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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 05:46 UTC

Tag: US

  • Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

    Despite grumblings, US refrains from labeling China a “currency manipulator”

    Beijing's lack of transparency and weakness of the Yuan pose major challenges to achieving “more balanced trade”, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said

    United States has refrained from labeling China a “currency manipulator” in a move which may help defuse escalating tension over trade between the two countries. President Trump has previously accused China of keeping its currency weak to make its exports more competitive.

  • Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

    US targets China on international rates for parcels sent by post service

    The US says the discounts put American businesses at a disadvantage. Officials said they hope the notice of withdrawal will set the stage to agree a better deal

    The United States has announced plans to withdraw from a 144-year-old postal treaty, which the White House says lets China ship goods at unfairly low prices. The United Nations treaty sets lower international rates for packages from certain countries, a move originally designed to support poorer nations.

  • Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

    US offers US$ 10m reward for the head of the Jalisco New Generation cartel

    The reward for info leading to the arrest of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, is one of the highest offered by the U.S. State Department’s Narcotics

    The United States on Tuesday announced a US$ 10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a man accused of leading Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which the Justice Department considers to be one of the five most dangerous criminal organizations in the world.

  • Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

    US warns Central America to be cautious about relations with Beijing

    Central America has remained the key bastion for Taiwan, with Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua still maintaining ties with Taipei rather than Beijing

    US Vice President Mike Pence warned Central American nations to be cautious when building relations with China, which has been increasingly active in the region. Amid mounting tensions between the United States and China, Pence brought up ties with Beijing as he met in Washington with leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as well as Mexico's foreign secretary.

  • Saturday, October 6th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

    Saudi Crown Prince dismisses Trump's remarks on defense and military backing

    “I love working with him. You know, you have to accept that any friend will say good things and bad things,” Prince Mohammed said in a interview on Friday

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dismissed remarks by Donald Trump in which the U.S. president said he had warned the king he would not last in power “for two weeks” without U.S. military backing and demanded he pay up.

  • Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

    Enzyme research delivers Chemistry Nobel Prize to two Americans and a Brit

    Winners used a technique called directed evolution to create new proteins, which have been used in areas as diverse as manufacture of new drugs and green fuels

    The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in enzyme research. Americans Frances Arnold and George P Smith will share the prize with Briton Gregory Winter, who is based at Cambridge University.

  • Thursday, September 20th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

    WTO deeply concerned with US/China trade dispute: both sides have “significant” ammunition

    “I’m very concerned,” WTO chief Roberto Azevedo said “To be honest, I don’t think it’s over. They have lots of ammunition and it can expand to other areas...”

    The trade dispute between the United States and China could well expand into other areas given the significant “ammunition” the two countries have, the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Wednesday.

  • Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

    Pompeo sets terms of Trump/Kim accord: no lifting of sanctions until complete denuclearization

    Pompeo set the terms in Seoul after President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un held a historic summit in Singapore.

    North Korea will not see any economic sanctions lifted until it has demonstrated “complete denuclearisation”, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Pompeo was speaking at a press conference in Seoul with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts.

  • Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 08:12 UTC

    Fed proposes simplifying trading rules for foreign banks and funds

    The Fed alongside other U.S. regulators, proposed rewriting the “Volcker Rule” introduced following the 2007-09 financial crisis

    Foreign banks and funds are set to benefit from a move by U.S. regulators to simplify a trading rule that foreign banks and regulators say has inadvertently complicated firms operating as far afield as Europe and Asia. The Federal Reserve, alongside other U.S. regulators, on Wednesday proposed rewriting the “Volcker Rule” introduced following the 2007-2009 financial crisis in a bid to simplify the regulation and make it easier for banks to comply.

  • Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:32 UTC

    G7 foreign ministers' statement on the Salisbury attack

    “We fully support all efforts made by the US, UK and France to degrade the Assad regime’s ability to use chemical weapons and to deter any future use”

    We, the G7 foreign ministers, of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the attack that took place against Sergei and Yulia Skripal, using a nerve agent in Salisbury, United Kingdom, on March 4, 2018. A British police officer and numerous civilians were exposed in the attack and required hospital treatment, and the lives of many more innocent British civilians have been threatened. We express our deepest sympathies to them all and our admiration and support for the UK emergency services for their courageous response.