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Paul Handley is a former AFP bureau chief in Riyadh. He is currently the US security correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Washington DC, covering crime, justice and US politics. His reporting has appeared in Business Insider, New Zealand Herald, AlterNet, France 24, Yahoo, The New York Times, The Times South Africa, The Globe and Mail, and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is author of The King Never Smiles about the late Thai monarch.
But Edward Snowden’s revelations had lasting impact, advancing privacy protections in Europe and America and accelerating use of encryption
The balloon’s presence comes amid slowly simmering tensions between the United State and China over Taiwan
On the same day, Vladimir Putin plans to meet his top military officials to assess the dire results so far of the war on Ukraine and set goals for next year
China’s foreign ministry pushed back, calling Washington hypocritical for demanding TikTok be sold
The two sides squared off in fiery exchanges that circled around the procedures for the trial and gave the Democrats an opportunity to spell out their arguments for Trump’s guilt…
Gordon Sondland says he followed the president’s orders in seeking a "quid pro quo" deal for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden
Trump says the inquiry is "corrupt" and "illegal," and maintains he did nothing wrong
Trump faces the possibility of becoming only the third US president ever impeached by Congress
Two days before Mueller testifies the president repeated his longstanding claim it was a biased ‘witch hunt’
Despite international scepticism, the US government has been pointing to increasing threats from Iran
Mueller report clears Russian collusion claims, but does not exonerate Trump of obstruction of justice.
The US Justice Department has unveiled sweeping charges against Huawei in two cases likely to ratchet up tensions between the US and China
Eighteen months into his investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller has the US capital spellbound
The US is prepared to slap financial sanctions and criminal charges on officials of the court, says National Security Adviser John Bolton
On Tuesday that once-deep loyalty melted away when Cohen stunningly implicated the US president in two felony crimes
The cases of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen won’t end Trump’s crusade to tar Mueller’s probe as a "witch hunt"
A developer and a British firm used a personality quiz to create a powerful database which helped carry Donald Trump to the White House.
"Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work," the indictment states.
US spy chiefs have informed Donald Trump that Russian operatives claim to possess deeply compromising personal and financial information about him.
JPMorgan Chase’s investment chief Ina Drew has resigned as the White House urged stronger industry regulation in the wake of the a $2-billion loss.
