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Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:52 UTC
US/China Phase One trade deal to be signed 15 January at the White House

A partial new US-China trade agreement will be signed in the middle of next month, US President Donald Trump said, announcing that he will also then travel to China for continued talks.
Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:14 UTC
Teenage climate change Greta Thunberg said talking to president Trump would be a waste of time

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to US President Donald Trump at a United Nations summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention.
Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:04 UTC
Microsoft takes down 50 domains used by North Korean hacking groups

Microsoft said on Monday it obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights activists, researchers and others.
Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:35 UTC
Putin thanks Trump for helping to foil terrorist attack in St Petersburg

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Sunday thanked US counterpart Donald Trump for intelligence that helped to foil attacks on Russian soil, the Kremlin said. Putin thanked Trump “for the transfer, through special services, of information allowing the prevention of terrorist acts in Russia”, the president's office said in a statement.
Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:32 UTC
Defrocked US cardinal paid for silence from Vatican officials, Washington Post reports

A US cardinal gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to powerful Catholic clerics including two popes while facing accusations of sexual harassment, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:27 UTC
Outbreak of chicken pox among migrants returned to Mexico from US

An outbreak of chicken pox has forced the temporary closure of a shelter housing Central American migrants sent to Mexico from the United States, Mexican authorities said on Friday, as officials sought to contain the highly contagious virus.
Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
US stock markets at record highs on gains by tech giants

The tech-rich Nasdaq finished above 9,000 for the first time on Thursday, powering to its 10th straight record on gains by Amazon and other tech giants. The Nasdaq surged 69.51 points (0.78 percent) to finish the post-holiday session at 9,022.39.
Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:25 UTC
Morales claims he was ousted in a coup sponsored by the US aimed at taking over Bolivia's lithium resources

Former Bolivia president Evo Morales told news agencies in Buenos Aires last Tuesday that he was forced from office by a United States-backed coup d'etat aimed at gaining access to the South American country's vast lithium resources.
Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:59 UTC
Beijing pledges to purchase US$ 40bn of US agricultural products per year

China will make good on a pledge to purchase more than US$40 billion per year of U.S. agricultural products under the recently agreed Phase 1 trade deal between the two countries, China’s top agriculture consultancy said on Friday.
Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Boeing and the grounding of 737MAX: Chronicle of a foretold sacking

Boeing on Monday replaced its embattled chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, as it attempts to pivot from a protracted crisis surrounding the grounding of its top-selling 737 MAX after two deadly crashes.