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‘US defense-cost hike hurts S Korea alliance’

Bloomberg Democratic Representative Grace Meng said President Donald Trump is destabilising the US’s relationship with South Korea by demanding the Asian country pay a greater share of military costs. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in South Korea that Seoul needed to contribute more towards the cost of hosting US troops. President Donald Trump has demanded the Asian nation pay about ...

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Bolivia expels ‘diplomats’ in foreign policy shift

Bloomberg Bolivia’s new government has only been in power for three days, yet it’s already turned the nation’s foreign policy on its head, transforming former allies into enemies, and former enemies into friends. The government of interim leader Jeanine Anez is cutting the nation’s close ties with socialist nations such as Venezuela and Cuba, and re-aligning the country’s foreign policy ...

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Trump pardons soldiers accused of war crimes

Bloomberg President Donald Trump granted clemency to two Army officers, one of whom is in prison after being convicted in the killing of two men in Afghanistan. Trump signed an order that gave a full pardon to Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who had ordered soldiers under his command to open fire on three men who were moving towards them on a ...

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