Category: World

WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed. Trump summoned a delegation of the battleground state’s Republican leadership,… Continue reading Trump tries to leverage power of office to subvert Biden win

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): The Group of 20 summit began on Saturday with appeals by the world’s most powerful leaders to collectively chart a way forward as the coronavirus pandemic overshadows this year’s gathering, transforming it from in-person meetings to a virtual gathering of speeches and declarations. The pandemic, which has claimed more than… Continue reading G-20 summit opens as leaders urge united response to virus

WASHINGTON (Reuters): The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, likely as new business restrictions to control spiraling COVID-19 infections unleashed a fresh wave of layoffs, which could further slow the labor market recovery. The weekly unemployment claims report from the Labor Department on Thursday, the most timely data… Continue reading U.S. weekly jobless claims rise; COVID-19 surge seen slowing labor market healing

LIMA (Reuters): Grace Yarango is only 18 and she’s already helped take down a president. Now she – and many other of Peru’s millennials and Generation Z youth – have their eyes on bigger prizes: changes to the constitution and reforming a widely reviled Congress. Peru’s younger generation – dubbed the ‘bicentennials’ in reference to… Continue reading Peru’s youth has taken down a president. Now they want more

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday warned of dire consequences if President Donald Trump and his administration continue to refuse to coordinate with his transition team on the coronavirus pandemic and block briefings on national security, policy issues and vaccine plans. The remarks marked Biden’s toughest comments to date on Trump’s failure… Continue reading ‘More people may die’: Biden urges Trump to aid transition

(Associated Press): China and 14 other countries agreed Sunday to set up the world’s largest trading bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a deal many in Asia are hoping will help hasten a recovery from the shocks of the pandemic. As reported by AP, The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP,… Continue reading ASEAN, China, other partners set world’s biggest trade pact

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran. Four current and former U.S. officials said Abu Mohammed al-Masri, al-Qaida’s… Continue reading US, Israel worked together to track and kill al-Qaida No. 2

DUBAI (Reuters): The United Arab Emirates will extend its “golden” visa system – which grants 10-year residency in the Gulf state – to certain professionals, specialised degree-holders and others, the UAE’s vice president said on Sunday. Foreigners in the UAE usually have renewable visas valid for only a few years tied to employment. Reuters has… Continue reading UAE widens 10-year residency ‘golden’ visa eligibility

WASHINGTON (AP): Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic. For now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid. In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging… Continue reading Biden faces tough choice of whether to back virus lockdowns

WASHINGTON (AP): Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.” President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime… Continue reading Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden