US officials on Friday ordered a ban on downloads of the popular Chinese-owned mobile applications WeChat and TikTok from Sunday, saying they “threaten national security”. The move comes amid rising US-China tensions over technology and a Trump administration effort to engineer a sale of the video app TikTok to American ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed as “impossible” the EU’s suggestion to postpone the country’s December 6 election to meet the bloc’s conditions to dispatch an observer mission, blaming the idea on US pressure. “It is impossible because there is a very clear constitutional mandate,” Maduro said Thursday in a ...