US President Donald Trump has agreed to attend the upcoming NATO summit slated to be held in May, after having repeatedly criticised the alliance and having called it “obsolete”, the media reported. Trump spoke with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday evening regarding the US’ “strong support for NATO”, the […]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called US President Donald Trump a “fraud” and accused him of falling short of commitments to middle-class voters, pointing to his Cabinet and senior advisers’ ties to Wall Street, the media reported. “This guy is a fraud,” Sanders, also a former presidential hopeful, told CNN on Sunday. “This guy ran for […]
Almost 4,500 people reported cases of pederasty or child sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church in Australia between 1980 and 2015, according to a report released on Monday ahead of a new round of hearings by the Royal Commission. The Royal Commission, which is responsible for investigating the extent of and response […]
A US judge in Seattle has issued a temporary nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven Muslim nations, media reports said. US District Court Senior Judge James L. Robart on Friday granted the injunction at the request of Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office said that the order applies […]
France and the US has reaffirmed their alliance against security threats, a French Foreign Ministry statement said . During a Friday phone conversation with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault stressed the importance of the “historic ties” between the two nations, Xinhua news agency reported. They shared the desire to […]
A week after US President Donald Trump imposed a temporary travel ban for residents of seven Muslim-majority countries, dozens of lawyers remained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to defend the rights of those affected, the media reported. The Central Diner, a 24-hour eatery in Terminal 4, has become a makeshift office for […]
US Defence Secretary James Mattis on Saturday reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to defending Japan, including a group of disputed islands which have been claimed by China. “I made clear that our long-standing policy on the Senkaku Islands stands — the US will continue to recognise Japanese administration of the islands and as such Article 5 of […]
Manila India’s Roshmitha Harimurthy failed to make it to the top 13 contestants at the Miss Universe 2016 contest, continuing the nation’s dry run at the pageant. France’s Iris Mittenaere was crowned at the gala, which featured Indian beauty Sushmita Sen as a judge and interestingly, saw questions being posed on US President Donald Trump. […]
The US Treasury Department issued a notice easing sanctions on a Russian intelligence agency that former President Barack Obama sanctioned over Moscow’s alleged hacking activities in last year’s US presidential election. In a statement on Thursday, the Treasury Department authorized certain transactions with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) that are needed […]
Despite US President Donald Trump being a prolific Twitter user, the employees of the micro-blogging site donated $1.59 million to an organisation to fight Trump, a media report said. According to a report in TechCrunch on Thursday, nearly 1,000 employees donated the hefty amount to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to fight Trump’s executive […]