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The United States on Wednesday rejected as “baseless” China’s retaliatory tariffs and complaint in the World Trade Organization over the US tariffs recently imposed on steel and aluminum imports. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 15 percent on aluminum early last month, citing national security concerns. But China invoked the WTO dispute process under a different rule, which does not apply, meaning Beijing’s threat of retaliatory tariffs on $3 billion in US exports is not justified, the US Trade Representative’s office said in a statement. “China’s request for…

The US will deploy military to secure its international border with Mexico, President Donald Trump has said, asserting that America’s existing laws were “horrible” and enabled caravans of illegal immigrants’ entry into the country. Trump has been a great proponent of building a wall along the US-Mexico border. He is seeking billions of dollars from the Congress for this initiative, but has been unable to get the funding so far. Trump believes that the wall along the Mexico border is a permanent solution to stop large influx of illegal immigrants…

A woman opened fire at the YouTube headquaters today in the US state of California, wounding three people before killing herself, officials said, calling it a prima facie case of domestic dispute. The suspect, who died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, has been identified as 38-year-old Nasim Aghdam, two police officials were quoted as saying by the NBC. The headquarters of YouTube, a video-sharing service owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google, in San Bruno near Silicon Valley has a significant number of Indian-American professionals. Officials said they believe the motive behind…