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US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei

US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei

VOA’s Xu Ning contributed to this report. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. government has launched a seemingly unprecedented campaign...

Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers

Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers

U.S. President Donald Trump is attacking General Motors, the country’s biggest automaker, for costing 5,400 factory workers their jobs when...

OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place

OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place

Oil producer group OPEC on Monday scrapped its planned meeting in April and will decide instead whether to extend output...

France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis

France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis

After wrapping up thousands of town hall meetings, France starts a new chapter of its “great debate,” aimed to address...

Facebook Still Working to Remove All Videos of New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Facebook Still Working to Remove All Videos of New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Facebook is continuing to work to remove all video of the mass shooting in New Zealand which the perpetrator livestreamed...

UK Leader to Lawmakers: Back my Deal or Face Lengthy Delay

UK Leader to Lawmakers: Back my Deal or Face Lengthy Delay

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned Sunday that it would be “a potent symbol of Parliament’s collective political failure” if...

Brazil Reportedly Weighing Import Quota for US Wheat

Brazil Reportedly Weighing Import Quota for US Wheat

Brazil is considering granting an import quota of 750,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat per year without tariffs in exchange for other trade...

Iran’s Oil Minister Blames US for Market Tensions 

Iran’s Oil Minister Blames US for Market Tensions 

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Saturday that frequent U.S. comments about oil prices had created market tensions, the ministry’s news...

Social Media Scramble to Remove New Zealand Suspect’s Video

Social Media Scramble to Remove New Zealand Suspect’s Video

They built their services for sharing, allowing users to reach others around the world. Now they want people to hold...

Facebook Product Chief Cox to Leave in Latest Executive Exit

Facebook Product Chief Cox to Leave in Latest Executive Exit

Facebook Inc said on Thursday Chief Product Officer Chris Cox will leave the social media network after 13 years, adding...

US General: Google’s Work in China Benefiting China’s Military

US General: Google’s Work in China Benefiting China’s Military

The United States’ top general said on Thursday that the Chinese military was benefiting from the work Alphabet Inc’s Google...

Brexit: What Now?

Brexit: What Now?

Veteran Conservative lawmaker Nigel Evans has been in Britain’s House of Commons for more than a quarter-of-a-century and, like most...

China Investment Law Fails to Deliver, Raises Concerns

China Investment Law Fails to Deliver, Raises Concerns

China’s top legislature is expected to pass the country’s first Foreign Investment Law this week at a time when negotiators...

Instagram Returns After Outage; Facebook Still Down for Some

Instagram Returns After Outage; Facebook Still Down for Some

Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for more than several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said...

Trump Says He is in No Rush to Complete China Trade Deal

Trump Says He is in No Rush to Complete China Trade Deal

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China and...

Democrats Cool Toward NAFTA Replacement, Question Labor Standards

Democrats Cool Toward NAFTA Replacement, Question Labor Standards

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives gave a cool reception to the replacement for the North American Free Trade...

Facebook, Instagram Suffer Outages

Facebook, Instagram Suffer Outages

Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, and is working to resolve...

Spotify Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple 

Spotify Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple 

Spotify has filed a complaint with European Union antitrust regulators against Apple, saying the iPhone maker unfairly limits rivals to its own...

Tech To Soon Offer Way for People to Interact Across Generations

Tech To Soon Offer Way for People to Interact Across Generations

Google, Amazon and Apple have capitalized on technology that makes virtual personal assistants possible.  Now a new application allows the user...

Trade Chief: US Working on Steel, Aluminum Tariff Relief for Mexico, Canada

Trade Chief: US Working on Steel, Aluminum Tariff Relief for Mexico, Canada

The United States is working on a plan to lift tariffs from Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminum but preserve...

Lopez Obrador Rebuts Finance Ministry over $2.5B Mexico Refinery Funding

Lopez Obrador Rebuts Finance Ministry over $2.5B Mexico Refinery Funding

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday denied any delay to a flagship refinery project in his home state...

Official: US Plans ‘Very Significant’ Additional Venezuela Sanctions

Official: US Plans ‘Very Significant’ Additional Venezuela Sanctions

The United States is preparing to impose “very significant” Venezuela-related sanctions against financial institutions in the coming days, U.S. special...