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• Norway says Venezuela government, opposition to hold new round of talks

  25-05-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Norway said on Saturday that representatives of Venezuela's government and opposition will return to Oslo next week following an initial round of preliminary talks about how to address the country's political crisis."We announce that the representatives of the main political actors in Venezuela have decided to return to Oslo next week to continue a process facilitated by Norway," the Scandinavian country's foreign ministry said in a statement."We reiterate our commitment to continue supporting t
  
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• Be All You Can Be: All of the Reasons People Join the U.S. Army

  25-05-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  All the reasons why. Americans join the Army for plenty of reasons: for country, family, and honor. According to a new study of enlisted soldiers, however, a core motivation is relatively simple: for money.A RAND Corporation exhaustive survey of 81 soldiers between E-1 and E-4 suggests that the choice to enlist is influenced by two overlapping factors: institutional ones like family and duty, and occupational ones like professional development and job stability.(This article by James Clark
  
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• Subpoenas for Trump financial records on hold pending appeal -court filing

  25-05-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp will not have to immediately hand over the financial records of U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and the Trump Organization, according to a court filing on Saturday.The filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York followed an appeal submitted on Friday by Trump and his affiliates against an existing order from a federal judge allowing the banks to hand over financial records to Democratic lawmakers.Amid an o
  
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• Venezuela's Rival Sides to Resume Talks in Norway Next Week

  25-05-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  “Norway commends the parties for their efforts and appreciates their disposition,” Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide said in a statement on Saturday.A multipronged diplomatic push to break Venezuela’s political stalemate began last week, with a European Union mission visiting Caracas and envoys from both President Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaido, the National Assembly leader recognized as interim president by some 50 nations.
  
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• Stan Lee’s former manager arrested for allegedly stealing $260,000 from late comic book legend

  25-05-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Stan Lee‘s former business manager has been arrested on elder abuse charges involving the Marvel Comics legend.Keya Morgan was taken into custody in Arizona on an outstanding arrest warrant after being charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors earlier this month.Mr Morgan faces felony charges including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder adult. A misdemeanour count also alleges elder abuse. Police say Mr Morgan pocketed more than
  
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• Reuters Science News Summary

  25-05-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Following is a summary of current science news briefs.SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit on Thursday for Musk's new Starlink internet service.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at about 10:30 p.m. local time (0230 GMT Friday), clearing a key hurdle for a business venture that Musk hopes will generate much-needed cash for his larger amb
  
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• Trump lawyers and House Committees reach an agreement that prevents Trump's financial records from being made public -- for now

  25-05-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Congressional investigators have reached an agreement to stay subpoenas of Trump's financial records, pending an expedited appeal.
  
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• US judge deals blow to Trump's border wall plans

  25-05-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A US federal judge dealt a blow on Friday to President Donald Trump's signature wall project, issuing a temporary injunction against using Defense Department funds to pay for barriers on the border with Mexico.Trump declared an emergency in a bid to bypass Congress and obtain money for border wall construction after a standoff over paying for the project led to the longest government shutdown in US history.About 20 states, including Democratic strongholds New York and California, along with the
  
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• Judge blocks Trump from building sections of border wall

  25-05-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, delivering what may prove a temporary setback on one of his highest priorities.
  
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• Baghdad offers to mediate with US as Iran's FM visits Iraq

  25-05-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament speaker said Saturday that Baghdad is ready to mediate between the United States and Iran if it is asked to do so.
  
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• Dating scam artist from California had 20 alleged victims in 8 states

  25-05-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Alleged victims of a social media "Don Juan" are emerging from across the nation as LAPD widens its fraud investigation of Wilson Edward Jackson.
  
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• India's president appoints Modi as PM for second term

  25-05-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India's president on Saturday appointed Narendra Modi as the prime minister soon after newly-elected lawmakers from the ruling alliance, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, elected him as their leader after a thunderous victory in national elections.
  
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• 'No Food, No Drink, No Watermelon' Boston Schoolteacher Claims Her Students Were Racially Profiled at Museum

  25-05-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A Boston schoolteacher alleges that her 7th grade students were racially profiled during a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts.
  
