(WEBPUBLICA) New York – The US president’s Donald Trump first Oval Office speech on immigration crisis has come amid a contentious government shutdown as he and Congress dig in over the issue of the border wall. His “low energy” speech, as was described by some US TV networks (MSNBC) has been seen as an effort [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Beijing held a big party to celebrate the Economic Reform process starting forty years ago which changed China and the world.
Amid the meticulous staging in the cavernous Great Hall of the People, China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping addressed the party faithful to a backdrop of massive red banners, gold trappings, [...]
By Arthur Sullivan (DW) - In a wildly successful corporate career, Sheryl Sandberg became a billionaire. Through her feminist activism, she urged women around the world to “lean in.” But recent criticism could force her to lean out of Facebook.
Few people are as instantaneously associated with two short words as Sheryl Sandberg is with “lean in”.
The [...]
By Jim Malone (VOA) – WASHINGTON — A sharply divided U.S. electorate is voting Tuesday to elect a new Congress and to render a midterm verdict on President Donald Trump. The results could shift the balance of power in Washington and alter the next two years of Trump’s presidency.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are [...]
By Masood Farivar (VOA) - Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg rejoined the Democratic Party on Wednesday, signaling an interest in running as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.
The announcement came as the billionaire media mogul has emerged as a top financial backer of the Democratic Party during the pivotal 2018 midterm congressional races, pledging [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — A “climate of fear and persecution” face Burma’s minority Rohingya population as a year of unrelenting human rights abuses and forced expulsions continue by the country’s Beijing-backed military rulers.
As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told a stunned Security Council meeting, “The massive refugee emergency that began one year ago in [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – Officials from both sides of the Atlantic were unable to reach a deal to avert tariffs two days before the exemption expires. The EU has said it will announce retaliatory measures shortly, DW (Deutsche Welle) reported quoting other news agencies.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters on Thursday that a 25 [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – The World Trade Organization has forecast strong global trade growth this year but has warned that any further escalation in trade tensions between the United States and China could compromise those gains, DW reported quoting other news agencies.
The world trade in goods would grow 4.4 percent this year, above the post-financial-crisis average [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Tariffs are in a sense like other taxes; easy to impose, hard to roll back, and usually employed for the “greater good.” Thus triggering tariffs creates a feel good solution, a political sugar rush, but often later a bitter backlash to those ordering them.
I feel that the Trump Administration’s decision [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) UNITED NATIONS – New York – Former US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson resigned from an international panel to help Myanmar deal with the Rohingya crisis on Thursday, news agencies reported. Richardson has openly accused Myanmar leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking “moral leadership.”
Richardson supported Suu Kyi when [...]
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