The bombardment, which Ukrainian officials said mostly targeted Kyiv, came just a day before President Trump was expected to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Russia targeted Ukraine on Sunday with one of its largest drone bombardments of the war, an apparent show of force only a day before President Trump is expected...
US President Donald Trump arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday, after visiting Qatar, in the final leg of his Middle East trip. He was received by UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and welcomed in Abu Dhabi with a unique cultural performance, a video of which has caught the attention of...
Russia President Vladimir Putin will not attend the direct peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv that he proposed on May 11. This could have been the first direct peace talks between the Russian president and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy since 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. On Sunday, Putin had proposed direct negotiations with...
The White House said President Donald Trump secured deals totaling more than $243.5 billion with Qatar, setting the stage for a larger $1.2 trillion economic agreement with the Gulf nation. The deals include aviation and energy to defence and quantum technology. There has been a Boeing-GE Aerospace sale to Qatar Airways, Boeing’s largest-ever widebody order, and it is...
US President Donald Trump, in an announcement from Riyadh, unveiled a historic $600 billion economic partnership with Saudi Arabia, declaring it a cornerstone of his “America First” trade and investment strategy. The deal, described by the White House as “transformative,” cements a new era of strategic cooperation between Washington and Riyadh across critical sectors such as...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Tuesday not only specifically dismissed all claims made by President Donald Trump and his administration about the United States brokering a ‘ceasefire’ between India and Pakistan and pre-empting a nuclear..conflict, but also categorically rejected his offer to mediate on the issue of Kashmir. To dismiss Trump’s repeated claims about...
India rises to the fourth spot in the global economic rankings, overtaking Japan, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As per the April 2025 World Economic Outlook, India’s nominal GDP hits $4.187 trillion, slightly ahead of Japan’s $4.186 trillion. This shift marks a historic milestone in India’s economic journey. In 2024, India ranks fifth...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday (IST) announced reciprocal tariffs on all imports from India and other nations, calling the move “kind reciprocal.” Calling India’s tariffs “very, very tough,” Trump said he was imposing 27 per cent tariffs on all imports from India — half of what India imposes on US products. In his address titled ‘Make America...
Hours after US President Donald Trump warned of “unprecedented bombing” if Iran refused to negotiate a new nuclear deal, Tehran has reportedly prepared its missile forces. According to Iran’s military has activated missiles capable of striking US-linked positions worldwide. “A significant number of these launch-ready missiles are located in underground facilities scattered across the country, designed to withstand airstrikes,”...
US President Donald Trump’s weekend in brief: threatened Iran with bombs and told an American journalist that he was “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine. Speaking to US news network’s NBC’s Kristen Welker in an early-morning phone call, Mr Trump reportedly said he was “very angry, pissed off” over recent...