Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) The rapid buildup of US forces in the Middle East has progressed to the point that President Donald Trump has the option to launch military action against Iran as soon as this weekend, a newspaper reported, citing administration and Pentagon officials. According to a report in The New York Times on Wednesday (local time), the military posture now allows Trump to strike Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles and launch sites. However, the President “has given no …
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Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Gold and silver prices rose on Wednesday after two consecutive sessions of decline, amid renewed buying interest due to global macro-economic factors.Easing US-Iran tensions due to progress in negotiations and a firmer US dollar capped gains by weighing on safe-haven demand. Thin liquidity because of Lunar New Year holidays in several Asian markets also acted as headwinds on the rally, market participants said.MCX gold April futures gained 1.24 per cent to Rs 1,53,294 per 1…
Washington, Feb 17 (IANS) American President Donald Trump said he would be “involved in those talks indirectly” as US and Iranian officials prepare to meet in Geneva, expressing hope for a breakthrough while warning of consequences if diplomacy fails.“Typically, Iran’s a very tough negotiator,” Trump told reporters abroad Air Force One on his way back from Florida. “I hope, I hope they be more reasonable. They want to make a deal.”He added, “I don’t think they want the consequences…
Tehran, Feb 16 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched the main stage of a “combined, intense and targetted” military exercise in the Strait of Hormuz. The drill, dubbed the ‘Smart Control of the Strait of Hormuz’ involves the IRGC’s naval forces and is being conducted under the supervision, control and field monitoring of IRGC’s Chief Commander Mohammad Pakpour, read a statement published Monday on the IRGC’s official news outlet Sepah News.Among the main objectives of…
Tehran, Feb 16 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Monday met Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for technical discussions on Tehran’s nuclear issue. The meeting was held at Araghchi’s place of stay in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States that are scheduled for Tuesday in the Swiss city, according to a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Xinhua News Agency r…
Munich, Feb 15 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he hopes for serious and substantive discussions in the upcoming peace talks with Russia and the United States in Geneva.”We truly hope that the trilateral meetings next week will be serious, substantive, and helpful for all of us,” Zelensky said during a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday (local time), according to a report on the Ukrainian president’s official website.Zelensky said that the …
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Russia agreed not to fire on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week during extreme cold, as his envoy described what he called new momentum in talks since Geneva.Trump asked special envoy Steve Witkoff to brief his Cabinet colleagues on the diplomatic track. Witkoff said, “The Ukrainians actually said that we’ve made more progress in the last — since Geneva than they’ve seen in the last four years of that conflict.”Witkof…
Moscow, Jan 2 (IANS) The death toll from the “Ukrainian terrorist attack” in Khorly has risen to 28 as a woman hospitalized died in a Crimean hospital, the Russian media reported on Friday. Citing a statement by the Crimean Ministry of Health, RIA Novosti, the state-owned domestic news agency of Russia, reported that a woman hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in Dzhankoy died on Friday.”Unfortunately, it was not possible to save the woman, who had previously been hospita…
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that both Russia and Ukraine want the war between them to end, as negotiations aimed at reaching a peace agreement moved closer to completion following his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.“Russia wants it ended, everybody wants it ended,” Trump told reporters after the talks. “And we want it ended. I want it ended because I don’t want to see so many people dying.”Trump said discussion…
Helsinki, Dec 28 (IANS) A commercial aircraft carrying about 150 people slid off the runway while landing at Kittila Airport in Finland’s Lapland region amid stormy weather, Finnish airport operator Finavia said.The aircraft came to a stop in deep snow, and no injuries were reported, Finavia said on Saturday afternoon (local time). The operator confirmed to local media that the flight was arriving from Geneva, Switzerland, but did not identify the airline.In a separate incident, a smaller aircra…