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North Korean state media accused the United States and South Korea on Monday of violating their provisional peace agreements designed to reduce tensions across the Korean peninsula.

The son of Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro will visit the White House next week as part of efforts to build stronger relations between the two countries, he announced on Wednesday.

Cuban state media celebrated the success of the Democratic Party in Tuesday’s midterm elections, describing the election as a defeat for “one of the most polarizing and unpopular Presidents in modern history.

“You’re not allowed to use the word beautiful anymore when you talk about women,” he said as the crowd booed.

The Czech Prime Minister has revealed his nation is looking to pull out of the United Nations’ (UN) migration pact, as the European Commission blasted Austria for withdrawing from the agreement earlier this week.

“No nation can allow itself to be overwhelmed by uncontrolled masses of people rushing their border,” Trump said.

“They’re waiting for the results of the midterms, and if the midterms for some reason don’t do well for Republicans, I think you’ll all lose a lot of money,” Trump said, referring to stock market investors regaining some of the October losses.

“We cannot allow our country to be violated like this,” he said. “And it’s really unfair to the millions of people that are waiting in line to come legally into our country.”

The president made his remarks on Tuesday at the White House State Leadership Day for leaders of California, Alaska, and Hawaii after highlighting his new and renegotiated trade deals.

China sold North Korea at least $640 million worth of luxury goods in the year 2017 in defiance of international sanctions, a South Korean lawmaker claimed on Monday. 

The Cuban delegation to the United Nations interrupted a meeting on the island’s ongoing imprisonment of political dissidents on Tuesday by shouting insults over the speakers, calling the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) a “puppet” of the United States and refusing to let participants express themselves.

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to agree a “cutting edge” free trade agreement with the United Kingdom “as soon as it is ready” after leaving the European Union, the U.S.’s chief trade negotiator has said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the government of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of “painting over … toxic materials” at the Istanbul consulate where Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared on October 2.

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is “reviewing legislation” that would create an investment fund for the Palestinian economy, a White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

Contents: Saudi Arabia tries to recover from Khashoggi disappearance disaster; Negotiations follow the pattern of N. Korea’s 2010 torpedoing of S. Korean warship

North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun published a belligerent column Friday accusing the U.S. of “murderous” policies against the Korean people, but ensuring that North Korea would survive up to a century of the sanctions it claims are killing its people.

The agreement between Turkey and the United States to push U.S.-allied Kurdish militiamen out of Syria’s Manbij region is delayed, “but not completely dead,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared, the Hurriyet newspaper reported on Thursday.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, visiting Washington this week, said in remarks Tuesday with American counterpart Jim Mattis that Greece hopes to convince the United States to expand its military presence in the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration urged judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to dismiss a claim by Tehran to recover $1.75 billion in frozen assets awarded to American victims of Iran-linked terrorism by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Iran on Monday reached out to its ally in Syria, Russia, for help to boost its economy amid looming U.S. sanctions.

Contents: As October 25 deadline approaches, Syria’s Idlib is set up for a classic Greek tragedy; Turkey and Russia reach an agreement to prevent the Idlib assault; The inevitable clash of the protagonists

The United States armed forces are only “marginally able” to defend America against the current high levels of risk primarily fueled by “formidable” U.S. rivals China and Russia, revealed the 2019 Index of U.S. Military Strength released Thursday by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank.

European nations leaning toward populism tend to have the most favorable view of the United States, while those embracing globalism have the least favorable view, the Pew Research Center has revealed.

President Donald Trump is making an appearance live at the White House Rose Garden to comment on the new trade deal reached with the United States, Mexico, and Canada. 

The U.S., Mexico, and Canada came to a late-hours agreement Sunday to create a trilateral trade deal to replace NAFTA that is being deemed the USMCA, U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

China’s Global Times propaganda newspaper warned the United States in a piece published Thursday that Beijing could “deploy military combat equipment to the islands and reefs” of the South China Sea if Washington continues to reject China’s illegal claims in the region.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, representing Communist Party leader Xi Jinping at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, used his time to urge “win-win cooperation,” promote the sprawling One Belt, One Road (OBOR) debt trap project, and generally avoid confrontation with the United States.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro branded President Donald Trump a coward on Tuesday after the United States imposed sanctions on his wife Celia Flores and other high-ranking regime officials. 

The Afghan Taliban cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration over the weekend against engaging in negotiations to end the 17-year-old war with “fake” insurgent delegations, stressing that such meetings could derail “any possible genuine process of dialogue.”

Contents: China threatens multiple Western nations militarily over South China Sea; China’s claims to the South China Sea are amazingly vacuous

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday that America’s stance on negotiations with North Korea has not changed regarding denuclearization and that Washington would take no “corresponding measures” to please Pyongyang before the communist rogue state fully dismantles its illegal nuclear program.

President Donald Trump boasted that leveling additional tariffs on China was taking a dramatic effect on their economy.

Iraq needs up to $100 billion to rebuild the city of Mosul alone following the devastation at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against the jihadi group told reporters on Tuesday.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Russia on Thursday of covering up violations of international sanctions prohibiting countries from doing business with North Korea. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told members of his Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday that the United States had attempted an “economic assassination” on Turkey, one that his administration has largely “stopped.”

Scientists have confirmed the identity of two service members whose remains were returned by North Korea in July, officials from the Defense POW/MIA Accountability Agency announced on Monday.