Tag: United States

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 19:12 UTC

  US State Department confirms close association with Argentina and whoever wins 27 October election

  

  United States said on Wednesday it expects to continue with the solid association with Argentina, 'whoever is the candidate that the Argentine people elect as their next president', on 27 October according to a source from US State Department Western Hemisphere Affairs.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 19:00 UTC

  Ivanka Trump will be visiting Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay

  

  United States Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan will travel with Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump to Colombia, Argentina, and Paraguay September 3-6.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  US did not agree to the G7 US$ 20 million emergency aid for the Amazon

  

  The United States did not agree to a US$20 million emergency aid package to help battle wildfires announced by French President Emmanuel Macron at a G7 summit this weekend, a spokesman for the US National Security Council (NSC) said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  BP divests from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay to concentrate in Texas shale

  

  British oil giant BP on Tuesday agreed to sell all its Alaskan properties for US$5.6 billion to privately held Hilcorp Energy Co, exiting a region where it operated for 60 years.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  France and US reach a deal on taxing big internet companies

  

  France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to hit back with tariff action after France passed a law earlier this year that would impose a 3% tax on revenues earned on digital services in France.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 19:02 UTC

  Trump to hold off from a further tariff escalation in the trade war with China, admits “second thoughts”

  

  President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that his trade war with China is causing friction at the G7 summit, but indicated he will hold off from a threatened further escalation for now. “I think they respect the trade war. It has to happen,” Trump told reporters in Biarritz, France, where he was meeting with other leaders of the G7 group.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

  US/China trade war further escalates: where does it end before reaching a point of no return?

  

  President Donald Trump declared on Friday he would further raise American tariffs on all Chinese imports hours after China announced tariffs on American goods, the second escalation within the day of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies that has shown no sign of ending soon.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Tougher rules at US borders: no limit for migrant children's detention and an end to birthright citizenship

  

  President Donald Trump's administration announced on Wednesday that it would remove tough legal limits on how long migrant children can be detained as part of its broader crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  British Prime Minister girlfriend barred from entering the United States

  

  The girlfriend of new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been denied permission to enter the United States because of her trip to East Africa’s Somaliland in 2018. Carrie Symonds, who moved into 10 Downing Street when Johnson became prime minister in July, was hoping to visit the US in the next few days as part of her adviser role for Oceana, a US-based environmental non-profit organization.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Farmers furious with USDA estimates and frustrated about unsold crops caused by Trump's trade war

  

  The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and sources said the threat of violence was made during a phone call from an angry farmer.