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US will not immediately exit NAFTA, Trump tells Canada, Mexico
President Donald Trump on April 26 told the leaders of NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico that the United States will not immediately move to exit the regional free trade agreement.
The announcement followed U.S. media reports that Trump was considering giving formal notice of pulling the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trump Says He Won't Pull US Out of NAFTA
President Donald Trump has told the leaders of Mexico and Canada that he will not pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, ABC News reports.
The White House made the surprise announcement in a read-out of calls Wednesday between the world leaders.
The White House says the president "agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time."
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The French election
Here's how the French presidential election is going to work. This Sunday's vote will pick the leading two candidates, who will then have another two weeks to campaign for the run-off vote. But the leading four candidates are now bunched together so closely in the polls that any two of them could make it through to the second round. Including a couple of quite worrisome people.
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Matthew Perry won’t fight Justin Trudeau in elementary school rematch…
Matthew Perry won’t risk taking on the entire Canadian Army just to settle a grudge match with Justin Trudeau.
The “Friends” star, who revealed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last month that he had bullied the future Canadian Prime Minister in elementary school, backed out of a rematch.
Canada lawmakers pass anti-Islamophobia motion
Lawmakers in Canada's House of Commons, with strong encouragement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, passed a motion on March 23 paving the way for future measures to combat Islamophobia.
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Exclusive: Almost half of Canadians want illegal border crossers deported – Reuters poll
Nearly half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States, and a similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.
EU Parliament approves contested Canada trade deal
The European Parliament backed a contested EU-Canada free trade deal on Feb. 15, facing down protests by activists and Donald Trump-inspired calls for protectionism.
MEPs meeting in Strasbourg, France, approved the pact with 408 votes in favor, 254 against and 33 abstentions.
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The best product of Northern Cyprus
If you ask what is the luckiest day for a journalist, everyone might have a different answer. For me, it is the enormous chance that I am able to meet a president and a prime minister of a country on the same day.
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Trump's immigration policy and the world
Donald Trump's move to ban immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries has triggered a fight in US courts and provoked angry protests in many US cities. But the arguments over its legal and moral merits won't change many minds. The new president's supporters and critics are already motivated and mobilized. Few are neutral on Trump or this policy.
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Trump and trade
Like Mexico, Canada is in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which Donald Trump has described as "the worst trade deal...ever signed in this country." Unlike Mexico, Canada thinks that Trump is not planning to hurt it. But no good deed goes unpunished, so Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be very careful.
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