This was the last global summit for U.S. President Barack Obama and he had been expected to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, a 12-nation trade deal.
“Because of health reform, consumers can get covered if they have a pre-existing condition, women can’t be charged more than men, and young adults can stay on their parents’ insurance”.
The Treasury says Mr Hammond’s package is created to “improve the living standards of ordinary working class people and their families”, in line with goals set out by Theresa May in her Tory conference speech last month.
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes). Anti-Trump demonstrators hold a USA flag upside-down as they march in a rally in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, to protest against President-elect Donald Trump. “So I’m here for them”, Leslie Holmes, a website...
Bersih, which means “clean” in Malay, is an alliance of scores of NGOs and civil-society groups that staged several protests over the years for electoral reform, but has now shifted focus to 1MDB. “We want to see Malaysia more developed and not robbed of...
What is overwhelming, however, and has largely been underplayed by the national news media, is the size of the GOP’s nationwide election victory last week. According to CNN, Kushner is one of Trump’s top advisors but is reportedly “at the center of the...
“What I expect from world leaders is the same thing that I have said in a number of press conferences, which is the president-elect now has to put together a team”. The weekend after Trump won the presidential election, a group of Indian business executives arrived at...
Australia still wants the Trans-Pacific Partnership to succeed even with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump vowing to withdraw from the trade pact, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says. “I hope that President Trump, when he becomes president, will nominate someone who might...
The latter conversation was live-tweeted by politics reporter Maggie Haberman and recounted on the Times’ website, where readers could review snippets and limited amounts of annotation provided by Haberman and the other writers.
Trump defended against critics the man who will be his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, whose appointment has been harshly attacked by Democrats and by much of the media precisely for his ties to the alt-right.