by Jim Heath | Apr 25, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
It’s 2019, but don’t tell Saudi Arabia that. The barbaric religious state has put the body of a crucified criminal on public display after the execution of 37 nationals in one day. State-run media carried statements this week to say those executed had...
by Jim Heath | Apr 25, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
North Korea in 2017 issued a $2 million bill to the U.S. for the hospital care of American Otto Warmbier, and President Trump agreed to pay it. Warmbier was in a coma when he was returned to the U.S. and died without regaining consciousness. The Washington Post...
by Jim Heath | Apr 17, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un oversaw the testing of a new type of tactical guided weapon, the first public weapons test since the dictator’s second summit with President Trump in February. Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did not describe exactly what the...
by Jim Heath | Apr 16, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump, who has in the past ridiculed American involvement in places like Iraq, has vetoed a bipartisan resolution that would have forced an end to United States military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. It is only the second time he has used his...
by Jim Heath | Apr 7, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been forced to rebuff claims he is not backing Libyan strongman Khalifa Hifter who has ordered his forces to march on the country’s capital in definance of a UN truce. The rebel leader, who controls the eastern-based Libyan...
by Jim Heath | Mar 31, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
It’s not rocket science, it’s political science. Where there is a nation torn by poverty and violence, people flee. When there is even more poverty and violence, even more people leave. But Donald Trump isn’t experienced in world politics or...
