Tag: United States

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Mexican elite forces sent to Culiacan where El Chapo's son cartel forced the army to retreat

  

  Mexico sent in special forces troops to patrol a northern city in the wake of a cartel assault that freed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son in a hail of bullets and also won a U.S. promise to help stop gun-smuggling at their shared border.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 12:12 UTC

  How has the US-China trade war affected forex?

  

  There are many factors that affect the value of currencies and influence the flow of foreign exchange, but few have a more significant impact than a trade war.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Trump optimistic a partial trade deal with China will be signed next month

  

  US President Donald Trump on Monday said progress in developing the text of a partial trade pact with China means he will likely be able to sign it next month. Trump remains upbeat on the chances Beijing and Washington will seal the mini-deal he announced earlier this month - marking a cooling-off period in the two nations' damaging trade war.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Trump claims being president has cost him several billions if he had kept to his businesses

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Monday that being president has cost him between US$2 billion and US$5 billion that he would have made if he had continued running his business instead of getting into politics, a claim unsupported by evidence.

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  US Justice Department concluded Honduras president was bribed by drug cartels

  

  Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez emerged battered from the trial and conviction of his brother last Friday after the US Justice Department concluded that the evidence showed narco-traffickers had bribed the president and his party.

• Sunday, October 20th 2019 - 10:57 UTC

  Trump back steps: G7 summit will not be held at his Florida golf course

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the next G7 summit will not be at one of his own Florida golf clubs, reversing a decision that had sparked corruption accusations.

• Sunday, October 20th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  Lagarde tells Trump and world leaders to act like grownups in trade conflicts

  

  Former IMF chief Christine Lagarde said President Donald Trump's trade offensive against China could slash global economic growth and she critiqued his Twitter habits in an interview with US television program 60 Minutes.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Trump's latest surprise: he will host the G7 economic summit at his Florida golf resort

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump will host next year’s Group of Seven economic summit of leaders of developed nations at his Florida golf resort, a move Democrats and others decried as more evidence of the president misusing his office for personal gain.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Venezuela in Human Rights Council: US and Argentina deplore UN “embarrassment”

  

  Venezuela on Thursday won a seat on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council -- a move that the U.S. quickly branded “an embarrassment” and further proof that its decision last year to leave the body last was the right one.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 15:25 UTC

  UK and US raid “dark web” of child pornography: 337 arrests in 38 countries

  

  UK and US authorities investigating a “dark web” child pornography site run from South Korea on Wednesday announced the arrest of 337 suspects in 38 countries. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said the “Welcome to Video” site contained 250,000 videos that were downloaded a million times by users across the world.