Bloomberg As more international travellers decide to skip America, ten business associations including the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Restaurant Association have created a travel industry group aimed at reversing the growing unpopularity of the US as a vacation destination. Historically, America only had to sit back and let foreign tourists and their money roll in. Over the ...

Bloomberg The US has told the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians that it will contribute only about half of a $125 million payment to the body, while demanding a “fundamental reexamination” of the social-service agency’s mission and funding before deciding whether to pay the rest. “It is time other countries, some of them quite wealthy, step in and do ...

LONDON­­­­ / Reuters US President Donald Trump and European Union leaders should increase pressure on President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Russia and Iran to return to talks to end Syria’s civil war, Syria’s chief opposition negotiator said. Nasr Hariri said that unless the West forced Assad and his big power allies to seek peace then Syrian civilians would continue ...