Joseph Stepansky

Trump is ex­pect­ed to see short-term bump as in­dict­ment plays into long-held claims of be­ing un­just­ly tar­get­ed.

Blinken to be first US sec­re­tary of state to vis­it coun­try amid con­cerns over Sa­hel se­cu­ri­ty, grow­ing Russ­ian in­flu­ence.

Ar­rests come amid lat­est clash be­tween po­lice and pro­test­ers op­pos­ing con­struc­tion of Geor­gia po­lice train­ing fa­cil­i­ty.

An­a­lysts say rul­ing AK Par­ty has for years built in­flu­ence and glob­al clout with hu­man­i­tar­i­an-heavy for­eign pol­i­cy.

With first cas­es de­tect­ed in Sep­tem­ber, earth­quake dev­as­ta­tion risks new stress­es, par­tic­u­lar­ly in rebel-held ar­eas.