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Booker said in a statement that the deal is flawed, but the alternative is worse.

In a statement, Booker voiced deep reservations but concluded: “It is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse”.

As Russia’s economy stutters, buffeted by cheap oil and Western sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis, Putin is turning his attention to the country’s Far East region where he hopes Asian money can generate some much-needed prosperity.

“They basically said unanimously this is as good a deal as you could get and we are moving ahead with it”, recalled Senator Chris Coons, the Delaware Democrat who lent crucial support to the deal this week despite some reservations. So far, 226 House members –...

Netanyahu made the remarks at an event ahead of the Jewish New Year held at the Foreign Ministry, one day after U.S. President Barack Obama secured enough Democratic senators’ votes to block a Republican initiative to foil the deal.

Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Warner of Virginia and Cory Booker of New Jersey formally announced their backing. He laid out an array of details that quite frankly we aren’t hearing in other places, certainly that we aren’t reading that level of detail in...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Thursday most Americans agreed with Israel over dangers posed by Iran, even as he lost a battle to persuade the U.S. Congress to reject Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers including Washington. Booker, Warner and Heitkamp...

In announcing his statement, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last month that the issue of whether or not Japan’s action constitutes “aggression” should be “left to discussions of...

President Obama needs the support of 34 senators to sustain a potential veto if Republicans in Congress pass the resolution of disapproval.

Sen. Tim Kaine reiterated his support for President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran, on Tuesday, the same day two of his Democratic colleagues announced their support for the deal as well. Chris Coons of Delaware and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, who said they’d...

With only two Democrats opposing the deal, the odds are looking better by the hour that Democrats may be able to block the resolution in the Senate. Reps. Donna Edwards and Chris Van Hollen, both Democrats who are seeking the Senate seat that will be left open by Mikulski’s...

And now he’s friends with another notorious strongman: Russian President Vladimir Putin. “And I love when people love me”, Jones replied.

Saudi policymakers insist the kingdom will maintain its market share and let low prices take care of the surplus by forcing cuts from higher cost producers and stimulating fuel demand.

They explained this policy shift by stating that they wanted to defend their market share and didn’t want customers buying oil from other sources.

He quotes the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said of Israel: “This barbaric, wolf-like, and infanticidal regime of Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihilated”, and stressed that in calculating foreign policy toward Iran,...