Washington, Jan 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that “peace on earth” was his New Year’s resolution as he addressed guests at a gathering at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, striking a brief note of aspiration before turning to a wide-ranging reflection on the state of the country.When asked about his New Year’s resolution at the New Year’s Eve gathering on Wednesday, the President replied: “Peace. Peace on earth. Peace on earth.” He did not respond to questions about …
Latest CIA News & Updates
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a dock facility along the coast of Venezuela, marking the first known land strike by the Trump administration inside the oil-rich South American country, according to local media reports.The strike targeted a remote dock that US officials believed was being used by a Venezuelan gang to store drugs and transfer them onto boats for shipment, CNN reported Monday night (local time), citing anonymous sources familiar w…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that the United States knocked out last week a “dock area” in Venezuela, which was used by alleged drug traffickers to load boats up with drugs.If his words were accurate, it would be the first known land strike by the Trump administration against the oil-rich South American nation, reports Xinhua news agency.”There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters in Florida. “So we hit …
Washington, Dec 26 (IANS) Fifty years ago, the US Congress held its first public hearing into secret CIA operations aimed at overthrowing a foreign government. The focus was Chile.The hearing was led by Senator Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat. He said the step was taken because “the American people must know and be able to judge what was undertaken by their government in Chile.”Church said the goal was to explain “the nature and extent of the American role in the overthrow of a democratica…