Trump 2.0
Opening Pakistan’s borders could revive textiles, cement, and agriculture, tapping into the billion-plus market next door.
Updated 21 Apr, 2025 10:50am
"Trump’s gamble to revive manufacturing via tariffs now risks accelerating the very decline it sought to reverse", say analysts.
Updated 21 Apr, 2025 11:04am
Maryland Senator challenges Trump administration to provide evidence of respecting US laws in deportation sweep.
Updated 21 Apr, 2025 10:19am
Copy of draft executive order calls for “full structural reorganisation” of State Department by October 1.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 09:00pm
“Compared with 2018, prices for commercial jets have risen by around 30pc,” says aviation expert.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 11:29am
Protesters voice concern that president is threatening long-respected constitutional norms.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 10:41am
As US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs trigger worldwide market chaos and geopolitical fallout, the question on everyone’s lips is what the endgame behind the radical American government actions is.
Updated 22 Apr, 2025 11:55pm
Spat over ocean shipping, which conveys 80pc of global trade, is the latest conflict in an intensifying trade war.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 06:05am
Says he and the lawyer for Abrego Garcia’s family were pulled over by soldiers 3 km outside the prison.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 06:05am
Covid.gov website now includes full-length image of Trump and criticises pandemic policies implemented under former president Joe Biden.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 06:05am
Texas is one of more than a dozen states that have enacted “anti-Sharia law” bills.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 06:05am
“If I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast, believe me,” Trump says, referring to Powell.
Published 20 Apr, 2025 06:05am
Case raises questions about Trump administration's adherence to limits set by SC, carries risk of significant clash between two coequal govt branches.
Updated 19 Apr, 2025 10:08pm
Trump’s increasingly hostile stance toward Canada emerges as a central concern.
Updated 19 Apr, 2025 09:23am
Among the information sought are records relating to expelled foreign students going back nearly a decade.
Published 18 Apr, 2025 08:23pm
Lawsuit names US Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons as defendants.
Published 17 Apr, 2025 07:01pm
El Salvador and the United States have subjected dozens of people to “enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention", says Human Rights Watch.
Updated 17 Apr, 2025 04:26pm
Governor terms it "one of the most self-destructive things" in modern American history.
Published 17 Apr, 2025 11:55am
The US has championed free trade and benefited immensely, but has practised it selectively.
Updated 17 Apr, 2025 09:11am
Miran’s essay argues that strong dollar makes US exports less competitive and imports cheaper, handicapping American manufacturers.
Updated 17 Apr, 2025 10:32am
Judge cites evidence that government engaged in “deliberate or reckless disregard” of his order when proceeding with deportation flights.
Published 16 Apr, 2025 11:40pm
University president says it refuses to “negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights”.
Updated 17 Apr, 2025 01:01pm
Bashes "hatchet" to Social Security admin, other actions; Trump takes a jab at his rival stumbling over sentences.
Published 16 Apr, 2025 12:10pm
While willing to talk, Tehran rejected any engagement under coercion.
Updated 16 Apr, 2025 09:56am
Says administration acted on flawed interpretation of immigration law.
Updated 16 Apr, 2025 09:47am
US education dept has demanded Harvard to reduce influence of those “more committed to activism than scholarship” amid pro-Palestinian protests.
Updated 15 Apr, 2025 03:02pm
Comments mark clearest signal yet that he is serious about deporting US-born citizens.
Published 15 Apr, 2025 10:34am
In Hanoi, Xi Jinping calls for resolve to jointly oppose "US bullying".
Updated 15 Apr, 2025 08:19am
Faced with an untrustworthy trade partner in the US, the economic imperative for countries would be to pursue trade diversion.
Updated 14 Apr, 2025 08:52am
US’ electronics tariff exemption to be short-lived; commerce secretary says semiconductor levy to be in place within months.
Updated 14 Apr, 2025 08:46am
