Giorno: 23 Ottobre 2023

China’s Top Diplomat to Pay Rare US Visit Ahead of Potential Xi Trip

China’s top diplomat will pay a rare visit to Washington this week, the United States announced Monday, paving the way for a potential visit by President Xi Jinping aimed at keeping tensions in check.Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the highest-ranking Chinese official in the US…[#item_full_content]

Pentagon officials say attacks on US troops have ‘Iranian fingerprints all over’

Senior Pentagon officials said Monday they expect to see a “significant escalation” of attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, adding the attacks have “Iranian fingerprints all over” them. A senior U.S. Defense Official and a senior U.S. Military Official held a background briefing on Monday afternoon, and both officials suggested attacks will likely […]

Liz Cheney Not Ruling Out 2024 White House Bid

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., a bitter critic of former President Donald Trump who lost her congressional seat after participating in the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, said she is not ruling out a run for the White House in 2024.[#item_full_content]

Trump Hits Biden for ‘Dangerous, Deluded’ Israel Speech

Former President Donald Trump assailed the primetime address delivered by President Joe Biden late last week, calling his speech on Israel “one of the most dangerous and deluded speeches ever from the Oval Office.”[#item_full_content]

Gymnastics Great Retton Home From Hospital

Olympic gold medallist Mary Lou Retton is home from hospital and “in recovery mode,” her daughter said on Monday, after a rare form of pneumonia left the American fighting for her life.Retton, 55, has spent nearly two weeks in an intensive care unit where she was unable to…[#item_full_content]

Former NSA Worker Pleads Guilty to Trying to Sell US Secrets to Russia

A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado pleaded guilty Monday to trying to sell classified information to Russia.Federal prosecutors agreed to not ask for more than about 22 years in prison for Jareh Sebastian Dalke when he is sentenced in April, but the…[#item_full_content]

Sen. Menendez Enters Not Guilty Plea to a New Conspiracy Charge

Sen. Bob Menendez returned to Manhattan federal court Monday to challenge a new criminal charge alleging that he conspired to act as an agent of the Egyptian government when he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”Not guilty,” Menendez, 69, said when Judge Sidney…[#item_full_content]

Orbán compares Hungary’s EU membership to Soviet occupation in fiery speech

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation of his country during a speech on Monday commemorating the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Speaking to a select group of guests in the city of Veszprem, Orbán accused the EU of seeking to strip […]