Montreal, Canada – Donald Trump has been in the White House for less than three weeks, but the United States president has already launched what many say is a concerted attack on the rights of migrants and refugees. The Republican leader has sent migrants to the notorious detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; pushed for more…
MUMBAI: RBI has broken its silence on exchange rate movements, with governor Sanjay Malhotra saying the central bank will “ensure orderliness and stability without compromising market efficiency”.Economists and forex dealers speculate that RBI’s stance may have shifted with the arrival of Malhotra, as the sharp fall in the rupee’s value coincided with his appointment. While…
Countries condemn US sanctions on the ICC alleging impunity for serious crimes and weakening international law. Donald Trump’s decision to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) increases the “risk of impunity” for serious crimes, 79 parties to the global tribunal have said. In a statement on Friday, a group of 79 countries – about two-thirds…
Iran has strongly condemned new sanctions slapped by the administration of US President Donald Trump on the country’s oil industry, saying they run contrary to international rules and standards. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei denounced the bans as “completely unjustified” on Friday. The remarks came a day after the US Treasury Department targeted more than…
The United States has imposed its first set of sanctions on Iran after US President Donald Trump revived his so-called maximum pressure strategy against the Islamic Republic. In a statement on Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce announced the news, saying the White House unleashed its first set of sanctions against Iran’s crude oil export…
New Delhi, India – Kulvinder Kaur had tried and tried again to call her husband in the United States. After two weeks of the connection not going through, she was consumed by anxiety, she said from her home in Hoshiarpur, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. “I was really afraid about what might have…
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US President Donald Trump’s administration appeared to backtrack Wednesday after his proposal to take over Gaza sparked uproar, with the United Nations warning against “ethnic cleansing” in the Palestinian territory. Facing a wave of criticism from Palestinians, Arab governments and world leaders, Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio said any transfer of Gazans would be…
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. Under the order signed on Wednesday, federal government funding will be denied to educational institutes that allow trans girls and women to participate in female sports and use female locker rooms. The order also…
When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency of the United States of America in January, eternal New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Orientalist extraordinaire Thomas Friedman took to the pages of the US newspaper of record with some advice: “President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare.” And while punitive imperial makeovers…
