Author: RT

American firms soon to get licenses to sell parts to Huawei – US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Licenses that would allow American companies to resume selling parts and software to blacklisted Chinses tech giant, Huawei, “will be forthcoming very shortly,” US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, told Bloomberg. Ross said that some 260 firms have filed requests for such licenses, promising that “quite a few of them” would be approved. In May, as the trade war between Washington and Beijing escalated, Donald Trump put Huawei on the Commerce Department’s “entity list,” citing national security reasons. Firms on the list are barred from working with US businesses if they don’t have a special license from the government. Huawei repeatedly denied accusations that its tech is used f...

Protesters block roads in Baghdad as Iraq's violent anti-govt rallies rage on Following a week of renewed demonstrations against the government, rioters have blocked traffic in the Iraqi capital on Sunday, burning tires and bringing barbed wire, AP reports. It is estimated that tens of thousands of people thronged Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, demanding that the post-2003 political system be dismantled. That aside, thousands of students skipped classes to take part in the protests, accusing the government of feeding corruption, spreading unemployment and doing nothing about poor public services. Earlier, more than 250 have been killed in skirmishes with security forces across the country. As unrest escalated, President Barham Salih promised to hold snap elections and to al...