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Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires: Bolsonaro

Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires: Bolsonaro

-- 2019-08-23 10:26:39

The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, weeks after telling donors he did not ne...

Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defence project

Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defence project

-- 2019-08-22 16:50:50

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approache...

Pompeo praises ‘US ally’ Denmark amid Greenland sale row

Pompeo praises ‘US ally’ Denmark amid Greenland sale row

-- 2019-08-22 14:59:47

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has praised Denmark amid a public row over Greenland that saw President Donald Trump cancel a visit to the country. In a phone call with Danish Foreign Minister Jepp...

Pence’s threat on HK affairs outrageous

Pence’s threat on HK affairs outrageous

Global Times 2019-08-21 17:45:01

US Vice President Mike Pence said in a threatening tone on Monday that for the US to make a trade deal with China, Beijing needs to honour its commitments, including China's commitment to respect the...

Trump cancels Denmark visit over Greenland sale spat

Trump cancels Denmark visit over Greenland sale spat

-- 2019-08-21 11:01:36

US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale to the US. The president was scheduled to visit on 2 September, at t...

Trump urges Modi, Imran to reduce tensions in talks

Trump urges Modi, Imran to reduce tensions in talks

-- 2019-08-20 22:10:16

US President Donald Trump spoke with the prime ministers of India and Pakistan on Monday, urging them to reduce tensions over the disputed region of Kashmir, reports Agencies. "Spoke to my two good f...

Trump urges India, Pakistan to reduce tensions

Trump urges India, Pakistan to reduce tensions

Reuters 2019-08-20 10:31:45

US President Donald Trump spoke with the leaders of India and Pakistan on Monday, discussing prospects for improved trade ties with Washington and stressing the need to reduce tensions over Kashmir...

Trump says US not ready to make China trade deal

Trump says US not ready to make China trade deal

Reuters 2019-08-19 10:37:41

US President Donald Trump and top White House officials dismissed concerns that economic growth may be faltering, saying on Sunday (local time) they saw little risk of recession despite a volatile wee...

Argentina's treasury minister resigns

Argentina's treasury minister resigns

-- 2019-08-18 20:34:20

Argentina´s Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne has resigned, saying in a letter that he believed the government needed 'significant renewal' in its economic team amid a crisis which saw the peso...

US decision won’t change China’s stance

US decision won’t change China’s stance

Global Times 2019-08-18 17:42:51

A decision by the US government on extending a reprieve to Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies is unlikely to change China's stance in the trade negotiations with the US, which have been proce...

Trump floats possibility of deal with Taliban

Trump floats possibility of deal with Taliban

Xinhua 2019-08-17 18:25:09

US President Donald Trump on Friday floated the possibility of a deal with the Taliban after a meeting with senior advisors on Afghan issues. "Just completed a very good meeting on Afghanistan. Many...

US issues warrant to seize Iranian oil tanker

US issues warrant to seize Iranian oil tanker

-- 2019-08-17 11:46:20

The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released. The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barr...

Mexico finds 65 lost Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan migrants

Mexico finds 65 lost Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan migrants

-- 2019-08-16 10:58:04

Mexican authorities say federal police found 65 severely dehydrated and hungry migrants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka wandering on a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The federal Public Sa...

Thunberg embarks on zero carbon journey to climate change confce

Thunberg embarks on zero carbon journey to climate change confce

-- 2019-08-13 18:13:36

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic on a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy. Greta has stopped flying due to environmental reasons,...

Scientists find how brain cells regulate memories

Scientists find how brain cells regulate memories

-- 2019-08-13 15:43:20

The US scientists have mapped a part of the molecular machinery that helps the brain maintain long-term memories, providing new targets against Alzheimer’s disease characterised by memory loss....

New Trump immigration rule will deny visas to poor

New Trump immigration rule will deny visas to poor

-- 2019-08-13 15:37:39

US President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to poor. The lon...