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• Hezbollah warns US plan could naturalise Palestinian diaspora

  25-05-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah warned Saturday that a long-delayed US peace plan could see Palestinian refugees permanently settled in host countries across the region.Speaking days after the US announced a May conference in Bahrain to lay out economic aspects of its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned of an "ominous deal aimed at eliminating the Palestinian cause".The right of return for more than 700,000 refugees who were expell
  
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• UPDATE 2-Fiat Chrysler in tie-up talks with Renault - sources

  25-05-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  MILAN/PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler and Renault are in talks on a comprehensive global tie-up that could address some of the main weaknesses of both carmakers, two sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Saturday.The talks are at an advanced stage, the sources said.The Financial Times https://on.ft.com/2HRDghE earlier reported that FCA and Renault were discussing a deal to forge "extensive ties" to tackle structural challenges facing the global auto industry.
  
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• 51 attorneys general call on Betsy DeVos to cancel up to 42,000 disabled veterans' student debts

  25-05-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  "As a nation, we have a moral obligation to assist those who have put their lives on the line to defend us,"  the attorneys general wrote.
  
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• India's Economy Needs Tougher Reform. How Will Modi Use His Election Mandate?

  25-05-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a historic second five-year term — with a single-party majority — for the Bharatiya Janata Party this week. He campaigned…
  
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• Hiker Amanda Eller found alive after being lost 2 weeks in Maui, Hawaii forest

  25-05-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A 35-year-old physical therapist and yoga instructor who went missing in the Makawao Forest Reserve on Maui, Hawaii,  two weeks ago has been found alive, according to her family and a Facebook page devoted to the search.
  
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• Yoga teacher found alive after 17 days lost in Hawaii forest

  25-05-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Amanda Eller, 35, went hiking in Maui's Makawao Forest Reserve on May 8 but became lost when she walked deeper in the reserve, which covers more than 2,000 acres, instead of heading back to her car as she believed."Sure enough, God willing, she was right there," Javier Canetellops, a search coordinator who was in the helicopter, told reporters.
  
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• Is Sig Sauer's P320 the Ultimate Gun (As in Better than Glock)?

  25-05-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the most common questions we get asked here at GND is whether you should buy a Glock 19 or a Sig P320. Both are great guns, of course, as proven by their loyal followings, but there seems to be no real consensus on which is the best.In some ways, the story of the Sig P320 is a strange one. When it was released, nobody really paid it any attention. It was just another 9mm handgun, much like the dozens of similar pistols that are released each year.However, then the US Army decided to buy a
  
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• Former deputy assistant attorney general: The attorney general also investigates the conduct of his own department

  25-05-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Bob Driscoll says Trump's permission to declassify materials related to the Russia investigation is a step toward transparency.
  
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• NASA captures an incredible photo of a creeper galaxy

  25-05-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Most galaxies are traveling away from our galaxy, not closer to it. Still, there are exceptions. Take Messier 90, one of the few galaxies that appears to be traveling towards our own Milky Way galaxy. Recently, NASA's Hubble telescope caught an awe-inspiring photo of the galaxy. Here it is in full.Messier 90 is part of the Virgo cluster, a collection of about 1,200 galaxies Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Sargent etSEE ALSO: SpaceX just blasted a critical NASA instrument into spaceBecause the u
  
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• Judge blocks Trump from building sections of U.S.-Mexico border wall

  25-05-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Friday blocked President Trump from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, delivering what may prove a temporary setback on one of his highest priorities.
  
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• Violence and disruption against abortion clinics at highest rates since 1999

  25-05-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Violence and disruption against abortion clinics in the US increased to its highest levels since the 1990s last year, a report by the National Abortion Federation has found.The increase in violence was attributed, at least in part, to president Donald Trump and his administration’s rhetoric.The report noted a significant increase in obstruction, vandalism, and trespassing, with 1,135 incidents of trespassing recorded in 2018 - the most since the NAF began tracking the crime in 1999.There w
  
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• The Downfall of Theresa May, the Prime Minister Broken by Brexit

  25-05-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The couple went through to the prime minister’s private study together for a few moments alone.After three years battling the impossible contradictions of Brexit, she was resigning as U.K. prime minister, defeated at last.In truth, they had known a day earlier that there was no hope left, and the prime minister famous for her stubborn resilience would have to resign.
  
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• Judge: Anheuser-Busch must pull some ads about MillerCoors

  25-05-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop suggesting in advertising that MillerCoors' light beers contain corn syrup, wading into a fight between two beer giants that are losing market share to small independent brewers.
  
