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Qatar long has denied funding extremists, and its foreign minister struck a defiant tone in interviews, even after anxious residents emptied grocery stores in its capital, Doha . The Gulf countries have ordered their citizens out of Qatar and gave Qataris overseas 14 days to return home. U.S. President Donald Trump, who tweeted Tuesday about Qatar funding extremists, called Sheikh Tamim on Wednesday and offered to host leaders at the White House to resolve the crisis.

In his first public remarks since Mr Trump fired him , Mr Comey is expected to tell the Senate Intelligence committee that Mr Trump asked him during a meeting in the Oval Office to end the FBI's probe into ties between former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian Federation.

Which is all to say that when Goldman Sachs bought $2.8 billion in state-issued Venezuelan bonds on the secondary market last week, the bank's calculations rested on facts, not feelings. Goldman, which confirmed the bond purchase Monday night, made the deal despite efforts of the Venezuelan opposition to prevent Western banks from doing transactions that benefit the Maduro regime.

President Moon Jae-in won his election in early May - about a week after the USA said two THAAD missile-defense launchers were up and running in South Korea. According to Mr Moon's office, top military brass who briefed the President's national security adviser last month deliberately withheld information about the arrival of the four new launchers.

The BJP district leadership accused the CPI (M) of being behind attacks in retaliation for the assault on Sitaram Yechury. The incident happened a day after CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury was hackled by Hindu Sena activists, which was condemned by several political parties.

Chris Christie's top deputy in the race to replace the unpopular governor. Murphy is a former ambassador under President Barack Obama and one-time Goldman Sachs executive who loaned his campaign $16 million. Poll worker Audrey Ginsberg places an "I Voted" sticker on Gov. Chris Christie at the Brookside Emergency Services Building during the primary election on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 in Mendham, N.J.

According to the report , the list was preliminary and the goal of Qatar's request was to shore up US support for Qatar in case of an escalation in the crisis between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and the Qatari fear that Saudi Arabia will support a coup in Qatar against the current leader, Sheikh Tamim Althani.

The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the US election and voting infrastructure.

The FBI has sent a team of investigators to Qatar because they believe that Russian hackers are responsible for planting a fake news report that has led to the crisis in which all diplomatic ties to Qatar have been severed by Saudi Arabia and numerous other Gulf nations , according to a CNN report .

For the US military, which is supporting Iraqi troops assaulting Mosul and readying a major push into Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria , the base has never been more important. The official is pointing to offers that Kuwait and Turkey have made to mediate. "But the US still wants to see this issue de-escalated and resolved immediately, keeping with the principles that the president laid out in terms of defeating terror financing and extremism", he said.

Leaders of three farmers' organisations alleged at a press conference in Indore that the number of people killed in police firing on Tuesday was eight and not five. In order to take control of the situation, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his team chose to come up with advertisements in local dailies detailing how and why the government was with the farmers.