Germany, China to work on steel overcapacity via G20

posted in: Germany, News

Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping about steel overcapacity and the US threat of tariffs. They are to work on solutions through the G20 group of industrialized nations. During a phone call on Saturday German Chancellor … Read More

Trump’s opioid plan to take three-pronged approach, including death penalty for high-volume drug dealers

(CNN)President Donald Trump will roll out new plans to tackle the country’s opioid epidemic on Monday in New Hampshire, the White House said Sunday. The plan will include stiffer penalties for high-intensity drug traffickers, including the death penalty for some … Read More

Seoul to closely cooperate with China, Japan to tackle North Korea issue

posted in: Far East, News

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon (L) meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) in Tokyo, Japan 13 March 2018. Suh recently met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and discussed the prospect of the denuclearization of the … Read More

Rex Tillerson Out as Trump’s Secretary of State, Replaced by Mike Pompeo

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, extending a shake-up of his administration, 14 months into his tumultuous presidency, and potentially transforming the nation’s economic and foreign policy. Mr. Trump announced he would … Read More

Trump touts House Intel findings of ‘no evidence of collusion’ between campaign, Russia

President Donald Trump trumpeted the House Intelligence Committee’s report that it found “no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians” in an all-caps Twitter post Monday night. “THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A … Read More

Germany, China warn Trump tariff moves threaten global trade

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BERLIN Germany denounced moves by President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on U.S. metal imports, saying Europe needed a united response to the threat and echoing criticism from China that it risked undermining the global trade system. Trump set import … Read More

Putin on U.S. election interference: ‘I couldn’t care less’

posted in: News, Russia

Megyn Kelly interviews Vladimir Putin on March 1, 2018. NBC News Russian President Vladimir Putin has told NBC News that he “couldn’t care less” if Russian citizens tried to interfere in the 2016 American presidential election because, he claims, they were … Read More

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