BEIJING : Beijing is hopeful about its next round of trade talks with the US, China’s vice minister for commerce said Saturday, after revealing that top negotiators had tried to hammer out a deal over burgers and eggplant chicken. China and the United States have been locked in a bruising...
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BEAUREGARD : Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting trees, tearing homes from their foundations and killing nearly...
WASHINGTON : Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who took over as President Donald Trump’s communications director last summer, exited the White House on Friday, the latest person to step away from a job that has become a revolving door within the turbulent West Wing. Shine will join the...
UNITED NATIONS : The United States urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to impose new sanctions on Iran, saying its recent missile-related launches could be capable of delivering nuclear weapons and risk a regional arms race. Acting U.S. ambassador Jonathan Cohen condemned...
WASHINGTON : U.S. job growth likely slowed to a five-month low in February as the weather-related boost in the prior two months faded, workers became more scarce and tighter financial conditions began to weigh on the labor market. Still, the pace of hiring was probably strong enough to push the...
SEOUL : South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday named seven new ministers, including a top policymaker in charge of inter-Korean affairs, in a cabinet reshuffle for the third year of his five-year presidency, according to the presidential Blue House. Kim Yeon-chul, the current chief of the...
NEW DELHI : A MiG-21 fighter jet belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in the state of Rajasthan on Friday while it was on its routine sortie. The pilot managed to successfully eject, confirmed defence ministry sources in New Delhi. According to the preliminary reports, the jet crash...
HELSINKI : FinEst Bay Area Development said on Friday it had signed a memorandum of understanding for 15 billion euros ($16.8 billion) in financing with China’s Touchstone Capital Partners for its undersea train tunnel project linking Helsinki with the Estonian capital Tallinn. One-third of the...
UXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico : A truck packed with Central American migrants swerved off a highway in southern Mexico Thursday, leaving at least 25 dead and 32 injured, officials said. The accident happened in Chiapas state, bordering Guatemala, the state attorney general’s office said in a...
BEIJING : China’s exports and imports plummeted much more than expected in February, official data showed Friday, adding to worries about slowing growth in the world’s number two economy as it fights a trade war with the US. Its politically sensitive trade surplus with the US narrowed...
