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U.S. and Canada Clinch Deal on New NAFTA

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10/01/2018

10/01/2018

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U.S. and Canada Clinch Deal on New NAFTA

Top News: U.S. and Canadian negotiators agreed to final terms of a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in a breakthrough that comes after more than a year of negotiations.

The new agreement with Canada and Mexico, which covers a regional economy of over $1 trillion per year, has been named the U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA.

President Donald Trump has put immense pressure on Mexico and Canada to update NAFTA, first put in place in 1994, saying it was unfair to U.S. workers.

The new deal, finalized hours before a midnight deadline on Sunday, opens access to Canada’s dairy market for U.S. farmers and tightens rules for auto production.

In a joint statement, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland said the deal “will strengthen the middle class, and create good, well-paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly half billion people who call North America home.”

Macedonia: Macedonians voted on Sunday in a referendum on changing the country’s name to the Republic of North Macedonia in order to end a long-running name dispute with neighboring Greece. Over 91 percent voted to change the name, but turnout was only 36.8 percent, signaling lower public support for the deal than the government had hoped.

AFRICA

•  Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, announced his country defeated the terrorist group Boko Haram four years after first declaring war.

•  The U.N. envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salamé, said planned elections in December may not be possible following a flare-up in fighting between warring factions.

•  South Sudan’s vice-president, Taban Deng, said his government would adhere to a new peace deal.

AMERICAS

•  Tens of thousands of Brazilians protested against far-right presidential candidate and frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro over the weekend.

•  Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged to never use the military against civilians as the country marked the 50th anniversary of troops killing 300 demonstrators at a 1968 protest.

•  In the midst of heated debates over sexual assault allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Sunday that she is a survivor of sexual assault.

ASIA

•  President Trump said in a speech he “fell in love” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their denuclearization negotiations.

•  Indonesian authorities said an earthquake and tsunami that struck last Friday has killed at least 844 people, and warned the final death toll could number in the thousands.

•  A powerful typhoon made landfall in western Japan on Sunday, injuring dozens.

EUROPE

•  Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan “deranged.”

•  At an election campaign event in Bavaria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Trump against attempts to “destroy” the United Nations.

•  Italy’s new populist government unveiled a new budget that would break EU requirements on budget deficits.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Seven Palestinians died during mass protests and violence in the Gaza strip.

•  Iraqi Kurds voted in parliamentary elections for their semi-autonomous regional government, a year after a referendum to gain independence failed.

•  An Egyptian woman was sentenced to prison for two years after posting a video to her Facebook criticizing the government for not doing enough to prevent sexual harassment.

- By Robbie Gramer

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