United States

Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 10:06 UTC
Paraguayan VP to resign after joining US list of those “significantly corrupt”

Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez Friday announced in a radio interview that he would be resigning his job and stepping down from the presidential race after being added by the United States to the list of people “significantly corrupt,” where he joined former President Horacio Cartés.
Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:43 UTC
Top-secret documents found at Trump's mansion

Top secret documents were retrieved by the FBI from former US President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida, it was reported Friday as the seal of secrecy was lifted.
Friday, August 12th 2022 - 21:08 UTC
“Satanic Verses” author stabbed before a lecture in NY

Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, on whose head there has been a bounty since the 1980s for his novel The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed Friday during a conference in New York State.
Friday, August 12th 2022 - 10:10 UTC
US Senators discuss investments with Argentina's Cabinet Chief

Argentine Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur Thursday welcomed a delegation of US Senators together with Ambassador Marc Stanley to discuss “all the investment possibilities for the near future,” according to the hosting official.
Friday, August 12th 2022 - 10:01 UTC
Argentine judge ok with sending over Emtrasur's 747 to US

The Argentine federal judge investigating the suspected underlying reasons for the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 cargo airplane banned from leaving the country Thursday acquiesced to a request from the United States to bring over the aircraft, which is also under investigation there.
Friday, August 12th 2022 - 02:20 UTC
CHIPS made in US: Biden signs bipartisan legislation to promote semiconductor industry

Flanked by scores of lawmakers, union officials, local politicians and business leaders, US president Joe Biden signed legislation promoting investments in the American semiconductor industry in an effort to ease US reliance on overseas supply chains for critical, cutting-edge goods.
Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 09:01 UTC
FBI raids Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago mansion

Scores of supporters of former US President Donald Trump gathered Monday around the tycoon's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after FBI agents reportedly executed a search warrant on the Palm Beach premises.
Monday, August 8th 2022 - 10:15 UTC
Pelosi’s ‘solidarity’ trip poorly timed and the US “strategic ambiguity”

By Gwynne Dyer – Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great — if somewhat confected — anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was not her main target. The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has long supported Taiwan, and she will be aware that both the government and the people are in need of reassurance at the moment.
Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 12:10 UTC
China announces sanctions against the US and Pelosi

China Friday imposed an entry ban on its territory against US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the entourage accompanying her earlier this week to Taiwan in defiance of Beijing's advice not to fuel tensions regarding what the Asian country considers to be a rogue province.
Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:13 UTC
US Congressional team meets with Paraguayan Defense Minister

Lawmakers from the United States met Thursday in Asunción with Paraguay's Defense Minister Bernardino Soto Estigarribia to discuss matters of mutual interest, one day ahead of their encounter with President Mario Abdo Benítez at the López Palace.