BRUSSELS—What do you do when you’re America’s top diplomat, fourth in line to the presidency, and the White House makes it publicly known you’re living on borrowed time? If you’re U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, you brush it off, pack a suitcase and hop a flight to Europe, as if nothing had happened. Tillerson’s tenuous future in the Trump administration has followed him to Europe days after the White House signalled he might be fired — possibly soon. Mogherini subtly urged the Trump administration to avoid undermining future Mideast peace talks by declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel, as Trump has been considering. “I don’t know who that is,” Corker said after word emerged of the White House plan.

Source: thestar December 05, 2017 15:33 UTC