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De ontmoeting vindt plaats te midden van een voorlopige handelstest, maar Iran, Taiwan en spanningen over wereldwijde toeleveringsketens zullen complicerende factoren zijn. Meld u aan voor de Breaking News US-e-mail. Hallo en welkom bij onze live verslaggeving van de Amerikaanse politiek. Donald Trump is onderweg naar Beijing voor cruciale gesprekken met de Chinese leider Xi Jinping, terwijl zij proberen een voorlopige handelstest te handhaven en tegelijkertijd navigeren door kwesties rond Iran, Taiwan en de dominantie over wereldwijde toeleveringsketens. Lees verder...

Voormalig politiechef Ronald dela Rosa brengt nacht door in senaatskantoor nadat een andere Duterte-bondgenoot hem bescherming aanbiedt

Stanley Burkhardt, veroordeelde misbruiker en voormalig onderzoeker van seksuele misdrijven tegen kinderen, legt verklaring af in civiele zaak

Het conflict lijkt een pijnlijke patstelling te hebben bereikt, maar leiders in Teheran en Washington lijken te denken dat de overwinning nabij is.

• Megan Thee Stallion was spotted leaving the theater around 1:30 AM after taking her final bow in 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' in New York, concluding her guest star run. • The rap artist had been one of the production's standout guest stars during her time with the Broadway show. • Her departure from the musical marks the end of a notable crossover moment between hip-hop and Broadway theater.

From legitimate scrutiny to lurid scare stories, the Green party’s rise has brought a sudden spike in attentionIt is the lot of smaller parties that grow rapidly that they tend to endure something of a trial by the media in the UK. The attention from some of the newspapers and broadcasters to the Green party before this week’s elections has occasionally borne an unlikely resemblance to the height of Clegg-mania in the spring of 2010, when the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, was rewarded for his positive polling with the unlikely Daily Mail headline “Clegg in Nazi slur on Britain”.All manner of colourful tales have emerged about Green policies and personnel as the party has risen up the national opinion polls, making them something of a target for news editors and reporters. That attention has ranged from legitimate questions over the views of members to more eccentric warnings of a dire future for everyone in Britain from exotic animals to members of the clergy. Continue reading...

Jitu Munda says he was repeatedly refused access to money left in her account in case highlighting ‘lack of humanity’ in Indian bureaucracyThe sight of a man bringing the remains of his dead sister to a bank in India after officials had refused to let him withdraw money without proof of her death has caused shock in India.Jitu Munda, 52, from the Indian state of Odisha, was captured on video carrying the remains of his recently deceased sister through the streets of Keonjhar and placing them outside the local bank. Continue reading...