Ebola drugs show ‘90pc survival rate’ in breakthrough trial

Ebola drugs show ‘90pc survival rate’ in breakthrough trial

-- 2019-08-13 11:01:36

Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said. Four drugs were trialled on patients in the Demo...

New Guatemalan president will   change US migration deal

New Guatemalan president will change US migration deal

-- 2019-08-12 19:42:38

    Conservative candidate and ex-prison chief Alejandro Giammattei has been elected president of Guatemala. Preliminary results show he took 59 per cent of the vote, while his centre-lef...

Argentine leader suffers massive  defeat in primary elections

Argentine leader suffers massive defeat in primary elections

-- 2019-08-12 18:33:27

Conservative Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffered a resounding defeat in primary elections on Sunday. The primary, in which presidential candidates from all parties take part, was won by his...

Bear breaks into house probably attracted by smell of rubbish

Bear breaks into house probably attracted by smell of rubbish

-- 2019-08-12 18:03:06

A black bear broke into a house in the US before escaping by smashing through a wall. Police in Colorado said the break-in happened on Friday evening when the house was vacant. Nobody was injured, re...

Venezuela organises nationwide anti-Trump signature drive

Venezuela organises nationwide anti-Trump signature drive

-- 2019-08-12 17:08:47

A nationwide anti-Trump signature drive took place in Venezuela over the weekend to protest the stepped-up US sanctions, a government source said on Sunday. Called “No more Trump,” the dr...

US operates thuggish diplomacy in Hong Kong

US operates thuggish diplomacy in Hong Kong

Global Times 2019-08-10 17:54:46

Hong Kong netizens recently exposed a photo of a US diplomat meeting with several radical opposition figures including Joshua Wong during a sensitive period. Hong Kong media further reported that the...

Texas shooting suspect ‘confesses to targeting Mexicans’

Texas shooting suspect ‘confesses to targeting Mexicans’

-- 2019-08-10 13:06:25

The suspect accused of killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has confessed that he was targeting "Mexicans", say US media. An arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on hi...

White House summons tech, social media firms after shootings

White House summons tech, social media firms after shootings

-- 2019-08-10 11:09:07

White House officials and big social media companies met on Friday to talk about how to curb extremism online after two mass shootings last weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio. After the...

US may fall further in ranks of China's trading partners

US may fall further in ranks of China's trading partners

Global Times 2019-08-08 18:57:54

China's overall foreign trade expanded steadily in the first seven months of the year, with a 4.2 per cent year-on-year increase, while trade with the US declined, customs data showed Thursday. Exper...

Mexico seeks role in El Paso mass shooting probe

Mexico seeks role in El Paso mass shooting probe

Xinhua 2019-08-08 17:52:14

The Mexican government seeks an active role in the investigation of the mass shooting in the US city of El Paso that claimed the lives of 22 people, eight of them Mexican, a top official said Tuesday...

US immigration agents arrest 680 workers at Mississippi plants

US immigration agents arrest 680 workers at Mississippi plants

-- 2019-08-08 12:04:17

US immigration authorities arrested nearly 700 people at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday in what federal officials said could be the largest worksite enforcement o...

US Indo-Pacific Strategy will lead to chaos

US Indo-Pacific Strategy will lead to chaos

Global Times 2019-08-07 18:06:40

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday revealed his plan to place ground-based intermediate-range missiles in Asia. It is widely believed that US allies in Asia-Pacific, including Japan, South Ko...

Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison dies

Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison dies

-- 2019-08-06 21:19:51

The Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. The Morrison family confirmed "with profound sadness" that Morrison had died "following a short illness". The author of 11...

Currency manipulator label merely US bluff and bluster

Currency manipulator label merely US bluff and bluster

Global Times 2019-08-06 18:04:53

The US Treasury Department on Monday designated China a currency manipulator in response to the drop in the renminbi's value to under 7 per US dollar. It's ridiculous that the US has taken China's ste...