New York, UK | Xinhua | Wall Street’s major averages eked out modest gains in the week as investors monitored updates about a U.S. coronavirus stimulus bill, while poring through a batch of key economic data. For the week ending Friday, the Dow inched up 0.1 percent, the S&P 500 rose …
Read More »Global oil market to rely more on Middle East as U.S. output falls, experts
New York, US | Xinhua | Global oil market will rely more on the Middle East as U.S. shale oil production is expected to continue to fall, according to industry experts. U.S. shale oil production will fall by 900,000 barrels per day in 2020 and drop another 1.1 million barrels per …
Read More »Second presidential debate in limbo as Trump, Biden campaigns at odds over format
Washington, US | Xinhua | The second U.S. presidential debate appears in limbo as the campaigns of President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are at odds over its format. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced on Thursday that the second Trump-Biden encounter, originally scheduled for Oct. 15, …
Read More »U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 200,000 — Johns Hopkins University
New York, US | XINHUA | U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the national caseload topping 6.8 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 200,005 as of 11:23 a.m. local time …
Read More »Rouhani hails Iran’s “historic” success against U.S. attempts to restore UN sanctions
Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani celebrated on Wednesday the Iranian diplomacy’s “historic” success against the U.S. efforts at the UN Security Council to restore UN sanctions on Iran. “I don’t know of any case in history where the U.S. submitted a draft resolution in the UN …
Read More »U.S. protectionism, unilateralism sowing “selfish” ideas among countries
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | XINHUA | Protectionism and unilateralism from the U.S. are sowing a “selfish” idea among other countries and go against the current of multilateralism and globalization, Kin Phea, director general of the International Relations Institute of Cambodia, has told Xinhua. Speaking at a roundtable discussion under the …
Read More »China urges U.S. to stop military provocations
Beijing, China | XINHUA | The Chinese military opposes and is not afraid of the U.S. side’s recent escalating provocations against China, a spokesman said Thursday. Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, made the comments at a press conference in response to a media question about …
Read More »Iran says UN dismissal of return of anti-Iran sanctions shows U.S. “global isolation”
Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | The rejection of U.S. bid in the UN Security Council to take actions to return sanctions against Iran showed U.S.”global isolation,” Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement, according to Tasnim news agency on Wednesday. “Today’s deliberations in the UN Security Council …
Read More »General Burhan urges U.S. to remove Sudan from terror list
Khartoum, Sudan | XINHUA | Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Tuesday urged the United States to remove Sudan from its list of states sponsoring terrorism. Al-Burhan issued the call while receiving U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who is on an one-day visit to Sudan, the …
Read More »DPP demands status of investigations on sanctioned Ugandan judges
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Public Prosecutions -DPP has revealed that it’s going to demand for the case file in which two Ugandan judges, a lawyer and her husband were sanctioned by the US government for being involved in a child adoption scam. The file is …
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