President Donald Trump’s trusted foreign envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Wednesday after the Kremlin requested a meeting with him in a last-ditch effort to avoid the punishing new sanctions Trump has threatened to impose this week,

Indian experts believe the U.S. president is trying to gain short-term leverage in trade negotiations with New Delhi.

India's ruling party and main opposition condemned on Tuesday a threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to raise tariffs on goods from India over its Russian oil purchases, in a show of political unity as a trade rift deepens with Washington.