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Eikhout, the Greens’ environmental policy leader, said it had been “painful for the EU” to watch USA regulators seize the initiative on emissions test manipulation.

Obama and Putin will hold a bilateral meeting on Monday afternoon during the three-day session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

President Barack Obama offered Mr Xi Jinping a warm welcome at the White House on Thursday, greeting his Chinese counterpart with a “ni hao”, or Mandarin for “how are you?”, at the start of a tricky state visit.

The software at the center of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal in the US was built into the automaker’s cars in Europe as well, Germany said Thursday, though it isn’t yet clear if it helped cheat tests as it did in the U.S.

According to a report by AFP on Tuesday, Xi is expected to explain the objectives of his visit in meetings and a keynote speech to leaders of states like Washington and with the heads of major companies, which have huge interests in China such as Boeing and Microsoft.

Xi was also treated to a State Department lunch with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and others.

The diplomat noted the recent flurry of diplomatic activity on Syria after the Iran nuclear deal was announced, including a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Qatar, but said that window “slammed shut” with...

Gold fell from one-month highs on Friday after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen kept the door open to an increase in USA interest rates this year, sparking a dollar rally, while palladium was on track for its biggest weekly rise in nearly four years.

Shaaban said there was a “change in the West’s positions” over Syria’s war, which has killed more than 240,000 people and displaced millions since 2011.

When Thursday dawns here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to launch a full day of economic diplomacy, cajoling titans of industry, finance and media to invest in his hallmark “Make-in-India” programme.

The policy change, which Kerry said would result in the Obama administration’s accepting 85,000 refugees next year – up from 70,000 – rising to 100,000 in 2017, comes as the refugee crisis in Europe threatens to explode into outright chaos.

Many key Obama officials take a hard-line towards Putin and generally favor rewarding his toughness in kind.

So this “transition” is as significant – in a long-term sense – as any global economic event of the past 30 years.

Czech personalities linked to the November 1989 overthrow of the communist regime have called on the government, in a letter released to CTK, to meet its European commitments and reassess its “negativist” approach to the redistribution of refugees among EU members....

“Asset classes like gold are still expensive and they are fundamentally likely to suffer if US rates go up, if the dollar remain strong“, Manpreet Gill, head of fixed income, currency and commodities investment strategy at Standard Chartered Plc, said in an interview...