SINGAPORE – The Government has appointed Dr Shashi Jayakumar from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) as Singapore’s representative to an Asean commission which promotes human rights. His appointment will take effect from Tuesday (Jan 1), said the Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement on Monday (Dec 31). Dr Jayakumar, who is taking over […]
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a vocal Republican critic of President Trump’s plan for a 30-day troop withdrawal of American troops from Syria, suggested on Sunday that the pullout had been slowed and that he felt “a lot better” about it after a lunch with the president. “I think we’re in a pause situation […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he was optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump could reach a deal to end a government shutdown that includes border wall funding and legal status for some undocumented immigrants. Graham told reporters after meeting Trump for lunch at the White House that […]
A Government minister has said there are “geographical” clusters around the country where a culture of claiming compensation is more prevalent than in other areas. However, Minister of State Michael D’Arcy, who is overseeing reforms of the insurance industry, said the main challenge he faces is the emergence of “honest people” making exaggerated claims which […]
U.S. President Donald Trump has made good on a promise made earlier in the year and has frozen pay increases for federal workers, even as hundreds of thousands are left without paycheques due to a government shutdown. Trump signed an executive order Friday freezing pay for federal civilian workers in 2019. He had earlier said […]
The U.S. federal government may be partially shut down, but a D.C. burger joint is open for business and offering furloughed government workers free burgers. Z-Burger owner Peter Tabibian said he handed out free burgers five years ago during the government shutdown of 2013. Back then, the shutdown lasted for over two weeks and almost […]
WASHINGTON — On the seventh day of a partial government shutdown, President Trump threatened on Friday to close the southern border and cut off aid to Central America if Congress refuses to fund a wall. “We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money […]
It’s looking increasingly like the partial government shutdown will be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year — the first big confrontation between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrats — as agreement eludes Washington in the waning days of the Republican monopoly on power. Now nearly a week old, the impasse […]
The UK will become “like Morocco or Azerbaijan” if it crashes out of the EU, the bloc’s finance chief warned. Gunther Oettinger also said a disorderly Brexit would force other EU states to pay billions more. Brexiteers including Boris Johnson have argued that the UK should not pay its entire £39 billion divorce bill unless […]
When Donald Trump flew to Iraq on Christmas Day, the White House reportedly went to extraordinary lengths to keep the trip a secret – but they couldn’t stop one South Yorkshire aviation enthusiast from blowing the President’s cover. Plane-spotter Alan Meloy, who describes himself as a “nut” for all things aviation, stood on his door-step […]