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US-China trade war could trigger global financial crisis, ex-Chinese official says
on: by Fernil News
China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are likely to find it “difficult” to make major progress towards ending their countries’ trade war when they meet at a G20 summit in Japan in June, a former top Chinese official
US delegation headed by Kushner in Mideast to seek support for Trump’s peace plan
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Senior White House adviser and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is leading a U.S. delegation on stops in Morocco, Jordan and Israel this week seeking support for as-yet unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and a late June workshop aimed at helping
Pope says willing to confront Trump over border wall, child separations
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Pope Francis said he was willing to tell U.S. President Donald Trump in person that it is wrong to build border walls and appeared to warn him not to resume a policy of separating families. In a wide-ranging television interview with
Gambian soldiers sentenced for plotting to overthrow president Barrow
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Gambian soldiers who plotted to overthrow president Adama Barrow in 2017 were on Monday sentenced by the Court Martial. The eight soldiers were led by a former military aide to ex-president Yahya Jammeh, who ruled Gambia for 22 years before losing
Ex-Botswana president Khama backs opposition against his successor
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Former Botswana President Ian Khama told his supporters he was supporting the opposition against the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in the country’s forthcoming elections. Khama, who handed power to his then-deputy Mokgweetsi Masisi last year after serving as president of
Austrian Chancellor Kurz loses confidence vote
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was ousted by parliament in a no-confidence vote Monday, paving the way for a caretaker government before a new election in which the young leader and his People’s Party could emerge with a stronger mandate. The vote
North Korea calls US security advisor Bolton ‘war maniac’ over missile comment
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North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a “war maniac” and “human defect” after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. The statement by an unidentified North Korean
Charlotte Osei appointed UN International Elections Commissioner
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The United Nations has appointed Charlotte Osei as an International Elections Commissioner to Afghanistan as it prepares to hold crucial presidential polls in September. The appointment of the former EC Chair was confirmed by a Presidential Decree issued by the President