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TopicMike Pompeo

Topic: Mike Pompeo

Pompeo says losing 40 kg in 6 months a lifestyle choice, not ‘cancer’ or ‘for presidential run’

Mike Pompeo, who served as CIA director and US Secy of State under Trump, says after 'lifetime struggle', he embarked on big change in diet & lifestyle starting in June 2021.

Mike Pompeo latest Trump staffer to join Fox News, promises ‘candid, no-nonsense’ view

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was a close aide of Donald Trump while he was president, will offer analysis on Fox News and Fox Business during day and prime-time hours.

China urges cooperation, ‘mutual respect’ with Joe Biden administration

In a briefing Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the country hoped the US administration will ‘properly handle differences’.

Mike Pompeo labels China’s crackdown on Uighurs ‘genocide’

The Trump administration has repeatedly leveled sanctions on China over its treatment of Uighurs, and the designation had been widely expected.

Mike Pompeo confirms death of al-Qaeda’s No. 2 in Tehran last year

Pompeo didn’t say who was responsible for the assassination of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list.

Pompeo, other US diplomats cancel foreign trips amid growing criticism over Capitol riot

Pompeo had planned to go to Belgium and UN Ambassador Kelly Craft had planned to visit Taiwan but all travel has now been canceled, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said.

Pompeo demands Voice of America not focus just on ‘Vice of America’

Pompeo’s address, where he said VOA 'isn’t the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform', adds to efforts to rein in the government-funded broadcaster.

China and North Korea are Trump’s unfinished business, Pompeo says

Pompeo also accused Beijing of trying to exert control over shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and of covering up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak early on.

7 US lawmakers write to Pompeo on farmers’ protest, urge him to raise issue with India

In a letter to Mike Pompeo, they stated that the issue is of particular concern to Sikh-Americans linked to Punjab and also impacts Indian-Americans belonging to other Indian states.

US plans to sanction Turkey for buying Russian S-400 missiles

Donald Trump, who has long highlighted his personal rapport with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had resisted bipartisan calls from Congress to punish Turkey for the deal with Russia.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.