Issuing a warning to US President Donald Trump, China has said that any trade war between the two countries will bring nothing but harm. This warning was issued by China’s Commerce Minister Zhong Shan on the sidelines of the Parliament session in Beijing amid concerns that Trump may hike tariffs against Chinese goods. He said that cooperation is the only right choice and the two countries should work to enhance […]
The Trump administration is expected to drop Iraq from the list of Muslim-majority nations to be impacted by a travel ban that the president was to sign into effect on Wednesday, but didn’t, along with several other substantive changes from the previous executive order that had been put on hold by a federal court. The new order is likely to exempt existing visa holders from the listed countries — the […]
Being president of the United States is perhaps the most powerful job on earth — and being a former US president can be one of the most lucrative. With book deals, speaking engagements, and a government pension, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama stand to earn as much as $242.5 million in the next 15 years, according to research from the Kogod School of Business at American […]
Amnesty International said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s “poisonous” rhetoric on his way to winning the White House led a global trend towards increasingly divisive politics in 2016 that had made the world a “darker” place. In its annual report covering 159 countries, the human rights group said principles of human dignity and equality had come under assault from politicians seeking election and it zeroed in on Trump, who […]
Hillary Clinton trolled US president Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected his bid to reinstate a temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the media reported. Her tweet simply read, “3-0”, a reference to the unanimous decision by the three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, the USA Today reported. Clinton was not the only critic celebrating the decision, politicians, […]
President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country’s principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump’s next steps could strike even closer to home: His administration has drafted an executive order aimed at […]
Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took part in the first US presidential debate at Hofstra University on New York state’s Long Island. It is the first of three planned presidential debates. On creating and bringing back jobs Hillary Clinton took the first debate question from moderator Lester Holt, who asked about her plan to create better jobs for American workers. Clinton responded with her standard campaign promise […]
Nobody knows for certain who will win on Nov. 8 – but one man is pretty sure: Professor Allan Lichtman, who’s correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984. When we sat down in May, he explained how he comes to a decision. Lichtman’s prediction isn’t based on horse-race polls, shifting demographics or his own political opinions. Rather, he uses a system of true/false statements he calls the “Keys to the […]
Indians are accustomed to a political landscape dotted with parties that flourish in the fertile soil of fissures – be those of the regional, religious, caste or class variety. For those following the results from the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections last week, for instance, each alliance appeared to consist of more acronymed parties than there are parts of the alphabet soup of the US security establishment. Most Western democracies […]
