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China is Australia's biggest export market. Relations have been strained amid Australian accusations of Chinese meddling in domestic affairs and concern about what Australia sees as China's growing regional influence.

Qutaiba Idlbi talks about this ambitions, vision for the ordinary Syrians and how he plans to put his new scholarship to good use.

The ministry also stopped giving a total count of confirmed cases, which have shot past 672,000 – more than anywhere outside the United States – or a total death toll, which passed Italy this week.

On June 1, Donald Trump was forced to reckon with rapidly swelling demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd's death in the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

The United States accounts for about one-quarter of all fatalities but deaths in South America are rapidly rising.

Including suspected cases, the United Kingdom's death toll this week surpassed 50,000, according to a Reuters tally of official data sources.

Trump also asked Navarro to identify Chinese products to hit with tariffs unless Beijing dropped its duties on American lobsters.

The UN report said that around 6,500 Pakistani nationals were among foreign terrorists operating in Afghanistan and that Pakistan-based terror groups JeM and LeT are engaged in trafficking fighters into that country.

Trump, who had counted on a strong economy to bolster his chances of re-election in November, said the recovery could be hampered by higher taxes and implementation of a Green New Deal climate change plan if Democrats win the White House.

Thursday was the third straight day with a new daily high for Brazil's coronavirus deaths.

The retailer had no comment on Musk's call for its dissolution but said the book in question, by author Alex Berenson, had been blocked in error and was now available for sale via its Kindle e-reading service.

The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of June 3 versus its previous report released on Wednesday.

February 2020 was the hottest month since records began in 1900, Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, said.

The ruling could stoke tensions, with people in Hong Kong set to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in Tiananmen Square.

He praised a trade agreement the two countries signed in January, but criticized Beijing for the novel coronavirus pandemic, which began in China.

Russian Deputy Chief of Mission Roman Babushkin said Russia was hopeful of a 'positive development' on the border row in eastern Ladakh.