The annual G20 meeting of the world’s majoreconomies has closed in China with agreement tofight protectionism and to try to pump fresh life intothe world economy. President Xi Jinping said that thefirst time the summit had put the issue of development front and center. The IMF chiefChristine Lagarde said G20 members would use every tool to boost global growth. The minister responsible for Britain's exit from the European Union David Davis has said thegovernment will negotiate the best possible trading relationship with the EU while controllingimmigration into the country, but he did not offer any details or timetable, promptingopposition MPs to describe his statement as waffle.
The government of Somalia has suspended all flights bringing in the narcotic leave khat fromneighboring Kenya. The trade is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
The government of Ethiopia says 23 people died when a fire broke out in Qilinto Jail wherepolitical prisoners were being held at the weekend, it said two of those were killed as they try toescape, the others during the stamp and suffocation.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has launched a ferocious attack on Saudi Arabiaand its management of the annual Islamic pilgrimage the Haji. Ayatollah said the Islamic worldmust fundamentally reconsider how it was run.
A new pressure group called decision at 50 has been formed in Israel seeking a nationalreferendum on the future status of the Palestinian territories as the West Bank enters its50th’s year of occupation.
France's former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac has gone on trial for stashing millions ofdollars abroad while cracking down on tax cheats at home. The scandal was a hugeembarrassment for president Holland who’d come to power promising to root outcorruption.
And an asteroid has been named in honor of the late British rock star Freddie Mercury on whatwould have been his 70th birthday, the asteroid was discovered in 1991, the year FreddieMercury died.
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