Gina Raimondo is latest US official to visit China as part of efforts to ease tensions between the two economies. The United States wants to work with China to ensure a more “predictable” environment for US businesses in Shanghai, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has told officials in the economic hub. Speaking with Shanghai Communist Party … Read more
Everyone Wants to Talk to Gina Raimondo–Even China The Wall Street Journal Source link
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has begun easing rules that could allow commercial airlines to fly over the country in routes that cut time and fuel consumption for East-West travel. But those shortened flight routes for India and Southeast Asia raise questions never … Read more
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world’s most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following allegations that dozens of climbers eager to reach the summit had walked past the man after he was gravely injured in a fall. The accusations … Read more
Iran Releases Four Americans From Evin Prison The Wall Street Journal American detainees in Iran released on house arrest CNN Iran moves 4 Americans to house arrest, lawyer says, in possible first step in their release CBS News Americans moved out of prison in deal that could see US releasing Iranian funds and prisoners CNN Man from Connecticut among … Read more
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military on Sunday condemned a Chinese coast guard ship’s “excessive and offensive” use of a water cannon to block a Filipino supply boat from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel to a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea. The tense confrontation on Saturday at the Second … Read more
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The world scouting body urged South Korea to cut short the World Scout Jamboree as thousands of British scouts began leaving the coastal campsite Saturday because of a punishing heat wave. American scouts were preparing to pull out, too. Hundreds of participants have been treated for heat-related ailments since the … Read more