The talks between President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and the North Korean delegation, which had been due on Thursday, “will now take place at a later date,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. read more

Pompeo tweeted a Diwali message wishing people a joyous and prosperous holiday. read more

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold a new round of talks with a senior North Korean official in New York on Thursday, hoping to open the way for a second summit of the two countries’ leaders and make progress on denuclearisation. read more

The US government will fully reinstate energy and banking sanctions against Tehran on Monday, however, eight countries will receive temporary sanctions waivers due to their significantly reduced import of oil from Iran. read more

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said the Donald Trump administration is committed to reducing Iranian crude imports by its major buyers China and India to “zero” and warned ominously, but without specifics, “watch what we do”. read more

The United States is reimposing punitive measures targeting the Iranian oil and financial sectors in what US secretary of state Mike Pompeo called “the toughest sanctions ever placed” against Iran. read more

The new deal that the United States is offering blocks forever Iran’s path to nuclear weapons, enjoins upon it to give up its ballistic missiles programme and end “malign activities”, which Americans use to describe Tehran’s alleged support for terrorism,... read more

North Korea has warned it could revive a state policy aimed at strengthening its nuclear arsenal if the United States does not lift economic sanctions against the country. read more

Turkey’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday confirmed for the first time that Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the consulate on October 2 as part of a planned hit, and his body was then dismembered and destroyed. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he and Japan Prime Minister Sinzo Abe have agreed that from digital partnership to cyberspace, health to defence and from oceans to space, both sides will strengthen their partnership. read more

US president Donald Trump on Tuesday called the Saudi handling of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi the “worst in the history of cover-up” and his administration moved to punish Saudi officials responsible by revoking their visas as a first step... read more

More than a fortnight after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and denials over any knowledge of his whereabouts, Saudi Arabia confirmed that Khashoggi was killed on the premises, triggering a backlash... read more

Appointed in July 2015, Minal Patel Davis has made a local impact on human trafficking in America’s fourth largest city from a policy-level perspective and by helped in advancing systems change. read more

If the Saudi government is found to be culpable in Khashoggi’s disappearance, the legislation prohibits all US military aid and sales to Saudi Arabia until Congress passes a resolution approving such sales. read more

The summit is an initiative of Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, who is at the centre of the international controversy surrounding Khashoggi, a strident critic of the prince, who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October... read more