BEIJING – Hopes this week’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 in Argentina will achieve a trade breakthrough are fading with analysts and business leaders expressing disappointment over intensifying tensions in the lead up to the summit. The high-stakes encounter between the two leaders in Buenos…
BBC – Theresa May has said the UK will not get a “better deal” from the EU if MPs reject the agreement she has struck. She told a BBC phone-in that there would be just “more division and uncertainty” if Parliament voted against the agreement next month. But she declined to say whether the UK…
CNN – Former first lady Michelle Obama said that her oft-admired friendship with former President George W. Bush serves as a reminder of how relationships should be during a time when America only sees all the “nasty parts” of political discourse. In an interview released Wednesday on NBC, Obama told Bush’s daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, who…
VATICAN CITY – One rarely leaves his monastery high on a hill in Vatican City. The other speaks freely — too freely, critics say — but has vowed silence on this matter, for now. Two men, both clad in white, both called Holy Father, and now, both facing questions about a crucial facet of the…
US President Donald Trump has said he will impose 10 percent US tariffs on about $200bn worth of Chinese imports, but he spared some consumer products. The new tariffs will take effect from September 24, Trump said in a statement on Monday. It will increase to 25 percent on January 1 unless the two countries…
NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation. The landmark decision Thursday by five Supreme Court judges to repeal the law and legalize gay sex between consenting adults comes as a major victory for India’s LGBT activists and supporters…
UNITED STATES – Veteran senator dies at 81 from brain cancer after an eventful life that saw him go from POW to presidential candidate. The US has no royalty but the late US Senator John McCain was born into the closest thing the country has to an aristocracy. He began life in 1936 at a…
Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan is expected to be given a special traditional burial and funeral rites by Manhyia in line with the highest traditional title bestowed on the International diplomat by the Asante Kingdom. Annan who served two terms as the UN chief died last Saturday August 17, 2018 in a hospital at…
BERN – Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has died at a hospital in the Swiss capital, Bern, after a brief illness. The 80-year-old served as the seventh UN chief for almost 10 years from 1997 to 2006 and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, which he shared with the UN. A statement…
London – Britain is looking more likely than ever to crash out of the European Union without a deal, according to the UK’s international trade secretary Liam Fox. Fox put the chances of failure to reach a deal on Brexit at “60-40,” placing blame on the “intransigence” of the European Commission, in an interview published in…
