Steve Holland

3 days ago | businesslive.co.za | Steve Holland |Idrees Ali |Phil Stewart

Washington — President Donald Trump said on Monday that he stood behind US defence secretary Pete Hegseth after reports that he shared details of a March attack on Yemen’s Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Steve Holland |Matt Spetalnick |Parisa Hafezi

Washington — President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Monday that the US and Iran were poised to begin direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, but Iran’s foreign minister said the discussions in Oman would be indirect.

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen |Steve Holland

Copenhagen/Washington — Greenlandic leaders criticised a planned trip this week by a high-profile US delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory that President Donald Trump has suggested the US should annex. The delegation, which will visit a US military base and watch a dogsled race, will be led by Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and include White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright.

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Steve Holland |Rich McKay

Washington — US President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honour his campaign promise to provide more transparency about the shock event in Texas. An initial tranche of electronic copies of papers flooded into the National Archives website in the evening with a total of more than 80,000 expected to be published after justice department lawyers spent hours scouring them.

1 month ago | marketscreener.com | Steve Holland |Dmitry Antonov |Andrew Osborn

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to spare Ukrainian troops being pushed back out of Russia's Kursk region and said there was a "very good chance" the war could end.