Category: WORLD NEWS

Moscow, Jul 19 (DIN NEWS) Russian President Vladimir Putin says his first summit with US President Donald Trump was “successful” and is accusing Trump’s opponents in the US of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed. Putin told Russian diplomats today that US-Russian relations are “in some ways worse than during the Cold War” but that his meeting with Trump on Monday allowed them to start on “the path to positive change”. He added, “We will see how things develop further”, expressing concern about unnamed “forces” in the US…

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Twelve boys and their football coach who survived a highly dangerous and dramatic rescue from a flooded Thai cave spoke publicly of their incredible ordeal for the first time today at a press conference that was beamed around the world. The “Wild Boars” team members looked healthy and happy as they answered questions about the nine days they spent in the dark before being discovered by members of an international rescue team. A packed crowd greeted the youngsters after they were discharged from hospital in Chiang Rai, and watched as…

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce a reshuffling of his government, just over a year before legislative elections in Canada, the office of the governor general announced. Trudeau’s new cabinet picks will be sworn in by Governor General Julie Payette, Canada’s representative of Queen Elizabeth II, in a ceremony at Rideau Hall, Payette’s official residence in Ottawa, a statement from her office said. The ceremony is set for 10am (1400 GMT). Trudeau will then make remarks to the press, his office said in a separate statement. This will…

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Washington, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) The US and India have complementary interests, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has said even as he expressed admiration for New Delhi’s strategic policy. When I think about India, I admire their strategy, Kissinger said during a rare appearance in Washington to attend the first annual leadership summit of the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum(USISPF) last week. The US and India have complementary interests. The beauty of that is that we don’t need to make an alignment because it is already there, Kissinger…

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Washington, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Moscow’s election meddling as “political games” that should not be permitted to interfere with US-Russia relations. Asked in a Fox News interview about Mueller’s indictment Friday of 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking Democratic Party computers in 2016, just three days before his summit with President Donald Trump, Putin said it was not his concern, but rather part of an “internal political struggle.” “I’m not interested in this issue a single…

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Moscow, Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks. “During the period of the World Cup, almost 25 million cyber-attacks and other criminal acts on the information structures in Russia, linked in one way or another to the World Cup, were neutralised,” Putin said during a meeting yesterday with security services.

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Helsinki, Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) The US and Russian leaders opened a historic summit in Helsinki today with Donald Trump promising an “extraordinary relationship” and Vladimir Putin saying it was high time to thrash out disputes around the world. Looking sombre, they exchanged opening remarks in front of the press at the start of the summit in Helsinki. Putin said: “The time has come to talk in a substantive way about our relations and problem areas of the world.” Trump congratulated Putin on Russia’s hosting of the World Cup football…

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London, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) A British government minister said today he had resigned and was “deeply ashamed” after being exposed sending an avalanche of lewd social media messages to a couple of barmaids. Small business minister Andrew Griffiths, formerly Prime Minister Theresa May’s chief of staff, said he had stepped down Friday, as the Sunday Mirror newspaper published details of his chats with the two women. Barmaid Imogen Treharne, 28, told how the married Conservative lawmaker, 47, whose first child was born in April, bombarded her with more than…

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Helsinki, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) Though President Donald Trump has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin twice before, he is eager to recreate in Finland the heady experience that he had last month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. And that means a summit that becomes a mass media event complete with powerful presidential images. Trump is ever the showman and insistent on establishing closer ties to Moscow. So he overruled his advisers and demanded the rituals and pageantry of a formal summit. The president is drawing…

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Mexico City, Jul 14 (DIN NEWS) Top officials from US President Donald Trump’s administration met with Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with both sides upbeat on the potential for a turning point in the countries’ troubled relationship. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday led the high-level delegation to meet the leftist leader known as “AMLO,” who will take office on December 1 after winning a landslide election victory. Trump’s son-in-law and senior aide Jared Kushner, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were also along for…

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