Trump to meet Theresa May amid London protests
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Donald Trump is to meet Prime Minister Theresa May for "substantial" talks on the second day of the US president's three-day state visit to the UK.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will be among the senior ministers present at the talks, where issues such as climate change will be discussed.
It comes as large-scale protests are planned in several UK cities, including a demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
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Sudan set for fresh elections following violence
Sudan's Transitional Military Council says it has canceled all previous agreements with the main opposition coalition, and is calling for snap elections, following deadly violence in the capital Khartoum.
Security forces stormed a protest camp in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, killing more than 35 people, in the worst violence since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April.
Talks over whether civilians or the military will have the upper hand in anew government are deadlocked , despite weeks of negotiations.
Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says new elections will be held within nine months.
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Canadian report describes "genocide" of indigenous women
A special commission tasked with investigating murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada found the deaths of more than a thousand women and girls in recent decades to be a national "genocide".
The 1200-page report blames long-standing discrimination against Indigenous people for the deaths, and criticises the country's failure to protect the women and girls.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the disappearances and murders of Indigenous women had too often been treated as a low priority or ignored, and he promised a national action plan to end the problem.
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Assange will not be extradited to Sweden
A Swedish court has rejected a request from prosecutors for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be "detained in absentia" over a 2010 rape allegation.
Assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in Britain for breaching bail, after spending seven years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden.
He continues to deny the rape accusation.
The United States has already requested Assange's extradition on conspiracy charges.
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China ignores ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Today's 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, when Beijing sent troops and tanks to quell pro-democracy activists, is not spoken of openly in China and will not be formally marked by the government, which has ramped up censorship.
Among the students' demands in 1989 were a free press and freedom of speech, disclosure of leaders' assets and freedom to demonstrate. However, exiled former protest leaders say those goals are further away in China than ever before because the government has in the past decade suppressed a civil society nurtured by years of economic development.
Tiananmen also remains a point of contention between China and many Western countries, which have implored Chinese leaders to account for giving the People's Liberation Army the order to open fire on their own people.
China has never released a final death toll from the events on and around 4 June. Estimates from human rights groups and witnesses range from several hundred to thousands.
While no public events to mark the anniversary will be tolerated in mainland China, a large memorial event is expected in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong late on Tuesday. There will also be events in self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which China still claims as its own.
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