Sunday, March 19, 2017

US issues trade challenge at fraught G20

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US issues trade challenge at fraught G20

US issues trade challenge at fraught G20Baden-Baden (Germany) (AFP) - The United States on Saturday challenged long-standing global principles surrounding free trade, refusing to renew past anti-protectionist pledges and threatening to reopen negotiations on World Trade Organization deals. In an early taste of what Donald Trump's "America First" push spells for the world, finance ministers from the G20 group of developed and emerging nations failed to get Washington to sign off on a pledge to reject protectionism in a closing statement. Commitments of support to the existing multilateral trade system, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), were also conspicuously missing from the final communique.


Plane that landed at NYC airport gets stuck in snowdrift

Plane that landed at NYC airport gets stuck in snowdriftNEW YORK (AP) — A plane from Chicago that landed at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday got stuck in a snowdrift while turning off the runway and had to be pulled out by a tug.


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