Washington: US President Donald Trump has assured his Ukrainian counterpart to work with all parties to end bloodshed and restore peace along volatile Russia-Ukraine border, amid escalation in violence in the region. File image of US president Donald Trump. “We will work with Ukraine, Russia, and all other parties involved to help them restore peace along the border,” Trump said in his phone call with the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko,... 

Donald Trump has confirmed he will hold his first meeting Theresa May this year. WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed he will hold his first meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May  this year, saying he was “very much” looking forward to it. “I look very much forward to meeting Prime Minister Theresa May in Washington in the Spring. Britain, a longtime US ally, is very special,”... 

Donald Trump will swear-in as the 45th President of US in January. NEW YORK: New York City is asking the US government for up to $35 million to cover security costs related to President-elect Donald Trump, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday. Mr Trump has spent the majority of his time since Election Day in his apartment at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, forcing police to work with the US Secret Service to provide intensified security measures... 

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing. BEIJING, CHINA: Implementation of the Iran nuclear deal should not be “affected by any changes in the domestic situations” of countries involved, China’s foreign minister warned Monday, as US president-elect Donald Trump threatens to abandon it. The agreement, signed in Vienna in July 2015 and in force since January, was the signature diplomatic... 

Real estate developer Donald Trump prepares to go on stage. Washington: US president-elect Donald Trump hired as a senior advisor a Republican national security veteran who first worked in the White House situation room under Richard Nixon. As deputy national security advisor, 65-year-old Fox News commentator Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland, will return once again to the executive mansion as number two to former general Mike Flynn. “She... 

Palm Beach: US President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate Betsy DeVos, a wealthy Republican campaigner for alternatives to public schools, as his education secretary. US President-elect Donald Trump with Betsy DeVos. DeVos is the second woman Trump has tapped to fill a cabinet position. He earlier named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to be US ambassador to the United Nations. DeVos is a Republican megadonor... 

The US and Japan are the biggest members of the massive trade deal BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: A Pacific-wide trade deal would be “meaningless” without the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, as Donald Trump vowed to abandon the agreement on his first day in office. The future of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been thrown into serious doubt after the US president-elect repeated a pledge to... 

Over the past decade China has displaced the US as the main trading partner in Latin America. LIMA, PERU: An expected US economic retreat from Latin America under Donald Trump is causing the region’s leaders to look halfway around the world, to China, for help weathering the possible financial headwinds. They’ll have the perfect opportunity to make their appeal this week when Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a Pacific Rim summit as... 

Donald Trump has won the US presidential election 2016 emerging “victorious” against all odds, polls, and projections. But it’s not only Trump-supporters who will be celebrating the victory of the Republican leader who promised to make “America great again”. As Firstpost reported, the Islamic State (IS) were also cheering for Trump because it believed the Republican candidate (now President-elect) would lead America... 

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama today said that he would feel “deeply disturbed” if Donald Trump is sworn in as his successor and reiterated that the billionaire is not somebody who is fit to be president in any circumstances. Barack Obama said that Donald Trump is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. “He (Trump) is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply...