U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders to his January 20 inauguration, but it is not known yet whether any of them plan to attend the ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told Fox News it was yet “to be determined”…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders to his inauguration next month in Washington, a Trump transition spokesperson said on Thursday, but experts said that Xi was not likely to attend. Asked if Xi had responded, Karoline Leavitt told Fox News in an interview that…
AFP President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday morning that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will meet with him next week, presumable at his Mar-a-Lago resort. He made the announcement in a live interview from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Trump was there to ring the opening bell after being named Time’s…
A job advert posted by Jeff Bezos in Amazon’s early days has resurfaced online, leaving people stunned. The multi-billionaire founded the e-commerce giant from the garage of his Bellevue, Washington home in July 1994. Initially just selling books, it soon expanded to music and videos and then third-party sellers. Three decades on, it’s now worth…
Spoiler: You would be quite pleased with your investment’s current value. Just about all of us know that Warren Buffett is one of the best investors ever. Over nearly 60 years, he has increased the value of shares of his company Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.15%) (BRK.B 0.06%) by an average annual rate of 19.8%. The…
Trump promises January 6 pardons ‘in the first hour’ of his presidency, or sooner – report Once he is inaugurated on January 20, one of Donald Trump’s first orders of business will be pardoning people convicted or accused of crimes related to the January 6 attack, and also actions to expand oil production, the president-elect…
China will continue to work to create “favourable conditions for a political solution” to the Ukraine crisis, President Xi Jinping said while vowing to strengthen “strategic synergy” with Russia, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Meeting former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Beijing on Thursday, Xi repeated Beijing’s position on the Ukraine war, saying China “repeatedly…
Donald Trump has once again become Time magazine’s coveted “Person of the Year”, securing the annual recognition for a second time in less than a decade. The president-elect, who previously won the title in 2016, beat out a shortlist of Vice-President Kamala Harris; Catherine, Princess of Wales; the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu; the Mexican…
Jeff Bezos, founder of tech giant Amazon, has amassed enormous wealth over the last few decades, with figures relating to his personal fortune astounding people from time to time. What happened: In one such instance from July 2020, Bezos’ wealth swelled to $171 billion, according to a Bloomberg report, which at the time was more…
Elon Musk is almost $200 billion richer than Jeff Bezos and worth more than Costco. His net worth hit $447 billion after Tesla stock jumped and SpaceX’s valuation rose to $350 billion. Just five years ago, Musk was worth about $25 billion, and Tesla was valued below $100 billion. Elon Musk is nearly $200 billion…