A host of diplomats have urged the United States and North Korean leadership to complete denuclearization and obtain solutions to some of the other issues within the relationship between the two countries even as the US announced on Friday about a second round of meeting its President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong…
A report prepared for next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, identified as the most urgent global t\risk to be the ever increasing tension between the world’s major powers which is creating roadblocks to get together collective action to take concrete measures against climate change. According to a survey of around 1,000 experts and…
Hopes of avoidance of a full blown trade war with between China and the United States emerged after the end of a longer than expected trade talks between trade representatives of the two countries came to an end. The detailed results of the three day talks would be made public later, said officials. China’s Foreign…
A block buster and record making merger has been announced by two of the biggest drug companies of the United States. Drug maker Celgene would be taken over by Bristol-Myers Squibb in a cash and stock deal including debt and the value of the deal as announced is worth about between $74bn and $90bn. The…
Britain’s trade minister Liam Fox has said that if the UK government rejects the European Union withdrawal deal next month, there is a 50-50 chance that Brexit may be stopped. “If we were not to vote for that, I’m not sure I would give it (Brexit) much more than 50-50,” Fox told the Sunday Times…
The level to which Amazon has been able to own unrivalled position of power within the United States federal government has been underscored by the degree of lobbying by its officials, according to a report published in The Guardian. The report claims that the Trump administration was advised by a top Amazon executive in private…
The results of a survey conducted by Deloitte released on Wednesday shows that the confidence of senior finance officers at companies operating in China is being pulled down by increasing trade risks. The consultancy organization conducts the survey twice a year among financial executives about their attitudes on trade and business as a part of…
Amidst fears that US executives would be targeted by Chinese authorities following the arrest of the CFO of Huawei – Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Canada at the behest of the United States, the employees – especially people in the management positions, of US technology giant Cisco, have been advised not to travel of China except…
According to the former head of intelligence agency GCHQ, if there is no proper regulation, it is possible that the social media platform Facebook could turn out to be a threat to democracy. In an interview with BBC, Robert Hannigan said rather than “protecting your privacy” and data, the interest of the social media giant…
Since it believes that the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank were at the “core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians”, therefore the US based online home and hotel rental firm Airbnb said it would remove from the region from its listings. While the decision and the announcement has been welcomed by Palestinians,…
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