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Deal with US on key NAFTA rule closer, Mexico and Canada say
The contentious (and sometimes very public) North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations between the U.S., Canada and Mexico likely got more complicated with the recent election of a new president of Mexico. The Mexican peso spiked 0.2 per cent to its strongest level of the day after news of progress on the autos element of talks, before slipping back. Mexican officials say the U.S. [Full Article...]
Judge: Reuniting families is '100 percent the responsibility' of Trump administration
The Trump administration said Thursday it will largely be up to immigrant-rights advocates to track down deported parents who want to be reunited with their children still in the U.S. "The Trump administration chose to rip families apart as a matter of policy to punish people for seeking asylum". ACLU lawyers pushed back against the Trump administration's demands to find the deported parents, sa... [Full Article...]
Russian Federation allows entry of thousands of North Korean workers
Security Council resolutions on North Korean laborers working overseas are deeply troubling", U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said later on Friday. Treasury's enforcement arm issued new sanctions Friday against Russia's Agrosoyuz bank for facilitating unlawful transactions with North Korea. Han had already been designated by OFAC, officials said. [Full Article...]
Trump mulls imposing 25% tariffs on Chinese goods
The higher tariff rate, if implemented, would apply to a list of goods valued at $US200bn identified by the USTR last month as a response to China's retaliatory tariffs on an initial round of USA tariffs on $US34bn worth of Chinese electronic components, machinery, autos and industrial goods. [Full Article...]
Europe's heatwave: Records could be broken
But, the Met Office are warning holidaymakers to take care in these countries as they could be met with record-breaking temperatures. Portugal went on high alert today as temperatures in the coming days could beat records and warned of a high risk of forest fires. [Full Article...]
Suspect in Bush’s doctor’s death killed himself
Police had been involved in an intense manhunt since Wednesday for Pappas, who they called armed, extremely unsafe and possibly suicidal, according to Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo . Authorities had been looking for Pappas since Tuesday, when a tipster told investigators Pappas appeared to be the cyclist in the surveillance video police released from the day of the shooting. [Full Article...]
Asean 'agrees' South China Sea cooperation deal
While noting Pyongyang's pledge to suspend further nuclear and missile tests, the ministers will express Asean's support for achieving complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, says the draft, a copy of which was seen by Kyodo News. [Full Article...]
China threatens to impose retaliatory tariffs on USA natural gas
The Trump administration tightened pressure for trade concessions from Beijing this week by proposing a higher 25 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. The highest penalties in Friday's list would hit honey, vegetables, mushrooms and other farm goods, targeting areas that supported Trump in the 2016 election. [Full Article...]