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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2018
The challenge of America's new extraterritorial sanctions
Trump's aggressive unilateralism poses a diplomatic test for Japan and other democracies.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2018
At delicate moment, U.S. weighs warship passage through Taiwan Strait
The United States is considering sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait, U.S. officials said, in what could be seen as a provocative move that comes at a time when Sino-U.S. ties are under pressure from trade disputes and the North Korean nuclear crisis.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 5, 2018
Trump says he can pardon himself. Nixon was told he couldn't
U.S. President Donald Trump is asserting a power to pardon himself that not even Richard Nixon tried to claim before resigning the presidency in 1974, and that the Justice Department has said isn't constitutional.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 5, 2018
White House tries to tamp down concerns over weakening of North Korea sanctions
The White House said Monday that the U.S. will continue to apply pressure to North Korea to relinquish its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, just days after President Donald Trump said he would no longer use the term "maximum pressure" as the two sides prepare for a historic June 12 meeting between...
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MORE SPORTS
Jun 5, 2018
Trump pulls White House invite to Superbowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles after players rule out visit
The Philadelphia Eagles will not visit the White House on Tuesday after President Donald Trump rescinded the team's invitation, citing several players on the team who planned not to attend.
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WORLD
Jun 5, 2018
Iran to inform IAEA of start of process to boost uranium enrichment capacity
Iran will inform the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna on Tuesday over its start of a process to increase the country's uranium enrichment capacity, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told ISNA news agency.
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BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2018
U.S. trade row spills beyond metals as Canada looks to slap tariff on maple syrup
Canada's retaliation against U.S. President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs includes proposed duties on maple syrup, a nod to a national symbol and a powerful industry in the French-speaking province of Quebec that could hurt producers in Maine.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 5, 2018
Moot dispute: U.S. top court dumps ruling allowing teen in immigration custody to get abortion in 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that let a pregnant illegal immigrant minor held in federal immigration custody obtain an abortion last year at age 17 over the objections of President Donald Trump's administration.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 4, 2018
U.S. trade deficit with Japan not necessarily the bugbear painted by Trump
The protectionist tune on trade that U.S. President Donald Trump often sings is hardly a unique problem for Japanese policymakers who have long faced pressure over Japan's strength in exporting everything from vehicles to video games all over the globe.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2018
Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-nuclear campaign group ICAN offers to pick up tab for Trump-Kim summit
Nobel Prize-winning anti-nuclear campaign group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has offered to pay for the cost of the historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, including the hotel bill for the impoverished state's leader stay in...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2018
North Korea shakes up top military brass ahead of Trump summit
North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said, a move analysts said Monday could support efforts by the North's young leader to jump-start economic development and engage with the world.
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BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2018
U.S. allies push Trump for change of heart as trade war looms
U.S. President Donald Trump is headed for a showdown with America's allies at a Group of Seven summit this week in Quebec, with the European Union and Canada threatening retaliatory measures unless he reverses course on new steel and aluminum levies.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 4, 2018
U.S. struggles to counter China and uphold rules-based order amid 'America First' agenda
For many U.S. allies, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is the last of the Trump administration's so-called grown-ups in the room. So at Asia's main annual security forum he got a warm reception for his firm defense of the rules-based order the U.S. helped to build after World War II.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2018
Big investors urge G7 to step up climate action, shift away from coal
Institutional investors with $26 trillion in assets under management called on Group of Seven leaders on Monday to phase out the use of coal in power generation to help limit climate change, despite strong opposition from Washington.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2018
As media pour in, Trump-Kim summit venue search leads to old Singapore pirate hangout
Of all of Singapore's big hotels, only one shows all its rooms and restaurants are blocked out for the week surrounding June 12, when U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are due to meet in the city.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 4, 2018
Iran calls on world to stand up to Trump 'bullying' and save nuclear deal
The world should stand up to Washington's bullying behavior, Iran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday by state media in a letter to counterparts, as the top diplomat intensifies efforts to save a nuclear deal after a U.S. exit.
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BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2018
Singapore's Shangri-La hotel — where brass, arms merchants and spies rub elbows
For the region's military officers, diplomats, weapons manufacturers and spies, there are few livelier places than the lobby of Singapore's Shangri-La hotel around midyear.

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