Tag: United States

• Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Falklands receives visit of US Congressmen's chief of staff and advisors

  

  A delegation from the United States including a Chief of Staff for a Congressman and a Foreign Policy Adviser in the office of a senator will arrive in the Falkland Islands on Friday October 27 leaving November 3.

• Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  US ex presidents, prominent Democrats and CNN targets with explosive devices

  

  Suspected explosive devices were sent to former United States president Barack Obama, defeated presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, New York governor Andres Cuomo and to a building housing CNN's New York bureau, less than 24 hours apart and less than two weeks before key US midterm elections, officials confirmed on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Trump-Xi summit in Buenos Aires next month announced the White House

  

  President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet at the G-20 summit in Argentina next month, the White House announced on Tuesday, amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The G-20 Summit, comprising top 20 economies of the world, including India, is scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires in Argentine on November 30 and December 1.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Trump again bashes the Fed, saying it posed the biggest risk to the US economy

  

  United States president Donald Trump has sharpened his attacks on the Federal Reserve, saying it posed the biggest risk to the US economy. He also targeted Fed chairman Jerome Powell, telling the Wall Street Journal he seemed “happy” to be raising interest rates.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 23:14 UTC

  UN confident US, Russia will work out their differences over IRNF

  

  United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres believes Russia and the United States will manage to work out their differences regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (IRNF) Treaty, according to UN spokesman Farhan Haq.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Khashoggi murder: Top US official meets Saudi Crown Prince in Riyadh

  

  A senior US official has held talks with Saudi Arabia's crown prince in Riyadh, despite growing concern over the Saudis' role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Mohammed bin Salman on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Saudi Arabia: no intention of a repeat of a 1973-style oil embargo

  

  Saudi Arabia has no intention of unleashing a 1973-style oil embargo on Western consumers and will isolate oil from politics, the Saudi energy minister said on Monday amid a worsening crisis over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  United States 2018 federal budget deficit at its highest since 2012: US$ 779bn

  

  The United States federal budget deficit rose in fiscal 2018 to the highest level in six years as spending climbed, the Trump administration said. The deficit jumped to US$ 779 billion, US$ 113 billion or 17% higher than the previous fiscal period, according to a statement from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.

• Saturday, October 20th 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  China's growth cools to its weakest since the global financial crisis

  

  China's economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis, with regulators moving quickly to calm nervous investors as a years-long campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to bite.

• Saturday, October 20th 2018 - 07:00 UTC

  Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi was killed at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul

  

  Saudi Arabia’s King Salman removed a key royal adviser and a senior intelligence official as the public prosecutor said an initial probe showed that journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.