Tag: Donald Trump

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Maduro and Guaidó desperate: Venezuela on the verge of losing Citgo to an arbitration award

  

  Venezuela could lose its largest U.S. asset after a court allowed a Canadian gold miner to seize shares of Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s parent to satisfy an arbitration award.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Mexico will help Honduras create 20.000 jobs planting trees

  

  A scheme to create 20,000 jobs in Honduras has been agreed between the country's president and Mexico's leader in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants toward the United States.

• Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  US will not weaken the value of the dollar, says Trump's top economic advisor

  

  The US government will not intervene to weaken the value of the dollar, despite persistent concerns about actions by other countries to influence their currencies, a top White House economic aide said on Friday.

• Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Brazil and Beijing get along smoothly: “we never had an issue with China”

  

  Brazilian foreign minister Ernesto Araujo batted away concerns about Brazil's relations with China, its biggest trade partner, during the BRICS summit hosted by Brazil. Many had feared ties could rupture under newly-elected President Jair Bolsonaro, whose previous criticisms of Beijing and fervent admiration of US President Donald Trump are shared by Araujo.

• Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Guatemala caves in and signs migration agreement with the US

  

  The US and Guatemala have signed a migration agreement, days after US President Donald Trump threatened the Central American country with tariffs. Under the deal, migrants from Honduras and El Salvador who pass through Guatemala would be required to stop and seek asylum there first. Migrants who failed to do so would then be ineligible for asylum in the US.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  US reinstates capital penalty: five inmates in death row waiting for pentobarbital injections

  

  The US Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long-dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 08:09 UTC

  Boris, the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom, UK) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Trump’s bombastic self-promotion and Johnson’s self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 05:06 UTC

  US to compensate a minimum US$ 15 per acre to farmers hurt by trade war with China

  

  The U.S. government will pay a minimum of US$ 15 per acre to farmers hurt by President Donald Trump’s trade war with China under an aid package to be unveiled before the end of the week, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 18:42 UTC

  Boris Johnson promises to deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn

  

  Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister. He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656. The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Trump and Congress agree to suspend the debt limit until after the 2020 election

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a “compromise” bipartisan budget agreement has been reached that will boost federal spending by US$320 billion and suspend the debt limit beyond the next presidential election.