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Donald Trump to meet West Asia partners on sidelines of G7 in France

Iran, energy security and trade tensions dominate the G7 agenda as Trump meets Middle East partners and key allies in France

As Trump turns 80 with spectacle of cage fights at WH, big issues loom

President Donald Trump celebrates turning 80 on Sunday with a showstopping birthday spectacle that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House. This week, the hard realities of the office have threatened to overshadow the ostentatious UFC mixed martial arts extravaganza, where combatants sealed inside a wire-mesh octagon try to punch, kick, chop and pummel each other into submission. Trump has found himself boxed into an unpopular and costly war he helped start in Iran. An agreement to end the conflict could be close, but the crucial details are still to be negotiated. Meanwhile, about a mile from Trump's birthday bash, crews pried the president's name off the Kennedy Center after a judge ruled naming it after Trump had gone too far. Regardless, the president will walk out of the White House and be surrounded by Cabinet leaders, top administration officials, Republican lawmakers and 4,000-plus spectators screaming themselve

Trump names James M McDonald to lead New York federal prosecutor's office

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will appoint one of his personal lawyers to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, filling a pending vacancy after Trump tapped the man currently in the job to be director of national intelligence. James M. McDonald, a former federal prosecutor in the office he had been picked to run, served as a financial regulator during Trump's first term and worked in the White House counsel's office in President George W. Bush's administration. A partner at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, McDonald is part of the legal team handling Trump's pending appeal of felony convictions in New York related to hush money payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels as the Republican ran for president in 2016. Trump said Saturday he would name McDonald to the role of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the most influential positions in the Justice Department. He would replace Jay Clayton, whom Trump put forward this week as .

'US strike on Tren de Aragua leader shows Trump's approach to war on drugs'

The US military attack in Venezuela Friday that killed the leader of the Tren de Aragua gang reflects a strategic shift by US President Donald Trump toward direct US involvement in the war on drugs that began earlier this year, with a special focus this time on gaining access to Venezuela's lucrative mining sector, analysts told The Associated Press. Trump announced Friday the death of gang leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero in an airstrike on his compound in rural Venezuela. He has long accused Guerrero's organisation, also known as TDA, of terrorising communities across the United States, where it has been linked to extortion rackets, drug trafficking and illegal immigration. The group was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department last year, with federal prosecutors accusing Guerrero of shipping drugs to the U.S. and organizing acts of terror across borders, including the murder of a Venezuelan dissident in Chile. Venezuela's government said in a statement

Despite Tehran's denial, Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed Sunday

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the agreement would prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and would lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

PM Modi, Trump to hold talks on sidelines of G7 in France: White House

First face-to-face meeting since February 2025 comes as US president is expected to discuss Strait of Hormuz demining plans with allies

Iran says signing of Islamabad memorandum not expected on Sunday

According to Iran's state media, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the "exact timing of the signing of the Islamabad memorandum will not be on Sunday"

Trump's name still on Kennedy Center despite court-ordered removal deadline

President Donald Trump's name remained on the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday despite a court-ordered Friday deadline to remove references to Trump from the building and other aspects of the iconic performing arts venue's operations. Scaffolding was erected Friday around a section of the building that includes Trump's name, but shortly after midnight, the Kennedy Center asked a judge to extend the deadline until noon Eastern Time on Saturday because of thunderstorms that had swept through the Washington area, causing a delay. In the filing, the Kennedy Center offered assurance that the "removal work is presently ongoing" and would "conclude in the early hours of the morning." A few hours later, workers begin covering the scaffolding with tarps. Dozens of people spent hours Friday on the plaza in front of the Kennedy Center taking pictures and cheering occasionally as they broke into chants of "take it down." Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, an ex-officio board member who sued

Trump denies allegations of defrauding US court to create $1.8 billion fund

US District Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami is considering reopening the case to investigate whether the president and the Justice Department defrauded the court

