John McCain

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Congress on Dec. 9 for new war powers to provide the legal grounding for U.S. military operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but faced strong criticism from Republicans for not giving authorization to fight Syrian regime troops.

Hungary summoned the United States' top diplomat in the country on Dec. 3 to protest comments by U.S. Senator John McCain branding Prime Minister Viktor Orban a "neo-fascist dictator."       

Williamson, who ended his three-year mandate as chief prosecutor of the EU Special Investigative Task Force in charge of probing war crime allegations against Kosovo Liberation Army, has been appointed senior director for law and national security at the McCain Institute for International Leadership.

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National leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), major at rule, Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday said European institutions and the US see Romania as having excellent and very strong legislative and institutional instruments to fight against corruption.

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy and Republican Senators John McCain and Ron Johnson have included Bulgaria in their Eastern European trip later this week.

They will also make a short stop in Romania and will attend the Wroclaw Global Forum in Poland, as the Bristol Press reports.