Melania Trump, the wife of former United States President Donald Trump, has said there is “no room for compromise” over a woman’s right to have an abortion — a position at stark odds with that of her husband. “Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard,” the former first lady said in a video…
Biden said Israel’s response to Iran would not come on Thursday, but US officials declined to offer more detail. US officials say they have been having “a number of conversations” with their Israeli counterparts in the aftermath of Iran’s missile attack on Tuesday, but declined to say when or how Israel planned to respond, and…
Any Israeli response to Iran’s missile barrage should be ‘proportional’, says the US president. United States President Joe Biden has voiced opposition to any strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in response to Tehran’s missile attack on Israel. When asked by reporters on Wednesday whether he would back such retaliation, Biden stated “the answer is no”….
The support is the latest move by Washington to boost the self-ruled island’s military in the face of rising tensions with China. United States President Joe Biden has approved $567m in new defence support for Taiwan, the White House has said. In a brief statement on Sunday, the White House said Biden had delegated the…
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris express support despite threat of regional war. Political leaders in the United States have rallied behind Israel after massive Israeli air strikes in Beirut levelled residential buildings and killed the powerful Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris – both Democrats – and…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the United States believes diplomacy is the best path forward as Israel continues to bombard Lebanon, pushing the region into a worsening crisis. Speaking to reporters in New York on Friday afternoon, the top US diplomat said the Middle East and the world faced “a precarious…
The Republican candidate for US president has claimed he could rapidly make a deal to end the Ukraine war. Donald Trump has said he will meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy after criticising the Ukrainian president on the campaign trail and expressing doubts about Ukraine’s ability to beat Russia. Trump, the Republican candidate in the November 5 United…
The bigger-than-expected cut in interest rates by the United States Federal Reserve may have sent the stock market cheering, but its impact on the economy, and the upcoming presidential election, is mixed, experts say. The US Fed on Wednesday cut the benchmark federal funds rate by half a percentage point to the 4.75 percent to…
Amer Ghalib, who leads city in battleground state of Michigan, says the Republican is the ‘right choice’, despite disagreements. The mayor of the only city in the United States with an all-Muslim government has endorsed former President Donald Trump for November’s presidential election. Amer Ghalib, who leads the city of Hamtramck in the crucial battleground…
Polls suggest Trump and rival Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the key swing states where elections are usually decided. Republican election contender Donald Trump has said that he will not run again for the presidency of the United States if he loses the November 5 election. Asked if he saw himself running again…