Tag: United States

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Syria: Trump tells Turkish president: “Don't be a tough guy” and “Don't be a fool!”

  

  President Donald Trump told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a letter about Turkey's incursion into Syria, “Don't be a tough guy” and “Don't be a fool!”

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Trump calls Nancy Pelosi a “third rate politician”; President experienced a “meltdown”

  

  Top congressional Democrats walked out of a fractious White House meeting on Syria policy on Wednesday when US President Donald Trump attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “third-rate politician.”

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  US/China agree to a first phase of trade deal; Trump suspends a tariff hike

  

  United States and China agreed on Friday to the first phase of a deal to end a trade war, prompting President Donald Trump to suspend a threatened tariff hike, but officials said the agreement had to be put on paper and more work was required to get it finalized.

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Fed announces supply of reserves plan to avoid “cash crunches”

  

  The Federal Reserve has announced a new program to boost liquidity in the US financial plumbing and allow the central bank to better manage interest rates, but without changing monetary policy.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  “Third world” blackouts in California to prevent deadly forest fires

  

  More than a million Californians were without electricity due to pre-emptive blackouts Thursday, but localized fires broke out as hot, windy conditions spread south toward Los Angeles.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Asylum seeking migrants occupy bridge linking Matamoros with the US

  

  Migrants seeking asylum in the United States who are camped in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading U.S. authorities to close the crossing, witnesses and authorities said.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Global trade tensions have investment on hold and promote poverty, World Bank claims

  

  As global trade tensions persist, investments are put on hold and without that cash to boost economic growth, poverty could surge, the World Bank's chief economist warned Tuesday. Without growth “inevitably, people will struggle”, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg said in an interview.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  UN running out of funds for staff salaries next month, claims Antonio Guterres

  

  The United Nations may not have enough money for staff salaries next month if member states don't pay what they owe, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday. He told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly's budget committee that if he had not worked since January to cut spending then the “we would not have had the liquidity to support” the annual gathering of world leaders last month.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  China's state media blasts NBA for endorsing Hong Kong violence and “secessionist pipe dream”

  

  Chinese state media on Wednesday accused the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) of endorsing violence and peddling a “secessionist pipe dream” in an escalating row over comments by a team official in support of protests in Hong Kong.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Trump must hand over eight years of tax returns to prosecutors, rules federal judge

  

  A federal judge on Monday said US President Donald Trump must hand over eight years of tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors, forcefully rejecting the president's argument that he was immune from criminal investigations.