The US Senate has confirmed Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo as director of the CIA, replacing John Brennan, a media report said on Tuesday. Pompeo was tapped by President Donald Trump (before his inauguration) to head the security agency and would be tasked with polishing the tarnished relationship between the Trump administration and the CIA, Efe […]
Former Education Minister Benoit Hamon and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls topped the list after the first round of the French Socialist Party primaries held on Sunday. Hamon, with the left wing of the Socialist Party, so far has obtained 35 per cent of the votes doing especially well among young, urban voters, EFE news […]
Taiwan technology giant Foxconn has announced that it was considering setting up a plant in the US with an investment of $7 billion. The world’s largest contract electronics maker company’s chairman and chief executive, Terry Gou, on Sunday said the investment would likely generate thousands of jobs, if it goes ahead, the BBC reported. The […]
A US legal watchdog says it will file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump, alleging he is violating a constitutional ban on accepting payments from foreign governments. The group of lawyers and researchers said Trump was receiving payments from foreign governments via guests at his hotels and leases on his buildings, the BBC […]
China’s economy grew 6.7 per cent year on year in 2016, the slowest pace of growth in 26 years, but well within the government’s target range, official data showed on Friday. Growth in the fourth quarter came in at 6.8 per cent, accelerating from the 6.7 per cent in the third quarter, according to National […]
About 50 top officials who have been working in outgoing US President Barack Obama’s administration will continue serving in those positions for Donald Trump’s incoming government, future White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Thursday. Spicer said that Trump is aware of the importance of “guaranteeing continuity” in the government and, therefore, he has asked […]
The Pentagon announced that four more inmates were transferred out of the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the final such transfer under President Barack Obama and leaving the facility’s population at 41. Thursday’s transfer concludes the Obama administration’s final push to empty the facility as much as possible prior to President-elect Donald Trump’s […]
A Supreme Court Justice presiding over Brazils biggest corruption case has died after the plane carrying him crashed into the sea off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, according to local authorities. The body of Justice Teori Zavascki was recovered from the wreckage near the coastal town of Paraty, state firefighters said, CNN reported on […]
Five terror suspects involved in fatal armed attacks on police and soldiers in Myanmar’s Rakhine have been arrested, a local media reported on Tuesday. The five suspects were captured by the security forces during a two-day combing operation in Rakhine that started on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported. The suspects have confessed to their part […]
French President Francois Hollande has that the European Union (EU) “does not need external advice” to tell it what it has to do, a media report said on Tuesday. Hollande’s remarks came on Monday in response to US President-elect Donald Trump’s comments on topics such as the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). […]