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Russian Leader Vladimir Putin arrived in Vietnam for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Friday (November 10). Prospects for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at the summit were unclear after the Kremlin said a meeting was definite before saying it was just a possibility. Putin and Trump had their first face-to-face meeting in July to discuss allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN’s nuclear watchdog director Yukiya Amano Thursday reaffirmed Tehran is complying with the 2015 nuclear deal in a meeting with US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, the agency said. It was the second meeting between Haley and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief — with the first taking place in August during Haley’s visit to the agency’s headquarters in Vienna, where she called for more controls […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of inventing doping allegations against Russian athletes to influence next year’s presidential election, which he is widely expected to contest and win. “In response to our alleged interference in their election, they want to create problems for the election of the president of Russia,” Putin said in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk. Putin has not said whether he will contest the March […]
DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — The leaders of the the US and China, the world’s two largest economies, are expected to lay out competing visions for the future of global trade Friday in closely-watched speeches to Asia-Pacific leaders gathered in Vietnam. President Donald Trump is likely to wield his “America First” doctrine when he address CEOs ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum at the Vietnamese resort of Danang. In a day mixing big […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Russia and the US disagreed on Thursday over whether US President Donald Trump plans to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told Russian news agencies that the meeting “will be on November 10,” with the exact time still being discussed. But in comments in Beijing, where Trump is on a state visit, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – While media coverage of Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Thursday focused on trade and North Korea, it was the wide-eyed crooning of the US leader’s granddaughter that stole Chinese netizens’ hearts. In a video that Trump showed Xi during their stroll through the historic Forbidden City Wednesday, his granddaughter, Arabella Kushner, greets “Grandpa Xi and Grandma Peng (Liyuan)” with several Mandarin ballads and a recitation of ancient Chinese poetry. […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – New Delhi banned all construction, barred lorries from entering the city and announced stringent restrictions on private car use on Thursday, seeking to combat a massive spike in pollution across large swathes of India and Pakistan. Tens of thousands of schools in Delhi and surrounding states remained closed as a hazardous fog of toxic pollution cloaked the region for a third day, bringing growing calls for urgent government action to tackle […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – As President Xi Jinping led his US counterpart Donald Trump around Beijing’s Forbidden City on Wednesday, he made time to teach the American billionaire a bit of Chinese history. Trump has been given the red carpet treatment on his three-day state visit, beginning with a tour of the ancient imperial palace where he sipped tea with Xi and showed the Chinese leader a video of his granddaughter singing in Mandarin. Chinese […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – Schools closed across large swathes of north India on Thursday as pollution hit hazardous levels for the third day, with growing calls for urgent government action to tackle what doctors are calling a public health emergency. Punjab’s government said it was closing all 25,000 schools in the state for the rest of the week due to the acrid air blanketing north India and parts of neighboring Pakistan. The decision came […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – US President Donald Trump decried his country’s “one-sided and unfair” trade deficit with Beijing on Thursday, but he told Chinese President Xi Jinping: “I don’t blame China.” At a signing ceremony for over $250 billion in US-Chinese business deals in Beijing, Trump said: “After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the sake of its citizens?” However, he pointed the blame at […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – China signed a $37 billion agreement on Thursday to buy 300 airplanes from US airspace giant Boeing. The deal for the single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft was among the $250 billion in agreements announced during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. (Agence France-Presse)
(Eagle News) — United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both promised greater cooperation and stronger friendship between the two countries when they met for the first time in Beijing, China. Xi and his first lady, warmly welcomed Trump who was with First Lady Melania Trump in Beijing. China’s sincere welcome for US President was marked with regal fluorish, rolling out the red carpet for Trump at the Forbidden City, […]
