Ankara: US President Donald Trump has agreed to visit Turkey in 2019, Turkey’s presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin announced on Monday. Speaking at a press conference after a cabinet meeting in capital Ankara, Kalin said Trump accepted the invitation by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a weekend phone call between[Read More…]
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US Defence Secretary James Mattis announces resignation
Washington: US Defence Secretary James Mattis has announced that he would resign at the end of February due to differences with Donald Trump over the withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan, saying in a parting letter that the President deserves someone atop the Pentagon “better aligned” with his views.[Read More…]
US ‘to pull 7,000 troops’ from Afghanistan: Media
Washington, The Donald Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, the US media reported. Reports, citing unnamed officials, said about 7,000 troops — roughly half the remaining US military presence in the country — could go home within months. The Washington Post reported on Thursday the[Read More…]
US Defence Secretary Mattis to retire at February-end
Washington, US President Donald Trump has said Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is to retire at the end of February. Mattis will “be retiring, with distinction”, after having served the administration as the defence chief for the past two years, Trump tweeted on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. “During Jim’s tenure,[Read More…]
Netanyahu, Trump discuss Iranian military’s presence in Syria
Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he held a phone call with US President Donald Trump over Iranian military’s presence in Syria. The call came a day after Trump announced the US decision to withdraw forces from the war-torn country as the Islamic State (IS) militant group had[Read More…]
Trump discussed Moscow tower later than previously known: Lawyer
Washington, Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has suggested that the US President had spoken with his former attorney Michael Cohen past January 2016 about a Trump Tower in Moscow. In an interview on Sunday, Giuliani referred to Trump’s written responses to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying the conversations about the[Read More…]
Why googling ‘idiot’ brings up Donald Trump photos, Congresswoman asks Sundar Pichai
Washington: US Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, in an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, asked its CEO Sundar Pichai why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for “idiot”. “Right now, if you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture[Read More…]
Manafort tried to broker deal over Assange’s handover to US
New York: Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman who awaits sentencing for lying to federal investigators in breach of a plea agreement, flew to Ecuador to help negotiate a deal for the handover of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Washington, a media report said. The New York[Read More…]
Trump’s ex-campaign chairman to be sentenced in March
Washington: Paul Manafort, former campaign chairman of US President Donald Trump, will tentatively face sentencing on March 5, a federal judge ruled on Friday, media has reported. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Mueller’s team must submit a report to the court on December 7 on Manafort’s alleged breach[Read More…]
Trump, Putin to meet at G20: Russia
Moscow: US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will meet on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told state news agency RIA Novosti on Thursday. The meeting will be held in the Park Hyatt hotel in Buenos Aires and[Read More…]
Trump threatens to block China trade deal
Washington, US President Donald Trump has said that it was “highly unlikely” he would accept an offer by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping aimed at averting Trump’s plan to raise tariffs on over $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 per cent in January 2019. Trump in a Wall Street[Read More…]
Mexico closes migrant shelter after riots at US border
Mexico City, Mexican authorities have established a fence around the main shelter for migrants who arrived in the border city of Tijuana, after Sunday’s clash in which hundreds of Central Americans broke a police barrier trying to enter the US. The police officers on Monday arrived in at least a[Read More…]
Trump’s ex-campaign chairman ‘breached’ plea agreement
Washington, Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has “breached” his plea agreement with the Justice Department by lying to the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office two months after he started to cooperate in the Russia probe, prosecutors have alleged. Manafort lied “on a variety of[Read More…]
Trump signals deal with Mexico on asylum seekers
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said migrants seeking asylum in the US via the southern border will wait in Mexico while their claims are moving through legal procedures. “Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the US until their claims are individually approved in court,” he[Read More…]
Pentagon sends 300,000 pounds of Thanksgiving food to troops
Washington, The Pentagon has sent more than 300,000 pounds of Thanksgiving food to US military troops stationed overseas and at the US southern border, the Defence Logistics Agency has announced. The shipments, which include 9,738 whole turkeys and 67,860 pounds of shrimp, were sent to dining facilities throughout the Middle[Read More…]
California wildfire death toll rises to 83
San Francisco, The death toll from a wildfire in northern California has increased to 83, authorities said. The number of missing in what is known as “Camp Fire” dropped to 563, 136 fewer than the number counted on Tuesday and almost half the figure posted earlier this week, the California[Read More…]
Judge halts Trump’s asylum ban
San Francisco, A US federal judge has stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the country’s southern border illegally. US District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments on Monday night in San Francisco, NBC News reported. The request was[Read More…]
Trump plans to visit US troops in war zones
Washington: US President Donald Trump said that he plans to visit American troops in war zones. His remark on Sunday comes after he received widespread criticism for not visiting an American burial ground outside Paris earlier this month and Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, reports CNN. “Well, I think[Read More…]
Despite enforcing sanctions on Iran, US may lose its Middle-East gambit
In view of their energy demand, the US which has imposed the second wave of sanctions on Iran, has exempted 8 countries, including India, Japan, South Korea and China from any punitive trade actions for six months. Shut off from dollar-dominated exchange, Iran will sell its oil to these countries[Read More…]
Twitter storm rages over Trump’s Diwali tweet
New York: US President Donald Trump‘s tweet calling Diwali a “holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains” have started a raging twitter storm over his apparent omission of Hindus, the members of the first and largest religion to observe it. However, in another tweet though, he said: “It was my great[Read More…]
Xi Jinping Donald Trump meeting at G20 significant, says official
US President Donald Trump‘s scheduled meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the G20 summit in Argentina in November-end is of great significance, a top Beijing official said. The two nations must strengthen communication and keep close coordination to ensure yielding positive results, Xinhua quoted a Polit Bureau member[Read More…]
US mid-term polls: Frustrated Trump runs down media, further complicating his 2020 presidential chance
Trudging on war victory is not possible when people standing in line to cheer you turn down their back instead. This is what has happened to US President Donald Trump whose leadership has suffered a hemorrhage as American voters have chosen to show him mirror in the mid-term election to[Read More…]
Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, seizes Russia probe
Washington: US President Donald Trump has fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions a day after midterms, wrestling back control of the Russia probe by getting rid of the man who supported it, and choosing the one who has said all negative things about the investigation. “At your request I am submitting[Read More…]
No bilateral meeting with Putin in Paris: Donald Trump
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he will have lunch with Russian President Vladimir Putin among other leaders during his planned trip to Paris but no meeting was expected. Trump also revealed that he is likely to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “early next year”. “We will be[Read More…]
New York: White House breaks tradition of Diwali celebrations amid midterms
New York: US President Donald Trump broke a 15-year tradition of holding formal Diwali celebrations at the White House this year with the festival falling amid the crucial midterm polls. The Diwali celebration was started by former President George W. Bush in 2003 and was carried on by his successor[Read More…]