(Reuters) – Fireworks and firefighters were set up by Protestants in the U.S. federal courthouse in Portland on Wednesday, police said in a tweet, declaring the assembly an uprising. Protests against anti-racism in cities, including Portland, Oregon, are sometimes erupting and arson, and federal officers sent into the Northwestern city …
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PRAGE (Reuters) – China’s global economic power is somehow making the communist country a more difficult enemy to face than the Soviet Union during the Cold War, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday. Pompeo called on countries in Europe to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Democrats of Congress of not negotiating a US coronavirus aid package for refusing to engage in “ridiculous” unrelated spending requests the pandemic. Trump’s remarks came after top Republican and Democratic negotiators blamed a five-day patch deal in relief legislation talks. Treasury …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A majority of Scots support independence from the UK, a YouGov poll found on Wednesday, with support for nationalists backed by a much more positive view of how they have reacted to COVID-19 compared to London. PHILO PHOTO: Some views of the Firth of Clyde near Helensburgh, …
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BOSTON, Aug. 11 (Reuters) – Asian stocks were put up for trading on Wednesday after Wall Street went into growing uncertainty over an additional round of U.S. fiscal stimulus. New Zealand opened the region on a gruesome note after the Pacific nation reported its first coronavirus infections in more than …
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