Former US President came another step closer to getting the Republican presidential nomination by registering a landslide victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday and defeating GOP rival Nikki Haley at her home turf.
Speaking in South Carolina's Charleston, Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said, "I'm a woman of my word," referring to her earlier remarks about staying in the presidential race until Super Tuesday.
On the second anniversary of Russia-Ukraine conflict, US President Joe Biden announced over 500 new sanctions against Russia for its ongoing war of conquest of Ukraine and the death of Aleksey Navalny, who was Putin's fiercest opposition leader.
"The President expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny's extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to everyone," the statement read.
Addressing a campaign rally in Greensville City, the former South Carolina governor reiterated that she "is not going anywhere" and will continue her bid "till the last person votes."
Verma recalled the last 24 years, including the start of US President Bill Clinton's visit to India in 2000, saying, "If I measure our progress from the year 2000, we have excelled in every single body...We are more closely aligned than we have never been before."
Former US President Donald Trump broke his silence on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but avoided condemning Moscow or President Vladimir Putin in his cryptic post, CNN reported.
Al Jazeera reported that the US Senate passed a USD 95 billion package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan earlier this week, the bill faces a difficult road in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
In a series of posts on his Truth Social platform after the court's decision, Trump said the justice system in New York State and US as a whole is under assault by "partisan, deluded, biased Judges and Prosecutors."
A New York judge on Friday ordered former US President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization to pay a fine of nearly USD 355 million in a civil fraud case.