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Pak team leaves for Bangkok to hold meeting with FATF on terror financing

7:03 pm September 8, 2019

Islamabad: A-20 member team from Pakistan is set to hold a face-to-face meeting with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Bangkok over the country’s efforts to curb money laundering and terror-financing, a media report said on Sunday. The Pakistani team that left on Sunday is led by Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Hammad Azhar […]

Xi said Sino-US relations were at a "critical juncture", CCTV said, adding that cooperation was mutually beneficial and "the only right choice." "I hope that the US will take substantive actions to improve Sino-US relations, and both sides can work together to strengthen cooperation in fighting the epidemic," he said. Some provinces, cities and companies in China have provided medical supplies and support to the US as well, Xi added.

Trump moving ahead with new tariffs on Chinese products

10:02 pm August 31, 2019

Washington : Washington is moving ahead Sunday with new tariffs on Chinese imports as it steps up a high-pressure campaign aimed at coercing Beijing to sign a new trade deal even amid fears of a further slowing of US and world growth. The additional 15 per cent tariffs, affecting a portion of the USD 300 […]

US stocks open sharply lower amid pressure on oil market

US proposing easing rules on climate-changing oil emissions

11:46 pm August 29, 2019

Washington : The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed revoking Obama-era regulations on climate-changing methane leaks from many oil facilities, a move that environmental groups said was meant to renounce the agency’s overall legal authority to regulate the gas in the fight against global warming. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the proposed rule followed President […]

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White House says Trump regrets not raising tariffs higher

9:20 pm August 25, 2019

Biarritz (France): President Donald Trump’s only regret in hiking tariffs on China is that he didn’t raise them higher, his press secretary said Sunday after the president had earlier signaled some remorse for an escalating trade war with China. Trump faced a tense reception from world leaders meeting amid mounting anxiety of a global economic […]

Trump praises Danish PM he called ‘nasty’ over Greenland row

3:53 pm August 24, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump heaped praise on Denmark’s prime minister Friday, two days after he cancelled his state visit to the country and slammed her for dismissing his idea of buying Greenland as absurd. The US leader said he got a call from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who he had previously called “nasty” when she […]