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WASHINGTON:  Washington announced Thursday that the State Department has approved the possible sale of anti-tank missiles to Kiev that was discussed in a call between the US president and his Ukrainian counterpart. The call — in which Donald Trump tried to get Volodymyr Zelensky to provide dirt on a 2020 election rival — has sparked an impeachment inquiry into the ... Read More »

WASHINGTON:  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t become the next national security advisor, President Donald Trump said Thursday, all the while voicing support for his top diplomat. “He likes the idea of having someone in there with him, and I do, too,” Trump told reporters when asked if he would ask Pompeo also to replace the hawkish John Bolton, ... Read More »

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir and trade are high on the agenda as Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets US President Donald Trump today on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France. Mr Trump has spoken about “mediating” on Jammu and Kashmir and has described the issue as “explosive”. While Washington sees the issue of Article ... Read More »

WASHINGTON:  Buoyed by US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation on Kashmir, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said today that the contentious issue between the two South Asian neighbours can never be resolved bilaterally. Imran Khan’s statement came hours after Donald Trump offered to be the “mediator” between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue as the two leaders met ... Read More »

WASHINGTON:  There he blows again. US President Donald Trump’s erratic spelling habits on Twitter spouted again Thursday when he wrote about having recently met with the “Prince of Whales.” That would be Charles, prince of Wales, whom he met last week at World War II commemorations in Britain. The error prompted a wave of hilarity online, with one Twitter critic ... Read More »

As President-elect Donald Trump threatened to “terminate” the detente policy with Cuba, the White House Tuesday warned that reversing historic rapprochement would have “significant” diplomatic, economic and cultural costs. The policy is considered as one of the foreign policy legacies of outgoing President Barack Obama. Trump Monday threatened in a tweet to put an end to the detente policy. “If ... Read More »

President-elect Donald Trump spent Sunday ridiculing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for joining a recount effort in Wisconsin, ending his day on Twitter by parroting a widely debunked conspiracy theory that her campaign benefited from massive voter fraud. As his senior advisers engaged in an escalating feud over who the next secretary of state should be, Trump focused publicly on Clinton’s ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: The US dollar has been on a one-way street strengthened by expectations of rate hike by the US Federal Reserve, which has left many emerging market currencies, like the Indian rupee, in the doldrums. The rupee extended the losses for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday, and was trading 26 paise down at 68.82 against the greenback. In ... Read More »