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• Amanda Eller, Missing Maui Yoga Instructor, Ate Berries and Drank From Waterfalls to Survive

  25-05-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Maui Police Department/FacebookAmanda Eller, the 35-year-old yoga instructor and physical therapist who went missing on a hike in a Maui forest on May 8, ate plants and berries and drank from the base of waterfalls to survive, her rescuers say. Hours after rescuers in a helicopter plucked Eller from a ravine, she said that she had to make the choice to stay alive while lost for 16 days in the forest.“There were times of total fear and loss and wanting
  
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• Man charged in murder of missing mother, son in Oregon

  25-05-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been charged in connection with the murder of a young mother and her son in Portland, Oregon.
  
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• Police hunt suspect after explosion in French city of Lyon

  25-05-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  LYON, France (AP) — French police on Saturday hunted a suspect believed to have deposited a paper bag containing a device that exploded Friday, wounding 13 people on a busy pedestrian street in the city of Lyon.
  
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• 'Jeopardy!': James Holzhauer hits $2 million mark, inches closer to Ken Jennings' record

  25-05-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  "Jeopardy!" winner James Holzhauer hit another major milestone Friday with his latest victory.
  
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• This $8.99 iPhone case is perfect for people who hate iPhone cases

  25-05-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Some people are happy to spend hundreds or even more than $1,000 on an iPhone and then roll the dice by not protecting it with a case. We can totally understand not wanting to ruin Apple's design with a big, bulky case, but you can still protect your phone from scratches. Check out the TOZO Ultra-Thin Hard Cover for iPhone, which is only $8.99 on Amazon. It's paper thin so it won't really help with drops, but it'll do a great job of stopping scratches and swirls that would otherwise be inevitabl
  
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• 'I Will Always Have My Freedom and He Will Not.' Read Jayme Closs' Defiant Statement at Kidnapper's Sentencing

  25-05-2019 16:15 via news.yahoo.com
  “He should stay locked up forever.”
  
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• On Memorial Day weekend, return to video games you've put aside recently

  25-05-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Beyond remembering departed veterans, Memorial Day can also be a time to remember video games such as "Days Gone" and "Overwatch" set aside recently.
  
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• Pope Francis likens abortion in any scenario to ‘hiring a hitman’

  25-05-2019 15:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis has compared having an abortion to hiring a hitman and said the procedure can never be condoned, even when the foetus is gravely sick.Speaking at a Vatican-sponsored anti-abortion conference, he urged doctors and priests to support families to carry all pregnancies to full term.“Is it licit to throw away a life to resolve a problem?” he asked his audience. “Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?”The pontiff said that the matter was not a religious
  
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• Bolton says latest North Korea missile test violates U.N. resolution

  25-05-2019 15:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Bolton says latest North Korea missile test violates U.N. resolution, which contrasts with President Donald Trump's assessment of "very standard."
  
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• India's opposition Congress backs Gandhi after poll defeat

  25-05-2019 15:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, offered to resign Saturday after his Congress party was trounced in a second straight national election but the gesture was rejected, party officials said.While Prime Minister Narendra Modi triumphantly accepted pledges of allegiance from members of allied parties after his second landslide win, Congress leaders licked their wounds at a special meeting in New Delhi."Party President Rahul Gandhi offered his resignation but
  
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• Jayme Closs kidnapping: Jake Patterson jailed for life for killing girl’s parents and keeping her prisoner

  25-05-2019 14:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The kidnapper of 13 year-old Jayme Closs has been jailed for life after she told the judge she wanted him “locked up forever” for murdering her parents and keeping her prisoner for 88 days.Jake Patterson, 21, targeted the teenager after spotting her getting on a school bus in a rural area of Wisconsin while he was driving to work at a cheese factory.After two aborted attempts to kidnap her, he dressed up in black clothing, armed himself with his father’s shotgun and drove to he
  
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• India's battered Congress party closes ranks after election setback

  25-05-2019 14:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Gandhi, 48 and the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, had been under intense pressure since results released on May 23 showed Congress won only 52 of the 542 seats up for grabs in the country's general election.While that marked a marginal improvement on the party's showing in the 2014 general election, it did not stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from winning a landslide mandate with 303 seats.A second successive drubbing from Modi prompted calls for Gandhi to qui
  
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• UN court: Russia must free 3 detained Ukraine ships, sailors

  25-05-2019 14:40 via news.yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — A U.N. maritime tribunal ruled Saturday that Russia must immediately release three Ukrainian naval vessels captured by Russia in November and also free the 24 sailors it detained.
  
