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Ray McGovern Correspondent Top Russian and Chinese leaders are busy comparing notes, coordinating their approach to President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg this weekend.
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MOSCOW. – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump will hold their first full-fledged meeting at the G20 summit on July 7, the Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov specified it will not merely be a brief contact on the sidelines.
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NEW YORK. – Video of a CNN producer describing the network’s coverage of the alleged Russia scandal as “bullsh*t” peddled for ratings is genuine, an official at Project Veritas told RT, adding that the undercover filmmakers are just getting started.
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WASHINGTON. — With US-Russia tensions on the rise especially over disagreements involving the war in Syria, US experts said that though not as hostile as they were in the Cold War, ties are certainly at their frostiest in several years and may get worse before they get better.
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Washington. – US President Donald Trump is seeking “mutually beneficial” and “pragmatic” relations with Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday after White House talks with the Republican leader.
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Christopher Farai Charamba Correspondent The 21st Century has spoilt the human race as information is widely and readily available and can be accessed at the click of a button.
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Robert Fisk Correspondent Not since Ibn Batuta travelled the Middle East in the 14th Century has anyone set out with higher ambitions than Donald Trump.
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BERLIN. — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that millions of Europeans were counting on the success of incoming French president Emmanuel Macron.
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Thomas Guénolé Correspondent According to most political analysts in France and abroad, Emmanuel Macron’s huge victory against Marine Le Pen is the result of the fight between two opposing ideas of what France should be.
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Stanely Mushava Correspondent The sustained eruption of humanitarian sores in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia continues to log newcomers into the index of failed States.
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Washington. — US President Donald Trump stepped back on Monday from demanding a down payment for his border wall in must-past spending legislation, potentially removing a major obstacle to a bipartisan deal just days ahead of a government shutdown deadline.
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Oscar Grenfell Correspondent Last Thursday, Nick Xenophon, a prominent “third party” senator in the Australian parliament, warned of the catastrophic consequences of a US war with China in an address before the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a think-tank with close ties to Washington.
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BEIJING. – Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump yesterday discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the Korean Peninsula on the phone, pledging close contact by various means to promptly exchange views on major issues of common concern.
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Nick Beams Correspondent In another step towards world-wide trade war, the International Monetary Fund over the weekend became the second major global economic organisation to back away from a commitment to “resist all forms of protectionism”.
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Stephen Mpofu Correspondent “It’s a small world,” you (yes, you ) often hear someone say when referring to the saturation of more people with information otherwise originally meant for a small circle of friends or family.