SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm to buy supplies from U.S. companies so that it can service existing customers, sources familiar with the situation said.

Mudslides isolate 300 tourists in Alaska national park

Published On: August 17, 2019 10:41 AM NPT By: Associated Press

DENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska, Aug 17: Three hundred tourists are stranded in a national park in Alaska after heavy rains triggered mudslides and caused excess water from a culvert to damage a road.

BRASILIA, August 17: Brazil’s backsliding on Amazon conservation under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and a likely Peronist return to power in Argentina could delay or even derail ratification of an EU-Mercosur trade agreement that took two decades to negotiate.

HARARE, August 16: Zimbabwe police combed Harare’s streets rounding up suspected opposition supporters on Friday

HARARE, August 16: Zimbabwe police combed Harare’s streets rounding up suspected opposition supporters on Friday

MOSCOW, Aug 16: A Russian pilot who managed to smoothly land his disabled plane in a corn field after birds hit both engines said Friday that a quick landing was his only chance and he was not afraid of handling it.

Schools, telephone lines to be opened in Kashmir after lockdown

Published On: August 16, 2019 05:47 PM NPT By: Reuters

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI,  Aug 16: Authorities will begin restoring some telephone lines in Indian Kashmir from Friday night, including in the main city of Srinagar where afternoon prayers went peacefully amid heavy security, the top state official said.

HARARE, Aug 16: Zimbabwe’s police fired tear gas Friday to disperse anti-government protesters in the center of the capital, Harare.

Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Rupert Hogg resigns

Published On: August 16, 2019 03:43 PM NPT By: Reuters

HONG KONG, Aug 16: Cathay Pacific Airways (0293.HK) said CEO Rupert Hogg had resigned and named Augustus Tang as the new chief following a week of scrutiny by the Chinese aviation regulator.

MANCHESTER, Aug 16: President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to reassure his supporters about the state of the U.S. economy despite the stock market volatility and told rallygoers in New Hampshire, a state that he hopes to capture in 2020, that their financial security depends on his reelection.