2018年11月14日星期三

Wednesday Morning Briefing: How ZTE is helping Venezuela create China-style social control

Highlights

Reuters Special Report: Venezuela’s ‘fatherland card’ is troubling citizens and human-rights groups who believe the ID card is a tool for Maduro to monitor the populace and allocate scarce resources to people his government deems most loyal.

Another round of upheaval engulfed Trump’s White House on Tuesday, with the future of several senior aides in doubt just a week after U.S. congressional elections. The president also was under pressure from his wife, Melania, to fire his deputy national security adviser over what two sources close to the White House said was the way Mrs Trump’s trip to Africa was handled.

The lawmaker expected to head the powerful House Oversight Committee in the new U.S. Congress says one of his first priorities will be investigating why President Donald Trump’s administration decided to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census questionnaire.

Reuters Breakingviews - Wall Street can help fight wildfires. California is being ravaged by the most deadly and destructive conflagration in its history. Last year such fires caused $18 billion in damage and consumed up to $180 billion of economic output, or 6.5 percent of GDP, in the Golden State, according to AccuWeather. A new financing tool can reduce fire risk and its impact on water, air and livelihoods, writes Antony Currie.

World

Prime Minister Theresa May will try to convince senior ministers to accept a draft European Union divorce deal that opponents say threatens both her government and the unity of the United Kingdom.

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation in protest at a Gaza ceasefire that he called a “capitulation to terror”, weakening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative coalition government.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants to discuss a peace treaty with Russia and the North Korean issue with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

China’s prestigious Peking University, historically a bastion of student activism, has moved to quash dissent and strengthen Communist Party control after a spate of protests across China on issues ranging from labor rights to #MeToo.

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3:10 AM - 14 Nov 2018

Business

Oil rises as OPEC, partners discuss supply cut

Oil rose, recouping some of the previous session’s slide, on the growing prospect of OPEC and allied producers cutting output at a meeting next month to prop up the market.

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Elon Musk's 'Teslaquila' drink faces clash with Mexican tequila industry

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk and Mexico’s tequila producers could be headed for a collision after the agave-based drink’s industry group opposed the flamboyant billionaire’s efforts to trademark an alcoholic drink dubbed “Teslaquila.”

3 Min Read

U.S. farmers scramble to contain trade-war damage, find new markets

Clouds crowded the Illinois sky as Nick Harre walked away from his combine at the peak of harvest to join four fellow farmers in greeting some unlikely visitors. Inside a nearby seed barn, they made their pitch to eight Sri Lankan government officials: Please buy our soybeans. The wooing of such a tiny market underscores the depth of U.S. farmers’ problems after losing their biggest customer, China, to a global trade war.

8 min read

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U.S. sees spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes: FBI

Six more months of DRC Ebola outbreak likely: WHO

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