Tag: Texas

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Asylum seeking migrants occupy bridge linking Matamoros with the US

  

  Migrants seeking asylum in the United States who are camped in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading U.S. authorities to close the crossing, witnesses and authorities said.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  BP divests from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay to concentrate in Texas shale

  

  British oil giant BP on Tuesday agreed to sell all its Alaskan properties for US$5.6 billion to privately held Hilcorp Energy Co, exiting a region where it operated for 60 years.

• Thursday, August 8th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Trump consoled victims in Ohio and Texas but also faced protestors demanding gun control

  

  President Donald Trump consoled victims of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas on Wednesday but faced protesters demanding gun control and denouncing what they say is his extremist rhetoric on race and immigration.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Bolsonaro will finally be honored at a foreign affairs event in Texas on 16 May

  

  Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro will speak at a foreign affairs event in Texas next week, organizers said, after he cancelled a heavily criticized visit to New York City.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists in being honored in the US: this time possibly in Texas

  

  Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is considering travelling to the United States to be honoured at an event in Texas next week, his spokesman said on Monday, just days after he cancelled a heavily criticized visit to New York City.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Chevron completes purchase of controversial Petrobras refinery in Houston

  

  Chevron Corp completed a US$ 350 million purchase of a refinery in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas, from Brazil’s Petrobras, Chevron said in a statement. The sale was agreed to in January, but Chevron put the transfer of the 112,229-barrel-per-day plant’s ownership on hold on April 2, telling Petrobras it had to prove the refinery would operate as promised.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  Apple pledges to build a “Silicon Valley” in Texas: US$ 1bn investment

  

  Apple has announced plans to build a new campus in Austin, Texas, saying the project will involve a one-billion-dollar investment. The company already has an existing base in the city. The iPhone-maker said it expected the latest move would eventually make it in the state's capital biggest private employer.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Ten people killed in school shooting by a student near Houston, Texas

  

  Ten people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting on Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, authorities said. The shooting at Santa Fe High School was the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.