Tag: Donald Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump will on Tuesday speak over phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a White House official said. It will be the first call between the two leaders since Russia denounced a US military strike against a Syrian airbase in April and their third phone conversation since Trump took office on January […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has invited his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte to the White House, an official statement announced. “President Trump enjoyed the conversation and said that he is looking forward to visiting the Philippines in November,” the statement said on Saturday, adding that Trump invited Duterte to the White House “to discuss the […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump said that with the new ballistic missile trial, the North Korean leader has disrespected China, the media reported. “North Korea disrespected the wishes of China and its highly respected President when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today (Friday). Bad!,” Efe news quoted Trump as saying in a tweet. On […]

Washington: President Donald Trump has told the leaders of Mexico and Canada that that he would not immediately move to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), the White House said. This came on Wednesday just hours after administration officials said Trump was likely to sign an order pulling the US out of the […]

Washington: With the World Trade Organisation ruling in Mexico’s favour, allowing it to impose trade sanctions worth $163 million a year against the US, the Trump administration lost its first trade battle with the neighbouring nation. The WTO on Tuesday said that’s how much money Mexico has lost from the US unfairly penalising Mexican tuna, […]

New Delhi: To discuss the future of the India-US energy partnership, one of the first Trump administration officials to visit India from the Department of Energy (DOE) held a roundtable meet here with the think tank CEEW on Tuesday. The Council of Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is an advisor the the Indian government. Beth […]

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump on Monday discussed North Korea over the telephone amid heightened tensions surrounding the country. Abe described the 30 minutes talks as intensive, public broadcaster NHK reported. He expressed appreciation for Trump’s words and actions. He said they agreed to strongly urge North Korea, which […]

Washington: A top US official said he believes that President Donald Trump “will be insistent” that lawmakers include funds for the Mexico border wall in a spending bill that his administration needs to pass to avoid a government shutdown, the media reported. In a CNN interviews, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Saturday said he was […]

Washington: The US has launched a military strike on a Syrian government target in retaliation for their chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week, President Donald Trump told the media. “Tonight (Thursday), I ordered a targeted military strike on the air field in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,” Trump told […]

United Nations: The US is concerned about the state of India-Pakistan relations and President Donald Trump himself may get involved in a peace process between the two South Asian antagonists, Nikki Haley, the US Permanent Representative to the UN said on Monday. “This administration is concerned about the relationship between India and Pakistan and very […]

Beijing: The Chinese government on Sunday urged US President Donald Trump to analyse the trade deficit with Beijing on the basis of international standards, after he signed two executive orders to combat trade abuses of other countries. On Friday, Trump ordered the Commerce Department to carry out what he called the first major review of […]

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the US next week for his first meeting with President Donald Trump, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced on Thursday. Before arriving in the US, Xi will visit Finland at the invitation of President Sauli Niinisto from April 4 to 6, Xinhua news agency quoted Lu as saying. […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump is looking to his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, for tips on how to improve his poll numbers, a media report said. Trump, addressing a women’s empowerment panel on Wednesday, said Melania is “doing a great job”, Politico news said in the report. “I shouldn’t say this, but her poll […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at tackling global warming. The order seeks to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels. As part of the roll-back, Trump […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at unravelling climate-change policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, a media report said. The order represents a clear difference between how Trump and former President Barack Obama view the role the US plays in combating climate change, and dramatically alters the government’s approach to […]