CEOs who were part of a Strategic Council to Trump agreed to disband the group and condemn Trump's confrontational response to a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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A North Korean plan to fire four missiles near the US Pacific territory of Guam will be ready for Kim Jong Un’s consideration in days, state media has reported, as an unprecedented exchange between Washington and Pyongyang intensifies. Guam hosts 7,000 U.S. military personnel on two main bases and has a population of 160,000.

Author: Mark Bowden, Atlantic national correspondent.

Every option the United States has for dealing with North Korea is bad. But accepting it as a nuclear power may be the least bad.

Unless Kim Jong Un is killed and replaced by someone better, or some miracle of diplomacy occurs, or some shattering peninsular conflict intervenes, North Korea will eventually build ICBMs armed with nuclear warheads. It’s a done deal.

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Janvier 2016 : Alors Ministre de l’Economie de François Hollande, Emmanuel Macron plaide lors d'une visite à Moscou pour une levée rapide des sanctions imposées par les Occidentaux à la Russie, en lien avec la crise ukrainienne.

Début 2017 :  Emmanuel Macron fait valoir sa volonté d'établir un «dialogue souverain» avec les Russes, non dicté par Washington, et de préciser :  «[Parler avec la Russie], ça ne veut pas dire être fasciné par elle, ni oublier que [la France] ne partage pas les mêmes valeurs.»

From 17 March 2015, Kiev has been in violation of no less than seven articles and nine obligations it signed on under the Minsk-2 accord.

1. EU Russian sanctions should be gradually phased out in return for progress on the implementation of the Minsk 2 agreements. The focus should be on the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and on motivating Russia for a constructive cooperation. But Russia is not the only participant of the Minsk process, and the future of sanctions needs to be assessed against the performance of other parties, most importantly Ukraine. The continued Russian possession of the Crime must not prevent an easing of tensions and removal of sanctions.

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