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Havana -
Britain's Prince Charles unveiled a statue of William Shakespeare in Havana when he took to the streets of old city Monday as part of the first visit by the British royal family to communist-run Cuba.
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London -
British Prime Minister Theresa May held crisis talks Sunday with Conservative colleagues as she tries to plot a path through a pivotal week in the Brexit process amid reports her leadership is under imminent threat.
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Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysia may retaliate against an EU plan to curb palm oil use by purchasing new fighter jets from China instead of European arms companies, its leader said Sunday.
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Paris -
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron were to hold talks in Paris on Monday with the host leader seeking to forge a united European front in the face of Beijing's inroads on the continent.
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London -
Prime Minister Theresa May is making a last-ditch bid this weekend to win support among British MPs for her EU divorce deal ahead of another pivotal week in the Brexit process -- but faced reports her leadership is under imminent threat.
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President Donald Trump said Friday he was using the threat of tariffs to pressure European manufacturers to build more autos in the United States.
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Washington -
An Australian man was sentenced to two years in prison in Washington Thursday for exporting restricted aviation equipment to Iranian buyers in violation of US restrictions.
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Apo -
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold trade and climate talks on Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Tehran -
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday dismissed a trade mechanism launched by European countries to bypass renewed US sanctions as a "bitter joke" and said Europe could not be trusted.
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Washington -
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will return to Beijing next week as the United States and China inch toward resolving their trade war, a senior administration official told AFP on Tuesday.
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US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will return to Beijing next week as the United States and China inch toward resolving their trade war, a senior administration official told AFP on Tuesday.
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Washington -
President Donald Trump said Thursday that trade war negotiations with China should wrap up within four weeks and expressed optimism about striking a deal, as top negotiators held new phone talks.
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Bejing -
China's rubber-stamp parliament approved a foreign investment law Friday that may serve as an olive branch in trade talks with the United States, but it received a lukewarm welcome from business groups.
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Bejing -
China's rubber-stamp parliament will vote Friday on a foreign investment law that was fast-tracked in what observers see as a bid to facilitate trade talks with the United States.
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Strasbourg -
The European Parliament on Thursday failed to back trade talks between the EU and the US as President Donald Trump warned of severe consequences if Europe failed to deliver.
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Washington -
Washington's top trade official on Tuesday said the United States and China are likely to conclude their trade negotiations within "weeks" -- but a successful outcome is not assured.
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Fpo -
Trade tensions between the US and China will hammer air cargo this year, an industry body warned Tuesday, the latest sign the tariff slugfest is damaging the global outlook.
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Washington -
A possible summit between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping remains up in the air as negotiators try to resolve the two massive economies' trade dispute, the White House said Monday.
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Bejing -
China has gone to great lengths to support its currency and would not devalue the renminbi to spur exports or combat trade frictions, the governor of the central bank said Sunday.
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Bras -
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he will visit China this year, indicating he was more open to a country he once accused of being an economic predator trying to "buy" Brazil.
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Washington -
Optimism about a rapid resolution of the months-long US-China trade war was undercut by conflicting comments out of Washington and Beijing, sending global stock markets on a downward slide on Friday.
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Bejing -
China's exports and imports plummeted much more than expected in February, official data showed Friday, adding to worries about slowing growth in the world's number two economy as it fights a trade war with the US.
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Washington -
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom warned Thursday that US actions threatened to "break" the global trading system and she urged Washington to cooperate on reforming the rules of commerce instead.
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London -
A timeworn laboratory in Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens may not seem like the obvious epicentre of efforts to halt international illegal logging.
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Bejing -
US-China trade talks have been "very difficult and taxing" and negotiators still have "lots left to do", but breakthroughs have been made in some areas, China's commerce minister said Tuesday.
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Washington -
Washington will scrap the preferential trade status of India and Turkey, the US trade chief's office said, as President Donald Trump ramps up his battle against what his administration views as unfair foreign trade practices.
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Jakarta -
Indonesia and Australia on Monday signed a long-awaited trade deal after months of diplomatic tension over Canberra's contentious plan to move its embassy to Jerusalem.
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Paris -
US officials have said any trade deal with China will include a provision to prevent manipulation of the exchange rate to help exporters but Beijing's currency regime reflects a complex reality.
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Washington -
Washington's chief trade negotiator on Wednesday said there remained much to do before reaching a new trade agreement with China, even though both sides signal their talks are nearing the finish line.
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Washington -
US President Donald Trump said Monday he expects to hold a "signing summit" with China's President Xi Jinping to seal a trade deal, since as discussions are in the "advanced stages.
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President Barack Obama talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao following their bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit in Toronto, Canada White House Photo by Pete Souza
Wynne in meeting with New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell and Ways and Means democratic members on NAFTA and how they can work together to strengthen auto manufacturing in North America. Office of the Premier Kathleen Wynne
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The Silk Road extending from southern Europe through Egypt, Somalia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Central Asia, Pakistan, India, Java-Indonesia, and Vietnam til it reaches China. Land routes are red, water routes are blue. The Black Death originated in China and spread by way of the Silk Road. It reduced the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. Wikimedia Commons
Premier Wynne talks with Senator Gary Peters about trade policy. Premier Kathleen Wynne
A man hawks coffee beans on a wooden bike in a stadium in Kampala, Uganda on September 20, 2010.
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The new free trade area in Africa will create a market with a population of 625 mn and gross domestic product of more than $1 tn Roberto Schmidt, AFP
Demetrios Marantis, US Deputy Trade Representative, speaks at the US-Africa Trade Press Conference held at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa World Economic Forum
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