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Leaked UK memo: Trump axed Iran deal to spite Obama
LONDON: A UK newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite
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Lift sanctions then we talk, Iran tells a sceptical US
DUBAI/PARIS: Iran is ready to hold talks with the US if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Sunday. US President Donald Trump’s
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Trump tells congresswomen to ‘go back’ to ‘fix’ countries they came from
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Sunday told a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen to ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,’ a comment that was condemned by Democrats as
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Johnson admits being part of the reason of envoy’s departure
LONDON: Boris Johnson, frontrunner to be Britain’s next prime minister, denied he was responsible for the resignation of the ambassador to Washington but admitted his comments had been a factor in the shock departure of one of the country’s most
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Trump says ‘kidney has special place in heart’, gets trolled on social media
It is not surprising when US President Donald Trump makes a bizarre statement, but then again messing up the basic anatomy of a human body is something one would not expect from him. However, that is not the case with
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UK Ambassador: Trump administration is ‘dysfunctional’, ‘inept’
LONDON: Britain’s ambassador to the US described President Donald Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional”, “clumsy” and “inept”, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported, citing a series of confidential memos. The report drew ire from Trump, who said the British ambassador, Kim
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China briefed by US on latest Trump-Kim meet
BEIJING: China has received a briefing from the US on the latest meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, China’s Foreign Ministry said today, in a call between two senior diplomats. Trump became the
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Trump: Don’t like detention centres? Then, stay at home!
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, facing renewed criticism from Democrats and activists over his handling of a migrant crisis on the US- Mexico border, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that immigrants unhappy with conditions at detention centres should
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Ocasio-Cortez: Texas migrant facility in ‘horrifying’ state
CLINT, Texas: Migrants held at a border patrol station in Texas were being kept in ‘horrifying’ conditions that included psychological abuse and being told to drink out of toilets, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said after a visit to the facility with
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Respect us if you want talks, Iran tells US
DUBAI: Iran will not be pressured into negotiations by the US, but if authorities in Washington act towards it with respect, Tehran will respond accordingly, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today. The two countries have been drawn into starker
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