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The article discusses the conflict between the U.S. and its allies regarding foreign trade measures in 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump and leaders have criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for attacking U.S. measures. Canada, Germany and France have opposed against what they called the U.S. president's insult and inconsistency.

The article informs that British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has given up his U.S. citizenship due the concerns of taxing of U.S. nationals by the U.S. who live abroad on their worldwide income.

The article discusses reactions to Swiss bank Credit Suisse's May 19, 2014 guilty plea to criminal charges that it conspired to aid Americans in tax evasion. Topics addressed include a lack of client names released by Credit Suisse despite U.S. Justice Department requests, the views of Credit Suisse chief executive Brady W. Dougan, and the views of investors and the Swiss government towards the bank's settlement of the case.

The article reports that several foreign countries are pushing the U.S. to agree to stricter regulation of investment markets and greater reporting by hedge funds after markets across the globe faced investment downturns based on U.S. subprime mortgage failures. The movement is led by economists in Germany and France. The U.S. has historically resisted any foreign oversight or restriction of its financial markets.

Reports that a deadline to take action before the World Trade Organization came and went, with the U.S. and the European Union instead saying they would try again to agree on what constitutes acceptable government aid to jet makers Airbus and Boeing, the trans-Atlantic rivals. Implications of the newest effort to negotiate; Why the issue is especially pressing for Airbus; Background on the dispute; Views of European trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, and Richard Mills, spokesman for the U.S. trade representative's office.

PARIS -- As Dominique Strauss-Kahn was left to spend another day behind bars in New York, a pack of would-be successors wasted little time Tuesday maneuvering for his job as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, one of the most powerful positions in global finance, and U.S. officials openly suggested that he step down. ''He is obviously not in a position to run the I.M.F.,'' Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in New York. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- The death of Osama bin Laden prompted a range of speculation around the world Monday: Could it lead to a faster withdrawal by NATO countries from Afghanistan? Could Western triumphalism lead to revenge attacks? But one consensus emerged: The end of the manhunt helped burnish the image of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy is an unusually solid French friend of America. He is also a ''mercurial'' man operating in ''a zone of monarch-like impunity'' surrounded by advisers often too fearful to give honest counsel, according to leaked cables from the United States Embassy in Paris. Last December, the American ambassador shared an anecdote with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: when the mayor of Paris had the Eiffel Tower lighted in Turkey's national colors for a visit by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in April 2009, aides to Mr. Sarkozy, a staunch opponent of Turkey's entry to the European Union, rerouted the presidential plane so he would not see it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- President Obama had just flown into Hampton, Va., Sunday morning to deliver a commencement address. But before he donned his silky academic robes, he was on the phone with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, offering urgent advice -- and some not so subtle prodding -- that Europe needed to try something big. Weeks of hesitant half-steps to address Greece's debt problems had only worsened market worries about the euro, and were threatening the still-fragile economic recoveries in the United States and Asia. Now, Mr. Obama told Mrs. Merkel that the Europeans needed an overwhelming financial rescue to end speculation that the euro -- and European unity -- could crumble. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anxious about the economic impact of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are searching for ways to ward off a severe recession, or at least to shorten it. But there is a fundamental problem that is not easily solved by the usual economic policy tools: how to persuade rattled banks to start lending again -- an essential first step to restoring economic health. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In its first new national defense policy in 14 years, France has decided that its security lies within Europe and NATO, establishing a significant shift from the country's longstanding notions of moral and military self-sufficiency. More than four decades ago, Charles de Gaulle, angry with American and British domination of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said France's military integration into the alliance had been ''stripped of justification.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Serious management failures by immediate superiors allowed a rogue trader at Societe Generale to commit the biggest fraud in financial history, according to an internal report to be released Friday. The report raises questions about whether the trader, Jerome Kerviel, had an accomplice at the bank. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

France's finance minister on Wednesday urged central bankers to reduce the ''misalignment'' in the world's major currencies, warning that a low American dollar was feeding an increasing trend toward protectionism in the United States and elsewhere. The minister, Christine Lagarde, said the dollar's decline was a central cause for the rising cost of oil, which is priced in American dollars. On Wednesday, the price of a barrel of crude oil settled at another record, $133.17. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

