US President Donald Trump has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the White House next week, a White House official said, hours after a US military plane departed to return deported migrants to the country. Trump spoke with Modi on Jan. 27, when he discussed immigration and stressed the importance of India buying more American-made…
From retaliatory tariffs on US goods like car parts and soybeans to controls on raw minerals essential for American manufacturing, analysts say China has plenty of options if it wants to reply to fresh US levies. US President Donald Trump over the weekend announced 10 percent tariffs on Chinese products, upping the stakes in a…
His funeral will be held in Boston, the athlete’s mother, Iya Naumova, said. Rescuers have recovered the body of Russian figure skater Vadim Naumov who was killed in a passenger plane in the United States earlier this week, the athlete’s mother, Iya Naumova, told. Evgenia Shishkova, who was flying with Naumov, did not survive either….
The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on ISIS group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. “This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” Trump said on Truth Social. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes targeted…
The Trump administration is moving to strip a slimmed-down US Agency for International Development of its independence and put it under State Department control, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday, in what would be a significant overhaul of how Washington allocates US foreign aid. The National Security Council hosted discussions this week on…
Israel said on Wednesday that 11 more hostages held in Gaza, including five Thais, would be freed over two days this week as part of a fragile Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it had received a list from Hamas of eight hostages to be freed on Thursday, including the Thais, and another…
Mexico will write to Google objecting to its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” on its maps following Donald Trump’s order, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday. Google said the change aligned with its policy of following official US government geographic designations through the Geographic Names Information System. “We are drafting a…
US President Donald Trump said Monday he had signed an executive order ridding the military of what he called “transgender ideology,” in a potentially major setback for LGBTQ rights. In a series of orders related to the military that Trump told reporters he had signed on Air Force One, he also called for the building of…
The US may place a “very big bounty” on the top leaders of the Taliban, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday, adding he was hearing that the Taliban held more American hostages than previously reported. “Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,” Rubio said in a post on…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said allies should work toward determining a format for any upcoming peace talks with Russia and that Kyiv must be involved for successful negotiations. His comments are the latest to pile speculation over the possibility of talks to end the brutal conflict that has cost tens of thousands of…
US civil rights groups are warning that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday lays the groundwork for reinstatement of a ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim or Arab countries. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said the new order relied on the same statutory authority used to justify Trump’s 2017 travel ban and offered even “wider…
Palestinians burst into the streets to celebrate and return to the rubble of their bombed-out homes on Sunday after a ceasefire deal halted fighting in Gaza, and three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel. Armed Hamas fighters drove through the southern city of Khan Younis with crowds cheering and chanting. In…
President Joe Biden on Sunday welcomed the ceasefire taking hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, saying the “region has been fundamentally transformed.” “After so much pain, death and loss of life, today the guns in Gaza have gone silent,” the outgoing president said, just hours after the ceasefire took effect. Biden was speaking during a visit…
Donald Trump’s top national security advisor said flatly Sunday that Hamas militants will never again govern Gaza. “They cannot be a terrorist organization any longer, and they will never govern Gaza. Period,” Mike Waltz said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Waltz, a former member of Congress and veteran of two combat tours in Afghanistan,…
App no longer available on US Apple and Google stores after supreme court upholds lawmakers’ ban TikTok stopped working in the US late on Saturday, shortly before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app was due to take effect. The app was no longer available on Apple’s iOS App Store or Google’s Play Store….
