Meanwhile, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the United States will contribute almost US$419 million (AU$ 592 million) in humanitarian aid to help Syrian refugees. Part of the funding will go towardmedical care, including vaccination against measles and polio, safe drinking...
Presidents Obama and Xi agree that the USA and China won’t steal corporate secrets from each other, but the wording is so full of loopholes that CISOs shouldn’t take too much comfort in the pact for quite a while.
A joint statement to be released following Friday’s summit between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping aims to flesh out how their two countries plan to achieve targets for cutting emissions set at a bilateral summit in Beijing previous year.
Xi, on his first state visit to the USA, will be hosted at the White House for a banquet on Friday. Obviously cutting emissions is going to be a hot topic.
The United States of America has had a major investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 20th Century, from ousting Mossadegh in 1953 to place a new Shah on the throne to watching the embassy fall in 1979.
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.