Tag: United States

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 13:53 UTC

  US coalition: Strikes in Syria increases tension; reactions worldwide

  

  Bombs have fallen. Damascus has been beaten again. The United States, United Kingdom and France coalition launched airstrikes against Syrian targets as Donald Trump sought to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack last weekend near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2018 - 09:41 UTC

  Zuckerberg manages first congressional hearing but many questions remain about Facebook's privacy policy

  

  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified about data privacy on Tuesday in a marathon hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Here are seven takeaways.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI raids offices and home of Trump's personal lawyer; president calls it a “witch hunt”

  

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday raided the offices and home of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, law enforcement sources said, in a dramatic new development in a series of probes involving close Trump associates. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen M. Ryan, said that U.S. prosecutors conducted a search that was partly a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  FARC leader arrested in Bogotá on a US request for drug trafficking

  

  One of the top leaders of Colombia's former rebel group, FARC, has been arrested in Bogota following a request from the United States. Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused of drug trafficking by a court in New York.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  US budget deficit expected to balloon to US$ 1.5 trillion over the next decade

  

  With the passage of deep tax cuts late last year, annual United States budget deficits are expected to balloon over the next decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Facebook's Zuckerberg again apologizes ahead of congressional hearings

  

  On the eve of an expected grilling by U.S. lawmakers, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg once again apologized for inadequately protecting the data of millions of social media platform users and highlighted steps the firm is taking to prevent a repeat.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Trump will take his confrontation with China to the Summit of the Americas

  

  United States President Donald Trump, engaged in an escalating confrontation with Beijing over trade, will urge Latin American leaders next week to work with the United States – not China – on trade, a senior US official said on Thursday. Trump’s trip to Lima, Peru, for the Summit of the Americas has been prefaced by aggressive moves on trade and immigration.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Anti Iran coalition: Saudi crown prince touring the US moves closer to Israel

  

  Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying:

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Barclays agrees to pay US$ 2bn to settle lawsuit for “misleading investors”

  

  Barclays has agreed to pay US$2bn to settle a lawsuit brought by the US government over the sale of mortgage-backed securities. The US alleged that the bank had misled investors about the quality of loans backing the securities in the run-up to the financial crisis.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:39 UTC

  Trade war: China slaps higher tariffs on US pork, wine and certain fruits

  

  China has slapped extra tariffs of up to 25% on 128 U.S. products including frozen pork, as well as on wine and certain fruits and nuts, in response to U.S. duties on imports of aluminum and steel, China’s finance ministry said. The tariffs, to take effect on Monday, were released late on Sunday and matches a list of potential tariffs on up to US$3 billion in U.S. goods published by China on March 23.