“We’re not going to prejudge.” State Division spokesperson Ned Value deployed this traditional Washington euphemism final week to keep away from responding to a query over how a lot culpability Iran and its Shiite militias bear for latest rocket assaults in opposition to a U.S. army base in northern Iraq. ...

Britain’s refusal to return the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles to Greece, which says they have been stolen from Athens within the early 19th century, has triggered debate on Twitter in regards to the rights and wrongs of the provocative request. ...

Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi introduced that articles of impeachment will likely be transmitted to the Senate subsequent week, after Republican management rejected her circumstances and moved to dismiss the costs except they have been despatched over. ...

As Washington and Beijing proceed to attempt to settle their variations over commerce and to succeed in a partial settlement not less than on that difficulty, latest US laws on Hong Kong is prone to additional anger China. ...

Because the Nord Stream 2 pipeline looms nearer to completion, its panicked critics declare it is going to hurt Ukraine and enhance the EU's vitality dependence on Russia – that are, in actual fact, mutually unique arguments. ...