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  Putin brings own mug to G20 summit

  Agence-France-Presse . Osaka | Updated at 12:00am on June 30, 2019

  Russian president Vladimir Putin brought and drank from his own mug during an official dinner at the G20 summit in Japan, prompting social media jokes...

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  China, US agree to restart trade talks

  Reuters. Osaka | Updated at 01:27pm on June 29, 2019

  The United States and China agreed on Saturday to restart trade talks and Washington will not levy new tariffs on Chinese exports, China’s foreign ministry...

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  Trump offers Kim weekend meeting in DMZ

  Reuters . Osaka | Updated at 11:41am on June 29, 2019

  US president Donald Trump proposed a weekend meeting with Kim Jong Un at the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea on Saturday, an encounter...

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  Trump plays nice at divisive G20

  Agence France-Presse . Osaka | Updated at 12:00am on June 29, 2019

  US president Donald Trump Friday struck a conciliatory tone with fellow world leaders at one of the most high-stakes G20 meetings in years, despite deep...

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  Duterte threatens to jail critics

  Agence France-Presse . Manila | Updated at 12:00am on June 29, 2019

  Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail critics if they try to impeach him, as he faces accusations of defending Beijing after a boat...

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  China Muslims urge G20 pressure to end ‘genocide’

  Agence France-Presse . Osaka | Updated at 08:41pm on June 28, 2019

  An exiled advocate for China’s ethnic Uighur minority Friday urged world leaders gathered in Japan for the G20 summit to confront Chinese president Xi Jinping...

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  Translator jailed over filming ‘fake documentary’

  Reuters .Phnom Penh | Updated at 12:02pm on June 28, 2019

  A Cambodian court jailed a fixer and translator for two years on Wednesday for his role in making a documentary about sex trafficking in the...

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  Rajapaksa faces new lawsuits in US court

  Reuters . Colombo | Updated at 12:24am on June 28, 2019

  Sri Lankan torture victims have filed 10 new claims for damages in a US court against wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa, lawyers for the plaintiffs...

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  G20 members at odds over climate change

  Reuters . Tokyo | Updated at 12:00am on June 28, 2019

  G20 negotiators are wrangling over the wording of a summit communique on combating climate change, with the United States pushing to downgrade the language against...

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  North Korea slams South for ‘meddling’ in US talks

  Agence-France-Presse . Seoul | Updated at 12:00am on June 28, 2019

  North Korea on Thursday warned the South to stop ‘meddling’ in nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington, denying president Moon Jae-in’s assertion that dialogue was...