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President Donald Trump offered an upbeat assessment of US-China trade talks and said he would meet at the White House on Friday with the leader of the Chinese negotiating team. Expectations were low that the negotiations would do much to resolve a 15-month trade battle that is weighing on the […]

Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden called Wednesday for Donald Trump’s impeachment, saying the president “betrayed” the United States, but Trump dug in, predicting that the Supreme Court would have to resolve the fight. “To preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,” Biden told supporters […]

When Jesus blesses a shoe, it gets sold out in minutes! A one of its kind limited-edition holy water-filled sneakers went out of stock within a few minutes of sell and that too at a colossal sum of USD 3,000. The distinctive pair of white Nike Air Max 97s termed […]

Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it will allow women in the ultra-conservative kingdom to serve in the armed forces as it embarks on a broad programme of economic and social reforms. The move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom, […]

Just weeks after a broad effort announced by tech platforms to curb the spread of violent content, a video of Wednesday’s deadly shooting in the German city of Halle was posted online, where it was seen by some 2,200 people. The gunman posted a video of the attack on the Twitch […]

A defiant White House declared war Tuesday against the impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, blasting the process as partisan, illegitimate and unconstitutional and saying neither the president nor his administration will cooperate. In a fiery letter, the White House threw down the gauntlet to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the […]

US Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who co-chairs the Senate India Caucus, on Tuesday joined a growing group of lawmakers, some of whom are strong supporters of ties with India, who have expressed concern over continuing restrictions in Kashmir and called for their withdrawal. “While I understand India has legitimate […]

Most Democrats want to impeach US President Donald Trump, even if that means weakening their party’s chances of winning back the White House in the 2020 election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, found that while support for impeachment remains unchanged overall among […]

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani will not cooperate with the US House of Representatives impeachment investigation and cannot imagine anyone in the Trump administration would work with Democrats leading the inquiry, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham, a fellow Republican, said on […]

President Donald Trump said his decision to shift US troops out of the path of a threatened Turkish military incursion in Syria will be regretted most by Russia and China. They “love to see us bogged down” in expensive military quagmires, he tweeted on Monday. To some Russian and US […]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was urged not to press ahead with his plans for big tax cuts amid warnings that a no-deal Brexit could blow a 100 billion-pound ($123 billion) hole in the public finances. The budget deficit is already set to exceed 50 billion pounds next year and […]

The United Nations is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October. In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the UN secretariat and obtained by AFP, Guterres said unspecified “additional stop-gap measures” […]

US President Donald Trump has said that the impeachment inquiry against him is a scam and called for investigations against Democratic Congressional leader Adam Schiff, who is initiating the proceedings against him. “The impeachment inquiry is a scam. The conversation that I had with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was […]

Police have arrested the former speaker of Nepal’s parliament after a female employee in the assembly accused him of rape. A police van arrived at Krishna Bahadur Mahara’s residence late Sunday and took him into custody after the district court ordered his arrest. “He was taken into custody yesterday to investigate […]

A North Korean boat collided with a Japanese fisheries agency patrol vessel in the Sea of Japan Monday, sending around 20 North Koreans overboard, Japan’s coastguard said. “We rescued some 10 people but their condition has not yet been confirmed,” a coastguard spokesman told AFP. Satoshi Kuwahara, a Japanese fisheries […]