Amid #NoHandshakeGate and the "we have something in common" moment, yesterday's meeting between President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel was at best cordial, judging by the G-20 discussions, and this latest tweet from Trump...
Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2017
A man was shot dead by security forces after seizing a soldier's gun at Paris Orly airport on Saturday while in a separate incident a police officer was shot and injured north of the French capital, the French Interior Ministry said.
The incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack
???? #BREAKING - Orly airport incident and northern Paris shooting being investigated as terrorist attacks https://t.co/LZOaUn14uh pic.twitter.com/iS7aME9tpb
— FRANCE 24 Breaking (@BreakingF24) March 18, 2017
US warplanes have killed at least 42 Syrian civilians in a mosque during an air raid overnight in a village west of Aleppo. Over 100 other people were wounded in the air raid on the village of al-Jineh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed on Friday. US military officials confirmed that it carried out a deadly airstrike in northern Syria, but have denied deliberately bombing the mosque.
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“The senator from Kentucky,” said John McCain, speaking of his colleague Rand Paul, “is working for Vladimir Putin … and I do not say that lightly.”
What did Sen. Paul do to deserve being called a hireling of Vladimir Putin?
He declined to support McCain’s call for a unanimous Senate vote to bring Montenegro into NATO as the 29th member of a Cold War alliance President Trump has called “obsolete.”
Amnesty International has urged the US President to cancel impending weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain or risk being complicit in war crimes.