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WASHINGTON/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened yesterday to impose a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods, prompting a swift warning from Beijing of retaliation, as the trade conflict between the world’s two biggest economies quickly escalated.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – Arab coalition aircraft bombarded Houthi fighters dug in at the airport of Yemen’s main port Hodeidah yesterday as a senior alliance official said he hoped U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday defended its hardline immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syrian state media said on Monday that U.S.-led

(Reuters) – Two up-and-coming U.S. rappers, XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo, were killed on Monday in separate shootings near Miami and in Pittsburgh, police and local media reported.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was ordering the establishment of a sixth branch of the military to clear the way for American dominance of space.

WASHINGTON/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The United States and South Korea have agreed to suspend a joint military exercise scheduled for August, South Korean and U.S.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Banning the “barbaric” practice of giving people electric shocks and injections to “cure” them of homosexuality is a key priority, the U.N.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The top U.N. human rights official called on the Trump administration today to halt its “unconscionable” policy of forcibly separating children from migrant parents irregularly entering the country via Mexico.

ELIZABETH, N.J.,  (Reuters) – Democratic lawmakers joined protesters outside immigration detention facilities in New Jersey and Texas yesterday for Father’s Day demonstrations against the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australia’s relationship with top trading partner China faces a testing two weeks as Canberra prepares to pass laws designed to limit Beijing’s influence in domestic affairs amid pressure on some of its fastest growing exports.

(Reuters) – A suspected gunman was shot dead and 22 people were injured yesterday after a dispute among rival gangs erupted into gunfire at an all-night arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, officials said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A leading pro-European Union lawmaker in Britain’s ruling Conservative Party warned today that a row over parliament’s influence on the Brexit process could collapse the government, but said he hoped to find a way to avoid that.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, struggling to avert a crisis within her coalition on migrant policy, is trying to set up a meeting of some EU states to discuss the issue before a leaders summit on June 28-29, a German newspaper reported on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said on Saturday that President Donald Trump will pick Kathy Kraninger, an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official, to head the U.S.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes have struck a meeting of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, adding that Ankara believed high-profile militants had been hit.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge a cash boost to the National Health Service, to be funded partly from tax hikes and partly from money that will no longer be going to the European Union after Brexit, newspapers reported on Saturday.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria called on Germany to fully clarify allegations that German intelligence agents systematically spied on politicians, international organisations and companies on Austrian territory, as reported by two newspapers on Saturday.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua,  (Reuters) – Eight people died on Saturday in a shoot-out and fire that shattered a truce struck hours earlier between President Daniel Ortega and protesters, and civic leaders condemned the violence while vowing to continue talks with the government.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, injuring eight people including two Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup which Russia is hosting, officials and eyewitnesses said.