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Bolsonaro lashes out at French president while Amazon burns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he wants French President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the “insults” made against him before he considers accepting a US$20 million offer from the G7 nations to help fight forest fires in the Amazon. The
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G7 leaders back Hong Kong autonomy, call for calm
BIARRITZ: G7 leaders meeting in France yesterday backed Hong Kong’s autonomy as laid out in a 1984 agreement between Britain and China and called for calm in the protest-hit city. “The G7 reaffirms the existence and the importance of the
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow enforcement of asylum crackdown
US President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday asked the US Supreme Court to lift a court order preventing the government from fully enforcing a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the US-Mexico border. California-based US District Judge
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Trump’s aggressive, mixed signals on China whiplash Wall Street
SAN FRANCISCO: US President Donald Trump’s aggressive stance and often mixed signals in his trade war with China are taking a toll on the shares of US companies that are most reliant on the world’s second largest economy. US stocks
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Brazil tells ambassadors no time off due to Amazon fires
BRASILI: Brazil’s Foreign Ministry yesterday ordered its ambassadors in Europe and other G7 countries not to take vacation for the next two weeks in order to coordinate a diplomatic response to global concerns over the fires raging in the Amazon
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Capital punishment sought for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
LOS ANGELES: US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Pennsylvania man accused of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue last year with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting 11 people to death, according to court papers filed on Monday. Robert
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Trump administration sued over migration detention
NEW YORK: Attorneys general for 19 states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to block a sweeping new rule to indefinitely detain migrant families seeking to settle in the United States. The lawsuit, filed
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Tariq Ramadan hit with gang rape allegation
PARIS: Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar charged in France with raping two women, has also been accused of taking part in the gang rape of a journalist, French judicial sources said Sunday. The sources confirmed reports on Europe 1
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36 arrested, including 12 year old as demos escalate
HONG KONG: Hong Kong police said on Monday they arrested 36 people, the youngest aged 12, after violence during anti-government demonstrations escalated as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at security forces who responded with water cannon and tear gas. Sunday’s protests
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Trump caught off guard as Iran’s Zarif visits G7 summit town
BIARRITZ: Iran’s foreign minister paid a visit to a G7 summit in France yesterday, an unexpected twist to a meeting already troubled by differences between U.S. President Donald Trump and Western allies over a raft of issues, including Iran. A
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