Huawei’s affordable smartphones have made strong inroads in the developing world, but the company has faced repeated setbacks in major Western economies over security concerns (AFP Photo/Johannes EISELE) Montreal (AFP) – Canada on Thursday defended its arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei on a US extradition request as markets wobbled on fears […] Read more
-It began as a home-spun Facebook campaign against French fuel tax increases. But in a few weeks it has spiraled into a movement powerful enough to force Emmanuel Macron into the biggest U-turn of his presidency. Yet the “yellow-vest” movement — named for the fluorescent jackets carried by French motorists — remains an amorphous, hard-to-define […] Read more
Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger had a potent defense against attacks by President Donald Trump and other Republicans casting her party as weak on national security: her career as a covert CIA counter-terrorism officer. In November’s elections, she was one of five Democratic women with national security or military backgrounds who captured Republican-held U.S. House of […] Read more
British lawmakers published a cache of internal Facebook Inc (FB.O) documents, which indicates that the social network gave certain companies special access to user data even after promising to limit such access for third-party apps. The data, released on Wednesday, was obtained from Six4Three, an app developer that is currently in a legal dispute with […] Read more
The Macron administration is struggling to defuse the anger driving the “yellow vest” protests, as it reels from the worst riots seen in central Paris in five decades last Saturday. Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said all tax-related policies needed to be periodically evaluated and, if deemed not to be working, should be changed. He said […] Read more
PARIS — In a major concession by President Emmanuel Macron, France will suspend for six months a tax increase on gasoline and diesel fuel that had been slated for January, in an attempt to quell weeks of protests and rioting by the so-called Yellow Vests movement. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced the move on Tuesday […] Read more
The tiny, wealthy Persian Gulf state of Qatar will withdraw from OPEC in January, the country’s energy minister said on Monday, hinting that it wanted freedom from an oil cartel dominated by Saudi Arabia, one of its regional rivals. The minister, Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, said Qatar would focus on its gas industry and dismissed the […] Read more
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday portrayed his Saturday meeting with President Xi Jinping of China as an unabashed success, insisting that American farmers and automakers will quickly see benefits from a trade truce that has yet to produce any concrete commitments. Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi agreed during the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires […] Read more
By Jean Rutter and Marcus Payadue 1. President Trump is with world leaders in Buenos Aires for a two-day meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized countries. Above, the president with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. At the top of Mr. Trump’s agenda: signing a new North American trade pact this morning with […] Read more
By Sarah Rainsford Soyuz launch number 138 should be as routine as it gets for space flight. The next crew are due to lift off on Monday heading for the International Space Station (ISS) from the same launch pad Yury Gagarin used in 1967 on his historic first flight into orbit. But two months ago […] Read more
