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U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet again Friday to wrap up a two-day state visit that has featured pomp and business deals — but also a stark warning from Xi that mishandling the Taiwan issue could ‌push U.S.-China relations to “a very dangerous place.” Source link

CIA director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials, including Raul Castro’s grandson, during a high-level visit to the island Thursday, Cuban and U.S. officials said. Source link

When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau’s Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement. Source link

Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a partial collapse early on Thursday morning, the country’s grid operator UNE said, snuffing out power across eastern Cuba and testing the patience of Cubans already exhausted ‌from seemingly interminable blackouts amid a U.S. fuel blockade. Source link

International organization Doctors Without Borders says a Tuesday drone strike that killed two paramedics and injured another in southern Lebanon is part of an “alarming pattern” of Israeli attacks targeting first responders. Source link

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former right-hand man was taken into custody on Thursday on money-laundering charges, part of a fight against graft that is fueling wartime political tensions. Source link

The boycott by Canadians of travel to the U.S., driven largely by an aversion to President Donald Trump, his industry-wrecking tariffs and 51st state taunts, has actually been more effective than previously thought, according to new data. Source link

Andrew Chang explains how China’s government gave U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio a new, slightly tweaked, name — one that doesn’t ban him from entering China. (Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images) Source link

Who introduced Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump? For years, Italian entrepreneur and close Trump associate Paolo Zampolli has taken credit, but the release of the Epstein files surfaced an FBI document that said it was financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. What’s the truth? CBC’s visual investigations team and Katie Nicholson dig […]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that media reports claiming the CIA was involved in a recent targeted car bombing outside Mexico City were “fictions the size of the universe.” Source link