Thomas Watkins
US Edition Editor at The National
Washington bureau chief for @thenationalnews. Board member @ForeignPressUSA Previously Islamabad, Kabul, Paris, LA, London. Send me Marmite https://t.co/KJLCSwiAQ7
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Thomas Watkins
President Donald Trump on Friday said he had helped India and Pakistan avert a potential nuclear war by using trade with the US as leverage to push for a ceasefire. The South Asian neighbours exchanged artillery, plane and drone strikes this month after gunmen killed 26 people in April in the Himalayan tourist spot of Pahalgam in the Kashmir valley. India accused Pakistan of backing the attack, which Islamabad has denied.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Thomas Watkins
The US State Department on Thursday said it is putting "America first" by starting to revoke the visas of thousands of Chinese students studying in America. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said he would "aggressively" cancel the visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in critical fields. China is the second-largest country of origin for international students in the US, behind only India.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Thomas Watkins
The US State Department on Thursday notified Congress of plans for a major reorganisation that would cut thousands of jobs and focus the department on promoting “America's interests”. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the department needed slimming down after decades of bureaucratic bloat that had brought spiralling costs with no gains for US citizens.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Thomas Watkins
Foreign officials who censor social media postings by Americans will be denied US visas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday. Mr Rubio said the decision is a way of protecting free speech guaranteed by the US Constitution, but it also comes as he draws scrutiny for his own attempts to regulate what some people in the country are allowed to say about the war in Gaza.
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thenationalnews.com | Thomas Watkins |Adla Massoud
A US-backed aid group began giving out food in Gaza on Tuesday but chaotic scenes unfolded as thousands of hungry people rushed towards a distribution centre and Israeli security forces reportedly fired warning shots. The start of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's operations comes nearly three months after Israel imposed a blockade on the Palestinian territory, which is now at risk of widespread famine. Here is a look at the foundation and the surrounding controversy.
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"As long as Hamas exists in in that area, with a gun, without a gun, as long as they are a factor in Gaza and exist, there is no way forward,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce says
