McConnell to make declaration as prosecutors say Trump would face ‘multiple charges of obstruction of justice’ if he were not president Sign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.56pm BST The United States has refused to sign an agreement on challenges in the Arctic due to discrepancies over climate change wording, diplomats said on Tuesday, jeopardizing cooperation in the polar region at the sharp edge of global warming, Reuters reports:With Arctic temperatures rising at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, the melting ice is creating potential new shipping lanes and has opened much of the world’s last untapped reserves of oil and gas to commercial exploitation . A meeting of eight nations bordering the Arctic in Rovaniemi in Finland on Tuesday was supposed to frame a two-year agenda to balance the challenge of global warming with sustainable development of mineral wealth. 2.51pm BST A week after Hungary announced it, the White House has confirmed that Prime Minister Viktor Orban, widely seen as having exhibited hostility to liberal democracy and the rule of law, will visit the White House on 13 May.Orbán’s spokesman Zoltán Kovács wrote on Twitter that “energy security, defense cooperation, bilateral relations and regional security” would be on the agenda.Prime minister of Hungary since 2010, Orbán was shunned under Barack Obama’s administration, and the state department frequently and vehemently criticised his government for a weakening of democracy and rule of law, as well as concerns over media freedom and corruption. Related: Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán to meet Donald Trump at White House Continue reading…
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