U.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamist extremism as President Donald Trump’s administration urges them to make more battlefield decisions on their own, the Wall Street Journal reported.
As the White House works on a broad strategy, America’s top military commanders are implementing the vision articulated by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: Decimate Daesh’s Middle East strongholds andRead more
Actress Scarlett Johansson said she was “baffled” by Ivanka Trump’s recent comments that she would prefer to be an advocate for issues behind the scenes of President Donald Trump’s administration rather than in the public arena.
Speaking on stage at the Women in the World Summit in New York, Johansson said she was disappointed that Ivanka, in an interview withRead more
After four years of tension with the US, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi now has a fan in the White House and on Monday he meets President Donald Trump.
The American former reality television star and tycoon has made no secret of his admiration for the ex-army chief who overthrew his predecessor and cracked down on his supporters.
Mohammed Mursi’sRead more
Bank of Japan (BoJ) Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said there is “no reason” to raise the bank’s bond yield targets now with inflation so far from its 2 percent target, offering his strongest denial to date of the chance of withdrawing its massive stimulus any time soon.
The former top Japanese currency diplomat also played down the risk that President DonaldRead more
Protectionist trade policies may increase, rather than reduce, a country’s trade deficit, the European Central Bank (ECB) said in a study on Wednesday, just days after finance chiefs of the world’s top 20 economies dropped their pledge for open trade.
Seeking to reduce a large trade deficit, US President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed a series of protectionist measures, suchRead more
A UN rights expert issued a blistering criticism of Israel’s policies on Monday, deepening a row over alleged anti-Israel bias within the UN following US pressure.
In a report, Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, charged Israel with “the subjugation of (Palestinians’) humanity” and intensifying a crackdown on human rights campaigners.
Lynk made the claims inRead more
Finance ministers from the world’s biggest economies were battling Saturday to halt a bid by US President Donald Trump’s administration to roll back hard-fought pledges on trade and climate.
Representatives from G-20 nations have gathered in the picturesque western German spa town of Baden-Baden since Friday for a meeting clouded by concerns over Trump’s “America First” policy and skepticism towardRead more
US President Donald Trump’s administration waded into the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as one of his top advisers held his first meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.
After five hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday night, Jason Greenblatt met Abbas in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Details of their talks wereRead more
China’s foreign exchange reserves unexpectedly rose for the first time in 8 months in February, rebounding above $3 trillion as a regulatory crackdown and weakness in the dollar helped staunch capital outflows.
Reserves rose $6.92 billion during February to total $3.005 trillion, their first increase since June 2016, compared with a drop of $12.3 billion in January, when reserves fellRead more
US President Donald Trump’s administration said on Friday it is suspending action on an Obama administration decision in October to probe a long-time practice by some airlines of preventing various travel websites from showing their fares and whether to require transparency in airline baggage and other fees.
The US Transportation Department said in a notice Friday it is suspending aRead more