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The Indian government said on June 1 it will continue to seek to build strong economic ties with the United States despite a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to end preferential trade treatment for India from June 5.

U.S. President Donald Trump, responding to a surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border, vowed on May 30 to impose a tariff on all goods coming from Mexico, starting at 5% and ratcheting much higher until the flow of people ceases.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a phone conversation on May 30 with U.S. President Donald Trump in which he reiterated Ankara's proposal to form a working group to discuss Turkey's pending procurement of Russia's S-400 missile defense system.       

Olympiacos FC leader Evangelos Marinakis has once again has garnered the most votes of any candidate in the Piraeus City Council election of 26 May.

Marinakis was the top vote-getter in the 2014 Piraeus City Council contest as well.

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon told this to the AP in Monday.

Bannon thinks Europe's center is imploding and that traditional right-left politics are being replaced by a battle between "nationalist versus globalist" forces.
People are taking their countries back, he said.

Japan plans to purchase 105 F-35 American fifth-generation fighters, US President Donald Trump said. This will make the Land of the Rising Sun a state ally of the US with the largest air fleet with such machines.

Russia appears to hold all the trump cards in looming negotiations on gas supplies to Moldova, for now at least.

U.S. President Donald Trump on May 26 downplayed recent North Korean missile launches as he teed off a state visit to Japan with a round of golf with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a trip to the sumo.

President Donald Trump is defending his unprecedented decision to give his Justice Department chief unfettered access to the country's deepest foreign intelligence secrets amid an outcry from the spy community and a veiled warning from the U.S. intelligence czar.

SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit on May 23 for Musk's new Starlink internet service.