WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators concluded the first of two days of talks on Thursday to rescue a trade deal that is close to collapsing as Washington prepares to go ahead with plans to hike tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods imported from China. Tension between Washington and
Month: May 2019
FILE PHOTO: Armenia’s Meline Daluzyan competes on the women’s 69Kg Group A weightlifting competition at the ExCel venue at the London 2012 Olympic Games August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor BERLIN (Reuters) – Two athletes who competed in the London 2012 Olympics tested positive for anabolic steroids following retests of their seven-year-old samples, the International Olympic
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s young royals, brothers Prince William and Prince Harry and their wives Kate and Meghan, launched a new phone messaging service on Friday to help people suffering a mental health crisis. Britain’s Prince William meets Mathew Kollamkulam, Michael Kitching, Jo Irwin, Amanda Brown-Bennet, and Carol Keith, who are crisis volunteers working with
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5 percentage points to 45 percent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes of Trump interfered with important government business, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. FILE PHOTO – U.S. President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander being built by his Blue Origin rocket company and touted his moon goals in a strategy aimed at capitalizing on the Trump administration’s renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just five years. The world’s richest man and
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft and discussed missions to the moon in a strategy tailored to the U.S. government’s renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just five years. Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon
(Reuters) – GoPro Inc raised its full-year revenue forecast and reported a smaller-than-feared loss on Thursday, boosted by strong demand for its new range of cheaper action cameras from flagship brand HERO, sending its shares up 10 percent. A GoPro camera is seen in this illustration photo January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration The company’s action
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Up to 60 U.S Border Patrol agents will be trained to conduct initial asylum screenings as part of a pilot effort to speed up the vetting of migrants who seek refuge in the United States, U.S. officials told a congressional committee on Thursday. FILE PHOTO – U.S. Border Patrol agents are seen
FILE PHOTO – Stacey Abrams speaks to the crowd of supporters announcing they will wait till the morning for results of the mid-terms election at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 7, 2018. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, a rising party star who narrowly fell short of becoming
Tennis – WTA Premier Mandatory – Madrid Open – The Caja Magica, Madrid, Spain – May 9, 2019 Japan’s Naomi Osaka in action during her quarter final match against Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic REUTERS/Susana Vera MADRID (Reuters) – World number one Naomi Osaka lost in three sets to unseeded Swiss Belinda Bencic in the Madrid Open
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While people and other vertebrates are color blind in dim light, some deep-sea fish may possess keen color vision to thrive in the near total darkness of their extreme environment thanks to a unique genetic adaptation, scientists said on Thursday. The deep-sea lanternfish (Myctophiformes) is seen in this undated image released in
LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber drivers in London and major U.S. cities held a series of strikes on Wednesday to protest the disparity between gig-economy conditions and the sums that investors are likely to make in Friday’s blockbuster stock market debut. Protests were sparsely attended in London, New York and California, and rides appeared easily
LONDON (Reuters) – Hollywood star Will Smith was reluctant at first to play Genie in the live-action remake of Disney’s “Aladdin” as it meant following in the big footsteps of late comedian Robin Williams who voiced the character in the 1992 animated film. Cast member Will Smith attends the premiere of Disney’s live-action ‘Aladdin’ in
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sign is seen on the podium at EPA headquarters in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ting Shen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed increasing the volume of biofuels refiners must blend into their fuel annually to 20.04 billion gallons in 2020, from
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Wednesday that intelligence agents had detained his deputy, the first arrest of a lawmaker since Guaido tried to spark a military uprising last week to bring down President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country’s rightful
(Reuters) – China’s CRRC plans to bid on a big Washington D.C. subway project as it doubles down on a charm campaign in the United States to quash a rising chorus of critics who have cast the rail car maker as a threat to cyber security and U.S. industry. FILE PHOTO: Men work on a
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