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Saudi King invites Abbas to Muslim summit with Trump
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has received an invitation to attend an upcoming summit in Riyadh between Muslim leaders and US President Donald Trump, the reported on Wednesday. The letter was delivered to Abbas in Amman by the Saudi Charge d'Affaires in Jordan, Tariq Rashwan, on behalf of King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Saudi …
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May 10, 2017 -
Kushner family tries to pitch US visa for Chinese investors
A family member of US President Donald Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner, is hoping to lure investments from wealthy business owners in China with the promise of American visas, the media reported. Nicole Kushner Meyer, Jared Kushner's sister, spoke at an event in Beijing on May 6 where she urged to invest in …
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May 7, 2017 -
Trump to speak with Putin on Tuesday
US President Donald Trump will on Tuesday speak over phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a White House official said. It will be the first call between the two leaders since Russia denounced a US military strike against a Syrian airbase in April and their third phone conversation since Trump took office on January 20, …
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May 2, 2017 -
59% Americans uneasy about Trump’s approach on Syria: Poll
Nearly six in 10 Americans feel uneasy about US President Donald Trump's approach towards handling the situation in Syria, according to a new CBS News poll. As many as 59 per cent of respondents are uneasy about Trump's handling of the Syrian crisis, while four in 10 respondents feel confident about Trump's ability, Xinhua news …
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April 30, 2017 -
US loses 1st trade battle with Mexico in Trump era
With the World Trade Organisation ruling in Mexico's favour, allowing it to impose trade sanctions worth $163 million a year against the US, the Trump administration lost its first trade battle with the neighbouring nation. The WTO on April 25 said that's how much money Mexico has lost from the US unfairly penalising Mexican tuna, …
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April 26, 2017 -
Indian IT firms may face layoffs due to US visa curbs: Assocham
With the US tightening the norms for H-1B visas under the President Donald Trump's 'Buy American, Hire American' campaign, the Indian IT companies are bound to face disruptions by way of higher costs and even some laying off work force back home, and the rising rupee is aggravating the situation further for the technology export …
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April 19, 2017 -
The election is over: Trump to Tax March protesters
US President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a number of tweets in a bid to downplay Saturday's protests across the country demanding the release of his tax returns.
April 16, 2017
"Someone should look into who paid for the small organised rallies yesterday (Saturday)," Xinhua news agency quoted Trump as saying in a tweet. "The election is over!"
"I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?" Trump tweeted minutes earlier.
Demonstrators in dozens of US cities and towns, including Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Palm Beach, where Trump was spending Easter Weekend at his resort Mar-a-Lago, marched on Saturday to demand Trump release his tax returns.
Some rallies were joined by thousands of people.
During his campaign and after the election victory, the Trump camp repeatedly refused to release Trump's tax returns, saying Trump's tax returns were under audit. However, many tax experts say Trump is not barred from releasing the information during the audit.
While US Presidents are not required to release their tax returns, nearly all US Presidents had voluntarily released them since 1970s.
Shortly after Trump's inauguration in January, Kellyanne Conway, senior counsellor to Trump, told US media that Trump would not release his tax returns, citing voters' indifference to the issue as one of the reasons.
However, multiple polls have found that the majority of Americans want Trump to release his tax returns.
Comedy writer Frank Lesser, whose tweet in January sparked the idea for the Tax March, said the participation in the nationwide marches proves that people want to see Trump's returns.
"We march to demand that the President release his returns, as he has repeatedly promised, but failed, to do," the Tax March website reads. "We march because it is in the best interest of the American people to know what financial entanglements and conflicts of interest our leaders have."
A petition demanding Trump release his tax returns garnered more than 1 million signatures. Many lawmakers, including some Republicans, have also called on Trump to make them public. -
15 arrested in protests demanding Trump’s tax returns
At least 15 people were arrested after thousands of protesters took to the streets across the US to call on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns. The arrests took place on April 15 in Berkeley, California, when fistfights broke out between supporters and opponents of the President, Efe news reported. Two people were …
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April 16, 2017 -
IMF, WTO, OECD vow to defend free trade against protectionism
The chiefs of the IMF, WTO and OECD vowed on April 10 in a joint statement to defend free trade against creeping protectionist trends, amid growing global alarm over US President Donald Trump's “America First” call. “Disappointing trade growth figures and the danger of increasing protectionist tendencies give us a clear incentive to support the …
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April 11, 2017 -
N.Korea fires ballistic missile, US says clock has now run out
North Korea fired an apparent ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea's military said on Wednesday. The launch came hours after US President Donald Trump described North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal as a "humanity problem" and a senior US official told reporters that the "clock has now run out" on Pyongyang. …
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April 5, 2017 -
20 people to be questioned over Russian interference in US election
The US Senate Intelligence Committee will question 20 people in its investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. "This one is one of the biggest investigations the Hill has seen in my time here," CNN quoted Committee's chairman Richard Burr as saying on Wednesday. Of the 20 people, the committee has scheduled interviews …
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March 29, 2017 -
20 people to be questioned over Russian interference in US election
The US Senate Intelligence Committee will question 20 people in its investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. "This one is one of the biggest investigations the Hill has seen in my time here," CNN quoted Committee's chairman Richard Burr as saying on Wednesday. Of the 20 people, the committee has scheduled interviews …
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March 29, 2017 -
Trump calls Modi to congratulate him on UP election results
US President Donald Trump telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to congratulate him on the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in Uttar Pradesh and other states, according to the White House. During the call to "congratulate him on the outcome of India's recent state-level elections", Trump also "expressed support for the Prime Minister's economic reform …
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March 28, 2017 -
Trump to sign climate-change order
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at unravelling climate-change policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, a media report said. The order represents a clear difference between how Trump and former President Barack Obama view the role the US plays in combating climate change, and dramatically alters the government's approach to …
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March 28, 2017 -
People voted for change and serious action: Trump
Justifying his efforts to speed up implementation of the campaign promises including replacing healthcare, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday told his party colleagues that people voted for change and "serious action." "On November 8, the American people voted for historic change and they also voted for serious action by delivering the House, the Senate, and …
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March 22, 2017 -
Iraqi leader says Trump ‘more engaged’ in terror fight
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said after talks with US President Donald Trump that the new US administration appears more focused on the fight against terrorism than its predecessor. Abadi met Trump at the White House on the 14th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq and two days before a major Washington ministerial meeting …
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March 21, 2017 -
Trump to donate salary to charities at year end, says official
US President Donald Trump will give his $400,000 salary to US charities by the end of 2017, a White House official said. "The President's intention right now is to donate his salary at the end of the year," Efe news quoted Sean Spicer as saying in response to a question from a reporter about whether …
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March 15, 2017