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U.S. Senate confirms Pompeo to be Trump's CIA director

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Senate confirmed Representative Mike Pompeo as President Donald Trump's CIA director on Monday, after a delay tied to some lawmakers' worries he might expand surveillance or allow the use of certain interrogation techniques widely considered torture.
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Publish Date: 24/January/2017 | 05:15

Trump pulls U.S. out of Pacific trade deal, loosening Asia ties

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Monday, distancing America from its Asian allies, as China's influence in the region rises.
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Publish Date: 24/January/2017 | 05:12
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Trump, tells Obama team that modernizing government tech is a “mission critical task.”

Obama’s Tech Surge Is One Effort Trump May Not Reverse

EghtesadOnline: As Silicon Valley girds for a possible rollback of net neutrality, the H-1B visa program and other prized policies, here’s a bit of potentially favorable news: The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump seems to be ready to embrace the “Obama tech surge,” the organized insertion of technologists and modern digital tools into the highest branches of the federal government.
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Publish Date: 24/January/2017 | 05:04
Big Blue pledged to hire 25,000 workers over four years. It wasn't long before employees were accusing the company's CEO of hypocrisy.

IBM Touts Trump-Pleasing Hiring Plans While Firing Thousands

EghtesadOnline: On the eve of a summit last month between technology executives and then President-elect Donald Trump, IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty publicly pledged to hire about 25,000 U.S. workers and spend $1 billion on training over the next four years.
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Publish Date: 24/January/2017 | 04:58

Dollar Falls, Asia Stocks Mixed on Trump Moves

EghtesadOnline: The dollar fell for a fourth day as U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin said a strong currency could hurt the economy. The yen fluctuated after the biggest jump since July and Asian stocks were mixed as investors assessed the impact from Donald Trump’s efforts to rework U.S. trade pacts.
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Publish Date: 24/January/2017 | 04:48

Trump Already Looms Large Over Some of the Hottest Israeli-Palestinian Issues

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump is already looming large over some of the most contentious issues dividing Israelis and Palestinians, emboldening some Israeli officials to take moves that threaten to reignite violence and make the prospect of reviving peace efforts ever more dim.
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Publish Date: 24/January/2017 | 04:40

First days of Trump era signal America's deepening political divide

EghtesadOnline: In the blocks surrounding the White House, signs reading "Love Trumps Hate" and "Build Bridges Not Walls" littered the sidewalks on Sunday, the detritus of the Women's March protesting the policies of President Donald Trump.
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Publish Date: 23/January/2017 | 05:08

Trump Mocks Protesters Before Affirming Right to Demonstrate

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a “hallmark of our democracy.”
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Publish Date: 23/January/2017 | 05:04

Dollar Declines, Gold Gains With Industrial Metals

EghtesadOnline: The dollar slumped after Donald Trump in his first days in office offered little news on his plans to boost growth while stirring concerns over protectionism. Metals and Asian shares outside of Japan rose.
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Publish Date: 23/January/2017 | 04:51

OPEC Shrugs Off Threat of U.S. Cutting Oil Imports

EghtesadOnline: OPEC’s two biggest suppliers to the U.S. shrugged off a vow by President Donald Trump to end dependence on the group’s oil, saying the world’s biggest economy would continue to need crude from abroad.
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Publish Date: 23/January/2017 | 04:47

China Slams Western Democracy as Flawed

EghtesadOnline: China’s state media used Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president to warn about the perils of democracy, touting the relative stability of the Communist system as President Xi Jinping heads toward a twice-a-decade reshuffle of senior leadership posts.
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Publish Date: 23/January/2017 | 04:45

Iran will be ready to ramp its nuclear program back up

EghtesadOnline: Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi says that if the new US President Donald Trump tears up the nuclear deal, Iran will be ready to ramp its nuclear program back up.
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Publish Date: 22/January/2017 | 08:48

Merkel vows compromise with U.S. on trade, military spending

EghtesadOnline: German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Saturday to seek compromises on issues like trade and military spending with U.S. President Donald Trump, adding she would work on preserving the important relationship between Europe and the United States.
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Publish Date: 22/January/2017 | 05:15

Trump Team in Talks with U.K. on Post-Brexit Trade Deal

EghtesadOnline: The Trump administration next week will begin laying groundwork for a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. that would take effect after Britain leaves the European Union, a White House aide said.
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Publish Date: 22/January/2017 | 04:57

EU Populists See Trump Victory as Beginning of End for Old Order

EghtesadOnline: Europe’s populist right predicted Donald Trump’s entry into the White House will herald the end of the old way of doing business in the west, as the continent’s leaders wrestled with how to deal with the new president.
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Publish Date: 22/January/2017 | 04:55

Women’s Marches Flood Cities Worldwide on Trump’s First Day

EghtesadOnline: Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities across the U.S. and around the world on Saturday for massive protests a day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a signal of discontent with America’s new leader that threatened to upstage his first days in office.
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Publish Date: 22/January/2017 | 04:49

Russia's Putin ready to meet Trump, preparations may take months: TASS

EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump but preparations for the possible meeting may take months, not weeks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.
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Publish Date: 21/January/2017 | 14:58