The Canadian stock market was down on the first day of the week following US President-elect Donald Trump’s claims to impose a tax on foreign-automotive companies. on Monday, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s benchmark Standard and Poor’s/TSX Composite moved down 17.99 points, or 0.12 per cent, to close the day at 15,479.29 points. Six of the […]
Democratic leaders joined hundreds of protesters in Los Angeles in rejecting the plan of President-elect Donald Trump and Republican congressmen to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), calling upon the public to take action to prevent that move. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told EFE news on Monday that everyone will pay the price of […]
Former leader of South Korea’s biggest opposition party beat former UN chief in a recent presidential poll though the latter’s return to his home country boosted hopes among conservative voters, a local survey showed on Monday. Moon Jae-in, former chief of Minjoo Party, won an approval rating of 26.1 per cent last week, according to […]
Former President and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has left for Dubai from where he will fly to Washington to attend the inauguration ceremony of US president-elect Donald Trump. He left for Dubai on Sunday evening after returning to Pakistan last month following 18 months in a self-imposed exile, Dawn news reported. Besides […]
CIA Director John Brennan implored US President-elect Donald Trump to put his confidence in the intelligence community and develop an “appreciation” for national security. The Central Intelligence Agency chief defended his agency and said in a Sunday interview that the CIA was not trying to harm the incoming president or his team, CNN reported. “There […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday accused Fiat Chrysler of violating the country’s Clean Air Act by installing and failing to disclose emissions-cheating software in roughly 104,000 vehicles. Affected models include the light-duty model year 2014, 2015 and 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0 liter diesel engines sold […]
Explosions rocked a key military airbase west of the capital Damascus after midnight on Friday, in what believed to be Israeli rocket fire targeting the facility, local media reported. The state TV said several explosions were heard in the vicinity of the Mazzeh airbase in the Mazzeh neighborhood west of Damascus, Xinhua reported. Pro-government Sama […]
The Vice Chairman of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-yong, on Thursday morning arrived at the prosecutor’s office for questioning in a bribery case, media reports said. Lee, is the heir apparent of South Korea’s largest family-run conglomerate that was being investigated for the scandal involving impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Xinhua news agency reported. Lee […]
US Senator John McCain has admitted that he gave the FBI a dossier detailing claims of a Russian blackmail plot against President-elect Donald Trump. The Arizona lawmaker, who is a longtime Trump critic, made the public statement on Wednesday as questions piled up about his alleged role in spreading an unverified and error-riddled document that […]
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has reiterated that his country will not pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border, within hours of US President-elect Donald Trump doubling down on his campaign pledge to force the Latin American neighbour to do so. “It is evident that we have some differences with the new government of […]