Tag Archives: US President

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to disclose information to Russian officials during a White House meeting last week, saying he had an “absolute right” to share “facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety.” The president took to Twitter to counter …

Wednesday, 12 April 2017 BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tensions on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steams towards the region. Xi’s call with Trump came after an …

Tuesday, 14 March 2017   BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Monday that her trip to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump had been postponed due to a fast-moving winter storm expected to hit the northeastern United States. Merkel said Trump had called her to explain the severity …

Monday, 6 March 2017   BAGHDAD – Iraq expressed “deep relief” at U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to remove Iraq from a list of countries targeted in a U.S. travel ban, the Iraqi foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. Trump is expected to sign a new executive order …

Monday, 13 February 2017 MEXICO CITY – Thousands of protesters in more than a dozen Mexican cities took to the streets on Sunday to express their fierce opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump, portraying the new leader as a menace to both America and Mexico. Waving Mexicans flags and hoisting …

Friday, 10 February 2017 BEIJING: President Donald Trump has issued belated well-wishes to China for the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in the world’s most populous nation, saying he hoped to work with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to build a “constructive relationship”. Trump had been the only …

Monday, 23 January 2017 JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump had invited him to a meeting in Washington in February. The two leaders had a phone conversation which the statement described as “very warm”. In Washington, Trump, who …

Saturday, 21 January 2017 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump directed government agencies on Friday to freeze regulations and take steps to weaken Obamacare, using his first hours in the White House to make good on a campaign promise to start dismantling his predecessor’s healthcare law. Heading into the Oval Office …

Saturday, 21 January 2017 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday 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, …

Saturday, 21 January 2017 SYDNEY – Thousands of protesters in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday joined the first of hundreds of womens’ marches organised around the world in a show of disapproval of U.S. President Donald Trump as he began his first day in office. In Sydney, Australia’s biggest …