Tag: Donald Trump

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  CDC new guidance cuts quarantine time to seven days for Covid-19 negative tests

  

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force on Tuesday that its new guidance would cut quarantine time for individuals exposed to the virus by as much as half.

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Bolsonaro will wait “a little bit longer” to recognize a winner in the US election

  

  Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he will wait “a little bit longer” to recognize a winner in the U.S. presidential election, suggesting there was evidence of fraud in the process.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  Iran's top nuclear scientist ambushed and killed: Teheran points to Israel and Trump

  

  An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb program was killed in an ambush near Teheran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Trump will leave the White House when the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for president-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov 3 election, even as he reiterated his unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  France demands online technology giants to pay a “new digital tax” on 2020 profits

  

  France will require online technology giants to pay a new “digital tax” on their 2020 earnings, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, despite Washington's warning that it could retaliate with new tariffs on French imports.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  Trump gives go-ahead to presidential transition, but continues with legal challenges

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday said he had given Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration, the go-ahead to proceed with a transition for President-elect Joe Biden’s administration despite plans to continue with legal challenges.

• Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  “US politicians are behaving like children,” JP Morgan Chase CEO

  

  U.S. politicians are behaving like children by not passing a new stimulus bill that could help Americans whose income has been wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday at a New York Times conference.

• Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 08:26 UTC

  Trump administration tightens the noose on Cuba: bans charter flights with alleged humanitarian cargo

  

  The U.S. Transportation Department said on Wednesday it is denying exemptions for two charter flight companies to deliver humanitarian cargo to Cuba, the latest crackdown by the Trump administration.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Trump considered attacking Iran's main nuclear site, but finally desisted on counsel from advisors

  

  President Donald Trump asked senior advisers last Thursday about potential options for attacking Iran's main nuclear site, US media report. The advisers warned him that military action could spark a broader conflict, officials were cited as saying.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  For Bolsonaro, US elections are not over, “Have they really finished?”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of Republican President Donald Trump and one of the few prominent world leaders still not to have congratulated Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on his election win, asked on Thursday whether the vote in the U.S. was really over.