without any evidence that he would be arrested on Tuesday, with his …

New York (AP) — Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that his arrest is imminent and issued an extraordinary call for his supporters to protest as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Even as Trump’s lawyer and spokesperson said there had been no communication from prosecutors, Trump declared …