US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to size each other up in person for the first time on Friday in what promises to be the most highly anticipated meeting on the si ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Four Arab states said their boycott of Qatar will continue after they refrained from slapping further sanctions on Doha but voiced disappointment at its "negative" response to their demands, Reuters r ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that he will work to regain the public's trust after his ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in a Tokyo assembly election over the weekend. "I wan ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
Qatar faced possible further sanctions by Arab states that have severed ties with Doha over allegations of links to terrorism, as a deadline to accept their demands expired on Sunday night, Reuters re ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
American Airlines' chief executive said he is not "particularly excited" about Qatar Airways' interest in buying up to 10 percent of the US carrier's shares, Reuters reports. The move by state-owned Q ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
US President Donald Trump said Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear program have failed, Reuters reports. Trump had held high hopes for greater cooperation from China to exer ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
Astronomers on Monday added 219 candidates to the growing list of planets beyond the solar system, 10 of which may be about the same size and temperature as Earth, boosting the chances for life, Reute ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
A US warplane shot down a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside with Washington saying the jet had dropped bombs near U.S. backed forces and Damascus saying the plane was downed ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-19
A huge forest fire raging since Saturday in central Portugal has killed at least 62 people, most of them dying in their cars as they tried to flee, Reuters reports, citing officials. "The dimension of ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-19
Differences between the United States and other leading economies over climate change remain wide and are not likely to narrow, Reuters reports, citing environment ministers from G7 countries. Group o ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-12
British voters dealt Prime Minister Theresa May a devastating blow in a snap election she had called to strengthen her hand in Brexit talks, wiping out her parliamentary majority and throwing the coun ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
North Korea "fully rejects" the latest UN sanctions against its citizens and entities as a "hostile act" and will continue its nuclear weapons development without a delay, Reuters reports, citing a st ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
An air strike during Philippine military operations to drive Islamist rebels out of a southern city has killed 10 government troops, in a major blow to efforts to defeat fighters linked to the Islamic ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
Kenya inaugurated a US$3.2 billion railway funded by China linking the capital Nairobi to the port of Mombasa on Wednesday, the country's biggest infrastructure project since independence more than 50 ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
China's industrial engine cranked up again in May, reassuring investors worried about slowing growth in the world's second-biggest economy as it grappled with debt risks and tried to shake off a sting ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s statement that it never transacted directly with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro when it bought US$2.8 billion of bonds for pennies on the dollar was d ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
Europe can no longer completely rely on its allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, pointing to bruising meetings of G7 wealthy nations and NATO last week. Merkel did not mention by na ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
US President Donald Trump intensified his accusations that NATO allies were not spending enough on defense and warned of more attacks like this week's Manchester bombing unless the alliance did more t ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-26
