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Trump travel ban returns to U.S. Supreme Court ... WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's restriction on travel to the United States from a handful of mostly Muslim countries returns to the ... It lifts restrictions on visitors from Sudan and adds new limits on those from North Korea and Venezuela.

OPEC compliance to its agreement has exceeded targets, and Venezuelan output has been halved over the past two years to levels not seen in a ... are encouraging the US to take a hard line with Iran, which seems to be consistent with many of Trump's new national security and foreign policy advisers.

Even leaving aside the fact American consumers pay less for gasoline than those in any other developed country (25 cents US less than Canadians, and 90 cents less than Brits), there's the inconvenient truth that one of the major factors propping up oil prices is U.S. foreign policy. Consider Venezuela.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th and 4th Circuits upheld the lower court rulings, invoking injunctions that prevented the Trump ... The government will argue that the president has authority over matters of immigration and foreign policy, and that the court does not have the authority to review ...

The Government of Venezuela denounced a Country Report on the Human Rights Practice 2017 issued by the U.S. Department of State, which accused the ... Venezuelan said "the manipulation of the United States of America's regime on the subject of human rights with the sole objective of promoting the ...

Citigroup analysts raised their forecast for oil prices for this year and next due to rising demand and the potential for supply losses from Venezuela and Iran ... Oil could be supported by the potential for more hawkish U.S. foreign policy from President Donald Trump's new team, which could escalate tensions ...

John Bolton (C), United States Ambassador to the United Nations, casts his country's ballot, 31 October 2006, as the United Nations General Assembly continues voting for the Latin American Group seat on the Security Council, contested by Venezuela and Guatemala, at UN headquarters in New York. (File).

The appointment of John Bolton as his national security advisor signals President Trump is now looking to pursue a more hard-line approach against U.S. adversaries, like Iran or Venezuela. Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador, has said the U.S. should act pre-emptively against North Korean and Iranian ...

Its now obvious that it was staged by the UK in cooperation of the US - this nerve chemical can and has been easily produced by the US as well as UK (a UK government laboratory capable of producing it is only 10 kilometres away from where the attack took place) and it's interesting that the UK refuses to ...

The United States has for years undermined the Venezuelan economy with economic sanctions, but US media coverage of Venezuela's financial crisis has gone out of its way to obscure this. The intent of the sanctions is clear: to inflict maximum pain on Venezuela so as to encourage the people of the ...

WASHINGTON John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is expected to put a sharper focus on Venezuela as President Donald Trump's ... line against the Venezuelan government, applying more than 20 individual and economic sanctions including restricting U.S. financial transactions ...

Venezuela has been in Washington's cross hairs ever since the dramatic 1998 election of Hugo Chavez, a charismatic, populist leader – and this is one case where ... And, like the Cuban elite after Fidel Castro nationalized U.S.-owned industry there, the Venezuelan elite has remained close to Washington.

Venezuela oil output is in a "death spiral," which could be worsened by additional US sanctions, he said. Without new sanctions, Monaldi expects Venezuelan production to drop by 300,000 to 350,000 b/d by the end of 2018, but if oil-sector sanctions are imposed, the decline could be as much as 400,000 ...

And both say Chile should continue to welcome immigrants, even as a large wave of recent arrivals from Haiti and Venezuela has called into question the country's capacity to .... “But a clear policy that would allow us to evaluate the foreign policy of the United States toward the region is still not on the table.

But Thursday represented more than just a campaign promise fulfilled. It signified a stark break from years of American foreign policy that has looked to reward friends and punish enemies, one that had experts worried the United States was taking too dramatic a step on trade and too risky a step on foreign ...

The sad reality is that, despite all the rhetoric, Justin Trudeau's Liberals are as hawkish as their predecessors — “Harper Lite” as we described the government's foreign policy last year. In fact, following the U.S. example, the Liberals intend to put Venezuela, Iran and North Korea at the top of the G7 Agenda, ...

The letter also highlighted the hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy. "It is no secret that Venezuela -- unlike Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia -- is targeted for regime change by the U.S. precisely because of Venezuela's leadership in resisting U.S. hegemony and the imposition of the ...

As required by law, the executive order states that Venezuela continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The sanctions renewal comes a day after the Venezuelan government announced it reached an agreement with all presidential ...

“This is not the way foreign policy normally is, or should be, conducted,” said Christopher Sabatini, a lecturer at Columbia University. ... Public fights with Mexico, vows to end relations with Cuba, suggestions of intervention in Venezuela and a high-profile exit from a major regional trade deal, the ...

In Venezuela, the US is backing right-wing political figures who participated in the abortive 2002 coup against the late President Hugo Chavez, while openly ... This nearly 200-year-old canon of US foreign policy supposedly endowed Washington with the right to use force in preventing outside powers from ...

The United States is using energy sanctions around the world to bring its rivals to heel. Some foreign policy analysts warn that the penalties are falling short of their aim. Sanctions are most effective when there is broad international support and a clear goal. On Tuesday, North Korea said it was open to ...

On Friday, Trump also extended illegal US sanctions on Venezuela for another year, falsely alleging human rights abuses and political violence – turning truth on its head, calling conditions in the country an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”.

Venezuela's refugee crisis is metastasizing. According to the United Nations, 5,000 Venezuelans have fled to Curacao, 20,000 to Aruba, 30,000 to Brazil, 40,000 to Trinidad and Tobago, and more than 600,000 to Colombia. In times past, the U.S. has led in responding to exoduses sparked by political or ...

The U.S. State Department has called on the Venezuelan government to allow international aid into the country; in UN Security Council meetings, Ambassador Nikki Haley has reaffirmed the United States' humanitarian commitment to Venezuela. Tens of thousands of Venezuelan Americans and over two ...

Bitcoin does not “eliminate the middle man” since a third party is still needed to convert the coins to dollars, and Bitcoin is not saving Venezuela. Recently, there have .... The same article explains that Venezuelan miners import food from the U.S. through Amazon's Prime Pantry service. And that they are ...

While the United States has more sanctions leverage than any other country, the reality is that U.S. sanctions have powerful bite when allies apply coordinated, parallel measures. This is particularly true of sanctions targets such as Iran and Russia that have deeper economic ties with other countries than ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, and Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana, Cuba, on Dec. 14, 2017 ... The United States already maintains an embargo on most commercial activity with Cuba and the U.S. embassy there is running on a skeleton staff due to the health attacks on U.S. diplomats.