United States

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  US to increase military aid to Taiwan

  

  Funding worth more than US$ 1.1 billion has been pledged from the United States to Taiwan, according to Pentagon sources quoted Friday by the press. The measure will help the island strengthen its missile and radar systems, a State Department spokesman also said.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 14:00 UTC

  World leaders praise Gorbachev for making the world safer and giving freedom to millions

  

  United States, United Kingdom, Germany, UN, EU, France, paid homage to the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Praise flowed to the memory of the man who helped achieve a peaceful end to the almost half century Cold War.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Republican Governor lands in Taiwan in yet another chafing mission for Beijing

  

  Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey Tuesday landed in Taipei in yet another US delegation trip enraging Beijing over direct ties between sovereign countries and the island the Asian giant deems a rogue province.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Brazil, US to deepen bilateral trade

  

  Brazil and the United States have taken yet another step toward reducing non-tariff barriers in bilateral trade, it was reported Tuesday after a statement was released Tuesday in Brasilia.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  F-16s for Argentina, --and convincing UK--, US strategy to contain Chinese influence in the South Atlantic

  

  An article published by the United States Naval Institute, USNI, a private, professional military think-tank which since 1873 provides independent ideas for debating US defense issues, has revealed that Washington, fearful of China's advance in South America, offered back in 2020, surplus Danish F-16A/Bs both to Colombia and Argentina, and is “negotiating with the UK to approve the sale”.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Sunken ship found off Argentine Patagonia identified

  

  Scientists have announced they have identified the remnants of a sunken ship found near the Argentine city of Puerto Madryn. It would be a US-built whaler called Dolphin from the mid-1800s.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 20:46 UTC

  Tensions heat up in Indo-Pacific after US Navy sends cruisers

  

  China has said the United States was trying to disrupt peace in the Taiwan Strait after two warships sailed through the waters between the mainland and what Beijing regards as a rogue province in what Washington dubbed a routine drill.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  “The Arctic is strategic for NATO”; US going to appoint its first ambassador to the polar region

  

  “The Arctic is of great importance for NATO,” and the Western alliance must give priority to its military presence in the polar region, NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg said in a Sunday interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The interview comes when Washington is set to appoint its first Arctic ambassador and Russia's increasing military activity in the Arctic..

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Facebook reaches tentative settlement in “data broker” lawsuit for selling info to Trump campaign

  

  Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to British Cambridge Analytica.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Federal Reserve pledges to keep lowering inflation, “until we are confident the job is done”

  

  The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell said on Friday that the job of lowering inflation is not done, and “we will keep at it until we are confident the job is done”. Powell was speaking at the Fed's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, an event closely followed by markets and pundits, trying to anticipate future actions.