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Trump postpones G7 summit, seeks to add countries to invitation list

Trump postpones G7 summit, seeks to add countries to invitation list

REUTERS 2020-05-31 13:44:10

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russ...

FBI’s top lawyer resigns as agency faces pressure from Trump

FBI’s top lawyer resigns as agency faces pressure from Trump

-- 2020-05-31 11:09:59

The FBI said on Saturday that its top lawyer, Dana Boente, had announced his resignation as the agency faces scrutiny over its investigations of former staffers and supporters of President Donald Trum...

Protests flare around US over killing black man

Protests flare around US over killing black man

-- 2020-05-30 19:02:17

Protests flared late into the night in many cities in the United States over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died this week after being pinned down by the neck by a white police officer i...

Police free CNN reporter arrested live on TV

Police free CNN reporter arrested live on TV

Reuters 2020-05-29 21:06:34

Police in Minneapolis released a CNN reporter who was led off in handcuffs along with his film crew while reporting live on television early Friday morning during violent protests in the city. Office...

CNN reporter arrested in US while covering Minneapolis protests

CNN reporter arrested in US while covering Minneapolis protests

-- 2020-05-29 17:27:19

Police of the Minnesota, a midwestern US state bordering Canada and Lake Superior, arrested a CNN reporter reporting live on television early Friday morning while covering the Minneapolis protests, wi...

Fed official says COVID-19 pandemic worsens US inequality

Fed official says COVID-19 pandemic worsens US inequality

Xinhua 2020-05-29 17:15:38

The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening US inequality in income and race, a senior Federal Reserve official said Thursday. "This health crisis has not so much changed things as simply exposed, and in some...

Twitter attaches disclaimer to Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

Twitter attaches disclaimer to Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

-- 2020-05-29 15:30:01

Twitter hid a tweet from President Donald Trump on Friday and accused him of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence”, after he tweeted that looters at protests in Minneapolis would be...

US bill to pressure China over Uighur rights goes to Trump for decision

US bill to pressure China over Uighur rights goes to Trump for decision

-- 2020-05-28 10:40:55

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Wednesday calling for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for oppression of Uighur Muslims, sending the bill to the White...

US coronavirus death toll crosses 100,000 mark

US coronavirus death toll crosses 100,000 mark

-- 2020-05-28 09:35:05

US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 on Wednesday even as the daily average death toll declines, businesses reopen and Americans emerge from lockdowns across the country. About 1,400 A...

Trump threatens to shut down social media

Trump threatens to shut down social media

-- 2020-05-27 18:39:25

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, one day after Twitter added a warning to some of his tweets for the first time prompting readers to f...

Americas are new pandemic epicentre: WHO

Americas are new pandemic epicentre: WHO

-- 2020-05-27 09:30:59

The Americas have emerged as the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a Tuesday briefing, as a US study forecast deaths surging in Brazil and other La...

White woman called police complaining against black man in dog row

White woman called police complaining against black man in dog row

-- 2020-05-26 20:17:16

A white American woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City has been suspended from her job with an investment firm, reports BBC. The man, desc...

Brazil surpasses US in daily coronavirus death toll

Brazil surpasses US in daily coronavirus death toll

-- 2020-05-26 10:34:55

Brazil daily coronavirus deaths were higher than fatalities in the United States for the first time over the last 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry. Brazil registered 807 dea...

Americans get some sun, virus toll nears 100,000

Americans get some sun, virus toll nears 100,000

REUTERS 2020-05-25 15:27:01

Americans sunbathed on beaches, fished from boats and strolled on boardwalks this holiday weekend, but the occasional person wearing a mask was a constant reminder that the world is still battling the...

US imposes travel restrictions on Brazil due to virus

US imposes travel restrictions on Brazil due to virus

-- 2020-05-25 09:45:38

The White House has announced travel restrictions on Brazil, which has become the nation with the second-highest number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. "Today, the President has taken decisive actio...

Coronavirus could cost Mexico a million jobs, president says

Coronavirus could cost Mexico a million jobs, president says

Reuters 2020-05-25 09:20:43

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday that the novel coronavirus could cost as many as a million jobs in the country as many industries considered not essential remain shut. Th...

