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In addition, it has promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional trade agreement which openly excludes China. Tom Cotton said on Capitol Hill ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington this week.

A second Republican attempt to block the Iran nuclear deal failed on the Senate floor Tuesday as calls for Republican leaders to abandon their efforts to condemn the deal grew louder.

For more than a decade Iran has forbidden the IAEA access to the Parchin military installation, where the United Nations nuclear watchdog suspects Iran carried out work on designs for detonator devices that could be used in a nuclear weapon and could fit in a ballistic missile...

Chinese officials say Xi will raise the issue of Taiwan in his talks with Obama.

Chinese president Xi Jinping begins a state visit to the US on September 22 in the Seattle area.

Late Thursday they agreed on a party-line 245-186 vote to a measure specifying that Obama had not properly submitted all documents related to the accord for Congress’ review, and therefore a 60-day review clock had not really started.

Diplomats had stated Fri.in that Yukiya Amano of the U.N.’s global Atomic Energy Agency was planning such a visit.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said during a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday that he is “astounded” the legislative chamber would sign off on the Iranian nuclear deal without first reading the agreement.

Following his stay in Seattle, President Xi and his delegation fly to Washington, D.C., for a summit meeting and state dinner with President Obama.

U.S. Senate Democrats’ final blockage of a resolution rejecting the Iran nuclear agreement Thursday hands a legislative victory to President Barack Obama.

Presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich said on Wednesday that he would take a wait-and-see approach to the Iran nuclear deal, arguing that if Tehran is found to be aiding Hezbollah and Hamas then the United States could “slap the sanctions back on”.

The decree contains a list compiled by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council of 388 individuals and 105 legal entities deemed to pose a “real or potential threat to Ukraine’s national interests, national security, sovereignty, and territorial...

After the BBC complained Thursday, Poroshenko’s office announced that the broadcaster’s three-person team, including its Moscow-based correspondent and producer, would be removed from the list of those who are banned.

Frustrated with the outcome, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up a third vote Thursday on a measure that would bar Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran unless Tehran recognized Israel as a state and released US prisoners held in Iran. First, after Carly Fiorina said...

The Senate voted Tuesday 56-42 for the second time in a week to block a resolution that would have disapproved of the deal.