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Pompeo Visits Pakistan

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09/05/2018

09/05/2018

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Pompeo Visits Pakistan

Top News: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday, where he is set to meet with Imran Khan, the new prime minister.

“New leader there, wanted to get out there at the beginning of his time in an effort to reset the relationship between the two countries,” Pompeo told reporters during his flight over.

He is expected to double down on long-standing U.S. demands that Pakistan do more to fight extremism, domestically and in Afghanistan.

The meeting comes days after the Trump administration decided to slash $300 million in aid to Pakistan.

Japan: Days after the most powerful typhoon in 25 years hit Japan, the country is still coping with the aftermath. Thousands of people are being evacuated from Kansai airport, a major transit hub, where some were stuck for more than 18 hours in areas without power after an oil tanker hit the bridge connecting it to the mainland.

AFRICA

•  According to a U.N. human rights report, crimes against humanity including murder, torture, sexual violence, and political persecution continue to be committed in Burundi.

•  Al-Shabab militants in Somalia killed six people, at least four of them soldiers, in Mogadishu, the capital. Earlier this week, al-Shabab fighters kidnapped more than 60 elders in Galmudug state in an apparent attempt to intervene in an inter-clan dispute.

•  A commercial ship from Ethiopia docked in Eritrea for the first time in 20 years, coinciding with a previously unannounced tripartite summit with the leaders of the two countries and Somalia.

AMERICAS

•  Evidence emerged that the Brazilian government disregarded hazards and warnings in the run up to the fire that destroyed the National Museum on Sunday.

•  Eleven countries in Latin America agreed to accept expired travel documents from Venezuelans fleeing abroad.

•  Scientists from the United States identified the first known omnivorous shark species: the bonnethead shark, which feasts upon seagrass.

ASIA

•  Top South Korean diplomats traveled to North Korea for nuclear talks on Wednesday.

•  Japan for the first time acknowledged the radiation-exposure death of a worker at the Fukushima power plant after it was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

•  Thailand’s Royal Police Cadet Academy said it would stop accepting women.

EUROPE

•  Britain named two Russian nationals as suspects in the attempted murder by nerve agent of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia earlier this year.

•  The European Union urged its member states not to take part in bilateral Brexit talks.

•  Catalan President Quim Torra said he would keep pushing to break away from Spain rather than settle for more autonomy as a region.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Russian planes reportedly dropped bombs on rebel-held positions in Syria’s Idlib province.

•  Saudi Arabia declared creating online satire to be an imprisonable offense.

•  Protesters demanding basic services in Basra, Iraq, clashed with security forces, which left at least five protesters dead and 16 injured, also injuring and at least 14 members of the security forces.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Andrew Harnik/AFP/Getty Images)

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