Category Archives: World News
S. Korea official: Kim Jong Un seemed sincere
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “completely different from the person featured in news reports,” according to a South Korean official. [van id=”world/2018/04/12/kim-jong-un-south-...
Apr 12, 2018
Dow rallies 400 points after Xi Jinping calms trade fears
By Nathaniel Meyersohn Chinese President Xi Jinping is giving Wall Street a lift. The Dow rallied 400 points at the open Tuesday after Xi said in a speech that the Chinese government plans to “s...
Apr 10, 2018
Mattis: Won’t rule out action against Assad
Defense Secretary James Mattis says that he is not ruling out military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in response to the weekend’s suspected chemical gas attack o...
Apr 09, 2018
Here’s what’s could get more expensive thanks to the China tariffs
By Julia HorowitzTVs. Dishwashers. Printers.Get ready: These are just some of the products that could get more expensive if the United States moves forward with proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth o...
Apr 04, 2018
China to US: We’ll match your tariffs in ‘scale’ and ‘intensity’
By Daniel Shane China says it will respond to any new trade tariffs by the United States with measures of the same scale and intensity. The warning from China’s ambassador to the United States, ...
Apr 03, 2018
Chinese space junk may land on earth
Space is the new frontier in waste management, it seems. There's a lot of man-made debris up there. The latest concern is about Tiangong-1, the 18,750-pound Chinese space station that's breaking up an...
Mar 28, 2018
U.S. tariffs will not have major impact on China says economist
Donna Kwok, Senior China Economist for UBS, tells News Stream Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs are “a drop in the ocean” for China. [van id=”tv/2018/03/26/news-stream-int...
Mar 26, 2018
Great Pacific Garbage Patch now three times the size of France
By Marian Liu CNN A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster than expected and is now three times the size of France. According to a three-year study published in Scientific...
Mar 23, 2018
Why Donald Trump’s China tariffs are likely to be a bad thing for him.
[van id=”politics/2018/03/22/china-tariffs-announcement-trump-bts-ip.cnn”]On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a series of tariffs totaling $50 billion against China, the second t...
Mar 22, 2018
Putin tightens grip on power with overwhelming Russian election win
By Nathan Hodge, Kara Fox and Angela Dewan CNN Vladimir Putin has extended his grip on Russia for another six years after an overwhelming victory in Sunday’s presidential election, a result that...
Mar 19, 2018