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Donald Trump to Meet With Xi Jinping at G-20 Summit

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11/29/2018

11/29/2018

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Donald Trump to Meet With Xi Jinping at G-20 Summit

Top News: U.S. President Donald Trump heads to Buenos Aires Thursday, where he is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The leaders are expected to discuss escalating trade tensions between the United States and China, and the prospect of increasing U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.

Several Trump administration officials told the New York Times that the president was considering delaying any new tariffs for several months while Washington and Beijing try to hash out a deal.

Trump is also set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend, despite earlier threats to skip the encounter after Russia seized Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, capturing 24 Ukrainian sailors. The incident sparked widespread condemnation.

Yemen: The U.S. Senate, in a bipartisan vote of 63 to 37, decided to bring to the floor a bill that would limit the White House’s power to support the ongoing war in Yemen. By advancing the measure, which will not necessarily pass, the legislature issued a clear challenge to the Trump administration’s policy toward Saudi Arabia, which leads the coalition fighting in Yemen.

AFRICA

•  A group representing White South African farmers is challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa’s land reform policies in court.

•  According to British-based Conflict Armament Research, a weapons monitoring group, Uganda facilitated the sale of arms to South Sudan in 2014 and 2015, during the civil war there, in circumvention of EU sanctions.

•  The U.S. military said it killed three militants in an air strike in Somalia on Wednesday.

AMERICAS

•  The city of Buenos Aires has put in place heavy security measures ahead of the G-20 summit. All flights to the city have been diverted and public transit frozen, the Guardian reported. “We recommend you use the long weekend to leave,” said Patricia Bullrich, Argentina’s security minister. “Leave on Thursday because the city’s going to get very complicated.”

•  Police in Brazil arrested Luiz Fernando Pezão, governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, on corruption charges.

•  Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said Mexico would uphold the rights of migrants to seek asylum in the United States.

ASIA

•  China said it would retaliate “in proportion” to any U.S. sanctions in response to the internment of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.

•  Japan is considering purchasing up to 100 F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States.

•  Three police officers in the Philippines were found guilty of murdering a teenager, in the first such conviction since President Rodrigo Duterte began his brutal war on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.

EUROPE

•  German authorities raided the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt over allegations of money laundering.

•  In the European Union, only 5 percent of companies have a woman as the head of the board of directors, according to the European Gender Diversity Index.

•  Norwegian prosecutors accused Svein Ludvigsen, the country’s former fisheries minister, of sexually abusing three asylum seekers

MIDDLE EAST

•  Tunisia secured a $500 million loan from Saudi Arabia.

•  Israeli archeologists unearthed a 9,000-year-old neolithic stone mask.

•  Doctors Without Borders warned that the large number of patients with severe, complicated gunshot wounds was straining the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip beyond capacity.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)

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