WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration on April 9 warned several state legislatures against initiatives that would punish the state-owned French railway company SNCF for carrying out Holocaust-era deportations to Nazi death and labor camps. The […]

Trump’s Nixon moment?   U.S. President Donald Trump‘s dramatic decision to sack Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief James Comey hardly escapes comparisons with the 1973 “Saturday Night Massacre”. On October 20 that year, Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating […]

U.S. and several Eastern European NATO countries conduct a series of military exercises near Russia‘s border while Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his Northern Fleet “to full alert in a snap combat readiness exercise” […]