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A White House fact sheet released Friday, as China's President Xi Jinping flew home, says the two countries will cut tariffs on $30 billion of each other's goods — U.S. farm goods, seafood and wood on one side, Chinese toys, small appliances and car seats on the other. It also…
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PARIS — On the second day of the first official papal visit to France in 18 years, Pope Leo XIV — the first U.S.-born pope — visited Maison Bakhita, a Paris association that supports migrants and refugees, and said it was possible to “encounter one another and to live together in dignity and peace,” France 24 (AFP) and Euronews reported Saturday.
MANILA — The Armed Forces of the Philippines aborted a rotation-and-resupply (RORE) mission to the grounded BRP Sierra Madre at Ayungin Shoal after about 15 Chinese vessels — one People’s Liberation Army Navy warship, nine China Coast Guard ships, and five maritime militia boats — shadowed civilian supply boat M/V Lapu-Lapu roughly 60 nautical miles from the shoal Thursday night, the Philippine Star reported Saturday.
UPPSALA / COPENHAGEN — Swedish drug-delivery company Nanexa said Thursday after the European close that it had signed a global exclusive license and collaboration with Novo Nordisk — maker of Wegovy and Ozempic — covering Nanexa’s PharmaShell atomic-layer-deposition platform for certain peptide drugs in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other cardiometabolic diseases, the company release, Reuters, and CNBC reported.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Saturday he had rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pause fighting across the wider Middle East war within seven days, Reuters and PBS/AP reported. Speaking to reporters outside the White House before leaving for Tennessee, Trump said: “I reject their proposal. … I rejected their deal.”
UNITED NATIONS — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — the first German–Russian ministerial face-to-face since before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Reuters and ZDF reported.
KYIV / NEW YORK — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States has proposed preparing a technical-level three-way meeting of U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian officials, with the United Arab Emirates suggested as the venue, Ukrinform, Al Jazeera, and Reuters-adjacent Friday–Saturday reporting said.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump posted Saturday that he had approved new vehicle fuel-economy standards that “terminate” the Biden administration’s electric-vehicle mandate, Reuters reported. “These new Standards will take the waste out of building cars in America. That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car,” he wrote on Truth Social before traveling to Tennessee.
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Whether the Pentagon responds to Poland's offer to pay $15,000 a year per U.S. soldier; Polish officials expect the Pentagon's review of U.S. forces in Europe to finish in November or December.
AskThe details U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer promised for Monday, Sept. 28, which should show whether Beijing confirms the $30 billion in tariff cuts and the coal purchases the White House announced.
AskWhether Türkiye's parliament takes up the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defense pact when its session opens Oct. 1, as its speaker expects, after the latest Houthi attack on Riyadh.
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