Tag: United States

• Monday, October 19th 2015 - 10:02 UTC

  US imposes new curbs on Arctic waters oil and gas exploration

  

  The US government has announced new curbs on oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters off Alaska's northern coast. It comes after oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last month stopped its Arctic activity citing “disappointing” tests.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  Michelle Obama christens USS Illinois, 13th Virginia Class submarine

  

  USS Illinois (SSN 786), the 13th submarine of the U.S. Navy’s Virginia Class, was christened Saturday at builder General Dynamics Electric Boat’s Groton shipyard.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 07:21 UTC

  Fed close to increasing rate, according to minutes; IMF again calls on Yellen for prudence

  

  The US Federal Reserve believes the US economy was close to warranting an interest rate hike in September but policymakers decided it was prudent to wait for evidence a global economic slowdown was not knocking United States off course.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2015 - 09:56 UTC

  Former UN General Assembly president charged over corruption ring

  

  United States authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  BP agrees to pay 20bn dollars to settle claims with Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill

  

  Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 killed 11 workers.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 07:29 UTC

  US jobs created in September sharply lower than expected; fears global slow-down is hitting America

  

  The US economy added just 142,000 jobs in September, lowering the chance of an interest rate rise this year. The figure was far lower than the 205,000 increase forecast by economists. The number of jobs created in July and August were revised down by a combined 59,000.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Umpqua killer: interest in high-profile shootings, angry at not having a girlfriend and bitter at the world

  

  Christopher Harper-Mercer was withdrawn and quiet as he grew up in southern California, spending most of his time indoors at his mother’s apartment and deflecting neighbors when they asked him how he was doing, or why he always wore the same outfit of combat boots and green Army pants. But there was one subject that got him to open up: guns.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Frustrated Obama challenges voters to support changes in gun laws

  

  A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama said on Thursday that thoughts and prayers are no longer enough as Americans respond to another deadly school shooting, and he challenged voters wanting to deal with the problem to vote for elected officials who will do something.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 07:46 UTC

  Obama and Castro renew calls for an end to US trade embargo against Cuba

  

  President Barack Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on Tuesday at the United Nations and renewed calls for an end to the US trade embargo against Havana.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Argentina furious with Washington over top-spy 'hiding' in the US

  

  Argentina and the US are on collision course following president Cristina Fernandez complaint of lack of cooperation from Washington, in helping locate a former Argentine spy, head of special operations, who apparently is hiding 'or being protected' in the US, and has been summoned by prosecutors in Buenos Aires.