It seems Foxconn’s plans for a $10 billion Wisconsin plant are back on. After a couple of years of back and forths, the manufacturing giant says it’s recommitting to plans for a plant in the upper Midwest. A statement today cited a phone call between chairman/founder Terry Gou and Donald Trump....

The Chinese state agricultural conglomerate COFCO Group recently purchased a batch of soybeans amounting to “millions of tonnes” from the United States, it said in a notice on Saturday. The purchase was part of the company’s efforts to implement a “consensus” on trade agreed between...

Sri Lanka is negotiating a $1 billion loan from China to construct a highway linking the capital Colombo to the hilly resort city of Kandy, even as the heavily-indebted South Asian island nation makes arrangements to pay down $5.9 billion in foreign loans this year. Finance Ministry...

They embraced the socialist revolution of late leader Hugo Chavez along with millions of other Venezuelans, but four former officials have now been left disillusioned by Nicolas Maduro's regime. These officials from the Chavez era consider Maduro "illegitimate," but they are torn between...

In a move that could harden Washington's posture toward Beijing for years, the US intelligence community has characterized relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be doused by trade deals or commercial theft crackdowns. US spy chiefs abruptly shifted their view...

Nigeria has recorded 42 deaths in the latest outbreak of Lassa fever, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control said late Friday.  The center had on Jan. 21 declared an outbreak of the disease, which kills hundreds in Nigeria every year.  “Since the onset of the 2019 outbreak,...

It is time for embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down from power, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. "This is no time for dialogue. This is time for action," Pence told a raucous gathering of Venezuelan exiles and community leaders in Florida. "It is time to end...

Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is running for her party’s presidential nomination, has apologized to the Cherokee Nation for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her Native American  ancestry, a move that had angered some tribal leaders and ignited a...

Asia’s venture capital-backed startups are gunning for Starbucks . In China, the U.S. coffee giant is being pushed by Luckin Coffee, a $2.2 billion challenger surfing China’s on-demand wave, and on the real estate side, where WeWork China has just unveiled an on-demand product that...

Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaido, has called on the country’s citizens to stage "the biggest march in the history of Venezuela" in a new bid to up pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro to call early elections. Major European countries have set a weekend deadline for...

The Kremlin will look at a message from the Venezuelan opposition leader when it arrives, but this does not mean Russia recognizes him as the country's president, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday. "So far, we have not received any messages. If and when it comes,...

The death toll from the subfreezing temperatures brought in by the polar vortex has risen to at least 21, with more deaths being reported by multiple outlets. Among the dead is University of Iowa student Gerald Belz, who was found dead outside a close distance away from his dorm....

U.S. job growth surged in January, with employers hiring the most workers in 11 months, pointing to underlying strength in the economy despite a darkening outlook that has left the Federal Reserve wary about more interest rate hikes this year. The Labor Department’s closely watched...

US President Donald Trump is serious about getting out of Afghanistan, the Taliban told AFP Friday, outlining the "Islamic system" comprising "all Afghans" that the group says it hopes to establish under any peace deal. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spoke to AFP via WhatsApp a day...

The United States on Friday announced it was withdrawing from the INF nuclear missile treaty with Russia, saying Moscow was in violation of agreement which has been a centrepiece of arms control since the Cold War. In a statement, President Donald Trump said that effective Saturday, "the...

Boeing Co is counting on a new kind of worker to help it reach a long-coveted target of rolling out 14 787 Dreamliners from its factories each month: half human, half robot. The world’s largest planemaker is equipping mechanics with exoskeletons, similar to ones that allow cameramen to...

The U.S. announced Friday it will suspend its participation in a ballistic missile treaty Feb. 2 over alleged Russian violations of the pact. In announcing the departure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Russia of consistently violating the terms of the landmark 1987...

Any foreign intervention in Venezuela is "not right" and will deepen the problem, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday. "We are telling since the beginning. Such foreign interventions are not healthy and not right. They will not offer a solution. They will deepen the...

President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone made multiple media appearances in Washington on Thursday, talking freely with reporters before he was set to appear in court on Friday and likely face a gag order from a judge. Charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller with...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ceased all assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a U.S. official said on Friday. The decision was linked to a Jan. 31 deadline set by new U.S. legislation under which foreign aid recipients would be more...