BEIJING — The Chinese capital, Beijing, has become a hub of global unity and cultural understanding as it hosted the Global Civilizations Dialogue Ministerial Meeting.
With its two-day agenda concluded on Friday, the event reflected China’s…
Category: 2. World
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Canada’s Carney talked tough on Trump
It’s another curveball in the Canada-US trade war – a new missive by US Donald Trump threatening an unexpected 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting next month.
It came as the two countries engage in intense trade talks meant to produce a new…
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BBC correspondent explains the role of fuel switches
The preliminary report into the Air India crash in June has found that both fuel control switches, which are used to turn the engines off, were moved to the cut-off position.
The BBC’s International business correspondent Theo Leggett explains the…
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An Indigenous Australian community is fighting to protect sacred springs from a coal mine
Monica Garnsey and BBC Eye InvestigationsReporting fromCentral Queensland
BBCA small ceremonial fire has been burning for more than 1,300 days on a dusty stretch of Wangan and Jagalingou Country in central Queensland, the second largest state in…
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Trade trumps geopolitics as Australia PM visits China
Watch: Relationship with China means ‘jobs in Australia’, Australian PM says Australia’s leader Anthony Albanese will visit China and meet with President Xi Jinping this weekend as he seeks to strengthen ties with Canberra’s largest trading…
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Donald Trump and the Scots: A not-so special relationship
Craig WilliamsBBC Scotland News
Getty ImagesA bagpiper welcomed Trump on a previous visit to Scotland The Donald Trump who came to Scotland in 2006 to say he was building the world’s greatest golf course was in many ways a different Donald Trump…
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Trump surveys damage in Texas as search efforts continue for 160 missing
Nomia IqbalBBC News
Reporting fromKerr County, TexasWatch: ‘We’re filled with grief’ – President Trump visits Texas after deadly floods US President Donald Trump reassured residents of Kerrville, Texas, that the government would help rebuild after…
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US court rejects plea deal for ‘9/11 mastermind’ Khalil Sheikh Mohammed
A divided federal appeals court has thrown out a plea agreement that would have allowed accused “9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, US media report.
Judges…
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South Koreans slam Trump extortion amid higher tariffs, defense share
Frank Smith
Press TV, SeoulSouth Koreans roundly reject US President Donald Trump’s attempt to extort even more money as he plans to raise tariffs for exports to the United…
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Hamas says Netanyahu hindering ceasefire deal
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the latest remarks made by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirm his “malicious” intentions to obstruct reaching a permanent end to the regime’s…
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