United States President Barack Obama would encourage both the Chinese leadership and the Dalai Lama to continue to talk.
US President Barack Obama will meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on February 18, objections from China notwithstanding.
United States President Barack Obama would have loved to spend more time in India during his November visit but time constraint is preventing him from visiting Agra's Taj Mahal and the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the White House has said.
The White House on Tuesday said it does not indulge in cash transactions in Afghanistan and all its assistance to the war-torn country is accountable to the Congress, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai had said that he received "bags of cash" from Iran and the United States.
A US federal judge in Houston has declared illegal a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, including hundreds of Indians, brought to the US as children, but noted that the government can continue to process renewals of its current recipients.
President Barack Obama has issued orders to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, the White House said without specifying the exact numbers.
A helpless White House on Friday implored WikiLeaks, which is reportedly in possession of 15,000 more classified documents on the Afghanistan war, not to post any more of the records, saying US national security and life of its soldiers and Afghan nationals were at risk.
During a regular press conference on Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that the unmanned Chinese civilian airship into US airspace is entirely caused by 'force majeure'.
"As of this afternoon the President remains fatigued but in good spirits. He is being evaluated by a team of experts, and together we will be making recommendations to the President and First Lady in regards to next best steps," President's physician Sean Conley said in a memo released by the White House.
Do not underestimate the ingenuity of the Deep State in America to have its way. Keeping the guard down will be a catastrophic mistake on the part of the Delhi establishment. We could get hit when least expected. That's what happened in Bangladesh and Syria, warns Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Announcing Bolton's sacking on twitter, Trump said he will name a new national security advisor next week.
United States President Barack Obama would have loved to spend more time in India and it is due to his "short trip" that he will not be visiting Golden Temple at Amritsar and Taj Mahal at Agra, the White House said on Monday.
In a damaging report ahead of the November 5 polls, a special United States counsel has said that President Joe Biden 'willfully' mishandled classified documents as a private citizen but concluded that it would be difficult to convict him as he comes across as an 'elderly man with a poor memory'.
In Amman, Biden will meet with King Abdullah of Jordan, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Terming as 'inaccurate' reports that United States President Barack Obama has postponed his talks with the Dalai Lama, the White House has said the US president holds the Tibetan leader in great esteem and insisted that a meeting was never on the cards during the Nobel laureate's current trip to US.
They are now publicly trying to redefine the goals of their invasion to be different than they were at the outset, she noted when asked about some declassified American intelligence information that Putin had bad information from his military.
Refusing to comment on an emissary being sent to Pakistan to confront concerns about the Inter Services Intelligence working with militants, the Bush administration on Thursday said the United States was working with Islamabad in its fight against terror."I have no comment on that story," White House press secretary Dana Perino said, adding that she was not in a position to comment on how Pakistan was faring on the war on terror."We will continue to work with them," she said.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said it would take quite some time before a decision in this regard is taken by the Obama administration; whose plan to try the 9/11 mastermind in a New York court had to be scuttled due to strong opposition from the New York Mayor and lawmakers from the State.
PM Modi has extended an invite to the US president to be the Chief Guest at the next year's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi.
North Korea's foreign minister accused President Trump of declaring war against his country.
After his visit to Brussels, McGurk will visit Israel where he is slated to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and senior security and intelligence officials.
"We think it is a good thing that countries are developing, that more and more people have higher and higher standards of living," Deputy White House Press Secretary Scott Stanzel said in reply to a question in Washington on Monday. The White House official said, "The point I think is that as you increase your standard of living, the food that you eat can venture more into meats that require more commodities to feed the livestock, which uses more of those commodities, whether
The United States on Friday said that one of the reasons for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington next week is to help push the bilateral civil nuclear agreement 'over the line' so that the agreement can be wrapped up."And one of the reasons Prime Minister Singh will come to the White House is to help push that over... the line, so that we can get it done," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said.
United States President George W Bush is not new to committing gaffes but it appears to have rubbed on his White House staffers, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself becoming a victim at the G8 summit.A transcript issued by the White House Press Secretary office quoted Singh talking about the opportunity he had with Bush at their meeting -- on the sidelines of the G-8 summit to review 'Hindu-American relations'.
"President Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the Congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement.
Kwatra briefed reporters on the outcomes of the second day of Modi's visit that began in Washington, DC with a grand ceremonial welcome on the South Lawn of the White House.
Russia said on Monday that the Vostok 2022 military exercises will be held from September 1 to 7 in different locations in the Far East and the Sea of Japan and involve more than 50,000 troops from China, India and several other countries.
United States President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not address a joint press conference after their meeting because of scheduling issues and the two leaders wanted more time to discuss several pressing matters.
"Out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of his physician and medical experts, the president will be working from the presidential offices at Walter Reed for the next few days," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Friday, a day after he was tested positive for COVID-19.
President Joe Biden asked Americans to stand up to the gun lobby and urged the members of the Congress for an immediate gun control legislation.
The outage comes as a result of the failure of the Notice to Air Missions system, which alerts pilots and other personnel about airborne issues and other delays at airports across the country.
St John's church was set ablaze on Sunday night as protesters demanded justice for the killing of Floyd, a 46-year-old man who was pinned to the ground in Minneapolis last week by a white police officer who kneeled on his neck as he gasped for breath.
The White House said it would push US states to create registers of the true ownership of American companies.
He asserted that if a deal emerges the Israeli public will be updated.
US President Barack Obama and Republican leaders reached no specific decision on how to end the partial government shutdown.
The new National Cricket Academy which was inaugurated in Bengaluru on Sunday has been renamed as the BCCI Centre of Excellence.
The attack would be preceded by a fabricated pretext that the Russians use as an excuse to launch an invasion.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to visit Taiwan, with scheduled meetings with government officials at the self-governed island that China threatens to forcefully overtake, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Trump's move came on Thursday a day after the House Speaker urged him to reschedule his annual State of the Union address slated for January 29, citing security concerns triggered by the shutdown that has entered its 27th day.
PM Modi went to New York this time not to engage in polemics, but to find solutions to global problems. He made some progress on several matters, even on reform of the UN Security Council, when the US made a major concession for the first time that six permanent members without veto, including India, could be considered
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