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US may cap H-1B visas to counter India’s data rules
NEW DELHI: The US has told India that it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, widening the two countries’ row over
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Trump-Xi may rekindle trade talks at G20
WASHINGTON: China and the US are rekindling trade talks ahead of a meeting next week between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, cheering financial markets on hopes that an escalating trade war between the two countries would abate. Trump said
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Trump harpooned for Prince of Whales error
President Donald Trump’s erratic spelling habits on Twitter spouted again Thursday when he wrote about having recently met with the “Prince of Whales.” That would be Charles, prince of Wales, whom he met last week at World War II commemorations
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Trump opposes the use of CIA informants against North Korea
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump took a public stance against the use of CIA informants to spy on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday, saying it would not happen under his watch and possibly taking away a valuable tool
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US to decide on US$300 billion China tariffs after G20 meeting
FRANCE/BEIJING: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would decide whether to carry out his threat to hit Beijing with tariffs on at least US$300 billion in Chinese goods after a meeting of leaders of the world’s largest
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US to sell arms to Taiwan, infuriates China
WASHINGTON: The US is planning to sell more than US$2 billion worth of tanks and weapons to Taiwan, four people familiar with the negotiations said, in a move likely to anger China as a trade war between the world’s two
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G20 to tackle US-China trade war, digital tax
Top financial policymakers from the world’s 20 most powerful nations gathered this weekend in Japan as a protracted US-China trade war clouds the global economy with no end in sight. G20 finance ministers and central bankers gathering in the southwestern
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‘North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction violate UN resolutions’
WASHINGTON: North Korea’s entire weapons of mass destruction programme violates United Nations Security Council resolutions, said the US State Department when asked about recent missile launches by Pyongyang. “I think the entire North Korean WMD programme, it’s in conflict with
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Abe: Trump supports meeting with Kim over abductions
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that US President Donald Trump supported his intention to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in order to resolve the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean security services between 1970s
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Trump backs Kim’s assessment on Biden
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un agree on their assessment of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, aligning the president with an authoritarian foreign leader over a former US
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