by Jim Heath | Nov 24, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Three countries have halted arms sales to Saudi Arabia while the U.S. has stuck by the kingdom after the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Finland and Denmark joined Germany this week in halting all future arms sales and sending of military...
by Jim Heath | Nov 18, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Has President Trump, who has made more untrue statements than any president in modern history, been caught making another one? The leader of Finland says yes. President Sauli Niinistö of Finland told Ilta-Sanomat, the country’s second-largest newspaper, that he’d ever...
by Jim Heath | Nov 17, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump today called Saudi Arabia as a “spectacular ally” two days after his administration leveled sanctions against 17 Saudi officials for the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin...
by Jim Heath | Nov 1, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
It’s his favorite TV channel, and now President Trump has offered former Fox News reporter Heather Nauert the job of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Somehow it only seems fitting that a Fox News personality will represent America around the world. Trump...
by Jim Heath | Oct 31, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
For the first time publicly, a Turkish prosecutor has said that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month, adding he was later dismembered. A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan’s...
by Jim Heath | Oct 29, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
He’s loud, opinionated, with a long history of offending minorities. Still, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro easily won Brazil’s presidential election after promising a fundamental change in direction for South America’s biggest country. Bolsonaro...
