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G-20 finance chiefs wary of trade friction but short on solutions
Finance leaders from the Group of 20 major economies agreed that trade disputes pose a threat to global growth but did not produce concrete steps to tackle the issue at a two-day meeting that concluded on Friday. The gathering in Washington was held amid mounting ...
North Korea announced Saturday that it had suspended nuclear and longer-range missile tests and shut down its main nuclear test site as the sanctions-hit country seeks to shift its focus to shoring up its moribund economy, state media said, less than a week ahead ...
U.S. earns more in China than trade numbers reveal
The huge missing ingredient in U.S.-China trade deficit numbers is the business done in China by American companies.
Trump's premature and illegal attack on Syria
The U.N. Charter prohibits the unprovoked attack of any nation against another, except in the cases of self-defense or a U.N. authorized military operation. Neither applies in this case.
Did North Korea's Kim Jong Un just remove a key stumbling block in negotiations with the U.S.?
By affirming that American troops can stay in South Korea under a possible nuclear deal, did North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just remove a key stumbling block in negotiations with the United States? South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that Kim isn't asking ...
It wasn't until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sunk in that he was about to be sent back to Vietnam, the country he fled in 1993. Cuong and at least three other deportees who ...
The top military leaders of the navy and Marine Corps said Thursday they have seen no discipline, morale or unit readiness problems with transgender troops now serving openly in the military. Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Senate Armed Services Committee ...
The United States has credible information that Russia and Syria are trying to "sanitize" the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria while denying access to the area by international inspectors, the State Department said on Thursday. Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the ...
FBI offers $1 million for info on U.S. reporter missing in Syria for over five years
Federal authorities for the first time are offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to an American journalist who has been missing in Syria for more than five years. Austin Tice, of Houston, Texas, disappeared in August 2012 while covering Syria's ...
Nobel winner ICAN welcomes Trump-Kim meeting but slams 'toxic masculinity'
Nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea are welcome, but the bullying and threats that led up to them were reckless and it is South Korea that should get credit, the Nobel Prize winning anti-nuclear campaign group ICAN said on Thursday. Beatrice Fihn, ...
Judge to rule on test case of U.S. 'enemy combatant' Trump believed seeks to hand over to Saudis
A judge in Washington was expected to rule Thursday on whether the U.S. government can hand over a U.S.-Saudi dual citizen who allegedly supported the Islamic State group to Riyadh, rather than try him in U.S. courts. In a test case on how Donald Trump's ...
Assad still has 'limited' chemical weapons capability: Pentagon
The Syrian regime remains able to conduct chemical attacks, though only at a limited level, the Pentagon said Thursday following last week's international cruise missile strikes on chemical targets. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, director of the U.S. military's Joint Staff, said Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime ...
