President Donald Trump named Robert O'Brien, the US hostage negotiator,/ "I am pleased to announce that I will name Robert C. O'Brien, currently serving as the very successful Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department, as our new National Security Advisor. I have ...
this week without a permanent national security adviser -- a role he hopes to fill with someone who shares his foreign policy views at a moment they appear newly muddled./ Since firing John Bolton by tweet a week ago, Trump has interviewed or spoken with several candidates for the job, according ...
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks during a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London/ ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday listed five possible replacements for recently fired national security adviser John Bolton, most ...
this week without a permanent national security adviser -- a role he hopes to fill with someone who shares his foreign policy views at a moment they appear newly muddled./ Since firing John Bolton by tweet a week ago, Trump has interviewed or spoken with several candidates for the job, according ...
30PM [Updated: Wed Sep 18, 2019 09:33PM ]/ US President Donald Trump (L) speaks next to new national security adviser Robert O'Brien on September 18, 2019 at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. (AFP photo)/ US President Donald Trump has picked hostage negotiator Robert ...
54AM [Updated: Wed Sep 18, 2019 05:51AM ]/ Former White House national security adviser John Bolton is reportedly planning to write a book in which he will reveal secrets about his tenure in the administration of President Donald Trump. Following his abrupt departure from the White House, Bolton ...
Elizabeth Tsurkov spoke to the BBC from Israel, where she is recovering from her ordeal/ An Israeli-Russian woman held captive for two and a half years by militants in Iraq has told the BBC how she invented "confessions" to try to get her captors to stop torturing her. Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was ...
Christmas trees decorate the Cross Hall of the White House during a press preview of the Christmas decorations "Home is Where the Heart Is," Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)/ Christmas trees decorate the Cross Hall of the White House during a press preview of the ...
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the Lebanese capital Beirut a week after Israeli air strikes hit the Lebanese capital. For a man known for being measured and careful in what he does, it seems quite the statement to land in a country so affected by conflict in what is his first foreign trip. The Pope ...
The chancellor, who has been backed by the prime minister, has insisted 'of course I didn't' lie. So, what is the row all about?/ Rachel Reeves denied misleading the public over the budget. (PA)/ about the state of the public finances ahead of her budget. Opposition figures have alleged she ...
An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis oil and petroleum complex on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo, File)/ ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish government has condemned on two Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers in the Black Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu ...
In a bustling Gaza City market, a money repairer expertly inspects a worn, yellow 100 shekel ($30.50; £23.10) note. He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil. Baraa Abu al-Aoun should have been studying at university - but instead he ekes out a living ...
A funeral was held at Gaza's Nasser Hospital for the two young boys killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday/ More than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. The death toll has continued to ...
The Prince of Wales has visited a number of severely ill children from Gaza being treated by the NHS, a Kensington Palace spokesperson says. The NHS began offering specialist care to Gazan children in September as part of a UK government humanitarian mission. As of 21 November, 50 children are ...
Israeli and Palestinian rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres/ The United Nations committee on torture says there is evidence that Israel is operating a "de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture". The committee regularly reviews the ...
Iberian ham legs hang at the Gourmets Fair in Madrid, Spain, April 8, 2025. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo/ MADRID/BEIJING (Reuters) -China has banned pork imports from Barcelona province after Spain detected its first case of African swine fever in three decades in two wild boar found dead in ...