U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday and the top White House economic adviser dismissed an unusual suggestion from U.S. Attorney General William Barr that the United States consider taking control of two major foreign rivals of China-based Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Barr, a former general counsel at Verizon Communications Inc, said on Thursday the […]

The Trump administration fired Gordon Sondland who testified against the president in the House impeachment hearing from his post as the ambassador to the European Union on Friday, hours after axing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, another witness against him. Sondland confirmed his firing in a statement to the New York Times Friday evening. “I was […]

A woman who married an Islamic State fighter in Syria as a teenager, on Friday lost an appeal against the British Government’s decision to strip her of her citizenship. An immigration appeals tribunal ruled that removing British citizenship had not left Shamima Begum, 20, stateless. Lawyer Daniel Furner of Birnberg Peirce said that Begum would […]

A 60 year-old American has died of the new coronavirus, the first confirmed non-Chinese death of the illness, U.S. officials said, as millions of Chinese began returning home after a Lunar New Year break that was extended to try to contain the outbreak. While the vast majority of cases have been in China, the virus […]

Five British nationals including a child have tested positive for the new coronavirus in France, the health minister said Saturday, adding that they had all stayed at the same ski chalet. France has now detected a total of 11 cases of the novel coronavirus. The new “cluster” is centred on a Briton who had returned […]