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Trump meets freed US-Egyptian

  • WASHINGTON, April 21 (APP/AFP) – President Donald Trump on Friday hosted a US-Egyptian charity worker in the White House who was freed after nearly three years in detention in Egypt on charges human rights groups denounced as “arbitrary.” A Cairo court acquitted Aya Hijazi last weekend along with her Egyptian husband and six others of […]

  • More than 50′ Afghan troops killed in attack: US military

    ‘ MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, April 21, (APP/AFP) – “More than 50 Afghan soldiers have been killed” in a Taliban attack Friday on their base near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a US military spokesman told AFP. The attack lasted several hours but was over by early evening, according to the spokesman, who wished to remain anonymous. […]

  • UN chief meets Trump for first time in Washington

    UNITED NATIONS, April 21 (APP): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday had its first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time since he took over as the world body’s chief on January 1, a U.N. spokesman said. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said they met for 15-20 minutes at the White House in Washington […]

  • US carrier group to be in Sea of Japan in days: Pence

    SYDNEY, April 22, (APP/AFP) – The US supercarrier Carl Vinson will arrive in the Sea of Japan in days, Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday in Australia, amid high tensions with North Korea. “Our expectation is that they will be in the Sea of Japan in position in a matter of days, before the end […]

  • Consensus in G20 that protectionism ‘damaging’ for global economy

    WASHINGTON, April 22, (APP/AFP) – The Group of 20 major economies sent a united message Friday on the threat that rising protectionism poses to the global economy, an apparent return to a long-time stance called into question by the United States. Speaking after a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington, Germany’s Wolfgang Schaeuble said […]

  • Canada’s Trudeau to meet pope in late May

    OTTAWA, April 22, (APP/AFP) – Pope Francis will grant a private audience to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next month after a G7 summit in Italy, the government in Ottawa said Friday. “Prime Minister Trudeau will have an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis for the first time,” the government said in a statement after […]