Pyongyang, July 11 (IANS) North Korea condemned “the United States and its vassal forces” for the inter-camp confrontation intention displayed at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Saturday.The spokesperson made the remarks in a press statement reported by the official Korean Central News Agency, saying the trans-Atlantic bloc is exacerbating the security environment of Europe and creating instability in the Asia-Pacific.The US-led NATO all…
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Washington, July 11 (IANS) US officials are examining intelligence shared by Israel about a possible Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, a warning that contributed to a decision to move him to an older and better-protected Air Force One during his return from Turkey, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The newspaper reported that the intelligence indicated a fresh Iranian plan to kill Trump. Some US officials, however, did not consider the information entirely credible.CNN re…
Washington, July 11 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Friday (US time) dismissed recent reports that Israel had provided information about an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate him.”No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no,” Trump told the New York Post.However, the president said he has “left instructions” should Iran succeed in an assassination plot against him, Xinhua news agency reported.”I’ve been No. 1 (on Iran’s kill list) for a long time, and it’s the way life is, you know,” Trump …
Washington, July 10 (IANS) Israeli intelligence recently warned the United States that Iran had devised a fresh plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and CNN, hours after which Trump publicly said he was Tehran’s “number one” assassination target while defending his administration’s military campaign against Iran.The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Israelis recently shared intelligence with Washington indicating that Iran was c…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) India’s best strategy to get the best trade deal with the US is to wear down the opening position, not the relationship, keep the conversation warm, avoid public escalation, make limited and reversible offers, and wait for the Donald Trump Administration’s first demand to run into the US market costs, China-balancing needs and alliance fatigue, an SBI Research report said on Friday.Then bargain late, when Washington’s reservation price is clearer and India’s value a…
Ulaanbaatar, July 9 (IANS) US President Donald Trump does not appear to rule out the possibility of having US military ships he asked South Korea to build constructed in the Northeast Asian country, a presidential official said on Thursday. The presidential official made the remarks at a press conference in Ulaanbaatar, where he was accompanying President Lee Jae Myung on a three-day state visit to Mongolia, in response to a reporter’s question about Trump’s recent request that South Korea build…
Washington, July 9 (IANS) The United States launched another round of military strikes against Iran, saying the operation was aimed at degrading Tehran’s ability to threaten shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after what Washington described as recent attacks on commercial vessels in the strategic waterway. The latest operation came hours after President Donald Trump declared that he believed the fragile ceasefire with Iran was effectively over and warned Tehran that further attacks on commerc…
Washington, July 9 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Iran wants to negotiate after fresh US retaliatory strikes, but questioned whether Tehran could be trusted to honour any agreement, saying Washington would continue responding forcefully while keeping its focus on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”We hit back much harder,” Trump said on Wednesday (local time).Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while returning to Washington after the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump s…
Washington/Tehran, July 9 (IANS) US forces conducted strikes against Iran for a second straight day to “degrade” Iran’s ability “to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” the United States Central Command has announced. The United States is “holding Iran accountable for recent unjustified aggression against commercial shipping and civilian crews freely navigating a vital international waterway,” the command said in a post on X on Wednesday (Washington time).More than 20 US Navy…
Ankara, July 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signalled that his administration was inclined to restore Turkey’s access to the F-35 stealth fighter programme, citing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s role in keeping Turkey out of the recent Middle East conflict and describing bilateral ties as among Washington’s strongest. Speaking at a news conference after the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said discussions on the fifth-generation fighter aircraft were ongoing and suggested he was …