Mexico's new foreign minister rallied his diplomatic troops on Monday, promising to pursue dialogue with Donald Trump's administration but warning that the Republican's policies could affect the "destiny of future generations" of Mexicans. Using some of the most dramatic language in years by a senior official about an incoming U.S.

For a country of just 300,000 inhabitants, forming a government in Iceland has been strangely laborious. But on Wednesday, after more than two months of negotiations among seven political parties, this island finally up its mind - a three-party coalition, no less, whose leadership includes a lawmaker who used to play with a punk rock band called Dr. Spock.

Ketchum, Idaho To the Editor: Jayson Lusk discusses how industrial farms use better technology that allows for environmentally protective farming techniques. For example, farmers use herbicide-resistant crops to prevent weeds from growing in a way that also limits plowing and soil erosion. But farmers will need to use an increased amount of herbicides.

WASHINGTON - The chiefs of America's intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said.

General Kelly was also questioned about Mr. Trump's suggestion that he might revive a dormant registry program for visitors from countries with active terrorist groups - a program critics say unfairly targets Muslims. Kris W.

The intelligence agencies considered the document, while unsubstantiated, too potentially explosive to keep from President Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders. Mr. Trump dismissed it as a "total political witch hunt." _____ * The use of torture was a main theme on the first day of a whirlwind week of U.S.

MOSCOW - Russia has denied having any compromising material on President-elect Donald J. Trump, saying on Wednesday that an uncorroborated report containing salacious allegations about him was "pulp fiction" intended to hurt Russian-American relations. "The Kremlin has no compromising dossier on Mr. Trump, such information is not consistent with reality and is nothing but an absolute fantasy," Dmitri.