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The US Senate approved the annual defence policy bill with a compromise 886 billion USD package that laid out how the pentagon will be funded through the next fiscal year, The Hill reported. The vote to approve the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) was 87-13. Six Republicans and six Democrats voted against the bill: Sens.…
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U.S. stocks soared on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left official interest rates unchanged and signaled three rate cuts are on the horizon. The news sent the Dow Jones industrials above 37,000 to touch a new record high. “The Fed has given the market an early holiday gift today when, finally, for the first time,…
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The US government’s practice of interfering in enterprises’ business decision-making by administrative means undermines market rules and international trade order, harms the interests of enterprises and investors, and is not conducive to the interests of China, the United States or the whole world, said Shu Jueting, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Commerce, on Thursday at…
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For Beijing, its successful coronavirus response was a shining example in the global pandemic fight. But for many of the world’s most advanced economies, the prevailing view has been that China handled the outbreak poorly, hardening attitudes towards the country that were already souring. The Pew Research Centre on Tuesday published surveys from 14 countries…
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Iran will never succumb to U.S. pressure, and if Washington wants talks with Tehran it should show respect, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen sharply in recent weeks, a year after Washington exited a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that curbed Tehran’s nuclear program…
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Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has warned that the trade war between the US and China could impact the growth of the affluent city-state. Image: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong In his New Year’s message, Lee expressed that the trade tensions between the two major superpowers could force others to pick sides.…
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Outgoing White House chief John Kelly said in an interview published on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of building a “wall” at the Mexico border was dropped earlier. Building a solid “wall” along the 3,200-kilometer U.S.-Mexico frontier was a central plank of Trump’s 2016 election campaign. As a partial government shutdown entered…
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Jimmy Martinez, whose image appears above, is a 22-year old Salvadoran who has traveled north since October in a caravan of Central American migrants seeking to reach the United States. The picture shows Martinez wearing his shorts low and baggy and his hair slicked back like his favorite U.S. hip hop artists. Like many other…
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US President Donald Trump has been pushing for the government spending bill which would include funding for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border, which became a stumbling block in approving the government budget and led to the third shutdown this year. A recent tweet that the US president posted on his official…
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Sweeping accusations that the Kremlin tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election haven’t chastened Russian trolls, hackers and spies — and might even have emboldened them. U.S. officials and tech companies say Russians have continued online activity targeted at American voters during the campaign for Tuesday’s election, masquerading as U.S. institutions and creating faux-American social…
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As Hurricane Florence was bearing down on the eastern coast of the U.S. in mid-September, Richard Serino of Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health spoke about the importance of having a “culture of preparedness.” In a September 14, 2018 opinion piece in The Hill, Serino, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, and co-author Mary…
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The U.S. will impose a 10 percent duty on $200 billion more of Chinese goods starting Sept. 24 and raise it to 25 percent at the beginning of 2019, President Donald Trump announced today. Trump said the announcement comes after an investigation found that China “is engaged in numerous unfair policies and practices…
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Hamza bin Laden, the 27-year-old son of slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, is allegedly prepping to take over reins of leadership of the Islamic religious sect. Hamza (full names Hamza bin Osama bin Awad bin Laden) recently got married to the daughter of a terrorist who reportedly led the September 9/11 hijackers who attacked…
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he wants a second meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to start implementing ideas they discussed at the Helsinki summit. Image: Trump and Putin Pushing back against criticism of first meeting, Trump accused the news media of trying to provoke a confrontation with Moscow that could lead to war, although concerns…
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The U.N. cultural agency on Friday 6 Oct., 2017 declared the old city located in the West Bank town of Hebron as a Palestinian world heritage site. The decision sparked outrage among Israeli officials who protested the move with claims that it’s a contradiction to their deep Jewish ties to the biblical town and its…
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