Man kills Muslim boy, stabs mother in hate crime
- 16-Oct-2023
An Illinois man was charged with hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother in an attack that targeted them for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, officials and Muslim rights activists said on Sunday. The boy was stabbed 26 times with […]
U.S. tops 3 million known infections as coronavirus surges
- 08-Jul-2020
Authorities have reported alarming upswings of daily caseloads in roughly two dozen states
U.S. demands regular review of China trade reform
- 19-Jan-2019
'The threat of tariffs is not going away, even if there is a deal'.
US military says no plans to suspend major exercises on Korean peninsula
- 29-Aug-2018
WASHINGTON: The US military has no plans yet to suspend any more major military exercises with South Korea, the defense secretary said on Tuesday, in the middle of a breakdown in diplomacy with North Korea over its nuclear weapons. Defense Secretary James Mattis told a Pentagon news conference that no decisions had been made about […]
North Korea newspaper blasts ‘double-dealing’ US after Pompeo’s trip canceled
- 27-Aug-2018
North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the United States of “double-dealing” and “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly canceled a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Negotiations have been all but deadlocked since U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June. Pompeo […]
Huawei chairman hits out at US politicians over university funding
- 29-Jun-2018
HONG KONG: The chairman of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] has hit back at several U.S. lawmakers who claimed the firm’s research funding to over 50 American universities posed a “significant threat” to national security. Huawei is the world’s largest maker of telecommunication network equipment and third-largest smartphone maker. It is a private company […]
US top court upholds Trump travel ban targeting Muslim-majority nations
- 27-Jun-2018
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination. The 5-4 ruling, with the conservative justices in the majority and the liberal justices dissenting, ended a fierce fight […]
US restaurant chain in hijab row orders diversity training
- 15-Jun-2018
LOS ANGELES: A California restaurant chain accused of kicking out customers because they were Muslim is to offer free drinks for the end of Ramazan and undergo diversity training, campaigners said. The Urth Caffe branch in Laguna Beach was sued by seven women who alleged they were removed in April 2016 because they were wearing […]
US says will ‘take firm, appropriate measures’ against Syria violations
- 15-Jun-2018
The U.S. will “take firm and appropriate measures” in response to Syrian government violations in a so-called de-escalation zone in the southwest of the country, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday. The southwest of Syria, bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is one of the remaining parts of the country still […]
U.S. allies hit back at Washington’s steel, aluminum tariffs
- 01-Jun-2018
WASHINGTON/PARIS: Canada and Mexico retaliated against the U.S. decision on Thursday to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and the European Union had its own reprisals ready to go, reigniting investor fears of a global trade war. The tariffs, announced by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a telephone briefing on Thursday, ended months […]