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US President Donald Trump said late on Monday that his administration is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University. “We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University,” he said in a post on Truth Social, without saying what specific harms the university had caused. Trump’s administration in December appealed a judge’s ruling holding that it unlawfully terminated more than $2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard and can no longer cut off research funding to the…

Russia is ready for the new reality of a world with no nuclear arms control limits after the New START treaty expires later this week, Russia’s point man for arms control said on Tuesday. Unless Moscow and Washington reach a last-minute bilateral understanding of some kind, the New START treaty, signed in 2010 by US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, will expire on February 5. “The lack of an answer is also an answer,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted by state news agency TASS as…

BEIJING: China and Uruguay should work together to advance an “equal and orderly multipolar world”, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Yamandu Orsi on Tuesday, according to a media pool report. Orsi’s visit is the first by a South American leader to the Chinese capital since the United States invaded Venezuela in January and kidnapped then-President Nicolas Maduro in a raid. China and Uruguay should “work together to advance an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive, universally beneficial economic globalisation,” Xi said in his remarks, aiming to build…

A group of civil rights organisations on Monday sued the State Department over its recent pause on the processing of immigrant visas for citizens from 75 countries, arguing the policy “eviscerate[d] decades of settled immigration law.” The lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan asked a judge to issue a court order blocking the policy, which took effect on January 21. The complaint asserted that the State Department’s policy is “based on an unsupported and demonstrably false claim that nationals of the covered countries migrate to the United States to…

US President Donald Trump continued to raise the spectre of doom if negotiations with Iran do not pan out, saying Monday that “probably bad things will happen” without a deal. “We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones, the biggest and the best, and we have talks going on with Iran. We’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “But right now, we’re talking to them. We’re talking to Iran, and if we could work something out, that’d be great. And if…