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Beijing — When Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Washington this week, he will be sitting down with President Donald Trump in a vastly different position than the last time the two men met face-to-face in the United States nearly a decade ago. At that 2017 summit at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort China was lagging America on multiple fronts and vulnerable to …

A ban on one is almost like a ban on all. That’s the prevailing feeling now that President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico has been implemented by the White House and challenged in court by the news organizations. Maybe the feeling won’t last. Maybe the unity will fizzle out. But at least for a moment, Trump’s …

New York, U.S., (NAN) U.S. President Donald Trump says the country now has the most secure border in its history, noting that the U.S. had the worst and most dangerous border on earth before he took office. Trump said this in his address to world leaders at the General Debate at the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly at …

New York, U.S., (NAN) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for Security Council reform, saying that the continued absence of permanent African representation on the body was “unjust and indefensible.” Guterres spoke at the opening of the General Debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. With about 100 days left …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland aimed at strengthening Arctic and North Atlantic security, paving the way for more U.S. bases in Greenland and easing tensions over his repeated calls for the vast island to become part of the United States. The Associated Press reports that the signing on the …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, an unexpected engagement that came even as he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war. Trump told reporters that his chief envoys, Steve Witkoff and …

President Bola Tinubu on Monday in New York called for a fresh continental push to end the exploitation of Africa’s critical mineral resources. Tinubu, represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, made the call at the 3rd Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) High-level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa. The roundtable held on the sidelines of the ongoing 81st Session of …

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called a local election defeat for his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a “disaster” but vowed to remain in post. In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the CDU fell short of a 5% threshold to enter parliament, underperforming against what had already been projected to be the party’s worst ever result in the area. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America’s factories and eroded the middle class. That tough talk helped Trump get to the White House a decade ago, but since then, he increasingly speaks in glowing terms about Chinese President Xi Jinping, …

Money sent home by Edo indigenes abroad has unequivocally helped families survive, businesses grow and communities cope with economic pressures, with the state Diasporans’ annual remittances accounting for about $7bn. But the pioneer Director-General of the Edo State Diaspora Agency, Dr. (Mrs.) Loretta Oduware Ogboro-Okor, says there is something far more valuable waiting to be unlocked. She urged Edo diasporans …