Politics

President Joe Biden's first call to a foreign leader will be to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday -- with the fate of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on the agenda. "His first foreign leader call will be on Friday with Prime Minister Trudeau," Psaki told reporters at her first White House briefing. She said...

Taking a potshot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over commenting on the Capitol Hill violence in the US and maintaining "silence" on the farmers protest, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the former has a "lack of understanding of fundamentals". "I remember the Prime Minister saying ''Iss baar Trump sarkar''...As a PM of the country, you do not do...

Taunted by BJP president JP Nadda with a series of questions before his press conference today, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shot back: "Who is he? Why should I answer to him?" Mr Nadda had posted a thread targeting Rahul Gandhi after the Congress MP attacked the government over a report on China building a village in Arunachal Pradesh on the...

Britain will host a G7 summit in June, the government said Friday, announcing what will be the first face-to-face meeting of the group since the start of Joe Biden's US presidency. Outgoing US President Donald Trump was forced to cancel last year's meeting of the G7 -- the world's most advanced economies -- due to the coronavirus pandemic. Individual leaders have...

US President Donald Trump urged Americans to be "united" and avoid violence in his first comments after being impeached Wednesday -- while avoiding any mention of impeachment at all. In the videotaped speech, Trump said he was "calling on all Americans to overcome the passions of the moment and join together as one American people. Let us choose to move...

A former US defense secretary has called on President-elect Joe Biden to reform the system that gives sole control of the nation's nuclear arsenal to the president, calling it "outdated, unnecessary and extremely dangerous." The call from William Perry came the same day US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke with the nation's top military leader about ensuring that an "unhinged"...

US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will introduce an immigration legislation "immediately" after taking office, reversing the Trump administration's policies. Biden will taken the oath of office on January 20. "I will introduce an immigration bill immediately and have it sent to the appropriate committees to begin movement," he told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday. Biden was responding to a...

Popular gaming platform Twitch has banned indefinitely Donald Trump's official channel on its platform, following the storming of Capitol Hill by supporters of the outgoing US President. "In light of yesterday's shocking attack on the Capitol, we have disabled President Trump's Twitch channel," the company said in a statement according to CNN. "Given the current extraordinary circumstances and the President's incendiary...

Donald Trump condemns "in the strongest possible terms" violence by supporters who entered the US Capitol after being whipped up in a speech by the president, his spokeswoman said Thursday. "Let me be clear: The violence we saw yesterday at our nation's Capitol was appalling, reprehensible and antithetical to the American way," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters. "We...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled his visit to India, sources said, hours after he announced a fresh lockdown in the United Kingdom over the new strain of coronavirus that has affected thousands of people in the UK. Mr Johnson was to be the chief guest at this year's Republic Day parade in New Delhi, which was also to...