Rex Tillerson
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Social media - the perfect platform for spreading disinformation
- Technology
- April 18, 2018, 22:07
When news broke last weekend that ‘senior US officials’ had travelled to North Korea for discussions about a potential meeting of the two countries’ l(...)

Pompeo says he’ll put US diplomacy back on the world map
- US
- April 12, 2018, 20:23
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state vowed to make the US a world leader in global diplomacy and help a demoralised state department find “it(...)

Fears grow that US military action in Syria could trigger Russian response
- US
- April 10, 2018, 01:00
After pictures of dead bodies and wounded children hooked up to respirators in the besieged Syrian town of Douma went viral, Russia was thrust into th(...)

Bolton’s White House arrival signals shift to right in US foreign policy
- US
- March 24, 2018, 05:01
Shortly before 4pm on Thursday, John Bolton, the unmistakable mustachioed former US ambassador to the United Nations, was spotted entering the West Wi(...)

Maureen Dowd: Trump has embraced being a joke president
- US
- March 19, 2018, 05:11
This was the week Donald Trump became president of the United States. Or at least the week he became the president we were always expecting. He ceased(...)

Adams and McDonald express support for US special envoy
- Politics
- March 14, 2018, 21:30
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Mary Lou McDonald have expressed their strong support for the appointment of a US special envoy to Northern Ireland, setti(...)

Tillerson firing raises fear of shift in US foreign policy
- US
- March 14, 2018
The turmoil within the Trump administration intensified on Tuesday as the US president fired his secretary of state, raising fears among allies about (...)

End of ‘forceful Texan’ reported to have called Trump a ‘moron’ no surprise
- US
- March 14, 2018, 01:00
Donald Trump made no attempt to disguise how far apart he and his secretary of state had fallen on Tuesday as he summarily dispatched Rex Tillerson wi(...)

Varadkar tells unionists: ‘I know you might be angry but we have no hidden agenda’
- Politics
- March 13, 2018, 23:00
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has sought to assure unionists that Ireland has “no hidden agenda” as he called on them to get behind efforts to break the poli(...)

Britain’s response to Moscow will require global support
- UK
- March 13, 2018, 22:45
As Tuesday night’s deadline approached, nobody in Westminster expected Russia to offer any explanation of last week’s attack in Salisbury that would s(...)