German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has defended his country’s defence budget against renewed criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump as NATO leaders are due to gather in Ankara for a two-day summit on Tuesday. “We’re looking at the numbers, and they are pointing up,” Wadephul told Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio. Responding …
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Iran says it has agreed not to pursue a nuclear weapon and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the release of about $25 billion in frozen assets under a peace agreement reportedly brokered by US President Donald Trump. Details of the proposed deal were released by Tehran on …
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In his recent statement, US President Donald Trump on Friday accused Iran of carrying out drone attacks against the ships with Indians leaving the Strait of Hormuz, saying it was “totally unacceptable.” Three vessels with an Indian crew came under attack off the Oman coast this week. In one of …
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US President Donald Trump has demanded stricter and harsher conditions in the proposed peace deal framework with Iran, particularly concerning the country’s enriched uranium stockpile. While Trump has repeatedly claimed that a deal was in the final stages, there has been little concrete progress on the ground due to his …
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Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, the Nigeria-born ISIS commander described by United States, President Donald Trump, as the “most active terrorist in the world,” has drawn global attention following reports of his killing in a joint counterterrorism operation by American and Nigerian forces. Newsextra24 reports that Trump announced on Friday that al-Minuki was killed in a …
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The United States said Wednesday it would ease its system of demanding bond payments of visa applicants for certain fans seeking to come for the World Cup. Under one of President Donald Trump’s many initiatives to crack down on migration, the United States has begun asking people from 50 developing …
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U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday evening for a state visit to China. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump is visiting China from May 13 to 15. This is the first U.S. presidential visit to China in almost nine years and Trump’s second since …
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US forces are ready to resume combat operations against Iran if ordered, Washington’s top military officer said Tuesday, as the Pentagon threatened a “devastating” response to Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Hormuz strait. The warnings came after Iran’s powerful chief negotiator said Tehran “had not even started yet” …
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US President Donald Trump granted a key approval Thursday for a major new oil pipeline that would carry oil from Canada into the US where it would be exported and refined. The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border …
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When the Supreme Court overruled his favourite tariffs in February, President Donald Trump promptly rolled out temporary import taxes to replace them. But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months. Now the administration is scrambling to put more durable tariffs in place to keep revenue flowing into the …
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