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Trump Threatens U.S. Withdrawal From WTO

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Trump Threatens U.S. Withdrawal From WTO

TOP NEWS: U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t “shape up.”

In an interview with Bloomberg, Trump said the WTO “was the single worst trade deal ever made.”

The statements came as the president continues to push protectionist economic policies, including an escalating tariff war with China and a volatile campaign to update the North American Free Trade Agreement.

MYANMAR: Myanmar’s army has altered images of historical events from Rwanda and Bangladesh, repurposing them to bolster their official narrative of the Rohingya crisis. In one case, the army department of public relations and psychological warfare retouched an image of refugees fleeing post-genocide Rwanda for Tanzania, representing it instead as an image of Rohingya, with a caption that reads: “Bengalis intruded into the country after the British Colonialists occupied the lower part of Myanmar.”

AFRICA

•  Ugandan Member of Parliament Bobi Wine was arrested as he attempted to leave for the United States, sparking protests in Kampala, where people burned tires, blocked roads, and confronted police.

•  South Sudanese rebels approved a peace deal with the government and are prepared to sign at a summit after rejecting it earlier this week.

•  Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed axed his energy minister, Khaled Kaddour, and four other senior officials over corruption allegations.

AMERICAS

•  Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 60 percent, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

•  A Peruvian Foreign Ministry official urged developed countries to do more to help Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, whose public services are overwhelmed by the need to provide assistance to recently arrived Venezuelans.

•  Trade talks between the United States and Canada are set to intensify ahead of a Friday deadline set by the Trump administration.

ASIA

•  Australia’s Liberal Party lost its one-seat majority after Malcolm Turnbull, who was unseated as prime minister last week, resigned from parliament.

•  Chinese espionage agencies are trying to recruit American spies on LinkedIn, the head of U.S. counterintelligence told Reuters.

•  In Cambodia, an Australian filmmaker has been charged with espionage for flying a camera drone over an opposition rally in 2017.

EUROPE

•  Spain is set to deport 166 African migrants who broke through a fence in Ceuta last month, going against the grain of its usual pattern of granting asylum to those who reach the country.

•  Protections for geographically specific food products are set to become a sticking point in Brexit talks.

•  Germany said it would increase its funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees after the United States slashed its contributions.

MIDDLE EAST

•  U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan di Mistura called for a humanitarian corridor to be kept open as government forces look to retake the rebel-held province of Idlib.

•  Iran has given ballistic missiles to its Shiite proxy militias in Iraq, Reuters reports.

•  The International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran continues to meet the terms set out in the nuclear deal it agreed to in 2015.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

(MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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