US President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson, replacing him with CIA chief Mike Pompeo, with whom he said he is on the “same wavelength”. Trump also nominated Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA, to take over from Pompeo. However, Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas, has been a trusted adviser to Trump even on domestic issues. The relationship has been very good and that’s what I need as secretary of state,” Trump told reporters. Tillerson visited India in October, prefacing it with a rousing speech in which he called India and the US as “two bookends of stability”.

Source: Hindustan Times March 13, 2018 12:59 UTC