Tag: United States

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Trump bets strongly on Brexit and anticipates a “phenomenal trade deal” with UK

  

  United States President Donald Trump emerged from a meeting on Tuesday with outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May talking up a “phenomenal trade deal” between the two countries once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. But he also hinted that any such deal would have to include opening up Britain's cherished National Health Service (NHS) - a proposition certain to stir controversy.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  A major protest and a Baby Donald inflatable blimp over Parliament will mark Trump's second day in London

  

  A giant inflatable blimp depicting Donald Trump as a pouting baby in a diaper will fly outside the British parliament in London on Tuesday ahead of what is expected to be one of the city's largest protests against a foreign leader. The six-meter-high blimp will fly above Parliament Square for two hours from 0900 GMT when Trump is due to hold talks with the outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May nearby in Downing Street.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 08:56 UTC

  Trump and Queen Elizabeth hailed the US/UK bond and the “special relationship”

  

  Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth hailed the bond between the United States and the United Kingdom on Monday after the US president was distinguished with a day of pomp designed to bolster an alliance strained by discord over Brexit and China.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  Beijing stern warning on Taiwan: China will fight any interference with reunification

  

  China will fight anyone who tries to interfere in its “reunification” with Taiwan, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday in a combative speech peppered with threats against the United States over its military presence in Asia.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  China ready to fight the US on trade, but the door still open for talks, Beijing defense minister says

  

  China is ready to fight the US on trade but the door is still open for talks, the country's defense minister said on Sunday. “On the trade friction started by the US: if the US wants to talk, we will keep the door open. If they want to fight, we are ready,” General Wei Fenghe told an international security dialogue in Singapore.

• Saturday, June 1st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Markets and US businesses lobbies react negatively to Trump's tariffs on Mexican imports

  

  Mexico's president has insisted his government will not be provoked after President Donald Trump announced escalating tariffs on all goods unless Mexico curbed illegal migration. Andrés Manuel López Obrador described Mr Trump's slogan “America First” as a fallacy and said universal justice was more important than borders.

• Saturday, June 1st 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  Another mass shooting in the US: disgruntled city employee kills twelve in Virginia Beach

  

  A disgruntled city employee opened fire at the municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and wounding at least several others before he was fatally shot by police, authorities said.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Trump threatens Mexico with increasing tariffs if illegal immigration is not stopped

  

  President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico starting on Jun 10 until illegal immigration across the southern border is stopped.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Merkel at Harvard deplores attacks on climate change, free trade, condemns walls and lies

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged the world to do “everything humanly possible” to combat climate change and pledged to do her part. “Climate change poses a threat to our planet's natural resources,” Merkel said in her commencement address delivered at Harvard University in the United States. “It and the resulting crises are caused by humans.”

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  US Treasury monitoring list of countries with large trade surplus and possible currency manipulation

  

  The US Treasury expanded the number of countries subject to scrutiny in a semi-annual report released this week, but again found that neither China nor any other trading partners was manipulating its currency. The treasury urged the Asian giant to avoid allowing the renminbi to weaken persistently - which would give its products a more competitive advantage.