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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (APP): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday strongly condemned attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman that left one ablaze and both adrift, warning that the world cannot afford “a major confrontation in the Gulf region.”

The ships — one Marshal Islands-flagged and the other Panama-flagged — were on their way to Taiwan and Singapore from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, respectively.

NEW YORK, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States and China should work together to end the ongoing trade disputes and step up cooperation in all fields, experts said here Wednesday during a Sino-U.S. forum.

Trade disputes will harm both the United States and China while cooperation could benefit both, Wang Pijun, secretary general of the Western Returned Scholars Association, said at the association's first Sino-U.S. Economic and Trade Forum held in New York city.

NEW YORK, Jun 12 (APP): US President Donald Trump would likely lose in the 2020 presidential election to several leading Democratic presidential candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden, a new poll finds.

Biden, the current front-runner in the Democratic party race for presidential nomination, holds a 13 percentage-point lead over Trump, 53-40 percent, according to a new national Quinnipiac poll.

NEW YORK (AP) — The sequel to Michael Wolff’s million-selling “Fire and Fury” is not attracting the same kind of interest, not even from President Donald Trump.

NPD BookScan reported Wednesday just 17,756 first-week sales for “Siege,” Wolff’s latest account of the Trump White House. It ranked just No. 11 overall, well behind the top seller, Delia Owens’ novel “Where the Crawdads Sing.”

NEW YORK, Jun 11 (APP): The United States Air Force has granted a religious accommodation to an active-duty Sikh airman that will allow him to wear a turban, beard and unshorn hair in accordance with his faith.

The man — Harpreetinder Singh Bajwa, an active duty crew chief at McChord Air Force Base near Lakewood, Washington, is a first-generation American and enlisted in the Air Force in 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a human right group, said in a statement.

NEW YORK (AP) — A helicopter crashed on the roof of a rain-shrouded midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday, killing the pilot and briefly triggering memories of 9/11, after an erratic trip across some of the nation’s most restricted airspace. Authorities said they did not suspect terrorism.

The crash near Times Square and Trump Tower shook the 750-foot (229-meter) AXA Equitable building, sparked a fire, and forced office workers to flee on elevators and down stairs, witnesses and officials said.

NEW YORK, Jun 09 (APP): US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has criticized President Donald Trump’s policy toward neighbouring Mexico after the White House agreed to suspend planned tariffs, saying “threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy.“

Ms. Pelosi, a leading Democrat, said Trump had undermined America’s global leadership role by “recklessly threatening to impose tariffs on our close friend and neighbour to the south.”

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 08 (APP): The Caribbean Island nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became the smallest nation ever to secure a seat on the United Nations Security Council when the UN General Assembly on Friday elected five countries to the powerful 15-member body.

The other countries elected were: Estonia, Niger, Tunisia and Vietnam.The five states will take up their seats as non-permanent members of the Security Council in January 2020, replacing Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Peru and Poland.

NEW YORK, Jun 08 (APP): The Trump administration has permitted the construction of US high-tech bomb and missile parts in Saudi Arabia, giving Riyadh unprecedented access to a sensitive weapons technology, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The newspaper said in a dispatch that the White House allowed Raytheon, a US military defence contractor, to “team up” with the Saudis to build and assemble components of Paveway smart bombs in the kingdom.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 07 (APP): Unsafe food kills an estimated 420,000 people every year, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said while marking the first-ever UN World Food Safety Day.
Children under-five are the most at risk, carrying 40 per cent of the foodborne disease burden, amounting to 125,000 deaths every year, according to WHO.