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Rishi Sunak’s G20 meeting with Chinese president cancelled
A planned meeting between Rishi Sunak and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been cancelled after a missile blast in Poland. The encounter, at the G20 summit in Indonesia, was due to be the first in-person meeting between a British PM and Chinese leader since 2018. Early reports had suggested Russia was to blame for the blast, near Ukraine. Moscow has…
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Donald Trump says he’ll run for president again in 2024
Former US President Donald Trump has launched his third bid for the White House, declaring: “America’s comeback starts right now.” At his Florida estate, he said: “We have to save our country.” Mr Trump’s announcement comes as some fellow Republicans blame him for the party’s lacklustre performance in last week’s midterm elections. President Joe Biden, who defeated Mr Trump two…
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China’s Xi starts first day at G20 with a whirlwind of meetings with US allies
After a near three-year absence from the world stage, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has embarked on a whirlwind of face-to-face meetings with Western leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Bali, as he looks to reassert China’s global influence. Following a three-hour meeting on Monday with US President Joe Biden in an attempt to prevent their rivalry from spilling…
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4 takeaways from President Biden’s ‘very blunt’ meeting with China’s Xi Jinping
A highly anticipated meeting between China’s leader Xi Jinping and President Biden finished Monday with both leaders expressing an openness to restoring channels of communication and repairing a relationship that has been compared to a second Cold War. The leaders of two superpowers met face-to-face and unmasked on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on…
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Perpetrator of terror attack in Istanbul caught in 10 hours
The special team established after the bombing on Istanbul’s famous İstiklal Avenue that claimed the lives of six people has caught the perpetrator in Küçükçekmece district about 10 hours after the attack by inspecting 1,200 security cameras. The woman, who was traced by raiding 21 addresses and identified as Syrian national Ahlam Albashir, first went to Esenler and then to…
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Iranian who inspired The Terminal film dies at Paris airport
An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film The Terminal has died in the airport that he long called home. Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, died on Saturday after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according to an official with the Paris…
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Two WW 2 planes collide in mid-air at Dallas air show
Two vintage World War 2-era planes have collided and crashed at an air show in the US state of Texas, killing six people. Footage shows the aircraft striking each other at a low altitude, breaking one of the aircraft in half. A fireball can be seen as it hits the ground. The planes – one of them a Boeing B-17…
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Democrats keep control of U.S. Senate, crush Republican ‘red wave’ hopes
Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden and extinguishing hopes of the “red wave” that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections. Biden – who struggled with low approval ratings ahead of Tuesday’s elections, partly due to public frustration over inflation – said the late Saturday outcome made him look…
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The Crown new season watched by 1.1m in UK on launch day, first official ratings say
More than a million people in the UK watched the new series of The Crown on its first day of release, the drama’s first official TV ratings show. Netflix joined ratings system Barb last week, meaning viewing figures for the streaming giant’s UK audience are available for the first time. About 1.1 million people saw at least one episode of…
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Donald Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, set to marry Nigerian-raised boyfriend
Tiffany Trump, daughter of former United States President, Donald Trump will on November 12 marry his Nigerian-raised boyfriend, Michael Boulos. Michael is the son of Lebanese billionaire and owner of Boulos Enterprises in Lagos. Michael was raised in Lagos and had his primary and secondary school education in Lagos before he travelled to the United States where he met his…
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