Boeing, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737 MAX aircraft, has brought in a new vice president of engineering while dedicating another top executive…
more ...Trump to Meet with Caribbean Leaders on Friday at His Florida Resort
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet at his Florida resort on Friday with the leaders of the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Lucia to discuss Chinese “predatory economic…
more ...Warner Bros.’ Chief Tsujihara Steps Down Following Scandal
Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, one of the highest ranking Hollywood executives to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, stepped down from the studio Monday following claims that he promised…
more ...AP Source: Justice Dept. Probing Development of Boeing Jets
U.S. prosecutors are looking into the development of Boeing’s 737 Max jets, a person briefed on the matter revealed Monday, the same day French aviation investigators concluded there were “clear…
more ...Ethiopia and Indonesia Crash Parallels Heap Pressure on Boeing
Investigators into the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia have found striking similarities in a vital flight angle with an airplane that came down off Indonesia, a source said, piling…
more ...Paris Catches Asian Tigers in Most Expensive City Race
Paris and Hong Kong for the first time joined Singapore as the world’s most expensive cities to live in, a study revealed on Tuesday, with utilities and transport driving up…
more ...NATO to Receive First Northrop Surveillance Drone, Years Late
NATO is to receive the first of five Northrop Grumman high-altitude drones in the third quarter after years of delays, giving the alliance its own spy drones for the first…
more ...US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei
VOA’s Xu Ning contributed to this report. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. government has launched a seemingly unprecedented campaign to block the Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from competing…
more ...Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers
U.S. President Donald Trump is attacking General Motors, the country’s biggest automaker, for costing 5,400 factory workers their jobs when it closed a manufacturing plant where it built a compact…
more ...OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place
Oil producer group OPEC on Monday scrapped its planned meeting in April and will decide instead whether to extend output cuts in June, once the market has assessed the impact…
more ...UK Prime Minister in Last-Minute Push to Win Brexit Support
British Prime Minister Theresa May was making a last-minute push Monday to win support for her European Union divorce deal, warning opponents that failure to approve it would mean a…
more ...EU May Push China to Open Economy at April Summit
The European Union will seek Beijing’s agreement for deadlines to open up China’s economy at an April 9 summit in Brussels, according to a draft leaders’ statement, trying to coax…
more ...France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis
After wrapping up thousands of town hall meetings, France starts a new chapter of its “great debate,” aimed to address longstanding public grievances and offer solutions to the yellow vest…
more ...UK Leader to Lawmakers: Back my Deal or Face Lengthy Delay
British Prime Minister Theresa May warned Sunday that it would be “a potent symbol of Parliament’s collective political failure” if a Brexit delay meant that the U.K. has to take…
more ...Brazil Reportedly Weighing Import Quota for US Wheat
Brazil is considering granting an import quota of 750,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat per year without tariffs in exchange for other trade concessions, according to a Brazilian official with knowledge of the negotiations ahead…
more ...Iran’s Oil Minister Blames US for Market Tensions
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Saturday that frequent U.S. comments about oil prices had created market tensions, the ministry’s news website SHANA reported. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has made the…
more ...Brexit: What Now?
Veteran Conservative lawmaker Nigel Evans has been in Britain’s House of Commons for more than a quarter-of-a-century and, like most of his parliamentary colleagues, is stunned at the turn of…
more ...China Investment Law Fails to Deliver, Raises Concerns
China’s top legislature is expected to pass the country’s first Foreign Investment Law this week at a time when negotiators from Beijing and Washington work to hammer out a trade…
more ...Trump Says He is in No Rush to Complete China Trade Deal
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China and insisted that any deal include protection for intellectual property, a…
more ...Democrats Cool Toward NAFTA Replacement, Question Labor Standards
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives gave a cool reception to the replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday as the top U.S. trade negotiator opened…
more ...Trade Chief: US Working on Steel, Aluminum Tariff Relief for Mexico, Canada
The United States is working on a plan to lift tariffs from Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminum but preserve the gains that domestic producers have received from the duties…
more ...Lopez Obrador Rebuts Finance Ministry over $2.5B Mexico Refinery Funding
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday denied any delay to a flagship refinery project in his home state after the deputy finance minister was quoted as saying $2.5…
more ...Official: US Plans ‘Very Significant’ Additional Venezuela Sanctions
The United States is preparing to impose “very significant” Venezuela-related sanctions against financial institutions in the coming days, U.S. special envoy Elliott Abrams said on Tuesday. Abrams did not elaborate…
more ...Number of Older US Renters Spikes 43%
Carmen Perry decided to rent rather than buy immediately after she divorced her husband and sold the family home. The 67-year-old realtor sees definite advantages to living in a space…
more ...US Trade Official: US, China Possibly Nearing Deal
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Tuesday that the United States and China are possibly nearing an agreement on a new trade deal, but stopped short of predicting a successful…
more ...Venezuela’s Blackout Halts Oil Exports from Primary Port
Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA has been unable to resume crude exports from its primary port since last week’s massive power outage, essentially crippling the OPEC nation’s principal industry, people…
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