May 18, 2018 08:11 PM IST
China may buy up to USD 200 billion worth of American goods under intense pressure from the Trump administration to reduce its massive trade deficit with the US, a media report said today, amid a round of high-level trade talks between the world's two largest economies.
May 18, 2018 08:03 PM IST
US and Chinese officials face a new round of tough trade talks today as President Donald Trump discounted chances of a deal, but Beijing extended a potential olive branch.
May 18, 2018 07:31 PM IST
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea resort of Sochi today, as Moscow and Europe make rare joint efforts to save the Iran nuclear deal.
May 18, 2018 04:55 PM IST
Many countries around the world train sea animals to recover objects at sea and detect mines and other naval hazards, as well as alert officers and help in rescuing people overboard
May 18, 2018 04:21 PM IST
China's first indigenously-built aircraft carrier today successfully completed its maiden sea trial and returned to its home port in Dalian, a major step in the country's quest to modernise its military and bolster its naval presence in the disputed South China sea and in the Indian Ocean.
May 18, 2018 03:30 PM IST
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May 18, 2018 03:26 PM IST
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May 18, 2018 01:50 PM IST
The firm, whose attorney filed on Wednesday, announced early May that it would close and file for insolvency in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal.
May 18, 2018 01:17 PM IST
This was second such occurrence. In November, last year, a train running on Tsukuba Express line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba left 20 seconds early from the platform.
May 18, 2018 11:44 AM IST
As a clandestine officer at the CIA, Haspel was in charge of a secret operation labelled 'Cat’s eye'.
May 18, 2018 10:26 AM IST
The US has threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on up to USD 150 billion in Chinese goods while China has targeted USD 50 billion in American exports.
May 18, 2018 10:16 AM IST
“China has taken our hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the United States. And I explained to (Chinese) President Xi (Jinping), we can’t do that anymore, we just can’t do that anymore. It’s a much different situation,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
May 18, 2018 09:41 AM IST
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May 18, 2018 08:56 AM IST
The plan is to be detailed on Monday by the top United States diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in his first major foreign policy address since taking office in April.
May 18, 2018 08:55 AM IST
South Korea said today it believes North Korea remains committed to improving relations despite strongly criticizing Seoul over ongoing US-South Korean military drills and insisting it will not return to inter-Korean talks unless its grievances are resolved.
May 18, 2018 08:25 AM IST
"If you go too far, I think what some people in the White House are saying, ..Steve Mnuchin, the Secretary of the Treasury, you will end up shooting yourself in the foot if you really do in fact have the Chinese retaliating against our products, and yet we aren't getting satisfaction on more entry into their markets," he said.
May 18, 2018 08:19 AM IST
In rambling remarks in the White House's Oval Office in which he also sharply criticized China over trade, Trump said that as far as he knew the meeting with Kim was still on track, but that the North Korean leader was possibly being influenced by Beijing after two recent visits he made there.
May 18, 2018 08:15 AM IST
A major document written by two key Holy See departments appeared to take aim at plans to further de-regulate markets in some countries, such as the United States, where President Donald Trump wants to loosen strict banking rules enacted after the 2008 financial crisis.
May 18, 2018 07:46 AM IST
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May 18, 2018 07:40 AM IST
A cloud of uncertainty continues to hover over Trump's meeting with Kim in Singapore as North Korea on Tuesday abruptly threatened to pull out of the planned June 12 summit, blaming US demands for "unilateral nuclear abandonment". Pyongyang has also taken strong exceptions to military drills between the US and South Korea.
May 18, 2018 07:40 AM IST
"If the North Koreans want to meet, we'll be there," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told journalists, adding that the White House schedule had not changed.
May 18, 2018 07:40 AM IST
"Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI 'SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT,'" Trump said today on Twitter.
May 18, 2018 07:40 AM IST
The railway linking Islam's holiest cities, which was initially scheduled to open at the end of 2016, had a cost overrun of 210 million euros which Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay, the Al-Shoula consortium added in a statement.
May 17, 2018 10:01 PM IST
Besides, Pepsico would also continue to work with marketplaces and its backward integration with the farmers on the ground to enhance its reach, he added.
May 17, 2018 09:30 PM IST
Brent crude futures reached an intraday high of USD 80.18 a barrel before receding to USD 79.67 at 1326 GMT.
