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Washington, Mar 2: Behind the scenes at the White House, US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka was a key advocate for the more measured, less combative tone he struck in his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, officials said. The biggest speech of Mr Trump's month-old presidency was the product of a 10-day effort with his top aides. While he unveiled no significant

Riyadh, Mar 1: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is heading to Indonesia this week for a nine-day visit. It will be the first time in 46 years that a Saudi king has visited the world's largest Muslim nation, and it comes at a time of heightened attention on the economic links between the two nations. But Salman has come prepared. According to reports in the Indonesian press, the

Washington, Mar 1: US President Donald Trump's top spymaster nominee has said he was "shocked" to read that India successfully launched more than 100 satellites in one go last month. "I was shocked the other day to read that India, on one rocket launch, deposited more than 100 satellites in space," former Senator Dan Coats told lawmakers yesterday during his confirmation hearing for the position

Washington, Mar 1: America stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms, US President Donald Trump today said as he broke his silence on the fatal Kansas shooting in which an Indian techie was killed. "Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be anation divided on

Peyton, Feb 28: In another incident of hate crime in the US, a house of an Indian man was trashed with eggs, dog feces, and covered in racial slurs in Southern Colorado. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing into the case which came to light on February 6. Authorities believe it was the handiwork of a group of people. “We saw more than 50 papers stuck everywhere on our door, window

Washington, Feb 28: The White House has said that the early reports coming from Kansas, where an Indian engineer was shot dead and another injured in an apparent hate crime, were "disturbing". The White House also condemned the alleged hate crimes against the Jewish community in the US. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at his daily news conference that "early reports coming

Olathe(US), Feb 28: A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian. A recording from Henry County, Missouri, 911 reveals that the bartender warned police not to approach the building with sirens blaring or the man

Washington, Feb 27: A bold Hijab-wearing Muslim ex-White House staffer of Bangladeshi-origin has said she quit her job after US President Donald Trump announced his controversial travel ban, lasting just eight days in the new administration. Rumana Ahmed was hired in 2011 to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council (NSC). "My job there was to promote and protect the

Vatican City, Feb 26: Pope Francis has quietly reduced sanctions against a handful of pedophile priests, applying his vision of a merciful church even to its worst offenders in ways that survivors of abuse and the pope's own advisers question. One case has come back to haunt him: An Italian priest who received the pope's clemency was later convicted by an Italian criminal court for his sex crimes

Washington, Feb 25: The White House excluded several major US news organisations, including some it has criticised, from an off-camera briefing held by the White House press secretary on Friday. Reporters for CNN, The New York Times, Politico, The Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed were not allowed into the session in the office of press secretary Sean Spicer. Spicer's off-camera briefing, or “gaggle