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The search continued with them using bathrooms at the residence of former US president Barack Obama and even at Vice President Mike Pence home as per the Washington Post report. Finally, after much struggle, the agents found a toilet that they could use for themselves. However, it came at a whopping cost USD 3,000 per month, stated the report. … [Read more...] about Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, Jared Kushner instruct US Secret Service agents not to use their toilet? Here’s what happened

Not since the waning days of Grover Cleveland’s presidency in the late 1800s has the U.S. government executed federal inmates during a presidential transition, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Cleveland’s was also the last presidency during which the number of civilians executed federally was in the double digits in one year, 1896, during Cleveland’s second term. … [Read more...] about Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution

No matter what other absurd measures Washington will introduce in the coming days to tarnish China-U.S. relations, they will not change the course of China's development and the course of China-U.S. relations. In other words, the anti-China policy of the current U.S. administration will only end in failure. China will maintain strong unity, conduct its own activities effectively and set its own calendar for doing so. … [Read more...] about Xinhua Commentary: Good riddance, Trump administration and its final madness

America’s acrimony towards Cuba has its roots in the Cold War period. As U.S. President Barack Obama noted when he opened up towards Cuba, their adverse relations were a relic of the past. He had taken a more realistic approach towards the Cubans than his predecessors. The U.S. has punished Cuba for decades with harsh sanctions, hoping that the Castro regime would eventually collapse. But the Cuban communists survived even the fall of the Soviet Union. With the Cold War memories fading and a new generation of Americans demanding a reset in foreign policy, Mr. Obama re-established ties, opened the American embassy and travelled to Havana, marking a new beginning. The logical approach of his successor should have been taking more confidence-building measures between the two countries and working towards a gradual normalisation of ties. But Donald Trump did just the opposite. It is strange that the U.S., the world’s largest military power that had cooperated with communist … [Read more...] about Final blow: On U.S. policy reversal on Cuba

This first major political riot was not just well organized, "it was also well orchestrated. For example, the police were purposefully drawn into certain arrest procedures to show them in the worst light" for the benefit of members of the international media, who were looking for such footage. Vittachi notes, acutely, that: "A well-known strategy of international protest is to dehumanize the police and ascribe all wrongdoing to them. This is precisely what was happening in Hong Kong." … [Read more...] about Different perceptions of insurrection in US and HK