US Secretary of State Marco Rubio dialled External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and called for immediate de-escalation amid the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan. The calls happened as Islamabad launched an unprovoked attack on New Delhi on Thursday night after its attempt to attack 15 locations was foiled…
Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, the central African nation’s foreign minister said late Sunday. It was unclear if a deal would involve migrants who had already been deported or those who will be in the future, but any agreement could make Rwanda the…
President Donald Trump has officially ruled out a third presidential run, ending speculation fuelled by his campaign’s 2028-themed merchandise and earlier comments suggesting constitutional “loopholes” might allow him to serve more than two terms. Trump expressed confidence that the MAGA movement would continue, supported by a “tremendous group of people” ready to step up when…
After President Trump ousted Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, on Thursday night, he settled on someone less hawkish on Russia and willing to remain in lock-step with his foreign policy approach to Iran, Gaza and China. He didn’t have to look far. By making Marco Rubio the top foreign policy adviser in the West…
Secretary of state. Acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Acting archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration. And now interim national security adviser to President Trump. Like a Christmas tree bedecked with shiny ornaments of every shape and size, Marco Rubio, 53, has accumulated four titles starting with his confirmation as…
A week after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir, diplomatic efforts to ease rising tensions between India and Pakistan have ramped up, as global jitters grow over the possibility of a military confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbors. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan and…
Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia University, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after immigration officials sought to rescind his green card. In ruling to release Mr. Mahdawi, a federal judge, Geoffrey W. Crawford, found on Wednesday that he did not pose a danger to the public and that he…
US President Donald Trump on April 27 called on Russia to stop its attacks on Ukraine, expressing disappointment in Moscow’s continued aggression. In New Jersey, Trump said his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican had gone well, describing Zelenskyy as ‘calmer’ and willing to ‘make a deal’. The two leaders met in…
If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia drafted a shopping list of what he wanted from Washington, it would be hard to beat what he was offered in the first 100 days of President Trump’s new term. Pressure on Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia? Check. The promise of sanctions relief? Check. Absolution from invading…
Britain has scaled back a high-level meeting on ending the war in Ukraine, according to European officials, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to pull out on Tuesday. That prompted the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, to decide that he, too, would not attend, though he will meet separately with Ukraine’s foreign minister in…