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Trump Walks Away From Talks with Kim Over Sanctions

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02/28/2019

02/28/2019

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Trump Walks Away From Talks with Kim Over Sanctions

Top News: The second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, held this week in Vietnam, has ended suddenly without any formal agreements. Trump said that North Korea wanted all United Nations sanctions lifted in exchange for dismantlement of the Yongbyon nuclear enrichment facility while leaving other facilities alone.

“Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times,” the president said at a news conference.

In a statement from the presidential office, South Korea said the failure to reach a deal was regrettable, but that “meaningful progress” had been made.

Venezuela: The United States has submitted a resolution on Venezuela for a possible Security Council vote on Thursday, which is likely to be rejected by Russia. Meanwhile, Moscow has submitted its own draft resolution, which is unlikely to garner the necessary number of votes to proceed. The U.S. resolution calls for the entry of humanitarian aid and new elections. Russia’s calls for a political solution and backs Nicolás Maduro’s government.

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AFRICA

•  Nigeria’s leading opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar, said he intends to contest what he called a “sham election” after the announcement declaring incumbent Muhammadu Buhari as the winner yesterday.

•  Ghana’s opposition candidate in next year’s elections will be a former president, John Mahama, a party official said Wednesday, marking the third election in a row pitting Mahama against incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo.

•  Forty thousand refugees in Cameroon, who fled insurgent violence in northeast Nigeria last month, have been ordered to return to Nigeria—adding to the number who have already been forcibly removed.

AMERICAS

•  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó arrived in Brazil on Thursday, and is expected to meet with President Jair Bolsonaro, who has recognized him as interim president.

•  The Brazilian legislature is moving forward on a bill to address dam safety in the wake of the January collapse of a Vale SA dam, which killed an estimated 300 people.

•  Nicaragua’s interior ministry said that 100 people arrested during anti-government protests last year have been released from detention, as talks between the government and the opposition resume.

ASIA

•  Six people have been confirmed dead in the collapse of an unlicensed gold mine in Indonesia, with 19 rescued and an estimated 40 miners still estimated to be trapped in the mine.

•  Pakistan’s military said it had captured a pilot after India’s air strike this week. Prime Minister Imran Khan said Thursday that the pilot would be released in an attempt to de-escalate military tensions.

•  Thousands of air travelers were grounded in Bangkok on Thursday, as Thai Airways canceled flights due to the closure of Pakistan’s airspace.

EUROPE

•  Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s former prime minister, testified this week during the trial of 12 Catalan separatist leaders, defending the actions of his government in response to the October 2017 referendum on independence.

•  British Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed to give Parliament the chance to delay the March 29 deadline for Brexit if her revised deal fails, as MPs continue to call for measures to avoid a no-deal exit.

•  Ukraine’s Constitutional Court declared a 2015 law unconstitutional this week, with the effect that a number of ongoing cases of “illegal enrichment” involving public officials will have to be closed.

MIDDLE EAST

•  A mass grave thought to contain dozens of Yazidi victims of the Islamic State, many of them women, has been found in the territory recently seized by the Syrian Democratic Forces, in eastern Syria.

•  Turkey has launched the largest maritime drill in its history, in the Black Sea, Aegean Sea, and eastern Mediterranean, using 103 military vessels.

•  Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, returned to work two days after saying he intended to resign, appearing on television with President Hassan Rouhani, who rejected his resignation.

- By Elizabeth Miles

(Vietnam News Agency/Handout/Getty Images)

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