RIO DE JANEIRO: Three polls released this week show gains for President Jair Bolsonaro, putting him as favorite to win re-election in 2022 despite his controversial handling of Brazil’s raging coronavirus crisis. The far-right leader, who is himself currently infected with the virus, has downplayed the pandemic even as it […]
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WASHINGTON: A Chinese researcher who took refuge from US authorities at China’s consulate in San Francisco is now in American custody and is expected to appear in court on Monday (Jul 27), US Justice Department officials said. According to court filings in US District Court in San Francisco this week, […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced on Friday (Jul 24) he was signing four executive orders aiming to lower prices that Americans pay for prescription drugs. One order would allow for the legal importation of cheaper prescription drugs from countries like Canada, while another would require discounts from drug companies […]
REUTERS: US prosecutors on Friday (JUl 24) unveiled charges against 18 Portland, Oregon, street protesters ranging from assaulting police to arson and trespassing, a day after the Trump administration expanded the deployment of tactical police into Seattle. Their arrests came this week during clashes with specially equipped federal police agents […]
MOSCOW: Moscow rejected criticism from the United States and the United Kingdom of Russia’s activities in space on Friday (Jul 24), after the two nations expressed concern at a Russian satellite test conducted on Jul 15. Britain on Thursday said Russia had launched a projectile with the “characteristics of a […]
BEIJING: China said Friday (Jul 24) it had revoked the license for the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, days after Washington ordered the closure of China’s Houston consulate. The tit-for-tat move is a “legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable measures by the United States”, the foreign […]
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China on Thursday (Jul 23) and said the United States and its allies must use “more creative and assertive ways” to press the Chinese Communist Party to change its ways, calling it the “mission of our time.” Speaking at […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday (Jul 23) that he was scrapping next month’s Republican Party nominating convention in Jacksonville, Florida, because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Trump, speaking at a White House press conference, said it was not the right time to do a “big, crowded convention”. “The […]
WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has interviewed visa holders in more than 25 US cities suspected of hiding their Chinese military memberships, the Justice Department said on Thursday (Jul 23). It is part of what experts called the biggest known crackdown on the theft of US know-how in […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday (Jul 23) that he hopes to avoid an “expensive” US arms race with Russia and China, the White House said. Washington and Moscow are preparing negotiations on a successor to the New START treaty capping their countries’ nuclear […]