Tag: United States

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Khashoggi's murder: Erdogan accuses highest level of Saudi government

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for the first time accused the Saudi government directly of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “We know that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government,” he wrote in an article in the Washington Post.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Twitter deletes automated accounts discouraging people from voting in US midterm elections

  

  Twitter has deleted an estimated 10,000 automated accounts that were posting messages discouraging people from taking part in next week's US mid-term elections.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:01 UTC

  Booming US economy sees September trade deficit reach it highest in seven months

  

  A hungry American economy powered by a strong U.S. dollar saw record imports in September, driving the U.S. trade deficit to its highest level in seven months, the government reported on Friday.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentina, Japan and EU supporting US drive for greater transparency at WTO

  

  Argentina, Costa Rica, Japan and the European Union are supporting a U.S. drive to enforce greater transparency and discipline at the World Trade Organization, an updated proposal published by the WTO showed on Friday.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  More US sanctions on the “troika of tyranny” and its three dictator “stooges”

  

  United States imposed new sanctions Thursday on Venezuela and Cuba and promised additional penalties against Nicaragua as the Trump administration laid out a hard-line policy toward countries the White House branded a “troika of tyranny.”

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 08:56 UTC

  Saudi Crown Prince told US, murdered writer Khashoggi was a dangerous Islamist

  

  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered writer Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed reportedly said this in a phone call with the White House after Khashoggi disappeared but before Saudi Arabia admitted killing him.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  US justice indicts Chinese individuals and companies for stealing US companies trade secrets

  

  US justice department has indicted three individuals and two companies based in China and Taiwan for allegedly stealing a US company's trade secrets. This is the fourth economic espionage case the department has brought against Chinese-based companies and individuals since September.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 07:37 UTC

  US/China trade talks “moving along nicely”; Trump and Xi plan to meet at G20 in Argentina

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both expressed optimism on Thursday about resolving their bitter trade disputes ahead of a high-stakes meeting planned for the two leaders at the end of November in Argentina.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 06:52 UTC

  Falklands' right to self determination: US Congressional staffers message to their offices in Washington

  

  Like much of the world’s population, the three US congressional staffers visiting the Falkland Islands this week admit that their preconceptions of the Falklands had been largely shaped by the conflict. Nevertheless they have a strong message to take back to their respective offices at the US Congress, the clear right to self determination of the Falklands.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Trump makes immigration and birthrights leading issue of midterm election next week

  

  President Donald Trump is intensifying his hard line immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, 6 November, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil.