UNITED STATES

US walks out of UN arms control body in Venezuela protest

11:37 pm May 28, 2019

Geneva: The United States on Tuesday walked out of the UN’s Conference on Disarmament as Venezuela assumed the body’s rotating presidency, with Washington’s envoy insisting he would not endure sessions led by “a rogue state.” “What you have going on inside there right now is a diatribe of propaganda,” the US ambassador to the conference, […]

8 in the fray to replace Theresa May as British PM

4:24 pm May 26, 2019

London: At least eight candidates have joined the fray to battle it out to take over the reins from British Prime Minister Theresa May as the UK’s ruling Conservative Party leadership contest gets underway. May had announced her resignation earlier this week and is set to formally step down as Tory leader and PM on […]

Trump breaks with Abe, says not bothered by NK missile tests

US-Japan vision for Indo-Pacific serves as foundation for global partnership: White House

11:49 am May 23, 2019

Washington: The vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific that the United States and Japan share serves as the foundation for a global partnership that strengthens security, prosperity and order around the world, the White House has said. In fact, the US-Japan alliance serves as the cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region, […]

Hundreds protest strict Alabama abortion law

11:13 am May 20, 2019

Montgomery (US): Around 400 people took to the streets in the capital city of the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday to rally against the nation’s most restrictive bans on abortions in decades. Women’s reproductive rights defenders gathered in Montgomery, as well as in Birmingham, Anniston and Huntsville where hundreds more were estimated to have joined in denouncing the “Alabama Human Life Protection […]

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Trump orders raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China

2:17 pm May 11, 2019

Washington: United States President Donald Trump has ordered his top officials to begin the process to raise tariffs on almost all the imports from China, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Friday. This amounts to about USD300 billion. This is in addition to the Chinese imports worth USD200 billion on which Trump increased the import […]