President Donald Trump’s personal attorneyRudy Giuliani, called the president this week to reassure him that he had been joking when he told media outlets he had “insurance” if Trump turned on him in the Ukraine scandal, Giuliani’s lawyer said. Attorney Robert Costello said Giuliani “at my insistence” had called Trump to emphasize that he had not been serious when he said he had an “insurance policy, if thrown under the bus.”
Two winter storms blasted the United States on Wednesday,stranding motorists and causing thousands of flight delays as Americans jammed highways and airports to visit family and friends for the Thanksgiving holiday. Scores of vehicles got stuck on Interstate 5 after a “bomb cyclone” dumped up to four feet of snow in mountainous areas of the Pacific Northwest.
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Britain’s Conservative Party is on courseto win its biggest majority in parliament since 1987 at a Dec. 12 election, according to a new poll, which would give Prime Minister Boris Johnson a mandate to take the country out of the European Union. The model developed by pollsters YouGov accurately predicted the 2017 election result.
Italian rescue teams were tryingto save six family members, including twin toddlers, trapped under rubble when their house collapsed after Albania’s worst earthquake in decades. The death toll from Tuesday’s quake rose to 30 as rescue workers dug through the remains of the four-storey house in the Adriatic port city of Durres.
Amazon.com’s cloud computing unit has designed a second, more powerful generation of data center processor chip, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, the latest sign that the company is pouring money into custom silicon for its fastest-growing business.
The Indian government’s win of a long-contested dispute over telecom fees could end up a Pyrrhic victory, as the billions of dollars in levies now owed are seen as burdens too big to bear for two of the country’s three main carriers. Vodafone Idea, India’s biggest carrier by user numbers, is widely regarded as most on the ropes, with parent Vodafone Group calling the situation “critical”.
Venezuela’s government and its oil company PDVSA have offered to pay suppliers and contractors into accounts in China using the yuan currency. The move is the latest example of how Caracas has sought new ways of making international payments since sweeping sanctions by Washington cut off the country’s access to the U.S. financial system.