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• India's Congress Party Seeks to Reorganize After Election Rout

  25-05-2019 14:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The Congress Working Committee, the top decision-making body of the party, rejected Gandhi’s resignation offer “unanimously” and requested him to undertake “a complete overhaul and detailed restructuring at every level of the party,” its spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters in New Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi clinched a second five-year term, with his Bharatiya Janata Party winning 303 of the 543 parliamentary seats to secure a single-party majorit
  
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• The F-35 Stealth Fighter Can Turn Into Beast Mode (Armed with Hypersonic Missiles)

  25-05-2019 14:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. military could hang more weapons under the wings of its F-35 stealth fighters.Lockheed Martin, which assembles the single-engine, radar-evading jets, in early May 2019 revealed a concept for a hypersonic surface-to-air missile that’s compatible with the U.S. Navy’s F-35C.Lockheed for years has been working with the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept hypersonic missile. “HAWC, which has
  
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• British, Irish climbers become Everest victims

  25-05-2019 13:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The deaths of an Irish and a British climber on Mount Everest took the toll from a deadly season on the world's highest peak to 10, expedition organisers said Saturday.British climber Robin Fisher, 44, reached the summit Saturday morning but collapsed when he had got just 150 metres back down the slope."Our guides tried to help but he died soon after," Murari Sharma of Everest Parivar Expedition told AFP.
  
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• 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Saturday: 4K TV for $199, $25 true wireless earbuds, Apple Watches, more

  25-05-2019 13:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The weekend is here but the daily deals are just as good as they have been all week long. Highlights from today's roundup include a 43-inch 4K TV with built-in Fire TV for just $199.99 (and discounts up to $70 on the 50-inch and 55-inch models), AirPods 2 for just $139.99 (order now to lock in the deal and they'll ship when they're back in stock), another pair of awesome true wireless earbuds for only $25.49 if discounted AirPods 2 are still too pricey, all-time low prices on Apple Watch Series
  
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• Missing yoga instructor found alive in Hawaii after 16 days

  25-05-2019 12:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescue crew helicopter spots Amanda Eller in Hawaiian rainforest.
  
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• Two journalists released in Libya: TV channel

  25-05-2019 12:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Libyan journalists held by an armed group for more than three weeks have been released, the television channel they work for said Saturday."We congratulate the press world for the release of our two colleagues, Mohamad al-Gurj and Mohamad al-Chibani, who were kidnapped by Haftar's forces on May 2 while they were covering the assault on Tripoli," said the private channel Libya al-Ahrar, which is based in Turkey.The capital's southern suburbs have been the target of an offensive launched April
  
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• Best Exterior Paints From Consumer Reports' Tests

  25-05-2019 12:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Exterior paints have improved significantly in recent years. As a group, they're now more durable and less prone to cracking and fading. But there are still considerable differences among the 15 ...
  
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• Missing yoga teacher found alive two weeks after disappearing in Hawaii forest

  25-05-2019 11:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A yoga instructor who had been missing in a Hawaiian forest for more than two weeks has been found alive.Amanda Eller, 35, was last seen early on the morning of 8 May as she set off on a hike in the Makawao Forest Reserve trail on Maui island.Rescuers found her safe and in remarkably good condition after a helicopter team spotted her waving from the stream bed of a ravine around 5pm on Friday.Ms Eller’s friends and volunteers who joined the 17-day search said she had lost her shoes in the
  
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• U.S. troop move to Middle East dangerous for international peace: Iran's Zarif

  25-05-2019 11:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that the U.S. decision to deploy more troops to the Middle East in response to the perceived threat from Iran was "extremely dangerous" for peace.The United States said it was sending 1,500 troops to region in what it called an effort to bolster defenses against Tehran, and it accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of direct responsibility for attacks on tankers this month."The Americans have made such allegations to justify their hosti
  
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• Shinzo Abe 'will offer to mediate with Iran' as Donald Trump sends 1,500 troops to Middle East

  25-05-2019 11:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, is set to offer himself as a mediator amid the escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran. Mr Trump landed in Tokyo on Saturday for a four-day visit during which Mr Abe will discuss the proposal with him, and seek his consent. The Japanese leader is considering a visit to Tehran net month to mediate with President Hassan Rouhani, according to media reports in Japan, and a final decision may depend on the results of his talks with Mr Trump.
  
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• Trump arrives in Japan for ceremonial visit as trade tensions loom

  25-05-2019 11:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will treat Trump to an imperial banquet and front row seats at a sumo tournament during the trip, which lasts through Tuesday.The United States is in the middle of an expensive trade war with China in protest against Beijing's treatment of U.S. companies, and tensions with Japan and the European Union over trade are simmering.Trump and Abe are expected to discuss trade during talks on Monday, but officials have played down the possibility of a deal during the v
  
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