Republican Senator Marco Rubio accused Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince of going “full gangster” in the latest display of divisions within the US president’s own party over Washington’s relationship with Mohammed bin Salman. Speaking at a Senate hearing for President Donald Trump’s nominee for the next US ambassador to Saudi[…]
At President Donald Trump’s direction, the United States intends to scrap the preferential trade status granted to India and Turkey, the US trade chief’s office has said. Washington “intends to terminate India’s and Turkey’s designations as beneficiary developing countries under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme because they no[…]
US President Donald Trump has launched a furious attack on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and on his critics at a conservative summit. In the longest speech of his presidency, Trump railed against the inquiry into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia. “We’re waiting for a report by people who[…]
The US and South Korea have confirmed they will no longer hold large-scale joint military exercises which have always infuriated North Korea. The alliance’s defence chiefs said the decision supported “diplomatic efforts to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”. A number of exercises were suspended last year after US[…]
The U.S. House of Representatives votes on Tuesday on a resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the border with Mexico. House Democrats introduced the resolution last week, challenging Trump’s assertion that he could take money Congress had appropriated for other[…]
US President Donald Trump says a woman who left the US to become a propagandist for the Islamic State (IS) group will not be allowed to return. On Twitter, he said he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the country”. Mr Pompeo[…]
Mike Pompeo has said the United States is not covering up Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, only days after the White House missed a deadline to reveal its findings about who killed the Saudi journalist. Speaking during a visit to Hungary on Monday, the US secretary of state said Washington intends to[…]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de-facto ruler, said back in 2017 that he would use “a bullet” on journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a New York Times report said, citing US intelligence officials with knowledge of intercepted communications between the crown prince and a senior Saudi aide. The[…]
It took more than 60 minutes for Donald Trump to mention the Middle East in his State of the Union speech, but when he did, the US president defended his decision to pull American troops out of Syria, despite opposition among the nation’s top military and intelligence brass, and from[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, have discussed the situation in northern Syria over the phone amid rising tensions over the fate of Kurdish fighters in the war-torn country. The conversation on Monday came a day after Trump threatened on Twitter that he would “devastate”[…]
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