The US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) on May 17 sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging immediate action to hold individuals accountable for brutal attacks on peaceful protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence on Tuesday, Asbarez reports.
One of the first Apple computers is on auction in Germany. The rare machine is expected to fetch 335 thousand dollars, although it can’t even perform the most simple things that today’s computers can, DPA reported.
Cornell, 52, was in Detroit performing with Soundgarden, which had embarked on a US tour in April. Brian Bumbery, his representative, called Cornell’s passing “sudden and unexpected” in a statement to CNN.
US President Donald Trump plans to hold a meeting with four candidates for the position of director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), White House spokesman Sean Spicer said, Reuters reports.
In his commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday, US President Trump proclaimed that “no politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly” by the media, CNN reported.
The US Justice Department appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow, Reuters reports.
Designed in 1891 by renowned Beaux Arts architect Richard Morris Hunt, the Newport, Rhode Island, mansion known as Belcourt was inspired by Louis XIII’s hunting lodge at Versailles and built for banking heir Oliver Belmont.
The regulation on the EU visa liberalization for Ukrainian citizens has been signed in Strasbourg on May 17, reports TASS. The document was signed by President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, the current chair of the European Union.
Germany’s decision to grant asylum to Turks accused of participating in last year’s coup has heightened tension between the two NATO allies, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday.
“If the US administration deems it possible, we are ready to provide the Senate and Congress with the transcript of the conversation between Lavrov and Trump,” Putin said at a press conference, following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday.
