Tag: United States

• Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:25 UTC

  Morales claims he was ousted in a coup sponsored by the US aimed at taking over Bolivia's lithium resources

  

  Former Bolivia president Evo Morales told news agencies in Buenos Aires last Tuesday that he was forced from office by a United States-backed coup d'etat aimed at gaining access to the South American country's vast lithium resources.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Beijing pledges to purchase US$ 40bn of US agricultural products per year

  

  China will make good on a pledge to purchase more than US$40 billion per year of U.S. agricultural products under the recently agreed Phase 1 trade deal between the two countries, China’s top agriculture consultancy said on Friday.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Influential evangelical magazine “Christianity Today” criticizes Trump's “obvious misuse of power”

  

  Christianity Today, the magazine founded by the late Reverend Billy Graham renewed its criticism of President Donald Trump in a new editorial that cited his “misuses of power” and asked fellow Christians to examine their loyalty to him, days after a controversial editorial that called for his impeachment.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 23:06 UTC

  Trump invites Johnson to the White House, but the impeachment and Brexit could delay potential dates

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump has invited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to visit him in the White House in the new year, British media reported on Sunday. Trump’s invitation was made after the British prime minister’s election win this month, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. Britain wants to strike a new trade deal with the United States after it leaves the European Union at the end of January.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 21:44 UTC

  US Environment agency reaffirms glyphosate does not cause cancer; contradicts California court verdict

  

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department said a federal appeals court should reverse a lower court verdict finding Bayer AG liable in the case of a California man who blamed its Roundup weed killer for his cancer.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 19:50 UTC

  Arrest of Mexican ex security minister by US officials shocks both countries

  

  Business ties between former U.S. officials and an ex-Mexican security minister charged with taking bribes from a drug cartel have raised questions about what U.S. law enforcement knew about him before his arrest this month.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Bloomberg opens campaign offices in three crucial swing states

  

  Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul who is seeking the Democratic nomination for US president, on Saturday opened campaign offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, three battleground states crucial in next's year election.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 11:00 UTC

  It's official: US creates the sixth military branch, the Space Force

  

  President Donald Trump signed legislation on Friday to create a full-fledged Pentagon force for combat in outer space - the first new military service in seven decades. Capping an ambitious order Trump issued in June 2018, the US Space Force officially came into being when Trump signed the annual military budget, the US$738 billion National Defense Authorization Act.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:34 UTC

  Trump accepts Pelosi's invitation for the state of the union speech on February 4

  

  US President Donald Trump has accepted the invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver his state of the union speech on Feb 4, the White House said on Friday. The invite for the annual presidential speech to Congress comes at a charged political moment, with Trump freshly impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and facing a trial in a US Senate that is almost certain to acquit him.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:31 UTC

  Trump will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum, Bolsonaro says

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that US President Donald Trump told him in a phone conversation that his administration will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum as threatened earlier this month.