We the people are left in the wind, waiting on the whims of an unengaged president and an oligarch with a nearly bottomless wallet, observes Sree Sreenivasan. IMAGE: US President Donald J Trump with Elon Musk. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters I've spent most of 2025 overseas and have been constantly answering questions about the various crises caused by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and J D Vance (including America abandoning its European allies [external link]). Here are two things that ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and revealed that he had a productive phone call with him, where they agreed to kick-start negotiations aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine immediately. IMAGE: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during their bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters Other than ...

Trump spoke approvingly of his recent telephone conversation with Xi Jinping.This could indicate the possibility of America and China reaching some level of tactical accommodation, which would not be good news for India, points out Ambassador Shyam Saran, a former foreign secretary. IMAGE: Then US President Donald J Trump with China's President Xi Jinping at the start of their meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters   If anyone ...

The stage may be set for a recalibrated US-Iran relationship, suggests Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: US President Donald J Trump signs a document in the Oval Office at the White House, February 4, 2025. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters France's distinguished former career diplomat Sylvie Bermann, wrote an op-ed recently in the leading financial paper Les Echos that a new chapter of 'transactional geopolitics' has begun with Donald Trump. Extremely unlikely events can be expected, ...

United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that was used to launch a bribery investigation against the Adani Group. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters Trump signed an order to pause enforcing of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business. The President directed US ...

Indian restaurants, nail bars, convenience stores, and car washes were among the targets of what the home office on Monday described as a UK-wide blitz on illegal working in the country. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said her department's Immigration Enforcement teams had a record-breaking January as they descended on 828 premises -- a 48 percent rise as compared to the previous January, with arrests ...

United States Justice Department (DOJ) has fired several prosecutors who worked on criminal investigation into United Staets President Donald Trump, CNN reported citing sources familiar with the matter. IMAGE: US Presdient Donald Trump at his meeting with Republican members of the US House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 13, 2024. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters Acting Attorney General James McHenry in a letter written to the officials said they cannot be ...

A Republican lawmaker has introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the US Constitution to allow a president to be elected for up to three terms, a move aimed at facilitating a third term for President Donald Trump. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Pool via Reuters Introducing the resolution in the House, Congressman Andy Ogles said, "This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs." "It is ...

US President-elect Donald Trump and his family arrived at the St, Johns Episcopal Church to attend a church service ahead of his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States. IMAGE: US President-elect Donald Trump, his wife Melania Trump (fourth from left), US Vice President-elect JD Vance (left) and his wife Usha Vance (second from left) attend a service at St. John's Church on the inauguration day of his second Presidential term in Washington, US January 20, 2025.