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HONG KONG (AP) – China has become a battleground for plant-based meat companies looking to tap into the world’s largest market for meat-consumption.
American plant-based meat company Impossible Foods Inc. said Thursday it is awaiting regulatory approval to enter the China market, while rivals such as Beyond Meat have …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council on Thursday urged warring parties in all conflicts to immediately stop attacking schools and teachers and reaffirmed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for global cease-fires to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
A presidential statement approved by all 15 council members expressed “grave concern about …
BEIRUT (AP) – During his visit this month, French President Emmanuel Macron gave Lebanon’s politicians a road map for policy changes and reform, set deadlines for them to take action and told them he’d be back in December to check on progress.
It was a hands-on approach that angered some …
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Much anticipated negotiations between Afghanistan’s warring parties are likely to be “contentious,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Friday, but are the only way forward if Afghans are to find peace after decades of relentless conflict.
Pompeo made his comments en route to the Middle …
LONDON (AP) – The U.K. secured its first major post-Brexit trade deal on Friday after signing an agreement with Japan just as discussions with the European Union appeared to be teetering on the brink of collapse.
The deal, which has so far only been agreed upon in principle and …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The prime ministers of four central European countries were meeting Friday to discuss the political crisis over a disputed presidential election in Belarus, relations with Russia and fighting COVID-19 as they gear up for a European Union summit later this month.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki …
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey called on European Union countries on Friday to abandon a policy of “blindly” taking the side of EU members Greece and Cyprus in a tense standoff over energy search rights in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hami Aksoy also urged Greece to take …
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday scrapped plans to fly to Washington with his family on a private plane and said he would instead travel with the official delegation.
The reversal came after Israeli media reported that Netanyahu, his wife and two sons would be taking …
The furor sparked by the apparent poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexander Navalny could hand President Trump an unexpected foreign policy win, as Germany weighs whether to pull out of the controversial oil pipeline project with Moscow that Washington has long sought to kill.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel this …