WASHINGTON — In a private meeting at a global summit in Buenos Aires in 2018, China’s president, Xi Jinping, turned to President Trump and said it was a shame he couldn’t stay in power beyond the two-term limit set by the U.S. Constitution. Trump agreed. It was just one of several instances in which Trump mused over
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A national protest meant to pressure Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign turned into a shutdown as citizens opted to stay away rather than take to the streets amid a heavy security presence. Only a handful of protesters took part in the planned march, spearheaded by a group of disgruntled war veterans who have accused
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Further emergency teams that went to rescue the first team were “struck one after another over several hours”, it said. All the teams went out during daylight, according to Civil Defence. The Israeli military said that on March 23, troops opened fire on vehicles that were “advancing suspiciously” toward them without emergency signals. The UN’s
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NEW YORK — As the trade wars launched by U.S. President Donald Trump continue to escalate, all eyes are on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly called April 2 “Liberation Day,” with promises to roll out a set of tariffs, or taxes on imports from other countries, that he says will free the U.S. from a reliance
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Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, who was impeached in December over his failed attempt to impose martial law, will learn Friday whether he will be formally removed from office or returned to power, the nation’s top court said Tuesday. Suspense was building in South Korea as the country waited for the Constitutional
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China’s military has said it’s begun joint army, navy and rocket force exercises around Taiwan. It said the exercises were intended to “serve as a stern warning and powerful deterrent against Taiwanese independence”, and called the self-governed island’s president a “parasite”. China considers Taiwan to be its own territory and has threatened to use force
A B.C. man is in custody in Washington state, accused of acting as a middleman in a years-long conspiracy to smuggle U.S. technology through Canada in a bid to bypass laws meant to limit Pakistan’s nuclear ambitions. According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, Mohammad Jawaid Aziz and two unnamed co-conspirators allegedly obtained
The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it will undertake a “comprehensive review” of federal contracts with Harvard University, as part of its crackdown on anti-Semitism in the United States. But critics fear the prestigious Ivy League university is the latest target in a purge of pro-Palestinian voices. On Monday, three departments under Trump’s
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in El Paso, Texas arrested a man for the second time last week, after he allegedly tried to smuggle 22 large rolls of Mexican bologna into the country, according to authorities. CBP said agricultural specialists assigned to the Paso Del Norte international crossing in El Paso not only
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Colombian authorities released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder on Monday after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking sentence issued in Colombia against the 75-year-old had expired. Lehder, one of the original “cocaine cowboys” and Pablo Escobar’s crime partner, was arrested Friday night shortly after he landed in Bogota’s airport on a flight from
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