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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras defended his former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias against threats he reportedly received on Thursday, saying they are the result of "blind nationalism."

"The threats against the life of Nikos Kotzias is yet another proof of where blind nationalism and stoking hatred leads to," he said.

Elena Udrea's lawyer Veronel Radulescu stated on Thursday morning that the former Transport Minister will be brought before court after being detained by the Interpol, but, from his point of view, she will not be extradited because her daughter has Costa Rican citizenship and she cannot be separated from her mother.

Fugitive former senior officials Elena Udrea and Alina Bica of Romania were apprehended by police in Costa Rica on Wednesday night.

U.S. investigators wiretapped President Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to a report by CNN that vindicates the president’s earlier claims, which were mocked as a conspiracy theory.

Opposition parties criticized two newly issued state of emergency decrees, which extended President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's powers in line with the new executive presidential system. 

It was striking, in U.S. media coverage of Donald Trump's first hundred days in office, that most observers noted with relief that his foreign policy has turned out to be less radical than they feared. In fact, it's not radical at all. He has already fired cruise missiles at a Middle Eastern country, a ritual that has been observed by every American president since Bill Clinton.

Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea.

U.S. President Donald Trump removed his chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council on April 5, reversing his controversial decision early this year to give a political adviser an unprecedented role in security discussions.

Turkey is no longer polarized. Polarization has reached to such dimensions that as if several "nations of extremes" are living side by side in this country, not only ignoring the sensitivities of the "other" nations but trying to prove their superiority in every way possible. Can this be called "the culture of the powerful"?

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump condemned Russia critics on Jan. 7, calling those who oppose better relations with Moscow "stupid" people and "fools" in his latest Twitter tirade.