Trump accuses Iran of attacking Indian ships; Tehran rejects charge

US President Donald Trump on Friday accused Iran of carrying out drone attacks against Indian ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz, describing the alleged action as "totally unacceptable", while Tehran rejected the charge as "baseless". Three vessels with Indian crew came under attack off the Oman coast this week. One of them resulted in the death of three Indian seafarers on Wednesday. "Their (Iran's) totally rebuffed Drone attack last night against Indian Ships leaving the Hormuz Strait is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE," Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social. In the same post, Trump also accused Iran of leaking the terms of the peace deal to the media that had nothing to do with the points under discussion. Iran vehemently rejected Trump's allegation. "The US president's accusation against Iran regarding an Indian vessel in the Strait of Hormuz is simply baseless," the Iranian Embassy in India said in a social media post late Friday night. "It is an attempt to divert public attention fr

US military strike killed leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang: Trump

President Donald Trump said Friday that a "swift and lethal kinetic" US strike has killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called "the infamous leader" of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labelled by the United States as a terrorist organisation. Guerrero Flores was charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists in crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced in December.

US Treasury expands bank data-sharing rules in Trump's immigration push

The Treasury Department moved Friday to enlist the nation's banks more deeply in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, including issuing fresh guidance that lets banks rapidly share information about suspected customers and an advisory steering them to flag signs that one of their customers may lack legal immigration status. These changes are part of the administration's push to remove undocumented workers from the nation's banking system without explicitly mandating that banks do so. In order to get banks to participate, the administration has framed these actions as a crackdown on fraud and crime, not explicitly about immigration. "The information in your purview can help stop a cartel financier, disrupt a money laundering network, uncover labour exploitation, or protect taxpayers from fraud," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in prepared remarks at a banking conference in Houston. Bessent's remarks and the Treasury Department's new guidelines come from an executive

Why Donald Trump chose not to attend USA's FIFA World Cup 2026 opener?

According to officials connected to the White House's World Cup coordination efforts, the President's schedule prevented him from attending the match.

As officials say Iran war could end soon, some Trump objectives unfulfilled

President Donald Trump said the US is close to signing a deal with Iran to wind down the war, with a memorandum of understanding to be signed in the coming days. But some of the key objectives Trump laid out for the conflict seem to remain unfulfilled. And while the Trump administration has said its objectives are clear and unchanging, the list has expanded and shifted as the president and his administration have spoken about the war since it started February 28. All the while, the conflict has battered the global economy, tested alliances and raised unanswered questions about the planning for the conflict, its justification and its aftermath. By most accounts, the strikes by the US and Israel have significantly degraded Iran's military capabilities and killed scores of senior leaders. But those tactical successes don't necessarily translate into achieving all the president's strategic aims, even as the administration said Friday that it was meeting the goals it had laid out. Here'

Best of BS Opinion: Why PM Modi must leave the past behind and look ahead

From China's bid to expand the renminbi's global role to India's data centre boom, Narendra Modi's next challenges and Pope Leo XIV's views on AI, here's the best of BS Opinion

US and Iran signal peace deal near despite differences over terms

The United States and Iran signalled that an agreement to end their conflict was nearing completion, while Pakistan said a final peace text had been agreed

Global shares advance as Trump claims breakthrough in Iran war talks

Expectations that an agreement between the US and Iran may help reopen the strait sent oil prices tumbling

Trump accuses Iran of attacking Indian ships, says 'totally unacceptable'

US President Donald Trump on Friday accused Iran of carrying out drone attack against Indian ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz, saying it was "totally unacceptable." Three vessels with Indian crew came under attack off the Oman coast this week. One of them resulted in the death of three Indian seafarers on Wednesday. "Their (Iran's) totally rebuffed Drone attack last night against Indian Ships leaving the Hormuz Strait is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE," Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social. India has described the attacks on commercial vessels as "deeply worrisome" and it has strongly taken up the matter with the US. India on Friday summoned US charge d'affaires Jason Meeks and told him that the American military's "lethal and deadly" strikes on commercial vessels with Indian crew members off the coast of Oman are "unacceptable".

Trump, Modi look to repair frayed ties in shadow of West Asia crisis

A likely Modi-Trump meeting at the G7 will test efforts to repair India-US ties strained by trade disputes, Pakistan tensions and the Iran conflict

US-Iran peace memorandum could be signed on Sunday in Geneva: Source

A US-Iran memorandum to halt the Gulf conflict could be signed in Geneva on Sunday, though key terms remain under negotiation and Iran says no final decision has been made