Rex Tillerson
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Trump administration proposes the abolition of NI special envoy
- Politics
- August 30, 2017, 02:00
The US Secretary of State has proposed abolishing the position of US special envoy to Northern Ireland, part of a worldwide plan which will see more t(...)

ExxonMobil misled public for 40 years on climate change, study finds
- World
- August 23, 2017, 15:18
The giant US oil company ExxonMobil’s repeatedly misled the public about climate change over a 40-year period, researchers at Harvard University have (...)

Angry Trump grilled his generals about Afghanistan troop increase
- US
- August 22, 2017, 10:23
US president Donald Trump’s scepticism about the United States’s involvement in Afghanistan was no secret to his staff. But his top national security (...)

A political grim reaper who appealed to Trump’s worst instincts
- US
- August 18, 2017
With the departure of Steve Bannon on Friday the court of Donald Trump lost its rumpled chief ideologue. Mr Bannon was a man who prized his image as a(...)

Maureen Dowd: Will Trump the blowhard blow us up?
- US
- August 14, 2017, 01:00
A couple of chubby brats with big missiles and short fuses. Is nuclear winter coming? Fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen, are (...)

Kim Jong-un: ‘He’s rational, not crazy’
- Asia-Pacific
- August 12, 2017, 06:00
With his trademark floppy fringe and shaved-back-and-sides hairstyle, his permanent grin and his corpulent frame packed into a military-style suit, No(...)

Trump faces perilous range of options in dealing with North Korea
- US
- August 11, 2017
North Korea’s threat on Thursday to test-fire ballistic missiles soon near the US territory of Guam deepened the challenge confronting the Trump admin(...)

President Donald Trump has defended his handling of the North Korea nuclear crisis , saying many people are happy with the rhetoric he is using to cha(...)

Donald Trump renews his attack on North Korea
- US
- August 10, 2017
US president Donald Trump renewed his attack on North Korea last night, warning that the country should be “very, very nervous” if it does anything t(...)

US secretary seeks to cool escalating crisis with North Korea
- US
- August 10, 2017
US secretary of state Rex Tillerson sought to cool an escalating crisis with North Korea on Wednesday, claiming that the nuclear armed state posed no (...)