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North Korea's Kim Jong-un described Chinese as liars: Mike Pompeo
•In his new memoir titled "Never Give an Inch, Fighting for the America I Love", the former US Secretary detailed a conversation with the North Korean leader during his first trip to Pyongyang on March 30, 2018, ahead of the US-North Korea summit held three months later
Pompeo calls Saudi ties after Khashoggi 'middle finger' to media
•Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in a book released Tuesday staunchly defended Saudi Arabia after the killing of a dissident writer, gloating that his diplomatic relationship with the kingdom was a "middle finger" to US media
US averted nuclear war between India and Pakistan in 2019, says former secretary of state Mike Pompeo
•"I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019," the likely future presidential contender wrote in 'Never Give an Inch', his memoir of his time as Donald Trump's top diplomat and earlier CIA chief
China's Xi Jinping has a plot to infect the world, spread new Covid-19 variant, warns Mike Pompeo
Fp Staff •Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that the US and other nations should shut down accepting travel from China
US pays $2M a month to protect former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and an aide from ‘serious and credible’ Iran threats
•As a former secretary of state, Pompeo was automatically given 180 days of protection by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security after leaving office but that protection has been repeatedly extended in 60-day increments by the current Secretary of State, Antony Blinken
Saudi royal family reportedly gifted Donald Trump with fake tiger and cheetah fur robes
Trendingdesk •It is unclear if the Saudi royal family was aware of the fake furs or was deceived by a supplier. The Saudi Embassy in Washington declined to respond to the matter, as did a spokesperson for Trump
Obsessed with Assange, Mike Pompeo wanted WikiLeaks founder kidnapped, assassinated or poisoned, claims report
Fp Staff •The Yahoo News investigation is based on conversations with more than 30 former US officials
No boots on the ground but 20 years on, war on terror still grinds along
•The financial drain from a sprawling counterterrorism campaign has been vast, fueling the military’s budgets even years after major combat in Afghanistan and Iraq ended
US wants to 'discuss' Beijing Winter Olympics boycott calls, says State Department spokesman
•Activists and Republican politicians have increasingly called for a boycott of the Olympics in part over what rights monitors say is the mass incarceration and indoctrination of more than one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim people in the western region of Xinjiang
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo calls for US to boycott Beijing Winter Olympics
•Pompeo, a vociferous critic of Beijing while he was Donald Trump's top diplomat, said the previous administration had tried in its final months to persuade the International Olympic Committee to move the Winter Games.