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Trump says US will work to restore peace in Ukraine
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko the United States will work to restore peace along the border with Russia. “We will work with Ukraine, Russia, and all other parties involved to help them restore peace along the border,” Trump said in a White House statement on Saturday. Renewed violence has...
In pictures: First 15 days of Trump
DAY 1 / JANUARY 20: President Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States and pledged to end what he called an “American carnage” of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry. Striking a defiant tone, Trump said American workers have been devastated by the...
China, Russia, Trump administration statements on EU chief?s ?threats? list
EU chief Donald Tusk hit out Tuesday at “worrying” statements by the administration of Donald Trump, saying Washington´s new stance was among a series of “threats,” along with China, Russia and radicalism. Tusk said in a letter to EU leaders ahead of a summit in Malta that the bloc must take “spectacular steps”...
France, Germany concerned about Trump’s moves to limit refugees
PARIS: France, Germany and Luxembourg voiced disquiet on Saturday over US President Donald Trump’s decision to limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim countries, with Berlin and Paris also reaffirming a firm line on Russian sanctions. Speaking at a joint news conference in Paris with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel, French...
France´s Hollande warns Trump against protectionism
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande on Saturday warned US President Donald Trump against taking a protectionist approach, which he said would have economic and political consequences “In an unstable and uncertain world, turning inward would be a dead-end,” Hollande told Trump in their first official telephone conversation,...
Putin and Trump agree to try to rebuild U.S.-Russia ties, cooperate in Syria
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump agreed to try to rebuild US- Russia ties and to cooperate in Syria, the Kremlin said on Saturday, after the two men spoke for the first time since Trump’s inauguration. US-Russia relations hit a post-Cold War low under the Barack Obama administration and Trump has made...
Trump signs executive orders to weed out ‘extremist Muslims’
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping new executive order Friday to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough new controls on travelers from seven Muslim countries. Making good on one of his most controversial campaign promises, and to the horror of human rights groups, Trump said he was making America safe from “radical...
Trump says only in early stages of considering lifting sanctions on Russia
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is only in the early stages of considering whether to lift US sanctions on Russia, as British Prime Minister Theresa May, other foreign officials and lawmakers at home voiced concerns that such a move would be premature. With Trump expected to speak on Saturday with Russian President...
Putin and Trump likely to discuss Ukraine sanctions: White House aide
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are likely to discuss the sanctions that Washington imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine when the two leaders speak by telephone on Saturday, a senior White House aide said. Trump has said in the past that, as part of a rapprochement he is seeking with...
Obama to Trump: Keep Russia sanctions separate from nuclear talks
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama urged President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to keep separate the issue of economic sanctions on Russia from the pursuit of talks to reduce nuclear stockpiles. Trump, who takes office on Friday after winning the Nov. 8 election, said in an interview with the Times of London published on Monday that he would...
