resident Donald Trump said that the U.S. and the European Union should eliminate all tariffs, barriers and subsidies, with the bloc’s trade chiefs set to present him with proposals in that direction in a crunch meeting at the White House later Wednesday.

The U.S. invasion Khrushchev referred to took place a century ago, after the October Revolution and during the civil war that followed between Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik forces, the Red Army against White Russians. While the Germans and Austrians were occupying parts of Western and Southern Russia, the Allies launched their own armed interventions in the Russian North and the Far East in 1918.

The intention behind that piece is obviously to raise awareness about China’s silent expansion of influence in Europe via the Balkans and to draw comparisons between Montenegro and Sri Lanka, the latter of which is popularly perceived to be caught in a so-called “Chinese debt trap” after taking out massive loans from the People’s Republic in order to fund what’s regarded as “white elephant” projects in Hambantota.

For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China. Beijing is no longer buying, claiming the recycled materials are "contaminated."

Meyer, 74, a former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and a former director of communications for John Major, was left with heavily swollen eyes, a split lip and a suspected broken nose.

The 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave were sedated and passed on stretchers along the twisting, narrow passageways of the Tham Luang complex, a rescuer said Wednesday as the first footage emerged of an astonishing mission that captivated the world.

The names and bank details of European donors to TorServers.net – a node provider to the Tor anonymity network and its associated operating system Tails – are now with the German Federal Police after coordinated raids on four homes and a lawyers office in Dresden.

Human rights activists petition the court to cease Israeli arms exports to Ukraine since some of these weapons reach neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine’s security forces

The organization found in their most recent report that 21 percent of small business owners cited trouble finding qualified workers as the single most important business problem.

The electric-car maker’s planned capacity for the factory is 500,000 vehicles a year, the Shanghai government said in statement. Bloomberg reported earlier that Musk, Tesla’s chief executive officer, would be in the city for an event with the government on Tuesday. A Tesla representative in China didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Google has confirmed that private emails sent and received by Gmail users can sometimes be read by third-party app developers, not just machines.

A new tax on social media has taken effect in Uganda, angering many who see the revenue measure as an attack on free speech.

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk, two workers at the factory told Reuters.