Published on: Oct 05, 2025 09:26 pm IST Pope Leo XIV urges commitment to peace in Gaza following Hamas’s positive response to Trump’s peace plan. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday praised the “significant progress” towards peace in Gaza, again calling for a ceasefire in the devastated Palestinian territory and the release of Israeli hostages. Pope…
The United Kingdom and the United States are preparing to finalise a landmark technology agreement in the coming days as part of President Donald Trump’s visit to Britain, the British Embassy in Washington said Saturday. The deal is intended to strengthen cooperation between the two nations’ trillion-dollar technology industries, creating new opportunities for businesses and…
United States President Donald Trump has claimed that the US has “lost” India and Russia to “deepest, darkest China”, amid trade tensions and higher 50 per cent tariffs on Indian imports into the US. He also shared a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the…
Washington: A federal appeals court in the US has ruled that President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, including the 50% duties imposed on India, were illegally applied, dealing a major blow to the administration’s trade strategy while casting uncertainty over trillions of dollars in global commerce. Trump responded defiantly on his Truth Social platform, calling the…
Published on Aug 28, 2025 07:16 pm IST Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Donald Trump’s former Middle East Envoy Jared Kushner joined a White House meeting on August 27 to discuss post-war plans for Gaza, according to Reuters. The meeting reportedly focused on the hostage crisis, aid deliveries, and reconstruction as being described…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed American tech giants, accusing them of ‘reaping the blessings’ of American freedom while building factories in China and hiring workers in India. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington, Trump said that under his presidency, “those days are over”. “For too long, much of America’s tech industry pursued…
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has claimed that a number of countries are now prepared to supply Iran with nuclear warheads following the recent American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. In a series of posts on X, Medvedev said the US operation-targeting sites in Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow – had not only failed to achieve…
Beijing: China has warned other countries against making a broader trade deal with the United States at Beijing’s expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling tariff war between the world’s two biggest economies. China’s warning came amid reports about the Trump administration’s plan to pressure nations seeking tariff negotiations from the US to curb…
Chicago, US: As the ripple effects of US President Donald Trump’s global trade war are being felt across numerous industries, Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday (local time) warned of higher inflation, saying policy changes under the Trump administration have put the Federal Reserve in uncharted waters. In a speech in Chicago, Powell noted…
Washington: As the trade war between the US and China escalates, Beijing has suspended the export of several critical rare earth elements, metals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies to the West of components central to weapons, electronics, automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and a wide range of consumer goods. The Chinese government is…