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US, China reach 90-day ceasefire on tariffs in trade dispute
Argentina, Dec 2 (AP/UNB) — The United States and China reached a 90-day ceasefire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came after a dinner meeting Saturday between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.
Former US President George HW Bush dies
Houston, Dec 1 (AP/UNB) -George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.
Behind Cohen plea: Trump's longtime dream of a Moscow tower
Washington, Nov 30 (AP/UNB) — Donald Trump for decades dreamed of building a Trump Tower in the heart of Moscow, a plan that flared and fizzled several times over the years, most recently when his presidential campaign was gaining momentum.
Trump asks RNC chair McDaniel to stay in job through 2020
Washington, Nov 30 (AP/UNB) — President Donald Trump says he has asked Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to stay in the job through the 2020 election.
Trump cancels meeting with Putin as he heads to G-20 summit
Argentina, Nov 30 (AP/UNB) — President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he headed to the Group of 20 Nations summit Thursday, citing Russia's seizure of Ukrainian vessels as a source of tension in a relationship he has fostered in the face of criticism.
Bangladeshi man facing deportation gets reprieve until 2022
Kansas City, Nov 29 (AP/UNB) — A Kansas man who is fighting deportation to his native Bangladesh for overstaying his visa was given a reprieve until at least 2022 after an immigration judge agreed to consider whether he could legally stay in the U.S.
US airstrike reportedly kills dozens of Afghan civilians
Kabul, Nov 29 (AP/UNB) — Taliban insurgents staged a coordinated attack targeting a security firm in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 19 others, as the U.S. said an airstrike hours earlier in Helmand province that reportedly killed civilians was conducted by American aircraft.
US sued for $60 million after infant in detention later died
Houston, Nov 28 (AP/UNB) — The mother of a toddler who died weeks after being released from the nation's largest family detention center filed a legal claim seeking $60 million from the U.S. government for the child's death.
US makes case for withdrawal from missile treaty with Russia
Washington, Nov 28 (AP/UNB) —Russia has for years been developing, testing and deploying a missile that violates a landmark nuclear weapons treaty, a senior White House official said Tuesday, making a case for the administration's planned withdrawal from the accord ahead of a scheduled meeting between the leaders of the two nations.
US biologist: Gene-editing work a failure of self-regulation
Hong Kong, Nov 28 (AP/UNB) — A leader of an international conference on gene editing said Wednesday that the work of a Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies showed a failure of self-regulation among scientists.