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Iran agrees de-escalation 'only solution' to solve crisis with US

Iran’s Rouhani tells US to take ‘first step’ by lifting sanctions

3:20 pm August 27, 2019

Tehran: President Hassan Rouhani Tuesday told the United States to “take the first step” by lifting all sanctions against Iran, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was open to meeting. “The step is to retreat from sanctions. You must retreat from all illegal, unjust and wrong sanctions against the nation of Iran,” […]

Venezuelan officials discussed Maduro exit behind his back: Bolton

9:21 pm August 21, 2019

Washington: Venezuelan officials reached out to the US behind President Nicolas Maduro’s back solely to discuss his exit from power and free elections, National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday. Bolton’s comment came after Maduro said he had authorised the contacts with high level US officials, casting them as a long-standing initiative that he was […]

US, Venezuela in talks: Presidents

2:01 pm August 21, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that talks between senior officials were underway, as the South American country struggles under the weight of US sanctions. “We are in touch. We’re talking to various representatives of Venezuela,” Trump told reporters. He declined to say which officials were engaged in […]

Chris Pine to star in film about Richard Nixon lawyer John Dean

7:15 pm August 20, 2019

Los Angeles: Actor Chris Pine is set to portray John Dean, the former counsel to US president Richard Nixon, in a new film. The untitled project hails from Amazon Studios which recently acquired the pitch and is developing the movie with Dean. Dean, who served as Nixon’s counsel at the White House from 1970 to […]

Huawei dismisses new suspension of ‘unjust’ US ban

6:56 pm August 20, 2019

Beijing: Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington’s three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the decision would not change the fact it had been “treated unjustly”. The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules stopping the sale of components and services to the […]