Tag: United States

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Mexico's National Guard “rescue” some 2,000 migrants trying to cross from Guatemala

  

  Mexican migration authorities released an official count of the number of people detained along the country's southern border two days before, estimating that more than 2,000 people were “rescued” after they crossed the border with Guatemala.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:28 UTC

  Pompeo reaffirms full support for Guaidó and calls on other countries to help remove Maduro

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country will take additional measures in support of Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Pompeo called on other countries to co-operate in efforts to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

  

  Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  If Argentine prosecutor Nisman was murdered, the U.N. should conduct the investigation into his death

  

  The following opinion column was written by Andres Oppenheimer, an Argentine journalist who has been living in the United States for several decades and is an expert in Latin American affairs.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  IMF warns that the US/China accord is a “trade truce, and not the same as trade peace”

  

  The United States and China still have a long way to go to resolve their trade disputes although the partial deal signed this week is a step forward, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday. “Trade truce is not the same as trade peace,” she said.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Wall Street at record highs on housing data and hopes of a global rebound

  

  Wall Street climbed to record highs on Friday, with major indexes turning in their strongest weekly gains since August, after strong U.S. housing data and signs of resilience in the Chinese economy raised hopes of a rebound in global growth.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  US will screen travelers from Chinese city of Wuhan for symptoms of new respiratory virus

  

  The United States will begin screening efforts at three U.S. airports to detect travelers from the central Chinese city of Wuhan who may have symptoms of a new respiratory virus that so far has killed two people and infected 45 more, public health officials said on Friday (Jan 17).

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 17:34 UTC

  Chinese media warned not to “nitpick” the US/Beijing Phase 1 trade deal

  

  Chinese state media on Thursday warned against any “nitpicking” as Beijing portrayed the Phase 1 trade deal with United States and its new commitments to massive purchases of US goods as a boon for China's economy.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 16:07 UTC

  Honduran migrant column heading for US, but Mexico warns it won't let them through

  

  US President Donald Trump has put Mexico and Central American nations under pressure to accept a series of migration agreements that aim to shift the burden of dealing with asylum-seekers on to them, and away from the United States.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 13:49 UTC

  Iran wants to avoid war and promotes peace dialogue with the world

  

  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday he wants to avoid war after Tehran and Washington appeared on the brink of direct military confrontation in early January for the second time in less than a year.