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Bottas, who raced for Williams last year but has yet to win a race, took the seat vacated by Rosberg after the German announced his shock retirement just days after clinching the title in December last year. "I felt we were just slightly quicker than Ferrari, so that could have been possible". " It has been tricky to get everything right, with the limited running we had yesterday, and we're still not 100 per cent where we want to be, up there in front ".

The United States struggled Monday to explain a Syria strategy that has yet to clarify key questions: Whether President Bashar Assad must go, how displaced Syrians will be protected and when America will feel compelled to take action. missile strike. Iran has provided crucial military and economic assistance to Assad throughout Syria's six-year civil war. It has organized several Shiite militias from around the Middle East to fight in support of Assad's government and has sent troops and ...

As corny as this sounds, the USA also sent a carrier-led strike group toward the Korean Peninsula on Saturday night. "Well, it's prudent to do it, isn't it?" he replied. "The U.S. Navy is committed to continuing this forward presence, which is focused on stability, regional cooperation and economic prosperity for all nations", said Benham.

The U.S. -China summit came as the Trump administration has been conducting a policy review of North Korea that includes military options. Speaking briefly after talks yesterday, Trump absurdly declared that "tremendous progress" had been made in "our relationship with China" and that his own relationship with Xi was "outstanding".

USA officials believe the hospital was targeted in an attempt to hide evidence of the chemical attack. Tillerson said on Thursday that Russian Federation had "failed in its responsibility" to remove Syria's chemical weapons under a 2013 agreement, which he argued showed Russian Federation was either complicit with the gas attacks or "simply incompetent".

Justin Rose was bloodied but unbowed after losing to Sergio Garcia in a dramatic playoff at the US Masters on Sunday (Monday NZ time). The 36-year-old Englishman, Garcia's frequent Ryder Cup teammate, gave the lead back on the following hole, and left the title there for Garcia to take, but the Spaniard's miss on the closing hole gave Rose life in the playoff.

By jettisoning regime change in Syria and working to accommodate Russian concerns, Trump positioned himself in his initial months in office as a hard-nosed practitioner of realpolitik who would train all his guns on the jihadi menace. "Congress needs to work with the president to try and deal with this long-term strategy, lack of strategy, really, in Syria", he said. "We haven't had one for six years during the Obama administration, and 400,000 civilians have died and millions of people ...

In a statement on his official website, Sadr called for all non-Syrian parties to stop intervening in the conflict in order to give the Syrian people the right to self-determination. Sadr believes that the United States "has to stop its harm (on Syria), and that is also required from Russian Federation and other parties", he added.

Trump also told Gorsuch that "our country is counting on you to be wise impartial and fair", and predicted that he would go down as "one of the truly great justices" in the Court's history. The cases include a Colorado baker's claim that he deserves a faith-based exemption from the state's anti-discrimination law after he refused to design a wedding cake for a gay couple.

A displaced Iraqi woman waits to enter Hammam al-Alil camp, south of Mosul , Iraq, April 8, 2017. The militants of the Daesh (outlawed in Russia) executed 140 civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul , the Security Council of the Iraqi Kurdistan region said Friday.

Spicer appeared to draw a new red line for the Trump administration when he told reporters Monday that if a country gases a baby or puts "a barrel bomb into innocent people, I think you will see a response from this president". Trump "recognizes that sometimes some of this spills over, these policy differences and discussions", added Spicer, in a stroke of understatement. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the US would soon announce new sanctions on the Assad regime to deter countries and ...