JAKARTA – Indonesia and the United States signed a trade pact on Feb 19, finalising a 19 per cent tariff on most Indonesian exports to the US, as well as a pledge by the South-east Asian country to purchase about US$33 billion (S$42 billion) worth of American goods. Indonesian textile exports – up to a volume to be decided – are…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia could have some form of uranium enrichment within the kingdom under a proposed nuclear deal with the United States, congressional documents and an arms control group suggest, raising proliferation concerns as an atomic standoff between Iran and America continues. U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden both…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said the US was pledging $10 billion for his inaugural Board of Peace, a new body aimed at consolidating progress in Gaza while signalling broader ambitions to reshape international conflict management, but didn’t specify what the money would be used for. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates. SUMMARY Trump announces $10…
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has today been arrested on his 66th birthday and is in custody after a raid on his new Sandringham home. Thames Valley Police held the eighth in line to the British throne on suspicion of misconduct in public office this morning. The Daily Mail was the first to reveal that plain-clothes police in…
The crazed gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon has been identified as a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants. Robert Dorgan, 56 — who shot four family members and a family…
Iranian naval forces began military exercises Monday in the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, the day before a second round of talks with the United States for a nuclear deal amid heightened tensions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s naval drills are dubbed “Smart Control of Hormuz Strait” and are rehearsing scenarios to respond…
Most of the world has slammed the West Bank changes, but the PM has faced little public pushback from Trump himself. In a blockbuster move that could shake up the region, the government reopened land registration in Area C of the West Bank for the first time since 1967. The move, announced by Justice Minister…
Greetings from Tyler, The media is going to get Donald Trump one way or the other. He releases the Epstein files and doesn’t break a sweat. The media is trying to make us think he’s involved in pedophilia. There’s lots of noise about the Democrats wanting ICE reforms or they’ll shutdown the DHS (…
Cubans are struggling with blackouts and fuel rationing amid President Trump’s campaign to provoke regime change by choking off the energy supply of the island nation, which is heavily dependent on fuel imports. Trump last month threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba, labelling the island “an unusual and extraordinary…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he decided to move a second aircraft carrier into the Middle East as he presses Iran to make a deal over its nuclear program. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, is being sent from the Caribbean Sea to the Mideast to join…