Tag: United States

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Trump's carrots stick approach to Mexico and the border illegal crossing dispute

  

  President Donald Trump flew on Friday to visit newly built fencing on the Mexican border, even as he retreated from a threat to shut the frontier over what he says is an out-of-control influx of migrants and drugs.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  US and China “making progress” towards ending the trade war

  

  President Donald Trump on Friday said talks with Beijing were making progress toward ending the trade war between the world's two top economies, but he again stopped short of predicting success.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Trump again puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates

  

  United States president Donald Trump said on Friday the US Federal Reserve should lower interest rates and take other unconventional measures to ease pressure on an economy that he said they slowed down. “I think they should drop rates,” Trump told reporters. “I think they really slowed us down. There's no inflation.”

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  US blacklists PDVSA tankers and two companies shipping Venezuelan oil to Cuba

  

  US Vice President Mike Pence announced sanctions on Friday on 34 vessels of Venezuela's state oil company and two companies that ship crude to Cuba as Washington pushes to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 17:45 UTC

  US Treasury official David Malpass elected as World Bank’s president

  

  David Malpass has been chosen as the president of the World Bank Group (WBG) on Friday after being unanimously elected by the executive board of the organization with no other candidates.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Ex Republican presidential hopeful, Trump’s candidate for the Fed

  

  United States President Donald Trump has confirmed he recommended former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. Mr Trump told reporters at the White House Mr Cain is undergoing background checks to join America's central bank.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentine soybean farmers sign delayed-price contracts hoping for a US/China trade deal and higher prices

  

  Soybean growers in Argentina are playing a waiting game, wagering on better prices ahead as the U.S. and China inch toward a trade deal and as nation’s currency keeps depreciating. Farmers on the Pampas arable belt have signed delayed-price contracts for almost three quarters of the 12.2 million metric tons they’ve sold to crushers and exporters so far, according to government data. That compares with 60% at the same stage last year.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 19:15 UTC

  Guaidó after the strip of his immunity: “Nothing is going to stop us”; leaders ask for military intervention

  

  The ruling National Constituent Assembly (ANC) decided to withdraw parliamentary immunity to the opposition leader, President of the National Assembly (AN) and declared interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, who affirmed that nothing will stop him by ensuring that “there is no need to respond to an organism that does not exist. ” Opposition leaders expect to activate an article of the constitution that allows the AN to authorize a foreign military intervention in the country in order to withdraw “illegitimate” President Nicolás Maduro.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  US Supreme Court rules a convicted murderer has no right to a “painless death”

  

  US Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted murderer on death row in Missouri has no right to a “painless death”. The ruling clears the way for the execution of Russell Bucklew, who asked for gas rather than lethal injection, citing an unusual medical condition.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Trump cuts aid to Central American countries to stop immigration to the US

  

  United States opposition politicians and aid agencies have questioned a decision by President Donald Trump to cut off aid to three Central American states. Mr. Trump ordered the suspension of aid payments to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to push their governments to stop migration into the US.