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Trump Asks for U.N. Support for Iran Sanctions

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09/27/2018

09/27/2018

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Trump Asks for U.N. Support for Iran Sanctions

Top News: U.S. President Donald Trump chaired a meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York on Wednesday, during which he urged other countries to comply with reimposed U.S. sanctions on Iran in the wake of his administration’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

“I agree with the goals of the president of the U.S. even if we disagree over the nuclear deal, but I think we need to build together a long-term strategy and it can’t just boil down to sanctions and containment,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at the Security Council session.

India: The top court in India struck down a colonial-era anti-adultery law Thursday, decriminalizing extramarital sex. The law allowed husbands “to use the woman as chattel,” the court said in an opinion.

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AFRICA

•  The major unions in Nigeria launched a general strike Thursday over a dispute with the government about minimum wage.

•  South Africa signed an extradition agreement with the United Arab Emirates—which could be used to target the Gupta brothers, close associates of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who have been accused of corruption.

•  The Cameroonian rail company Camrail was found guilty of manslaughter in a 2016 derailment that killed 79 people.

AMERICAS

•  The International Monetary Fund agreed to increase its bailout funding to Argentina and make credit available sooner than originally planned.

•  On the sidelines of this week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, President Trump held the fourth solo press conference of his presidency.

•  Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to accuse U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

ASIA

•  Trump accused China of election meddling in the United States, but did not provide evidence.

•  A former senior research scientist at Google submitted a letter to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation urging lawmakers to scrutinize the company’s plans to launch services in China according to Chinese government specifications.

•  North Korea’s and Japan’s foreign ministers held talks for the first time in three years.

EUROPE

•  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to begin a three-day state visit to Germany Thursday in an effort to reset Turkish-German relations.

•  Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May met Wednesday to discuss a potential bilateral trade deal.

•  Slovak police detained suspects in the murder of investigative reporter Jan Kuciak, who was found dead alongside his and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, in February. At the time of his death, he was investigating corruption and the influence of organized crime in Slovakia.

MIDDLE EAST

•  The Yemeni government said it would stop cooperating with the U.N. human rights mission, accusing a recent U.N. report of bias.

•  A billboard in the Iranian city of Shiraz mistakenly used a photograph of Israeli soldiers to commemorate the Iran-Iraq war.

•  Voters in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region are set to elect a new regional parliament Sunday.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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