Ottawa: Canada is set to go to polls on April 28 in what’s emerging as a consequential and close election. The candidates have been given 36 days to campaign, the shortest allowed under the law, with US President Donald Trump’s trade war threats and Canadian sovereignty dominating the five-week election race. This will be the … Read more
London: It started as a joke. In December 2024, Donald Trump glibly told Justin Trudeau that Canada should become the 51st state. Three months later, the “joke” seems to have become an American foreign policy goal for the second Trump administration. Canadian Parliament has been unanimous in its response: “Canada is not for sale.” But … Read more
Moscow: Russia and the United States are analysing the outcome of talks between their officials in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the Kremlin said, declining to give details of the discussions which both sides had said would focus on a potential naval ceasefire. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the delegations, who had been looking into … Read more
Moscow: A Russian negotiator said on Tuesday that Moscow would continue “useful” talks with the United States over the Ukraine conflict and would aim to involve the UN and other countries. “We talked about everything, it was an intense dialogue, not easy, but very useful for us and the Americans,” Grigory Karasin, told the state … Read more
Alina Habba joined Donald Trump’s legal team in 2021 Washington: US President Donald Trump has appointed his longtime attorney, Alina Habba, as interim Attorney for the District of New Jersey, effective immediately. Ms Habba, who currently serves as Counselor to the President, replaces John Giordano, whom Trump nominated as US Ambassador to Namibia. Trump announced … Read more
Top Trump administration officials mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief, to an encrypted Signal chat discussing military strikes on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis. The chat group, titled “Houthi PC small group,” included US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. According to Goldberg, Waltz directed his deputy, … Read more
Riyadh: A meeting between Russian and US officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia on Monday, Russian state media reported, with a joint statement expected the following day. With Ukrainian negotiators waiting nearby, a day, after they sat down with the US team, the Americans … Read more
tokyo: Oil prices barely moved on Tuesday as investors weighed the impact of US tariffs on countries buying oil and gas from Venezuela against the effect of tariffs on industries such as automobiles on the global economy and oil demand. Brent crude futures were up 1 cent at $73.01 a barrel by 0121 GMT. US … Read more
Washington: A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed. Yunseo Chung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was seven, but her legal team was informed … Read more
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he would impose a 25 per cent tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela, a punitive measure that could hit Asian markets including China and India, among others, and sow fresh global trade uncertainty. “Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and … Read more
Washington: A US journalist was inadvertently included in a group chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and other top American officials discussed upcoming strikes against Yemen’s Huthi rebels, the White House confirmed Monday. President Donald Trump announced the strikes on March 15, but in a shocking security breach, The Atlantic … Read more
Washington: A federal judge on Monday sharply criticized the Trump administration’s summary deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, saying “Nazis got better treatment” from the United States during World War II. President Donald Trump sent two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador on March 15 after invoking an obscure wartime law … Read more