U.S. welcomes Mexico immigration offers, but ‘long way to go’: official
U.S. officials were very encouraged by Mexican immigration proposals but there is still a long way to go as negotiators begin their latest round of talks on Friday, a White House official said.
White House says Mexico tariffs ‘still on track’ for Monday
The United States is on track to implement threatened 5 percent tariffs on Mexican goods on Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Friday as migration talks with Mexican officials continued in Washington.
U.N.’s Guterres says China, U.S. must not slip into new Cold War
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday it was important to prevent the United States and China, locked in a trade dispute, from sliding into a new Cold War.
Qatar’s emir to visit White House on July 9: White House statement
U.S. President Donald Trump will host Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the White House next month, the White House said in a statement on Friday.
Ethiopian leader meets Sudanese opposition and military leaders, protesters say medical staff targeted
Ethiopia’s prime minister held separate talks with Sudan’s military rulers and opposition in Khartoum on Friday in a bid to ease the political crisis that has followed the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.
Northwest Syria battles rage after rebel counterattack
Battles intensified in northwest Syria on Friday after insurgents mounted an attack to repel an army offensive that has pounded the country’s last major rebel stronghold for weeks.
Putin to U.S.: ‘Economic egoism’ is recipe for trade and maybe real wars
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Friday that what he described as unbridled economic egoism was a recipe for trade and maybe even real wars.
UK PM candidate Johnson wins bid to stop court case over Brexit campaign bus claim
Judges at London’s High Court have thrown out an attempt to prosecute Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as prime minister, for allegedly lying about Brexit during the 2016 EU referendum campaign.
‘You all go’ – thousands of Algerians demonstrate for political reforms
With banners reading “You all go” and “We need new figures”, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the Algerian capital on Friday for what has become a regular demonstration demanding the removal of the ruling elite.
Four million Venezuelans have fled crisis: U.N.
Four million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled an economic and political crisis in their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday.
