JAKARTA (Reuters) - A tsunami killed at least 168 people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra and injured hundreds following an underwater landslide caused by a volcanic eruption, the disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday. Some 745 people were injured and hundreds of homes and other buildings were "heavily damaged" in the tsunami…
WHAT does President Donald Trump want, and how does he plan to get it? Those two questions are at the heart of the partial shutdown which began at midnight on December 22nd, and affects roughly a quarter of the federal government. The first question has a simple answer: Mr Trump wants $5bn to fund his…
WASHINGTON — When President Trump grows frustrated with advisers during meetings, which is not an uncommon occurrence, he sits back in his chair, crosses his arms and scowls. Often he erupts. “Freaking idiots!” he calls his aides. Except he uses a more pungent word than “freaking.” For two years, Mr. Trump has waged war against…
“Bumblebee”—the sixth Transformers movie in 11 years—has been described by Hasbro Inc. executives as setting a new tone, one that will reinvigorate its fan base with a heartfelt story that’s “our most all-family, all-audience, dual-gender film ever.” In a first for the franchise, a woman, Christina Hodson, wrote the screenplay for the movie, which hits…
The federal government entered a partial shutdown as the House and Senate adjourned without a federal-spending deal on Friday, hours before a midnight EST deadline. President Donald Trump's demands for a wall along the US-Mexico border led to a standoff in the Senate. Trump's sudden turnaround after supporting a short-term funding extension left Congress with…
BOB CORKER, the outgoing chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in October 2017 that three members of Donald Trump’s administration “help separate our country from chaos”: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; John Kelly, the White House chief of staff; and James Mattis, the secretary of defence. Mr Trump fired Mr Tillerson in March.…
When it comes to the stock market, America’s technology giants have become a harbinger of more pain to come. If Facebook, Apple or Google looked shaky this year — as investors worried about growth, regulation or mismanagement — the rest of the market felt it. In recent weeks, as these companies have succumbed to concerns…
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to President Donald Trump on a signature issue, refusing to let him start automatically rejecting asylum bids by people who cross the Mexican border illegally. The justices’ order, on a 5-4 vote with Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority, left in effect a lower court decision that…
Stock markets around the world continue to slide Friday and a last minute Santa Rally is starting to look increasingly unlikely thanks to a cocktail of risks making sure investors end the year on an unhappy note. Markets slumped Thursday after US President Donald Trump refused to sign legislation to fund the government unless he…
ON THE CAMPAIGN trail Donald Trump blew hot and cold on Syria. “Everybody that's touched the Middle East, they've gotten bogged down,” he warned in 2015. The following year he reconsidered. “We really have no choice. We have to knock out ISIS,” he said, using an acronym for Islamic State (IS). Those competing arguments have…
