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Very close to finalising trade deal with India: Rubio
Washington: The US is “very close” to finalising a trade deal with India, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday, suggesting that the waiver from tariffs for buying Russian oil was…
- World
Vance faces tough questions on Iran war, immigration in CBS town hall
West Palm Beach: Vice President JD Vance faced tough questions from voters about the Trump administration’s policies on data centres, high costs, immigration and his own rhetoric in a town hall on…
- Middle East
Trump vows Iran will never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons
Washington: US President Donald Trump has declared that Iran’s nuclear weapons capability has been destroyed by American military operations and vowed that Tehran would never be allowed to rebuild it, presenting the…
- Middle East
Iran war votes take centre stage in US election ads
Washington: In Wisconsin, a narrator complains that “groceries, utilities, everything’s getting more expensive and Congressman (Derrick) Van Orden is adding to the list. He voted for the costly Iran war and spiking…
- Middle East
Trump jokes about Middle Eastern names, says ‘just say Mohammed’
Washington: US President Donald Trump joked about the prevalence of the name Mohammed in the Middle East while discussing Iran’s presidency, suggesting people could use the name if they were unsure what…
- Middle East
Trump says Iran war nearing end, attacks Democrats
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said the military campaign against Iran would end soon, claimed that American operations in Venezuela had brought enormous economic benefits, and warned of an economic depression…
- World
Trump waives sanctions, tariffs on Russian oil and gas imports
Washington: US President Donald Trump has issued a waiver of sanctions, restrictions and duties under the Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, citing national interest. “I am hereby waiving the application of such…
- World
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia fired 5 days into job
Washington: Katie Zacharia, US President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary, has been fired less than a week into the job, The New York Times reported on Friday, October 16, citing three people familiar…
- Middle East
US targets Dubai, Hong Kong networks in fresh Iran sanctions
Washington: The US sanctioned an Iraqi bank, Iranian offshore banks, a Dubai-based Iranian oil intermediary and a Hong Kong front company, and blacklisted a Cuban state-owned bank, as the Trump administration tightened…
- Middle East
US senators move to block Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal
Washington: Two Democratic US senators introduced a resolution seeking to block President Donald Trump’s civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, warning that the deal lacks safeguards needed to prevent a nuclear…
- Middle East
US plans strikes on Iran using ‘mother of all bombs’: Report
Washington: The US military has developed plans for potential strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear facilities that include the possible use of its largest non-nuclear bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air…
- World
Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say
Kyiv: Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region early Thursday, October 15, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a brief truce spurned by Moscow was over amid deepening…
- Middle East
Iran war gives Democrats opening in veteran-heavy US House races
Colorado: The doorbell chimed “The Star Spangled Banner” as retired Colonel Lou Christensen stepped inside the large house on the northeastern edge of Colorado Springs. The registered Republican and 28-year Air Force…
- Middle East
Saudi Aramco building targeted, 4 hurt in Riyadh missile attacks
Riyadh: A Saudi Aramco administrative building in Dhahran was targeted early on Wednesday, October 14, causing a limited fire, while falling debris from intercepted cruise missiles injured four people in Riyadh. Saudi…
- Middle East
Netanyahu seeks Saudi Arabia’s nod to join fight against Houthis
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to win Saudi Arabia’s consent, through US mediation, for Israel to join the military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, even as…