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Trump’s offer to Russia: an end to sanctions for nuclear arms cut
LONDON: US President-elect Donald Trump will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia over its annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Moscow, he told The Times of London. Criticising previous US foreign policy in an interview published on Monday, he described the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as...
Trump labels NATO ‘obsolete’ in newspaper interview
FRANKFURT: The NATO alliance is an “obsolete” organisation, US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published late Sunday, complaining that the pact had “not bothered about terrorism”. “I said a long time ago that NATO had problems. Number one it was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago,” Trump told the Monday...
Trump says cabinet picks free to express own ideas
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday shrugged off the strikingly divergent positions his cabinet picks have taken on Russia, torture, and a host of other issues, saying he wanted them to express their own ideas. “All of my Cabinet nominee (sic) are looking good and doing a great job,” he said in an early morning tweet exactly one...
US wants China denied access to South China Sea islands
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing on Wednesday, saying China should be denied access to islands it has built in the contested South China Sea. In comments expected to enrage Beijing, Rex Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before...
Rex Tillerson: ‘I do not oppose TPP’
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state signaled Wednesday he is prepared to diverge from the US president-elect on numerous key issues, notably nuclear non-proliferation, climate change and Russia, which he branded a “danger.” Despite accusations of being too cozy with the Kremlin, former ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson...
The Trump-Russia dossier: What we know
WASHINGTON: An explosive but unsubstantiated political research dossier on Donald Trump’s links to Russia alleges that his aides colluded with the Kremlin ahead of the US election, and that Russia has compromising information of a sexual nature about Trump. American media and politicians have been in possession of versions of the 35-page...
Trumps lambasts ‘fools’ who oppose better Russia ties
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump condemned Russia critics on Saturday, calling those who oppose better relations with Moscow “stupid” people and “fools” in his latest Twitter tirade. His attack comes a day after the Republican president-elect met the country’s leading intelligence agency chiefs — including the director of national...
Trump picks Dan Coats for intelligence director
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday formally announced former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as his pick for US director of national intelligence. A mild-mannered former ambassador to Germany who also served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Coats was widely tipped for the job coordinating 16 intelligence and security agencies — a...
Senator McCain says US ‘must stand up to Vladimir Putin’
TBILISI: Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday the United States could only improve its relations with Russia by taking a tough stance with President Putin, calling for stronger sanctions against Moscow. On a tour of the Baltic states, Ukraine and Georgia, McCain and other senators assured the former Soviet-dominated countries that the...
Report: Russian hackers penetrate Vermont utility system
WASHINGTON: A code connected to Russian hacking efforts has been discovered in a utility system in Vermont, The Washington Post reported. The code detected in the northeastern state’s system did not disrupt its operations, the paper wrote on Friday, citing US officials. The code was associated with the Russian hacking efforts that US...
