United States

Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:48 UTC
Bolsonaro argues that disarming people is not going to stop mass shootings

President Jair Bolsonaro argued for his signature policy of relaxing gun control measures, saying they will not stop mass shootings such as those that left 31 dead in the US over the weekend. “Disarming people isn't going to keep that from happening,” Bolsonaro said.
Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:20 UTC
In a national message Trump rejects white supremacist ideology, but no word on gun control

US President Donald Trump on Monday told a nation mourning the death of 31 people in two-weekend mass shootings that he rejected racism and white supremacist ideology, moving to blunt criticism that his anti-immigrant rhetoric fuels violence.
Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
World stock markets plunge as Beijing lets its currency to devalue and halts purchase of US farm produce

World stock markets plunged on Monday as Beijing parried US President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcements by moving to let China's Yuan currency devalue and halting purchases of US agricultural products.
Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:06 UTC
Fed expected to further lower interest rate as trade tensions with China increase

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who last week cut U.S. interest rates as an insurance policy against the effects of “simmering” trade tensions, may need to buy more coverage after the United States late on Monday designated China a currency manipulator.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Mass shootings: Trump says “hate has no place” but fingers point to his divisive rhetoric

An under-fire President Donald Trump said on Sunday that “hate has no place” in the United States after two mass shootings left 29 dead and sparked accusations that his rhetoric was part of the problem.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:01 UTC
Trump warns UK: drop tax proposal on US tech companies or forget a free trade deal

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has told Britain it will not get a free trade deal unless it drops a new tax proposal for major U.S. tech companies, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Friday.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC
Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 19:40 UTC
The myth of the Mexican caballero defender of the downtrodden turns 100

Aug 9, 1919, US writer Johnston McCulley released a story titled The Curse Of Capistrano in a Californian pulp magazine – in it was a masked and caped character named Zorro. In conceiving the sword-wielding defender of the downtrodden, McCulley set the stage for a whole century of superheroes.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:19 UTC
Ross and Bolton will attend Lima Group meeting to discuss Venezuela

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will attend a summit in Lima, Peru to discuss Venezuela on Tuesday, the US Commerce Department said. US national security adviser John Bolton has also confirmed attendance, two sources in Peru's foreign ministry said on Friday.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:00 UTC
Venezuela and opposition continue talks in Barbados, Norwegian minister reveals

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition are continuing talks in Barbados to try to find ways to resolve the Latin American country's political crisis, the Foreign Ministry of mediator Norway said on Friday.