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Dan Boylan

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Dan Boylan was a former general assignment reporter at The Washington Times.

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American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Myanmar, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

U.S. eyes new sanctions, U.N. session on Nicaragua

The U.S. is stepping up the pressure on Nicaragua's leftist government for its crackdown on political opponents, with Congress weighing new Iran-like sanctions on the government of President Daniel Ortega and U.N. Ambassador Nikki R. Haley pressing the Security Council to take up the crisis in Managua.

September 4, 2018
The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, as the Senate prepares for the confirmation hearing of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and the House returns to work for the first time since July 26, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Capitol Hill probes on Trump, elections may factor in November vote

Congress returns this week from its August recess and while the House Intelligence Committee has wrapped up its probe, lawmakers still face big questions regarding the Russian-meddling scandal, threats to the U.S. electoral system, the uses and abuses of social media sites and fresh clashes between the White House and the Department of Justice.

September 3, 2018
The public sale of the Saudi state oil company Aramco was seen as key to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's bid to consolidate his authority at home and bolster Saudi Arabia and its allies in the struggle for influence against regional archrival Iran. (Associated Press/File)

Mohammed bin Salman’s Aramco IPO cutoff signals Saudi limits on reform

The abrupt indefinite "postponement" last month of Saudi Arabia's plan to sell off part of the treasured state oil company Aramco, projected to be the largest-ever sale of stock to the public at more than $100 billion, is raising even bigger questions about the state of hard-charging Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's drive to transform the oil giant's economy and profile in the world.

September 2, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the BRICS summit of major emerging national economies, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, July 26, 2018. The five leaders of the BRICS emerging economies have gathered in South Africa for an annual summit. (Mike Hutchings/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

India eager to replace U.S. exports to China amid trade war

India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry is predicting that Indian-made products can fill much of the gap in the Chinese commodity markets created by departing U.S. exports fleeing the escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing.

August 29, 2018
Iran petitioned the International Court of Justice last month to consider whether sanctions the U.S. has begun reimposing as part of its withdrawal from the Obama-era Iranian nuclear deal violate a little-known 1955 friendship agreement between the nations. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

State Department legal advisers defend U.S. sanctions against Iran

State Department legal advisers defended the Trump administration's reimposition of sanctions against Iran as justified national security measures during the second day of a trial pitting the enemy nations against each other at the United Nations' highest court Tuesday.

August 28, 2018
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Russian army Gen. Oleg Salyukov, right, walk along the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade to celebrate 72 years since the end of WWII and the defeat of Nazi Germany, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool photo via AP)

Russia to stage largest war games since Cold War

Russia plans to stage its biggest war games in nearly four decades in a massive military exercise including the Chinese and Mongolian armies, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday according to multiple Russian news agencies.

August 28, 2018
People walk toward the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Netherlands, Monday Aug. 27, 2018. Iran is going to the United Nations' highest court in a bid to have U.S. sanctions lifted. Iran filed the case with the International Court of Justice in July, claiming that sanctions the Trump administration imposed on May 8 breach a 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates economic and consular ties between the two countries. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

U.S. vows to resist as Iran asks U.N. court to nix sanctions

The United Nations' highest court on Monday began hearing a lawsuit brought by Iran against U.S. sanctions ordered by the Trump administration, a sign, experts say, of Tehran's growing desperation to preserve its economy since Washington unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal.

August 27, 2018
U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. Presidential election event, organized by the U.S. embassy in Beijing. A government report is outlining how spy services from China, Russia and Iran are hard at work trying to steal trade secrets and proprietary information from U.S. companies, government labs and universities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Trade war part of China’s effort to challenge American power

With the Trump administration's trade war with China showing no signs of easing, U.S. intelligence agencies fear Beijing is linking the trade issue to a larger challenge to American interests and power, including the South China Sea, artificial intelligence and cyberspace.

August 23, 2018
A tweet from President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump land reform tweet sparks angry South African reaction

An order by President Trump to U.S. officials to "study the South Africa land and farm seizures" and reports of "large-scale killing of farmers" has drawn an angry reaction in a country where race and land ownership remain a divisive legacy of its apartheid past.

August 23, 2018
The report was released just three days after President Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and nearly a week after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 Russians accused of election meddling. (Associated Press)

Three-of-four Americans say Moscow interfered in 2016 election: Poll

Seventy-five percent of Americans think Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election but a majority also prefer working to improve relations with Russia rather than Washington using harsh sanctions against the country, according to a new Gallup poll.

August 20, 2018
Iran's Senior Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, right, and Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim look towards the city center from the balcony of Yildirim's office in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Jahangiri is visiting Turkey to attend a regional cooperation meeting in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Eshaq Jahangiri: Iran looking to bypass Trump sanctions

With tones of defiance, senior Iranian officials have vowed that Tehran aims to bypass financial sanctions soon to be re-imposed on the Islamic Republic's oil and banking sectors by the Trump administration.

August 19, 2018