Taiwan’s foreign ministry today expressed its “sincere gratitude” to the United States for taking “concrete measures” to maintain security and peace in the Taiwan Strait and the region, Reuters reports. Taiwan’s foreign ministry said in a statement that China’s “unprovoked military and economic intimidation” had “further strengthened the unity and resilience of the global democratic […]
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US: Congress passes climate and health bill
The US Congress on Friday finally approved Joe Biden’s climate and health investment bill, handing the Democratic president a major political victory with less than three months to go before crucial midterm elections. Thanks to their narrow majority, the Democrats in the House of Representatives passed this bill, which provides for public investment of more […]
Russia to US: Risk for bilateral relations if it is included in the countries that ‘support terrorism’
Moscow has “warned” Washington that bilateral diplomatic relations will be severely damaged, possibly even severed, if the US includes Russia on its list of “state sponsors of terrorism”, a senior Russian official said on Friday. of diplomacy, Alexander Darchiev, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. Mr. Darchiev, the head of the North American […]
The FBI seized ‘top secret’ documents from Donald Trump’s home
FBI agents who searched Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Monday seized 11 sets of classified documents, including some classified as “top secret,” the US Department of Justice said today, also revealing that they had reason to believe that the former US president may have violated the Espionage Act. The “bombshell” revelation was made […]
USA: Sanctions against the vice president of Paraguay for corruption
The US government today indicted Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez and former prosecutor Juan Carlos Duarte on corruption charges related to bribing an official and interfering with a public investigation. He therefore barred Velázquez and Duarte and their family members from entering the United States. According to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Duarte – […]
Trump Claims ‘The Nuclear Weapons Issue Is A Hoax’
Former US President Donald Trump has claimed in a social media post that “the nuclear weapons thing is a hoax”, reacting to a Washington Post report that FBI agents sought to retrieve documents from linked to nuclear weapons when they searched his Florida residence earlier this week. It is unclear whether the documents were found […]
US: Consumer confidence strengthened in August
U.S. consumer confidence rose in August, according to the University of Michigan’s index, as expectations for the path of inflation improved. In particular, falling natural gas prices helped push the consumer confidence index to 55.1 in August from 51.1 in July, beating economists’ expectations of a reading of 52.5, according to a Wall survey. Street […]
Is the market plunge over? Not before the ‘quiet gorilla’ moves, warns BofA
Is the recent pushback in stocks a bear market rally or has the downtrend in the markets now reversed? The first is warned by Bank of America, which predicts a new big plunge, as unlike institutional investors, households have not sold shares yet. Unlike what had happened in the great stock market dives of the […]
Five Chinese giants will exit the American stock market
Three of China’s biggest state-owned companies announced on Friday their intention to delist from the US stock market, as the two countries struggle to find common ground on how US regulators will scrutinize the data of Chinese companies. China Life Insurance, PetroChina and China Petroleum & Chemical have revealed their intention to delist from the […]
USA: Deaths from coronavirus remain at high levels
Despite progress, deaths from COVID-19 remain stubbornly high in the U.S., at nearly 400 a day, a number that hasn’t changed significantly since the spring, according to an ABC News report, which cited data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the main federal health agency. In the previous […]
