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Our top stories. Scott Besant said that America and China have agreed with Our Top Stories

Scott Besant said that America and China have agreed on a positive framework for trade talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on Thursday.

The American Treasury Secretary suggested that China could delay introducing an export ban on rare earth metals and buy more American soybeans to avoid the threat

of an additional tariff of 100% on Chinese exports to America.

Donald Trump said he would increase tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an advertising

campaign by the province of Ontario. The advert which aired aired on Friday, featured audio from Ronald Reagan,

America's president in the 1980s, advocating free trade. Mr. Trump called it a hostile act.

The announcement came two days after Mr. Trump ended trade talks with Canada.

Mimin Netanyahu said that Israel will decide on the makeup of any international security

force in Gaza, reserving the right to exclude countries that it finds unacceptable.

Marco Rubio, the American Secretary of State, said on Saturday that several countries

had volunteered troops for such a force, which would also monitor the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

After an 18-month-long siege, the rapid support forces, a Sudanese rebel militia, reportedly stormed the army headquarters in

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