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Libyan warring sides reconvene to discuss ceasefire agreement – UN envoy The UN’s special representative for Libya has said the country’s warring sides are working to turn a provisional ceasefire into a formal agreement as they emerged from four days of talks. Ghassan Salame, head of the United Nations support mission in Libya, said rival military leaders are negotiating the remaining sticking points in a ceasefire deal. Salame said delegates will reconvene Friday to discuss the latest draft, AP reports. That agreement must then be sent back to their respective leaders for approval. The return of internally displaced people, the disarmament of armed groups, ways to monitor a truce and how to deal with heavy weaponry are among the unresolved issues. The latest round of fighting...

Xi says China ‘confident & capable’ of beating coronavirus outbreak in phone call with Trump China has taken aggressive measures to combat a lethal viral outbreak sweeping the country, enacting the most comprehensive and strict efforts to contain the illness, President Xi Jingping told his American counterpart in a phone call. Having declared a “people’s war” on the fast-spreading coronavirus, Xi told President Donald Trump that China was “fully confident and capable” of overcoming the epidemic and was already seeing positive results, adding that Beijing's long term economic prospects would not change. Trump responded by expressing confidence in Beijing’s “strength and resilience” in confronting the virus, Reuters reported. Xi says China ‘confident & capab...

India’s new ambassador to US confirmed by Trump in Oval Office credentials ceremony India’s ambassador-designate to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, was confirmed in the position after presenting his diplomatic credentials to President Donald Trump at a ceremony in Washington. President Trump welcomed the career foreign service official back to the US capital on Thursday, wishing Sandhu success in his duties as ambassador and “fondly recalling” his friendship with this Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian Embassy said in a statement. Observing that the two leaders had moved New Delhi and Washington closer together, Sandhu said he was committed to strengthening a “strategic partnership” based on “mutual trust and friendship, democratic values and people-to...

Trump says US raid in Yemen neutralized al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula leader Qassim al-Raymi The commander of al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Qassim al-Raymi, was killed in a counter-terrorism raid in Yemen, US President Donald Trump has stated. “Under Rimi, AQAP committed unconscionable violence against civilians in Yemen and sought to conduct and inspire numerous attacks against the United States and our forces,” the president said in a statement on Thursday. His death further degrades AQAP and the global al-Qa’ida movement, and it brings us closer to eliminating the threats these groups pose to our national security. White House confirmation about the targeted killing of Qassim al-Rimi, leader of AQAP. pic.twitter.com/fzE...

Coronavirus kills 69 more people in China’s Hubei as total cases soar beyond 30,000 China’s Hubei province, the epicenter of a lethal viral outbreak, has reported just shy of 2,500 additional cases of the illness and 69 new deaths, bringing the worldwide disease toll to over 30,000, with at least 635 fatalities. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Coronavirus kills 69 more people in China’s Hubei as total cases soar beyond 30,000