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

Rouhani says world ‘praises’ Iran over US standoff

8:35 pm June 18, 2019

Tehran: President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday the world “praises” Iran over its standoff with Washington, and that the US had broken promises by abandoning a landmark nuclear deal that Tehran had continued to honour. “Today we are in a faceoff with America in which there is no one in the world that does not praise […]

Trump campaign fires pollsters after mixed messaging

8:15 pm June 18, 2019

Washington: When President Donald Trump’s internal polling suggested he was trailing Democrats in crucial states earlier this year, it did what any campaign would do: tried to bury the bad numbers. When the findings leaked to the media anyway, an infuriated Trump and his aides first disputed the poll’s existence, then tried to dismiss its […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump threatens to deport millions beginning next week

2:38 pm June 18, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people in the country illegally. In a late-night tweet Monday, Trump says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin the removal process next week. He tells his Twitter followers, “They will be removed as fast as they come in.” An administration official says the effort […]

Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

Trump to discuss Hong Kong protests with Xi at G20: Pompeo

11:21 pm June 16, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump will discuss the mass protests in Hong Kong with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 summit in Japan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. “I think we’ll get the opportunity to see President Xi in just a couple weeks now at the G20 summit. I’m sure […]

Times’ Russia report is ‘virtual treason,’ Trump says

2:10 pm June 16, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused The New York Times of “a virtual act of treason,” after it reported the US is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid. Current and former government officials have described the classified deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s power grid and other targets, the […]