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

Pompeo skips visit to Greenland amid new tensions with Iran

3:37 pm May 9, 2019

London: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has cancelled a visit to Greenland to return to Washington amid an escalation of tensions with Iran. Pompeo had been due to wrap up a trip to Europe on Thursday with a stop in Greenland aimed at promoting the Trump administration’s Arctic policies. Those policies were criticized earlier […]

China building third aircraft carrier: Think tank

10:21 am May 8, 2019

Washington: Recent satellite photographs indicate China’s construction of its third aircraft carrier is well underway, a Washington think tank reported Tuesday. ChinaPower, a unit of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, published photos of a large vessel under construction at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The bow and hull are already under assembly, the pictures indicated, and are likely to be the […]

VP Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused

First woman to land on moon will be American: Pence

8:48 pm May 7, 2019

Washington: The United States is planning another space mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence said Monday asserting that the first woman to land on Earth’s natural satellite will be an American. “At President (Donald) Trump’s direction, the United States will return to the moon within the next five years, and the first woman […]

Trump awards highest US civilian honour to Tiger Woods

8:38 pm May 7, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday bestowed Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honour, describing the golfer as “one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports.” Woods, 43, is only the fourth and the youngest golfer ever to have received the highest American civilian award. Calling […]

Trump turnaround on Mueller testimony angers Democrats

7:30 pm May 6, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump’s turnabout on whether the special counsel should appear before Congress “Bob Mueller should not testify,” he tweeted has sparked criticism from Democratic lawmakers eager to question the author of the report on Russia’s election interference. Trump had previously said he would leave the question of Robert Mueller testifying to Attorney General […]

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