-- European leaders sharpened their tone over Tibet on Wednesday, as President Bush telephoned President Hu Jintao of China and urged a resumption of negotiations with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If Renaud Bombard, the head of the French publishing house Presses de la Cite, had planned the timing of Senator Barack Obama's much celebrated speech on race and religion himself, he could hardly have done better. On Thursday, two days after a speech that is being widely read and viewed in Europe, Presses de la Cite released the French translation of Mr. Obama's best-selling memoir, ''Dreams From my Father.'' It appeared in German bookstores the same day, after being published in Italy last November. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that President Jacques Chirac of France has demanded the United States to sign two Kyoto climate protocol agreements. He warned that if the U.S. failed to sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the agreements could be imposed to try to force compliance.

The article focuses on the evidence of kidnapping of the people in European countries, holding them there temporarily, and illegally transferring them across the countries' border by the U.S. Investigating Agents.

The article discusses leaked government documents released by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward J. Snowden which indicate that the NSA and Great Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spied on more than 1000 targets, including heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies, and the Israeli government. Details on both governments' surveillance of email correspondence are included.

In a sweeping round of announcements from European capitals on Monday, Britain took effective control of two of the country's largest banks, and leaders in Paris, Berlin, Madrid and elsewhere offered more than a trillion euros in loan guarantees and other support intended to restore trust between banks and thaw frozen credit markets. On both sides of the Atlantic, there was a sense of frenzied activity, with the Treasury Department calling a meeting Monday afternoon in Washington with top banking executives to lay out how the government plans to proceed with its $700 billion financial rescue plan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For Senator Barack Obama, who came to Europe once in the last four years, making a stop in London on his way to Russia, the response of many Europeans to his potential presidency has been gratifying -- emotional, responsive, replete with the sense of hope he seeks to engender about a more flexible, less ideological America. European governments and politicians are not so sure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and Germany helped German security officials unearth a plot to carry out bombings in Germany. It is said that the U.S. intelligence officers first brought the plot into the notice of their German counterpart. The bombings were to be carried out in Germany in the second week of September 2007.

The article discusses the banning imposed by the U.S and Great Britain on devices larger than cellphones that are carried by passengers traveling from Muslim majority countries.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has imposed the ban for flights on foreign carriers, fearing terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS). It is stated that terrorist organization Al Qaeda affiliates has created bombs that are not easily detectable and can be carried in devices like cellphone and laptop batteries.

The article discusses actresses' accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein concerning sexual harassment in the 1970s. Topics include female celebrities' initiative of coming out for accusing, the investigation against the sexual assault cases filed against Weinstein in London, and prosecution against the producer. Female celebrities' including Cynthia Burr, Ashley Matthau, and Lacey Dorn's accusation against Weinstein concerning rape are also discussed.

The article discusses the role of an intercepted conversation between Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of extremist organization Al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, leader of Al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, in causing the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to issue a terror alert in August of 2013. Topics addressed include the closure of several U.S. embassies as a result of the threat of an attack, and U.S. counterterrorism policy in Yemen.

This article describes the arrest of Rashid Rauf in Pakistan by Pakistani officials for his alleged role in the plot to blow up planes flying from Great Britain to U.S. cities. Rauf is British-born and is believed to have been acting as a liaison for Al Qaeda and the British plotters. After Rauf was arrested, the British arrested up to 24 suspects in England who were planning to use liquid explosives carried onto passenger planes and to detonate them as they flew to U.S. cities.

As the Dalai Lama begins a contentious two-week visit to the United States and the Olympic torch continues its tortuous journey across six continents toward Beijing, the 2008 Games, already tarnished, have become a political as well as an athletic spectacle, with vying theories of human rights and how best to promote them. Groups devoted to causes as diverse as press freedom, Falun Gong, Tibet and autonomy for Uighur Muslims in China's far west have used the Games as leverage to highlight issues that had been relegated to advocacy chat rooms during most of China's long economic boom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]