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Washington: US President Donald Trump slapped new sanctions targeting Venezuela’s gold exports on Thursday, as his National Security Adviser John Bolton unveiled a hard-line policy toward Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump informed US lawmakers that he has signed an executive order to bar US citizens and entities from involvement in the gold export trade from […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that up to 15,000 military personnel could be sent to the southern border with Mexico to help defend against a caravan of Central American migrants. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the number of troops to be deployed at the border “will go up to anywhere […]

Washington: US foreign military sales totalled to $55.66 billion in 2018, a 33 per cent increase compared to the nearly $42 billion in weapons sold in 2017, the Defence Cooperation Agency announced. According to the announcement on Wednesday, is the highest annual total for military sales to foreign governments since 2012 when the US conducted […]

New York: US President Donald Trump “looks forward” to visiting India but the timing will depend on his other commitments, according to a senior State Department official. “I am certain that President Trump looks forward to being able to visit India at an appropriate time,” Alice Wells, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and […]

Washington:The ongoing trade war between the US and China has escalated after American President Donald Trump’s administration’s new 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods kicked in on Monday, spanning thousands of products, including food seasonings, baseball gloves, network routers and industrial machinery parts.  China retaliated immediately with new taxes of 5 […]

Washington: The majority of US voters said they would not like to see Congress begin impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The American voters, by a 56 to 36 per cent margin, said they didn’t want Congress to take action against the president, a Quinnipiac University National […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for deigning to indict members of his own party just weeks before the midterm elections. Trump on Monday blasted Sessions and lamented the indictments of Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins who were his earliest supporters in the Congress during the 2016 election, suggesting they […]

London: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump, saying people voted for them as they were angry due to unemployment and had much expectations from them. The Congress leader emaphasised that unemployed people in their respective countries had a lot of expectations from populist leaders like Trump […]

Washington: A former adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign has issued a warning that the US President could be just months away from facing impeachment because of his former personal attorney Michael Cohen’s guilty plea. “This is all they (Democrats) need for impeachment,” Michael Caputo said during a CNN interview on Wednesday night. Caputo was a […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a strong warning to America’s trading partners that anyone who does business with Tehran will not be doing business with Washington, following his administration’s re-imposition of sanctions on Iran. Trump described the new sanctions, which hit Iran’s access to dollars, gold and precious metals, as “the most […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down the government if the Democratic Party does not cooperate on border security issues. “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! “Must get rid of Lottery, Catch and Release […]

Washington: A secret audio recording of then-US presidential candidate Donald Trump with his recently estranged lawyer Michael Cohen speaking in 2016 about making a payment to Playboy playmate Karen McDougal has been obtained by CNN. In the tape obtained by the channel network on Tuesday both Trump and Cohen discuss a transfer of money to […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, has decided to close down her fashion brand. The move comes over a year after she split from the company to enter the White House as a senior adviser, BBC reported on Tuesday. Trump launched the brand in 2014, but after her father’s election was faced with […]

New York: US President Donald Trump is proposing phased negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, starting with the planned June 12 summit in Singapore during which he does not expect a complete deal on denuclearisation. At the same time, Trump has also set an ambitious goal for his interactions with Kim aiming for an […]

Nairobi: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will become the first African leader to be received by his American counterpart Donald Trump when he arrives in Washington for talks on Monday, the media reported. They are expected to discuss shared economic and security interests, reports the BBC. But many will also be watching the talks closely after […]