President says he is postponing meeting with Mette Frederiksen because she was not interested in discussing transaction Donald Trump has cancelled his trip to Denmark and postponed his meeting with the Danish prime minister after she said that Greenland was not for sale. Speaking on Sunday during a trip ...
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World stocks rally as Trump steps up pressure on Fed to cut rates
President tweets demand for 1% reduction and more QE as markets look to central banks to bolster global economy Stock markets have been boosted by the growing prospect of more stimulus measures by central banks and governments across the world as Donald Trump heaped more pressure on the Federal ...
Read More »Hong Kong protests: Hundreds of thousands bring streets to standstill in largest action for months
Organisers claim more than one million people attend pro-democracy demonstration Hong Kong saw its first weekend without tear gas in weeks, even as anti-government protesters brought streets to a standstill on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched despite police objection. Protesters marched from Victoria Park, where a rally ...
Read More »India Imposes a Security Lockdown and Shuts Down the Internet on Parts of Kashmir
An indefinite security lockdown was in place in the Indian-controlled portion of divided Kashmir on Monday, stranding millions in their homes as authorities also suspended some internet services and deployed thousands of fresh troops around the increasingly tense region. Around midnight, government forces laid steel barricades and razor wire on ...
Read More »Trump hits China with more tariffs, sharply escalating trade dispute
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1, sharply escalating a bruising trade war between the world’s largest economies and jolting financial markets. The announcement on Thursday extends Trump’s trade tariffs to nearly all of the Chinese goods ...
Read More »UK less able to cope with hard Brexit than it was in spring, say officials
Exclusive: Analysis includes stark assessments of potential problems including panic-buying and civil disorder The UK is currently less able to cope with a hard Brexit than it was in the spring, with the real risk of panic-buying in the run-up to Christmas and civil disorder if the country leaves the ...
Read More »U.S. puts sanctions on Iranian foreign minister Zarif, who says they won’t affect him
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, targeting the country’s top spokesman and potentially hurting chances of diplomatic talks amid rising tensions between the two countries. Zarif, a critical figure in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, dismissed the action and said it would ...
Read More »Hong Kong protests: China military breaks silence to warn unrest should not be tolerated
Chinese military garrison chief in Hong Kong says army is determined to protect China’s sovereignty, stoking fears of intervention The head of the Chinese army in Hong Kong has spoken on the protests for the first time, saying the unrest has “seriously threatened the life and safety” of the people ...
Read More »The world’s climate emergency: Epic heat waves racked South Asia and the Middle East
We’re still coming to grips with how hot the recent heat wave that scorched through Europe actually was. On Monday, officials in Britain confirmed the country experienced its hottest day on record last Thursday. July 25 also broke national records in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In Paris, the temperature ...
Read More »Pakistani military plane crashes near garrison city, kills 17
A statement of the Pakistani military announced on Tuesday that a military aircraft had crashed early in the morning in a built-up area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi killing all five crew members and 12 civilians and setting off a blaze that left a pile of smoking rubble. The ...
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