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Indian exports face uncertainty over Trump’s reciprocal tariffs

US president Donald Trumps threat to impose reciprocal tariffs from April creates anxiety in Indias export sectors from autos to agriculture, reports the Reuters. The City Research analysts estimate potential losses at about $7 billion a year. Government officials waiting to learn how the...

Arab leaders to meet to counter Trump's Gaza plan

Arab leaders will convene in Saudi Arabia on Friday to counter Donald Trumps controversial plan for U.S. control of Gaza and the forced displacement of its inhabitants. The proposal has united Arab states in opposition, but disagreements persist over governance and reconstruction responsibilities....

Trump says ‘very unfair’ as Musk plans Tesla expansion in India

Donald Trump criticized Indias tariffs during an interview with Elon Musk, calling them unfair. Musk supported this, highlighting a 100 percent import duty on cars. U.S. President Donald Trump said it was very unfair for Elon Musks Tesla to set up a factory in India while he moves to increase...

Most Japanese companies see Trump as bad for business: Reuters survey

Almost nine out of 10 Japanese companies expect U.S. President Donald Trumps policies to negatively affect business, a Reuters survey showed on Thursday, the clearest sign yet of mounting worry in the United States top foreign direct investor. The results of the survey show how the prospect of...

US court rejects Trump’s birthright citizenship bid

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of the Republicans hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Russia praises Trump for criticising Ukraine-NATO moves

Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov onWednesday praised US President Donald Trump for blaming the Ukraine conflicton moves to admit Kyiv into the NATO military alliance. Trump has repeatedly blamed the conflict on his predecessor, Joe Biden, andhas said the nearly three years of fighting...

Trump orders firing of all 'Biden-era' US attorneys

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has ordered the firing of all remaining US attorneys nominated by his predecessor Joe Biden. Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. Therefore, I have...

Trump announces 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals, and chips

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs in the neighborhood of 25 percent and similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports, the latest in a series of measures threatening to upend international trade. On Friday, Trump said levies on...

Musk is not DOGE employee, has no authority to make decisions: White House

Billionaire Elon Musks role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday. According to...

US launches multimillion-dollar ad campaign saying, 'criminal migrants’ not welcome

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unveiled a multimillion-dollar ad campaign aimed at deterring illegal immigration, with a stern message for those attempting to enter the United States unlawfully. The campaign features two versions of the ad: one for domestic audiences and another...

Ukraine must repay Americans, says Trump aide Michael Waltz

US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz has called on Ukraine to repay the American people for the billions of dollars Washington has invested in the ongoing conflict with Russia. Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Waltz argued that ensuring a return on American investments would be key to securing...

US delivers 'heavy' bombs to Israel after Biden's delay

A shipment of heavy U.S.-made bombs arrived in Israel overnight, coinciding with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubios first visit to the country, Israels Defense Ministry announced Sunday. A shipment of heavy aerial bombs recently released by the U.S. government was received and unloaded...

Donald Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths: UN

President Donald Trumps decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UNs programme for the illness warned Sunday, reports AFP. The United States is the worlds largest provider of official development assistance, with most funds directed...

Zelensky rejects Trump-led deal with US on minerals

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he blocked a Donald Trump-led deal that would give the US access to vast amounts of Ukrainian natural resources as it lacked security guarantees for Kyiv and does not protect us. Trump, a businessman leader highly critical of the money...

Trump creates energy council to power AI race with China

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday creating a National Energy Dominance Council that will be tasked with helping meet the vast electric power needs to win the AI race with China. Were going to be energy dominant like nobody else, and this doesnt even discuss all of the...

Nearly 10,000 fired as Trump, Musk step up assault on US agencies

The campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the US bureaucracy spread on Friday, firing more than 9,500 workers who handled everything from managing federal lands to caring for military veterans. Workers at the departments of Interior, Energy, Veterans...

Anger, chaos take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs

Workers across the U.S. responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administrations aggressive effort to shrink the federal workforce. Agencies were ordered to lay off probationary employees who had yet to qualify for civil service protections. While much of the...

Pentagon won’t rule out nuclear weapons for Ukraine

The final decision on whether to provide nuclear weapons to Ukraine rests with US President Donald Trump, and the possibility has not been ruled out, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview with Breitbart published Thursday. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has pushed for either...

Trump offers top-end jets, trade deal to India in Modi bromance

US President Donald Trump on Thursday offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administrations punitive approach to much of the world, reports AFP. Modi, only the fourth world...

Will US-Europe tie be over due to America first strategy?

Analyzing the incidents that took place after Donald Trump reclaims the oval office; a CNN analyst predicts an end to the United States and Europe ties. The analyst Stephen Collinson is a senior reporter at the media. According to him, Trumps stance reflects his America First ideology, viewing...

Trump talks with Putin: Ukraine war discussions start

US President Donald Trump said he had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in which the leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, BBC reported. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and the Russian president had agreed...

Trump's tariff policy creating chaos in auto industry: Ford CEO

The Trump administrations tariff threats and animosity towards electronic vehicles are producing a lot of cost and a lot of chaos for Ford, the automakers chief executive said Tuesday, reports NDTV. While Trump has spoken about the priority of strengthening manufacturing in the United States,...

Moving Palestinians 'unacceptable for Arab world': Arab League chief

Arab League secretary-general Ahmed AboulGheit on Wednesday rejected any displacement of Palestinians from the GazaStrip and West Bank, calling it unacceptable for the region. The focus is on Gaza today and tomorrow it will shift to the West Bankwith the objective of emptying Palestine of its...

'Musk aide got payment system access by mistake'

An Elon Musk aide, who gained access to the Treasury Departments highly sensitive payments system with the option of modifying data received the access by mistake, a department official said Tuesday. The admission came in a sworn statement to a federal judge amid heated criticism that the...

N. Korea slams Trump's Gaza takeover proposal as ‘Bluster’

North Korean state media on Wednesday denounced U.S. President Donald Trumps proposal to take over Gaza and relocate Palestinians as bluster and accused Washington of robbery, reports Reuters. The slim hopes of Palestinians for safety and peace are being crushed by the proposal, a commentary...

Trump's threat to use force against Iran condemned

Iran has strongly condemned US President Donald Trumps threat to use force against the country, as deeply alarming and irresponsible, Press TV reported. Irans permanent ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani made the remarks in a letter to the UN chief and the president of the Security Council...

Trump warning 'further complicates' Gaza truce: Hamas

US President Donald Trumps warning for the group to immediately release allIsraeli hostages further complicates matters relating to the fragile Gazatruce, said a senior Hamas leader said on Tuesday. Trump must remember that there is an agreement that must be respected byboth parties and this is...

Gaza truce under strain after Trump warning

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel appeared increasingly fragile Tuesday after US President Donald Trump warned all hell would break loose unless Hamas releases every Israeli hostage by the weekend, reports BSS. The truce, in place since January 19, largely halted more than 15 months of...