Trump plays golf for first time since declaring coronavirus a nat'l emergency

Trump plays golf for first time since declaring coronavirus a nat'l emergency

Reuters 2020-05-24 16:13:34

US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) went on his first golf outing since the White House declared a national emergency over the coronavirus in March, visiting his club in the Washington...

US demands review of WHO's handling of pandemic starts now

US demands review of WHO's handling of pandemic starts now

REUTERS 2020-05-24 10:54:16

The United States called on the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to begin work immediately on investigating the source of the novel coronavirus, as well as its handling of the response to the...

US plans massive coronavirus vaccine testing effort to meet year-end deadline

US plans massive coronavirus vaccine testing effort to meet year-end deadline

Reuters 2020-05-23 20:05:25

The United States plans a massive testing effort involving more than 100,000 volunteers and a half dozen or so of the most promising vaccine candidates in an effort to deliver a safe and effective one...

Brazil climbs to second in COVID-19 cases worldwide

Brazil climbs to second in COVID-19 cases worldwide

Xinhua 2020-05-23 16:58:13

Brazil registered a record number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, with 20,803 cases reported, and exceeded 1,000 deaths in one day for the third time, the government said on Friday. Accor...

China's planned security agencies for Hong Kong a 'death knell' for autonomy: Pompeo

China's planned security agencies for Hong Kong a 'death knell' for autonomy: Pompeo

REUTERS 2020-05-23 11:09:57

Chinese plans to impose national security laws on Hong Kong could see mainland intelligence agencies set up bases there, raising fears of direct law enforcement and what the United States branded a &l...

US accuses China of blocking US flights, demands action

US accuses China of blocking US flights, demands action

-- 2020-05-23 11:06:22

The US government late on Friday accused the Chinese government of making it impossible for US airlines to resume service to China and ordered four Chinese air carriers to file flight schedules with t...

US condemns China's security legislation on Hong Kong

US condemns China's security legislation on Hong Kong

-- 2020-05-22 21:07:12

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday called China’s proposed national security legislation on Hong Kong disastrous and said it could have an impact on the favourable economic treatment th...

Guatemala president scolds US for deporting migrants with coronavirus

Guatemala president scolds US for deporting migrants with coronavirus

-- 2020-05-22 13:05:57

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei criticized the United States on Thursday for sending back migrants infected with the novel coronavirus to his Central American country and straining its weak...

US Senate to vote on Trump's pick for spy chief

US Senate to vote on Trump's pick for spy chief

-- 2020-05-21 12:26:40

The US Senate will vote on President Donald Trump's nomination of Congressman John Ratcliffe as the next director of national intelligence (DNI) on Thursday. The Senate, where Republicans have a narr...

Brazil coronavirus outbreak worsens as country could soon be No. 2 in cases

Brazil coronavirus outbreak worsens as country could soon be No. 2 in cases

-- 2020-05-21 12:20:11

Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak worsened on Wednesday and the South American nation could soon have the second-highest number of cases in the world as the Health Ministry reported 888 new deaths a...

US extends travel restrictions at Canada, Mexico land borders

US extends travel restrictions at Canada, Mexico land borders

-- 2020-05-20 17:01:41

The United States and Canada said on Tuesday they would extend a ban on non-essential cross-border travel by another 30 days to help the fight against the coronavirus. The US Department of Homeland S...

Brazil suffers record coronavirus deaths

Brazil suffers record coronavirus deaths

Reuters 2020-05-20 11:15:53

Brazil’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus jumped to a record 1,179 on Tuesday as President Jair Bolsonaro doubled down on chloroquine as a possible remedy and US leader Donald Trump s...

Trump now threatens permanent freeze of WHO funding

Trump now threatens permanent freeze of WHO funding

Reuters 2020-05-19 11:46:39

US President Donald Trump threatened on Monday (local time) to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider t...

Trump plans to restore 10pc of WHO funding

Trump plans to restore 10pc of WHO funding

-- 2020-05-18 20:51:04

US President Donald Trump has said his administration was considering numerous proposals about the World Health Organisation, including one in which Washington would pay about 10 per cent of its forme...