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Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam: All the latest updates
Vietnam's Hanoi hosts the second summit between North Korea and the United States on February 27-28. Denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and ending international sanctions against Pyongyang are expected to be the main items on the agenda in
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Mexico’s ‘Roma’ wins Oscar for best foreign language film
At times, the movie casts a wrenching and desperate pall over the human condition. But during its most ingenious moments, the Oscar-winning drama by Alfonso Cuaron tells a brilliant tale of sacrifice and selflessness
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Vietnam summit: What does Kim want?
When North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and the US President Donald Trump meet for the second time later this month in Vietnam, they will have to talk business. Their first summit last
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EU-Arab League summit in Egypt is ‘insignificant, ceremonial’
Arab and European leaders are convening on Sunday in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the first ever EU-Arab League summit as the region faces turmoil and political challenges. Overshadowed by
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Oscars: Green Book wins top award, Alfonso Cuaron best director
Green Book, the tale of a celebrated black pianist who befriends his white driver as they tour the segregated American South in the 1960s, has overcome controversy to win Oscars gold. The critically acclaimed
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EU and Arab League seek common ground at first summit
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman joined leaders from Europe and the Middle East in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday night for the first EU-Arab League Summit. “Relations between
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Israel arrests Muslim cleric at Al-Aqsa
JEDDAH: Moscow and Ankara are at odds over who would control a proposed "safe zone" along Turkey’s border with Syria, with Russia's foreign minister saying on Sunday that Russian forces could do the policing. Sergei
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Gaza protesters call on Palestinian leader to quit
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman joined leaders from Europe and the Middle East in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday night for the first EU-Arab League Summit. “Relations between
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Trump-Kim summit: Vietnam aiming to cash in from ‘valuable’ event
Hanoi, Vietnam - As Vietnam's capital gears up to host the second US-North Korea summit, it's not just the beefed-up security, sold-out hotels and fluttering flags across Hanoi that are marking the occasion. Bars are
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Trump to delay tariff increase on Chinese goods
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has said he would delay a planned tariff increase on $200bn worth of Chinese imported goods after "substantial progress" made in trade talks with Beijing over the


