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US has right to secure, reinforce military presence on Diego Garcia: Trump

Trump described Diego Garcia as being of 'great importance' to US national security due to its central location in the Indian Ocean and its role in supporting American military operations

Trump administration targets job protections of 50,000 federal employees

It is the biggest change to the rules governing the civil service in more than a century and targets employees that the administration sees as undermining the president's priorities

Trade deal: 18% US tariff to kick in after joint statement in 4-5 days

Goyal says first tranche of 'formal' pact by mid-March

Our ties with US are 'rock solid': Taiwan president after Trump-Xi call

Taiwan's ties with the United States are "rock solid," the island's president said Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on the phone about topics that included the self-ruled island's future. "The Taiwan-US relationship is rock solid, and all cooperation projects will continue uninterrupted," Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told reporters during a visit to textile merchants in western Taiwan. The comments came after Xi, in his first call with Trump since November, warned the US president to be "prudent" about supplying arms to the self-ruled island, according to a readout of their call provided by China's Foreign Ministry. Taiwan is a self-ruled democracy that China claims as its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary. Beijing prohibits all countries it has diplomatic relations with - including the US - from having formal ties with Taipei. Still, while the US doesn't officially recognize Taiwan as a country, it is the island's .

India told Washington it wouldn't be bullied as trade talks resumed

India's national security adviser told US officials New Delhi would wait out Trump's term, even as it quietly worked to ease tensions and restart trade talks after months of tariffs and public insults

Trump to stay out of corporate fight over Warner Bros., leaves call to DOJ

The battle between Netflix and Paramount over Warner Bros. has grown acrimonious and drawn scrutiny, regardless of which bidder succeeds, setting up a major antitrust test for the Trump administration

Trump orders pullback of ICE from Minneapolis, says 'softer touch' needed

White House border czar Tom Homan, who President Donald Trump sent to Minneapolis as part of an effort to ease pressure amid local outrage, emphasised a shift to more targeted enforcement

Trump, Xi discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine ahead of planned April summit

Trump cast the call as "excellent" and "long and thorough," adding that the two spoke about increasing Chinese purchases of US soybeans to 20 million tonnes for the current season

Iran, US to hold nuclear talks on Friday in Oman as Trump warns Khamenei

Nuclear talks between Iran and the United States will take place Friday in Oman, the Iranian foreign minister said, as tensions between the countries remain high following Tehran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests last month. The announcement by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday came after hours of indications that the anticipated talks were faltering over changes in the format and content of the talks. US President Donald Trump, meanwhile, sent a blunt warning to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ahead of the talks. "I would say he should be very worried," Trump said of Khamenei in an interview with NBC News. Earlier Wednesday, a regional official said Iran was seeking a "different" type of meeting than that what had been proposed by Turkey, one focused exclusively on the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, with participation limited to Iran and the United States. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to ..

Crypto investors' golden Trump statue 'Don Colossus' set for Florida debut

For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the centre of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era

Trump says he held excellent call with Xi, discussed Iran, trade and Taiwan

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call that comes as the US administration pushes Beijing and others to isolate Tehran. Trump said the two leaders also discussed a broad range of other critical issues in the US-China relationship, including trade and Taiwan and his plans to visit Beijing in April. Trump, who continues to weigh taking military action against Iran, announced last month in a social media post he would impose a 25 per cent tax on imports to the United States from countries that do business with Iran. Years of sanctions aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear program have left the country isolated. But Tehran still did nearly USD 125 billion in international trade in 2024, including USD 32 billion with China, USD 28 billion with the United Arab Emirates and USD 17 billion with Turkey, according to the World Trade Organization.

US to withdraw 700 immigration enforcement officers from Minnesota

The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday. About 700 federal officers - roughly a quarter of the total deployed around Minnesota - will be withdrawn immediately, Homan said. But Homan did not give a timeline when the operation might end in Minnesota after weeks of turmoil in the Twin Cities and escalated protests, especially since the killing of protester Alex Pretti, the second fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis. A widespread pullout will only occur after people stop interfering with federal agents carrying out arrests and setting up roadblocks to impede the operations, Homan said. About 2,000 officers will remain in the state after this week's drawdown, he said. "Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, and as a result of the need for less public safety officers to do this wor

Trump pushes efforts to secure critical minerals supply beyond China

The Trump administration is expected to unveil its grandest plan yet to rebuild supply chains of critical minerals needed for everything from jet engines to smartphones, likely through purchase agreements with partners on top of creating a $12 billion U.S. strategic reserve to help counter China's dominance. Vice President JD Vance is set to deliver a keynote address Wednesday at a meeting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting with officials from several dozen European, Asian and African nations. The US is expected to sign deals on supply chain logistics, though details have not yet been revealed. Rubio met Tuesday with foreign ministers from South Korea and India to discuss critical minerals mining and processing. The meeting and expected agreements will come just two days after President Donald Trump announced "Project Vault," or a stockpile of critical minerals to be funded with a $10 billion loan from the U.S. Export and Import Bank and nearly $1.67 billion in private ..

Sergio Gor key in India-US ties, has access to Trump: Ex-intel officer

Ex-US Marine intel officer Newsham said that Gor had a lot of vested power, and chose to come to India because he likes the country

Sam Altman chalks up unusual succession plan for ChatGPT parent OpenAI

Sam Altman also addressed ongoing tensions with Musk and the frequent criticism Musk directs at OpenAI, particularly around safety

Trump pushes plan for arch near Lincoln Memorial, citing disputed history

President Donald Trump says history is on his side. He wants to build a towering arch near the Lincoln Memorial and argues that the nation's capital first clamored for such a monument two centuries ago - even going so far as to erect four eagle statues as part of the project before being derailed by the attack on Fort Sumter. "It was interrupted by a thing called the Civil War, and so it never got built," Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew to Florida last weekend. "Then, they almost built something in 1902, but it never happened." Trump's history is off - the eagles he references are actually part of a bridge connecting Virginia and Washington that was built decades after the Civil War. The closest Washington came to an arch was a wood and plaster construction built in 1919 to mark the end of World War I - and even that was always meant to be temporary. "For 200 years they've wanted to build an arc," Trump said, meaning an arch. "They have 57 cities throughout the world tha

India-US trade deal: Why Trump's $500-billion export claim raises doubts

Donald Trump's claim that India will buy $500 billion of US goods under a new trade deal dwarfs current trade flows and follows a familiar pattern from his earlier negotiations