Associated Press

Trump says China trade deal still on after adviser’s remarks

11:51 am June 23, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is tweeting that an initial trade agreement with China is still on after a top White House adviser’s comments seemed to suggest it was over, spooking markets late Monday. Trump tweeted: The China Trade Deal is fully intact. Hopefully they will continue to live up to the terms of the Agreement!” […]

Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it

Trump may be stuck with awkwardly worded GOP platform

3:51 pm June 13, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said Friday he wants a new and updated Republican Party platform after the Republican National Committee voted this week to carry over the 2016 document. But Trump may be stuck with the old platform, which is peppered with jeremiads about the current administration that were originally written about President Barack Obama. […]

US and South Korea agree on new cost-sharing deal for troops

Stocks bounce higher on Wall Street a day after big rout

8:26 pm June 12, 2020

New York: tocks rose sharply in early trading on Wall Street Friday, as the market recouped some of its losses a day after its biggest rout since mid-March. The S&P 500 was up 2.2 percent a day after dropping 5.9 percent. The benchmark index is still headed for a weekly loss following three weeks of […]

Crowded in camps, Rohingya refugees vulnerable to virus

3:37 pm April 3, 2020

Dhaka: Aid workers are bracing for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Bangladesh, with officials warning that containing the disease among more than 1 million tightly packed Rohingya Muslims will be a daunting task. With about 40,000 people per square kilometer (103,600 per square mile) living […]

SAD leader claims four Sikh women were forcibly converted to Islam in J&K

AP Exclusive: 629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China

6:26 pm December 7, 2019

Lahore: Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country’s poor and vulnerable. The list gives the […]