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After Fireworks, Trump Strikes Conciliatory Tone on NATO

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07/12/2018

07/12/2018

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After Fireworks, Trump Strikes Conciliatory Tone on NATO

Top news: U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed U.S. support for NATO, saying he had won concessions from European allies on defense spending — long a point of contention between Trump and members of the group.

“The United States was not being treated fairly, but now we are,” Trump said at a news conference, after leaders held an emergency meeting to address U.S. complaints. “I believe in NATO,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Trump had reportedly threatened “go it alone,” if allies did not meet higher defense spending targets by January — precipitating the emergency session. White House officials did not clarify whether “go it alone” was a threat to withdraw entirely for NATO.

Uganda: Violent protests in Uganda forced the government to review a controversial tax on social media use. Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda said in a statement that the bill would be amended “taking into consideration the concerns of the public.” The law initially came into effect on July 1, and required Ugandans to pay around five cents per day to use platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter.

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AFRICA

•  Two people are dead after a vintage airliner crashed near Johannesburg, South Africa.

•  Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a massive black sarcophagus — the largest ever found in Alexandria.

•  Supporters of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party rallied in Harare to call for free and fair elections ahead of the country’s first vote since long-time ruler Robert Mugabe was ousted.

AMERICAS

•  El Salvador’s government has rejected a supreme court ruling ordering President Sánchez Cerén to testify about the disappearance and murder of a South African diplomat in 1979.

•  Brazil is considering a formal World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against China over trade barriers to Brazilian chicken and sugar.

•  The Trump administration is expected to announce a streamlined process to reunite migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.

ASIA

•  Dennis Shea, the U.S. Ambassador to the WTO, accused China of causing “serious harm” by failing to live up to free-trade principles.

•  The Indian government approved a set of rules guaranteeing net neutrality.

•  Roughly one in five North Korean children are affected by malnutrition, a senior United Nations humanitarian official said during a tour of the country — the first since 2011.

EUROPE

•  A German court ruled that former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont could be extradited to Spain on charges of misusing public funds.

•  Michel Barnier, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, said he hopes the United States and the EU could soon resume talks on a bilateral free trade agreement.

•  Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has accused some migrants of hijacking a rescue ship off the coast of Libya.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Moscow to discuss the Iranian presence in Syria.

•  A Turkish court sentenced 72 defendants to life in prison for their alleged role in an attempted coup in 2016.

•  Amnesty International called for an investigation into claims that the United Arab Emirates tortured detainees at secret prisons in southern Yemen.

- By Rhys Dubin

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