Tag: United States

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 10:01 UTC

  Trump foundation to close down amid allegations of illegal misuse of funds

  

  United States President Donald Trump's troubled charity foundation has agreed to close down amid allegations that he and others illegally misused its funds. The move was announced by the Attorney General of the state of New York, Barbara Underwood, who will supervise the distribution of its remaining monies.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 09:54 UTC

  Xi Jinping recalls the forty years that have made China a super power

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed that his country will not develop at the expense of other nations, in a speech marking 40 years since China introduced major economic reforms. However, he also said that the global superpower would not be told what to do by anyone.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Latin American markets and currencies cautious ahead of Fed's two-day meeting

  

  Latin American currencies failed to gain against a weak dollar on Tuesday, as cautious investors pared exposure ahead of the end of the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day meeting on Wednesday, while Latin American stocks ticked up in line with their U.S. peers.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  US wins “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling legal battle against Mexico at WTO

  

  The United States won a legal battle over “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling on Friday, when the World Trade Organization’s appeals judges dismissed Mexico’s argument that the U.S. labeling rules violated WTO rules

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 07:04 UTC

  Pompeo will lead US delegation to Brazilian president Bolsonaro's inauguration

  

  United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will lead a delegation to the January first presidential inauguration of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, president Donald Trump announced on Monday.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  UN forecasts 2 million Venezuelans will emigrate in 2019

  

  Around two million more Venezuelans are expected to flee their country during 2019, according to a United Nations forecast released Friday in Geneva. If true, the total number of Venezuelan migrants could reach 5.3 million a year from now.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Investigation into the death of Guatemalan child in the custody of US Border Patrol

  

  An investigation has been launched after a seven-year-old girl died while in the custody of the US Border Patrol. The Guatemalan child, named as Jakelin Caal Maquin, was detained last week after crossing the US-Mexico border with her father, officials say.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Brazil prepared if global soy market normalizes, following the US/China spat

  

  Brazil is prepared in the event China removes tariffs on U.S. soy, which had driven down prices for the oilseed in Chicago and driven up the premiums over U.S. prices paid for Brazilian beans, outgoing Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said on Friday.

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 09:39 UTC

  Venezuelan Foreign Minister formalises complaint against US Chargé d'Affaires

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Thursday handed an official note of protest to the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States in Caracas -James Story- against the coup d'état and assassination plan against President Nicolás Maduro Moros, it was announced.

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Russian strategic bombers leaving Venezuela this Friday, as anticipated

  

  Russia has told the United States that two of their strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons will leave Venezuela on Friday, the White House said, ending a deployment that angered Washington.