Trump continued to demand more than $5 billion for his U.S.-Mexico border wall as a condition for reopening the government, while Democrats say they will not agree to any new money for a border wall.During the White House meeting, Democrats once again pressed Trump to reopen most of the government ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
Congo's electoral commission announced opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi as the winner of a tense presidential election early on Thursday morning, marking an important step in the African country's first democratic transfer of power, according to The Washington Post... He will now replace the longtime leader Joseph Kabila ... 30 vote....
A new super-Earth has been discovered in the habitable zone of a binary system thanks to the effort of citizen scientists looking through the data of the Kepler telescope, IFLScience reports.The exoplanet is known as K2-288b and is located 226 light-years away ...The new planet orbits the smaller one, which is classified as a cool M star....
SEATTLE - Amazon founder, president and CEOJeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, announced they are divorcing after a period of trial separation. They were married for 25 years. Bloomberg reported that Jeff Bezos tweeted a statement about the news Wednesday morning. It was signed by the couple ... TRENDING NOW ... They were married three months later ... ....
Debris has been found after a French Air ForceMirage 2000D fighter jet went off radar on Wednesday morning, RT reports. Search efforts for the missing crew members are ongoing.The jet, which had a pilot and a weapons officer on board, went missing at about 11 a.m ... The crew included a man and a woman, according to some media reports....
China's commerce ministry said the trade talks held this week with the United States were "extensive, deep and thorough" on Wednesday, and provided a "foundation for the resolution of each others' concerns," according to Reuters ...The U.S ...The Trump administration also threatened to tax all imports from China if Beijing did not meet their demands ... ....
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Iran confirmed on Wednesday it had arrested an American, confirming U.S. media reports about a case that risks further worsening relations with Washington... ....
The House of Representatives passed a financial services spending bill on Wednesday as an attempt to reopen portions of the shuttered federal government as the standoff between PresidentDonald Trump and Congressional Democrats continued over funding his border wall construction, according to CNN... ... Rep ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
The Guatemalan ConstitutionCourt convened late Tuesday night after PresidentJimmy Morales ended the mandate of a United Nations-supported anti-corruption commission, according to Al Jazeera... "The court has held up the law and returned the principles of international law that are held up in [the Guatemalan] constitution ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
For about three decades, Anwar Ibrahim has been seen as the man who was going to be prime minister of Malaysia... Advertising ... Perhaps that is why New Delhi has been so silent on some issues like the Rohingya crisis in the neighbourhood ... Regional groupings will be critical in the near future ... “Calling our relationship stormy is an understatement ... 02.57 ... ....
Reuters reported on Wednesday SearsHolding Corp Chairman Eddie Lampert submitted a revised takeover bid after Sears previously rejected his bid of $4.4 billion ... Lampert agreed to assume tax and vendor bills the company had amassed since filing for bankruptcy protection in October ... Sears will consider the new bid during a Jan. 14 bankruptcy auction....
The Kazakh foreign ministry said Beijing will allow more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country on Wednesday, one of the first major signs of China reacting to the international pressure over its crackdown in the Xinjiang region on Muslims and other ethnic groups, according to The Associated Press....
By Sethuraman N R. BENGALURU (Reuters) - Gold prices rose on Thursday as growing expectations that the U.S.Federal Reserve will pause its rate tightening cycle this year and an impasse between U.S. PresidentDonald Trump and Democrats on funding for a border wall weighed on the dollar ... U.S. gold futures gained 0.4 percent to $1,297.2 per ounce ... ....