The United States is tightening controls on China`s imports of civil nuclear technology to prevent use for military or other unauthorized purposes, the US Department of Energy said on Thursday amid increased trade tensions.

US tightens controls on China imports of nuclear components

Here is why oil is burning a hole in your pocket

By Louis Monroy-Santander Colombia’s new president Ivan Duque has begun his tenure facing a number of significant challenges. He must manage the 2016 peace deal achieved by his predecessor, Juan Manuel Santos, which he believes lets some former Farc guerillas off too lightly.

Tensions rise between Colombia, US and Venezuela amid rumours of a military intervention

The United States on Friday held China responsible for economic challenges being faced by Pakistan and said that it would review the Pakistan government`s bailout plea from all angles including the position of debt in the country.

US blames China for economic woes in Pakistan

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un means to abolish all nuclear weapons, materials and facilities to achieve "complete" denuclearisation, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Friday.

South Korea's Moon says North Korea means to abolish all nuclear weapons

Hurricane Michael, which tore into Florida on Wednesday, went in just two days from tropical storm status to a Category 4 hurricane, on a scale with a maximum of five.

Michael: Most violent US hurricane since 1969, took forecasters by surprise

US First Lady Melania Trump has spoken out about the #MeToo movement, saying she supports women who have come forward with claims of sexual misconduct but wants them to offer "hard evidence.

#MeToo: Melania Trump favours women but asks them for 'hard evidence'

US First Lady Melania Trump has spoken out about the #MeToo movement, saying she supports women who have come forward with claims of sexual misconduct, but wants them to offer "hard evidence.

Melania on #MeToo: She supports women, but 'hard evidence' needed

Describing Indian-American Nikki Haley as an "extraordinary person", President Donald Trump has said the outgoing US ambassador to the UN is "going to make a lot of money" in the private sector, which she intends to join.

Trump praises Haley, says she will make money

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve "has gone crazy" by raising interest rates too much. Speaking as he arrived in Erie, Pennsylvania for a rally, shortly after Wall Street closed down sharply, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing more than 800 points, Trump made his latest attack on the independent US central bank.

Trump says 'the Fed has gone crazy' with rate hikes

Hurricane Michael claimed its first life after roaring ashore in Florida on Wednesday, flooding homes and streets and toppling trees and power lines in the Gulf of Mexico beachfront area where it made landfall as a raging Category 4 storm.

Monstrous Hurricane Michael tears into Florida, kills one

Singapore Airlines Ltd is poised for a major boost to its US footprint from Thursday evening as it resumes, after five years, the world's longest commercial flight - a near-19 hour non-stop from Singapore to New York.

Lift off: Singapore Airlines to boost US presence with world's longest flight

The US Air Force on Wednesday said that it had awarded a total $2.3 billion in contracts to develop rocket launch systems for national security missions. The awards go to Amazon.

Bezos' Blue Origin and others get $2.3 billion in US Air Force rocket contracts

Hurricane Michael, the fiercest storm to hit Florida in a quarter century and the third-most powerful ever to strike the US mainland, roared into the state's Gulf coast on Wednesday with tree-snapping winds, towering waves and torrential rains.

Florida battered by record-breaking Hurricane Michael

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Saudi Arabia to release footage of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and President Donald Trump demanded answers over his fate, as the kingdom faced growing pressure Thursday to provide a convincing explanation for his disappearance.

Erdogan, Trump step up pressure over missing Saudi journalist

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be held after US congressional elections on Nov. 6. Speaking to reporters as he flew to Iowa for a political rally, Trump said: "It’ll be after the midterms.

Trump says next summit with North Korea's Kim after US midterm elections

By Lorenzo Carrieri China’s economic growth over the last 30 years has astounded the world. Since 1978, under the tenure of Deng Xiaoping, China has embarked on a process of transformation that enabled it to escape economic isolation.

The dilemmas of China’s economic rise

Florida's governor mobilized National Guard troops and thousands of Gulf Coast residents were ordered evacuated on Monday, two days before Hurricane Michael was forecast to slam ashore with life-threatening waves, winds and rains.

Hurricane Michael menaces Florida after fatal flooding in Central America

As the world celebrated the UN-designated International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, there were still some 16,000 nuclear weapons in the world, largely in the hands of the US and the Russian Federation, some on ready alert”.

US and Russian nuclear weapons continue to roam free

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan said that despite the sanctions imposed by the United States, Indian companies have made nominations to purchase oil from Iran.

Recognition of new leadership of India: Pradhan on India buying oil from Iran

US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sought to put a bruising confirmation battle behind him on Monday at a White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump declared him innocent of sexual misconduct and apologised for the heated process.

Trump apologises to Kavanaugh, says he is innocent of sexual assault charges

Justin Rose is backing Ireland's Padraig Harrington to be Europe's next Ryder Cup captain after helping the team to a crushing victory over the United States last month.

Golf: Rose backs Harrington to be Europe's next Ryder Cup captain

Washington's newly named point man tasked with finding a peaceful end to Afghanistan's 17-year war is in Pakistan to seek help from the new government in Islamabad in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table, the US Embassy said Tuesday.

US envoy on Afghan peace takes his mission to Pakistan

The United States accused Tehran Monday of having "unclean hands" as it fought an Iranian court bid to unfreeze $2.0 billion dollars earmarked by Washington for terror victims.

Iran has 'unclean hands' in world court battle, says US

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