Despite Japan being closed for holiday, the Yen has started off on the back foot, with the USDJPY rising 20 pips following a weekend Nikkei report that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to dissolve the lower house with a general election to follow next month, hoping to capitalize on an uptick in public support before the opposition has a chance to regroup and mount a formidable challenge.
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Participation in the ballistic missile defence program would be costly, but, amid nuclear threats, it appears Canada is no longer under the protective umbrella of the U.S.
Politicians approach most subjects with open mouths, but they are rarely at a loss for words.
That’s why the testimony at a House of Commons defence committee, specially convened to consider the thorny problem that is North Korea, was so memorable.
With the total number of Americans affected by a potential 'sonic attack' in Cuba now reaching 21, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the Trump administration is considering closing down the U.S. Embassy in Havana following unexplained incidents harming the health of American diplomats.
As one former CIA official says: "It's just mystery after mystery after mystery."
It seems Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has finally gotten her way. After months of promising that President Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. would testify publicly about the infamous “Russia meeting,” the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning that she knows “for sure” that Trump Jr. will testify publicly “sometime this fall.”
“I think it’s Senator Grassley’s intent, and it’s certainly my intent, to have him before the Committee in the open to ask him some questions.”
During an appearance CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley admitted something that most of the international community – perhaps including Kim Jong Un himself – has known for weeks: The United Nations Security Council has just about reached the limit of its ability to economically punish North Korea.