United States

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 18:12 UTC

  CIA chief meets Kim Jong Un to work out details of summit with Trump

  

  United States Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week, U.S President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after media reported on Pompeo's recent secret mission to the North to prepare for the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  UK and US alert about “malicious cyber activity” by Russia

  

  Britain and the US have issued a formal alert about “malicious cyber activity” by Russia amid warnings that relations with Moscow have hit an all-time low. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) combined with the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security to issue an unprecedented joint “technical alert” setting out the threat across the public and private sectors.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  NAFTA round of negotiations expected to resume this week

  

  The ministers leading the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could meet again on Thursday in Washington as they push for quick progress, Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo advanced. Guajardo said he had spoken to Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday and would talk to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to see about agreeing a trilateral meeting in Washington on Thursday.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 13:53 UTC

  US coalition: Strikes in Syria increases tension; reactions worldwide

  

  Bombs have fallen. Damascus has been beaten again. The United States, United Kingdom and France coalition launched airstrikes against Syrian targets as Donald Trump sought to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack last weekend near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2018 - 18:35 UTC

  Argentina imports 120.000 tons of soy-beans from United States

  

  Argentina, the world’s third biggest soy producer, booked its largest purchase of U.S. soybeans in 20 years on Tuesday after drought cut its harvest, forcing crushers there to turn to imports. The surprise move pushed Chicago soybean futures to a one-month high, in the latest development to upend global soy trading after top buyer China last week proposed tariffs on U.S. imports amid an intensifying Washington-Beijing trade dispute.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2018 - 09:41 UTC

  Zuckerberg manages first congressional hearing but many questions remain about Facebook's privacy policy

  

  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified about data privacy on Tuesday in a marathon hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Here are seven takeaways.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 14:40 UTC

  Trump cancels trip to Americas' summit because of Syrian situation; Pence will represent him in Lima

  

  After threatening a military strike against Syria, President Donald Trump on Tuesday canceled plans to travel to Peru later this week, choosing to stay in the United States to manage the response to an apparent chemical weapons attack.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI raids offices and home of Trump's personal lawyer; president calls it a “witch hunt”

  

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday raided the offices and home of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, law enforcement sources said, in a dramatic new development in a series of probes involving close Trump associates. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen M. Ryan, said that U.S. prosecutors conducted a search that was partly a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  FARC leader arrested in Bogotá on a US request for drug trafficking

  

  One of the top leaders of Colombia's former rebel group, FARC, has been arrested in Bogota following a request from the United States. Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused of drug trafficking by a court in New York.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  US budget deficit expected to balloon to US$ 1.5 trillion over the next decade

  

  With the passage of deep tax cuts late last year, annual United States budget deficits are expected to balloon over the next decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.