President Donald Trump has tapped Jerome "Jay" Powell to lead the US central bank, bypassing Janet Yellen for a second term despite praising her excellent management of the world's largest economy over the past four years.
The suspension of US aid to Pakistan, which was announced by President Donald Trump in January 2018, remained in effect throughout 2019, the State Department said.
Trump announcing his decision said it was Pelosi's "prerogative" to suggest a later date.
The resolution was introduced on Thursday by Congressional panel on the Middle East and South Asia Chairman Gary Ackerman, a senior Democrat. Ackerman said the Bush Administration had, for too long, relied on one man to achieve the US anti-terrorism objectives in Pakistan. The President (Bush) has ignored democratic development there and turned a blind eye as General Musharraf has manipulated the political process to ensure his continued tenure in office.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who along with members of the bipartisan Congressional delegation met the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in India recently, introduced the House Resolution. In a statement on Thursday night, Pelosi said, 'Leaders around the world have called for the Chinese government to take steps to end its crackdown on peaceful Tibetans and enter into a dialogue with his Holiness the Dalai Lama.'
Nearly 100 Indian workers, who claim they were lured to move to the US by false promises of permanent jobs, will march up to the White House on Monday morning and return their H2B visas in a symbolic rejection of the guest worker programme used to traffic them to Washington. The workers, who complain they underwent 'slave-like treatment' at a Mississippi shipyard, will also demand a Congressional investigation of their former employer Signal International.
The move will have a major impact on Indian women as they are the major beneficiary of the Obama-era rule.
The Hyde Act, signed into law by President Bush in December last year, grants the President authority to waive certain sections of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the 1978 Nuclear Nonproliferation Act
Expressing regret that the US decision to honour him has caused tension between Washington and Beijing, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday categorically said that he was not seeking Tibetan independence. But the Tibetan spiritual leader alleged that his homeland is facing social and environmental degradation due to the Chinese rule.
Slamming Washington for awarding the Congressional medal to the Dalai Lama, an infuriated China on Thursday summoned the US ambassador in Beijing and demanded "concrete steps to protect bilateral ties which have been gravely undermined". "The move of the United States is a blatant interference in China's internal affairs. It has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and has gravely undermined relations between China and the United States," said Foreign Ministry spokesman
Senator Joseph R Biden, Jr, the chairman of the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who will be the key player in moving the US-India civilian nuclear agreement forward in Congress if India succeeds in getting in back on the Congressional court expeditiously, says it may be possible to get the deal consummated this year, but that it's going to be in terms of a best-case scenario a photo-finish.
US think tank Lisa Curtis talks about the Pakistan polls and its aftermath.
Vijay Kumar, who is seeking the Republican nomination in the Tennessee primary congressional race in August, is running on an anti-Sharia platform. Kumar, who was born in Hyderabad in 1954 and has lived in Nashville, Tennessee for 21 years, told the Frontpage Magazine that his anti-Sharia views developed in the late 1970s when work took him to Iran. He told the magazine that he saw the radical transformation of Iran from a modern nation to a repressed, fundamentalist state
