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JOHANNESBURG | Xinhua |  The United States must send officials to Johannesburg if Washington wants to receive the Group of 20 (G20) presidency through a formal handover at this weekend’s summit, South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola has said. “We are ready to hand over to the …

NEW YORK | Xinhua |  China remains our “most irreplaceable customer,” said Jim Sutter, chief executive officer of the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC). “We have been in China since 1982. Over the past 43 years, we’ve invested in relationship-building, training and cooperation with the Chinese industry to create mutual …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | As the U.S. federal government entered a shutdown — the first time in nearly seven years — the confrontation between President Donald Trump’s administration and the Democratic Party has further escalated. The Trump administration has cut funding and programs in Democratic-led states and sought to dismantle …

COMMENT | Angela Huyue Zhang | After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, US President Donald Trump has now signed an executive order transferring the app to US ownership. The announcement follows years of diplomatic sparring, bureaucratic maneuvering, repeated efforts by federal …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday announced the termination of 223 projects, most of them clean energy and renewable initiatives funded under the Biden administration. In a press release, the department said that it had identified 321 financial awards supporting 223 projects that it decided …

What does Museveni’s government stand to gain from the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda? NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | When U.S. immigration officials recently detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, his fate took a startling turn. Rather than send him back to his homeland …

Kigali, Rwanda | BBC | Seven migrants deported from the US have arrived in Rwanda, the first of 250 expected to be taken in by the African state under a deal reached with President Donald Trump’s administration. “The first group of seven vetted migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August,” Rwandan …

COMMENT | Lenny Mendonca, Laura Tyson |  At the explicit request of President Donald Trump, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is pursuing an unorthodox mid-decade redistricting of the state’s congressional map to ensure that Republicans win five additional seats in the next election. This brazenly partisan move is yet another example of …

  Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT | US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken on the phone with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to discuss opportunities to deepen U.S.-Uganda cooperation on migration, reciprocal trade, and commercial ties. According to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott, the Secretary on Thursday thanked Uganda …

WASHINGTON, the United States | TASS | The United States is imposing sanctions on four more representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the US Department of State and Treasury said. According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sanctions were imposed on Judges Kimberly Prost (Canada) and Nicolas Guillou …