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As protests in Hong Kong continue, scholars and experts worldwide have expressed their concern over the city’s economic recession and rising violence. During an exclusive interview with People’s Daily Online, Martin Jacques, a senior fellow at Cambridge University, called for restored stability and order in Hong Kong, adding that its future lies only with China. Jacques explained that there is a difference between the original peaceful demonstrations and attacks on…

At their impromptu lunch on Saturday, Mr. Macron called Mr. Trump “a very special guest for us” and pledged cooperation. But for those around the American president, their meeting was just the first of what promised to be a series of fraught interactions as he presses his case with his counterparts. And amid preparations for those top-level encounters, down the road in Bayonne, 13,000 police officers were arrayed, firing tear…

Trade wars are rarely good and never easy to win, but they’re a lot costlier and harder to win when we’re going against a country like China. The People’s Republic of China is an undemocratic state with a centrally planned economy run by the Communist Party. Most importantly, the Chinese regime doesn’t care much about the welfare of its people. Trump should not go head-to-head against such a regime in…

BIARRITZ, France (Reuters) – Britain joined Germany on Saturday in criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to block a trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur group of southern American countries to pressure Brazil on Amazon forest fires. In a surprise statement on Friday, Macron said he had decided to block the EU-Mercosur deal and accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of lying in playing down concerns about climate…

On Saturday, a newly formed tropical depression has strengthened into Tropical Storm Dorian, the fourth tropical storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Tropical Storm Dorian is moving west and could reach hurricane strength Tuesday before it interacts with Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday and Thursday. After Thursday, it’s too soon to tell where Dorian…

Gregory S. Schneider August 24 at 3:05 PM HAMPTON, Va. — They faced the sunrise to the rhythm of drums and waves on a windswept beach, dozens wearing white, near the spot where the first enslaved Africans arrived at the English colony of Virginia in 1619. On Saturday morning, they would release those spirits. The cleansing and naming ritual, presided over by visiting chiefs from Cameroon, kicked off a weekend…

Trade wars are rarely good and never easy to win, but they’re a lot costlier and harder to win when we’re going against a country like China. The People’s Republic of China is an undemocratic state with a centrally planned economy run by the Communist Party. Most importantly, the Chinese regime doesn’t care much about the welfare of its people. Trump should not go head-to-head against such a regime in…

Trade wars are rarely good and never easy to win, but they’re a lot costlier and harder to win when we’re going against a country like China. The People’s Republic of China is an undemocratic state with a centrally planned economy run by the Communist Party. Most importantly, the Chinese regime doesn’t care much about the welfare of its people. Trump should not go head-to-head against such a regime in…

Trade wars are rarely good and never easy to win, but they’re a lot costlier and harder to win when we’re going against a country like China. The People’s Republic of China is an undemocratic state with a centrally planned economy run by the Communist Party. Most importantly, the Chinese regime doesn’t care much about the welfare of its people. Trump should not go head-to-head against such a regime in…

U.S President Donald Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz. Leaders of some of the world’s major economies have arrived in France for the G7 summit. Ludovic Marin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ludovic Marin/AP U.S President Donald Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz. Leaders of some of the world’s major economies have arrived in France for the G7 summit. Ludovic Marin/AP President Trump…

But key questions have yet to be answered: how many fires will be fought, how many troops will be assigned and how much will be spent. Images of forest fires — including many that were several years old — set off an outcry this week as world leaders, celebrities and others raised alarm about the fate of the world’s largest rain forest. Forest fires in the Amazon are common this…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A NASA astronaut has been accused of committing the first crime in outer space after her estranged wife alleged she stole her identity and accessed her bank account without permission during a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Former Air Force intelligence officer Summer Worden, from…

Under international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of Brazil’s Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the huge blazes while thousands took to the streets to protest his environmental policies. Brazilian forces will deploy starting Saturday to border areas, indigenous territories and other affected regions in the Amazon to assist in putting out fires for a month, according to a presidential decree authorizing…

“Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing our companies HOME and making your products in the USA,” Mr. Trump tweeted, adding, “We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them.” Mr. Trump’s threat to invoke the 1977 act to force companies to leave China would be his most recent unorthodox use of standby authorities that…

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Evan Vucci/AP Photo foreign policy By MATTHEW CHOI 08/23/2019 06:51 PM EDT President Donald Trump offered Friday to help Brazil contain forest fires raging in the Amazon rain forest, putting him at odds with a key ally going into the weekend’s G7 meeting. “Just spoke with President @JairBolsonaro of Brazil. Our future Trade prospects are very exciting and our relationship is strong, perhaps stronger than ever before. I told him…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com In a case that brought national attention to Florida’s  “Stand Your Ground” gun law, a jury on Friday night convicted a licensed gun owner on manslaughter charges after deliberating for six hours following a weeklong trial. The defendant, Michael Drejka, was accused of killing Markeis McGlockton in…

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a rally in Philadelphia on May 18. Pennsylvania went for Donald Trump in 2016 after 28 years of backing a Democrat for president. (Matt Rourke/AP) Laura Hughes August 24 at 6:00 AM PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. Alyn E. Waller, a senior pastor at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, believes African American voters in his city hold the key to the White House….

The yearly rainfall ranges from 80 to 400 inches (200 to 1,000cm). Most of this rain, which can get very heavy, runs through the Amazon’s rainy season roughly from mid-December to mid-May. But the Amazon is a massive forest, meaning its climate varies depending on what area. It rains far less in central Amazonia than in the Peruvian Amazon or at the eastern Amazon of Brazil. READ MORE Amazon rainforest…