Washington : Two years after taking the oath of office, US President Donald Trump has made 8,158 false or misleading claims, according to The Washington Post’s database. The daily’s Fact Checker’s database analyses, categorises and tracks every suspect statement uttered ...
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Washington : US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed “ongoing cooperation in Syria as American forces begin to withdraw” during a phone call, just a day after Trump threatened to “devastate Turkey economically” if ...
Read More »Ivanka Trump to help choose new World Bank President
Washington : Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, will help choose the new World Bank President, the White House has said. Jessica Ditto, a White House spokeswoman, said on Monday that Ivanka Trump was ...
Read More »World Bank head quits, Trump likely to determine successor
By Arul Louis, United Nations : World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has announced that he is stepping down as the head of the premier anti-poverty institution putting the likely choice of its future leadership in the hands of US ...
Read More »Modi, Trump agree to further strengthen India-US ties
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have agreed to further boost New Delhi-Washington bilateral ties while taking a positive note on cooperation across various sectors, the External Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday. According to ...
Read More »Announcing Withdrawals: Trump is doing what he promised at outset
By Saeed Naqvi, With the suddenness of revelation, withdrawal from Syria and “drawdown” from Afghanistan have been announced by Donald Trump. In the past, such announcements were followed up with a tidy pattern: Two steps forward, one step back. But ...
Read More »Trump threatens to close southern border amid govt shutdown
Washington : US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border amid an ongoing partial government shutdown, resuming his push for the funding of a long-promised US-Mexico border wall. “We will be forced to close the Southern ...
Read More »US Senate passes short-term budget bill to avoid government shutdown
Washington : The US Senate has approved a short-term spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown during the holidays, but it does not include funds demanded by US President Donald Trump to build the wall along the Mexico border. ...
Read More »US begins withdrawing troops from Syria, claims victory over IS
Washington : The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) without revealing any detailed timetable. “We have started returning US ...
Read More »Is climate change apocalypse real? Practice is better than preaching
By Arul Louis, Is the looming climate change apocalypse real? In the clearly-demarcated battle lines, the good guys are those who believe it is and the bad guys, like US President Donald Trump, are the doubters as any progressive and ...
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