US president Donald Trump鈥檚 fresh tariffs on imported wood, furniture and kitchen cabinets took effect Tuesday, a development likely to fuel building costs and pile pressure on homebuyers in an already challenging market.
Iran said on Tuesday that US president Donald Trump鈥檚 call for a peace deal with Tehran was inconsistent with Washington鈥檚 actions, referring to its strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June.
US President Donald Trump announced a deal with AstraZeneca on Friday that he said would lead to significantly lower domestic drug prices in exchange for granting the pharma giant tariff relief.
US president Donald Trump announced an additional 100 per cent tariff on China Friday and threatened to cancel a summit with Xi Jinping, reigniting his trade war with Beijing in a row over export curbs on rare earth minerals.
The US government shutdown looked set to extend into a third week as senators again rejected a Republican funding bill Thursday despite president Donald Trump鈥檚 attempts to turn the thumbscrews on opposition Democrats.
The White House lashed out at the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday after it awarded the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and overlooked US president Donald Trump.
US president Donald Trump sent a letter to Thailand鈥檚 prime minister saying he wanted to see the country and neighbour Cambodia resolve simmering border tensions, Anutin Charnvirakul said Thursday.
When Donald Trump was elected, Indian garment exporter RK Sivasubramaniam thought the new US president would boost business and invested heavily in anticipation of a boom...
THE handshake between the US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office on September 30 was more than a routine diplomatic photo op. It was a grim ratification of a final solution for the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu鈥檚 meeting with Trump, his fourth since Trump re-assumed office, was billed as a discussion on 鈥榣asting security...
US president Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois in an escalation of his extraordinary attacks on political opponents...
The United States issued nearly one-fifth fewer student visas in August following a crackdown by president Donald Trump, led by a steep drop for India which was overtaken by China as top country of origin, data showed Monday...
AI-related goods and surging exports to the United States ahead of president Donald Trump鈥檚 tariff hikes boosted global merchandise trade growth this year, the World Trade Organisation said Tuesday...
President Donald Trump said Monday that a steep US tariff on imported heavy trucks would begin on November 1, postponing the date that he initially threatened to impose such duties...
President Donald Trump said Monday he would be 鈥榟appy鈥� to negotiate a deal on health programmes with Democrats, but demanded the federal government first be re-opened, as a crippling shutdown entered its second week...
The European Union will take a page out of US president Donald Trump鈥檚 tariff playbook on Tuesday with a plan to hike levies and slash quotas for imported steel 鈥� to protect the bloc鈥檚 struggling industry from cheap Chinese competition...
President Donald Trump threatened Monday to use emergency powers against rebellion to deploy more troops into Democratic-led US cities, intensifying his rhetoric as his attempts to mobilise the military face legal challenges.
TO BE sustainable, Donald Trump鈥檚 peace plan for Gaza must serve the core interests of Arabs, including Christian Arabs, and the Jews of Palestine/Israel equally and fairly. Infirmities in the plan include the history of the Trump-Netanyahu axis to lure quarries with syrupy promises into death traps, as they did with Iran and Qatar. The trust deficit is thus an overarching challenge...
The bitter tribalism that drove the United States into a government shutdown is putting compromise out of reach, analysts say 鈥� and threatening to turn a staring contest between the Democrats and Donald Trump鈥檚 Republicans into a protracted crisis...
President Donald Trump said Sunday that lethal strikes on small boats near the Venezuelan coast that US officials accuse of carrying drugs have been so successful 鈥榯here are no boats鈥� left in that area of the Caribbean...
The Trump administration branded Chicago a 鈥榳ar zone鈥� Sunday as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials, while a judge blocked the White House from sending troops to another Democrat-run city...
He is perhaps the most powerful man in Washington at the moment, after Donald Trump.
US president Donald Trump authorised deployment of troops to Chicago after a federal agent shot an allegedly armed motorist there on Saturday, while a judge blocked the Republican leader鈥檚 attempt to send the military into Portland, another Democratic-run city.
Israel said Saturday its troops were still operating in Gaza and warned residents not to return, despite calls from the families of Israeli hostages and US president Donald Trump for an immediate halt to the fighting.
A coalition of workers in a variety of fields filed a lawsuit Friday to halt the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee introduced by the Trump administration...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet President Donald Trump in Washington next week for talks on a trade war that is hammering Canada鈥檚 economy, Carney鈥檚 office said Friday...
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent signaled Thursday that 鈥榮ubstantial support鈥� for farmers would be announced next week, particularly for those growing soybeans, as they struggle with fallout from President Donald Trump鈥檚 trade conflicts...
Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he plans to follow through on his threat for mass layoffs of US federal workers as he ratcheted pressure on Democrats to back moves to end the government shutdown...
Services activity in the United States was flat in September, survey data showed Friday, as President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs and other factors weighed on the sector鈥攚ith business activity cooling and employment weak...
Hamas said on Friday it was ready to start immediate talks on freeing the Israeli hostages it holds and ending the Gaza war, welcoming United States president Donald Trump鈥檚 call for Israel to stop bombing the Palestinian territory...
Efforts to swiftly end the US government shutdown collapsed Wednesday as Democrats in Congress went home without resolving a funding stand-off with President Donald Trump and the White House threatened public sector jobs...
