Tag: Donald Trump

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  Bernie Sanders steps down: Biden becomes the challenger of Trump's reelection

  

  Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist whose progressive agenda pushed the Democratic Party sharply to the left, ended his White House campaign on Wednesday, clearing the way for a Nov 3 election battle between former Vice President Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  WHO's Tedros rebukes Trump and calls for unity: ”For God's sake ... is this (death toll) not enough?”

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday pleaded for global unity in fighting the coronavirus and gave a strident defense of his agency's handling of the pandemic, in response to US President Donald Trump's criticism.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:24 UTC

  3M reaches agreement with Trump administration to export masks to Canada and Latin America

  

  Manufacturing giant 3M said it has an agreement with the Trump administration that will allow the company to continue to export N95 protective masks to Canada and Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  Trump blasts WHO for focusing on China and issuing bad advice on coronavirus

  

  US President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the coronavirus outbreak.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 07:53 UTC

  US markets bullish response to Trump's “Light at the end of the tunnel”

  

  Hopes that the economy-crushing coronavirus pandemic might be easing sent Wall Street climbing sharply on Monday with all three main indices higher at the close of trading.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Johnson in intensive care; Raab deputizes; support from Trump and Macron

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit on Monday after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, although his Downing Street office said he was still conscious. Britain has no formal succession plan should the prime minister become incapacitated, but Johnson, 55, has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputize for him.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  US designates Russian white supremacist group as a foreign terrorist organization

  

  The United States on Monday branded a Russian far-right group as a foreign terrorist organization, the first time it has targeted white supremacists with tools regularly used against Islamist extremists.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Trump orders sanitary evacuation of Zaandam and Rotterdam passengers

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that US authorities will evacuate passengers from a stranded cruise ship due to dock in Florida after being barred from several South American countries because of a coronavirus outbreak aboard.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Growing opinion in US that China's coronavirus figures are a “major cover-up operation”

  

  President Donald Trump cast doubt on Wednesday on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover-up.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2020 - 07:54 UTC

  Trump calls on Florida to allow Zaandam to dock: “They are dying on the ship”

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged Florida officials to open an Atlantic Coast port to a Dutch cruise ship stuck at sea with a deadly coronavirus outbreak onboard, urging the governor to drop his opposition.