By Ali Murat Alhas, Ankara: An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Thursday called on the U.S. to return to a landmark nuclear deal from which it withdrew earlier this year. Speaking on Iranian state television, ministry spokesman Bahram Qasimi said ...
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Washington : US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the US has ended the development fund for Syria, urging “rich countries” to pay instead. In a tweet, Trump said “the US has ended the ridiculous $230 million yearly development ...
Read More »Trump signs $717bn annual defence policy bill into law
Washington : US President Donald Trump signed into law the $717 billion annual defence policy bill, the earliest in the year the bill has become law in more than four decades. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the most ...
Read More »Trump to reimpose sanctions on Iran
Washington : US President Donald Trump’s administration will reimpose the first batch of Iran sanctions on Monday since Washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal. The more significant tranche of sanctions, including on oil sales, won’t however, come into force ...
Read More »Trump willing to meet Iran’s Rouhani without preconditions
Washington : US President Donald Trump announced that he was willing to meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani without preconditions and “whenever they want”, a sharp departure from his threats against Tehran last week. “I would certainly meet with Iran ...
Read More »US farmers paying the price of Trump’s bullying: China
Beijing : Farmers in the US are paying the price President Dona;d Trump’s trade tactics, China said on Thursday. Trump posted a tweet on Wednesday alleging that China was attacking the US agricultural sector. “US farmers are paying for the ...
Read More »Trump set to raise tariffs on China to $500B
By Ovunc Kutlu, New York: President Donald Trump said Friday he is ready to increase tariffs on goods that the U.S. imports from China to $500 billion. “I’m ready to go to 500,” he told the CNBC network in an ...
Read More »Meeting Putin was better than NATO summit: Trump
Washington : US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his controversial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was even better than the annual NATO summit in Brussels, at which he demanded a greater contribution to defense funding by America’s ...
Read More »Obama slams Trump-era, warns of ‘strongman politics’
Johannesburg (South Africa) : Barack Obama has used his first high-profile speech since stepping down as US president to take swipes at “strongman politics” and politicians’ disregard for facts. Obama on Tuesday here mounted a passionate defence of democracy and ...
Read More »Trump suggests NATO countries to double defence spending
Washington : US President Donald Trump suggested the NATO countries to increase their defence spending to 4 per cent — doubling the 2 per cent target that many members of the bloc were yet to meet. “During the President’s remarks ...
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