Trump says spoke with Putin, still sees chance for Ukraine peace deal
ISLAMABAD:Voicing optimism about ending the Ukraine war, US President Donald Trump said Monday he had recently spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin following his Washington meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders.Trump was last known to have spoken to Putin on August 18, when he interrupted his talks with Zelensky and the Europeans at the […]
Hamas agrees partial hostage release in ‘difficult’ truce talks
JERUSALEM : Hamas on Wednesday (Jul 9) said it would release 10 hostages as part of Gaza ceasefire talks after Israel struck an upbeat note about the prospects for a deal to stop the fighting in the embattled Palestinian territory.The Palestinian militant group’s statement came after four days of indirect talks brokered by Qatar and […]
Trump says the US ‘pretty much’ has a deal on TikTok
New yark :US President Donald Trump said on Friday the United States “pretty much” has a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app.Last month, Trump extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok.Last Sunday, he said in his Fox News interview broadcast that he had […]
Trump says there could be a Gaza deal next week
WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said on Friday it was good that Hamas said it had responded in “a positive spirit” to a U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire proposal.He told reporters aboard Air Force One there could be a deal on a Gaza ceasefire by next week but that he had not been briefed on the current […]