WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Millat): US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a review of key reforms enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, in the first step towards scaling back toughened regulations on the banking industry. “Today we are signing core principles for regulating the United States financial system,” Trump said in the Oval Office as […]
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Trump orders review of Dodd-Frank financial reforms
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US revoked 60,000 visas after Trump order
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (APP/AFP): The United States revoked 60,000 travel visas after President Donald Trump ordered a ban on visitors from seven mainly-Muslim countries, the State Department said Friday. “Fewer than 60,000 individuals’ visas were provisionally revoked to comply with the Executive Order,” said Will Cocks, spokesman for the department’s bureau of consular affairs. “We […]
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Trump orders review of Dodd-Frank financial reforms
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (APP/AFP): President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a review of key reforms enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, in the first step towards scaling back toughened regulations on the banking industry. “Today we are signing core principles for regulating the United States financial system,” Trump said in the Oval Office as he […]
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Uber chief quits Trump advisory group after uproar
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 2, (APP/AFP) – Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick on Thursday quit US President Donald Trump’s business advisory group as a movement grew to dump the ride-sharing service because of the collaboration. “Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda, but unfortunately it has been […]
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Migration, Trump to dominate EU summit
VALLETTA, Feb 3 (APP/AFP) – European Union leaders will try to rally together to revive the beleaguered bloc at a special summit in Malta on Friday in the face of “threats” from migration, Brexit and Donald Trump. It is the latest in a series of crisis meetings since Britain voted to leave the EU last […]
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Tariq Fatemi meets US Ambassador David Hale
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3 (APP): Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi, in a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador David Hale Friday morning, undertook an early year review of the state of Pak-U.S. bilateral relations. According to a Foreign Office announcement, the SAPM and the U.S. Ambassador discussed the prospective engagements in the coming months […]