US Defense Secretary made an unannounced trip to Iraq Tuesday, nearly 20 years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein & led to the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
CNN reports that the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush portraits have been moved to a room that is largely used as a storage space for unused linen and furniture.
At the same time, 71 per cent of all the female world leaders surveyed by a new study attained the highest office without any family connections to politics.
Ask historians of the 'third world' how the US instigated or supported illegal wars, death squads and legal blockades.
President Donald Trump, it is clear,...
With the nuclear deal, India is signalling willingness to bat on front-foot. That opportunity has come about because of a combination of our own secular politics and economic growth.
By the moral logic that countries should withdraw from multilateral organisations whose policy they do not believe in, the US should make a beginning by leaving the United Nations.
India’s fledgling defence industry has struggled to translate capacity into mass production or compete globally, resulting in continued reliance on imports.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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