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Trump-Kim meet, reopening talks on denuclearisation
PANMUNJOM/SEOUL: US President Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea yesterday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled
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G20: China and US ready to restart trade talks
OSAKA: The US and China agreed today to restart trade talks and Washington will not levy new tariffs on Chinese exports, China’s foreign ministry said, raising hopes for the world’s two largest economies to resolve their trade war. In their
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Drowned Salvadoran migrant father and daughter spark global anguish
From the Vatican to the U.S. Congress, expressions of anguish, empathy, and outrage poured out Wednesday over the photos of a migrant father and young daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to enter the
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Trump is losing his marbles
PUCHONG: US President Donald Trump is now seen on a war-like rampage, picking up fights with powerful nations on the planet. The first and foremost on his list of enemies is the world’s second largest economy, China. In his bid
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Trade war: US wants talks with China
WASHINGTON: The US hopes to re-launch trade talks with China after President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping meet in Japan come Saturday, but Washington will not accept any conditions around the US use of tariffs in the dispute, a
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Trump threatens to attack Iran, Tehran calls him ‘mentally retarded’
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: US President Donald Trump threatened to obliterate parts of Iran yesterday if it attacked ‘anything American,’ in a new war of words with Iran which condemned fresh US sanctions on Tehran as ‘mentally retarded.’ But Trump later left the
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Trump slaps sanctions on Ayatollah, Iranian officials
WASHINGTON/RIYADH: US President Donald Trump targeted Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian officials with sanctions yesterday, taking a dramatic, unprecedented step to increase pressure on Iran after Tehran’s downing of an unmanned American drone. With tensions
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President Trump, for eternity
President Donald Trump on Friday again joked about ignoring constitutional term limits by retweeting a meme showing him staying in the White House not just for one more term, but for eternity. The meme, ripping off an authentic Time magazine
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Trump: I aborted attack on Iran to save lives
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said yesterday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran’s downing of an unmanned US drone because it could have killed 150 people, signalling he was open to talks with Tehran. An Iranian surface-to-air
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Trump: Iran may have downed drone by mistake
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: US President Donald Trump played down Iran’s downing of a US military surveillance drone yesterday, saying he suspected it was shot by mistake and ‘it would have made a big difference’ to him had the remotely controlled aircraft been
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