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SUNS # 8657 Monday 9 April 2018
 
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Trade : China responds robustly to threats of additional $100 billion tariff s (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
In a robust response to US President Donal d Trump's latest threat that he would consider slapping tariffs on an additio nal $100 billion on imports of Chinese goods, Beijing said it would impose "comprehensive countermeasures" on US goods if President Trump goes ahead with his latest threat.

United Nations : SDGs cannot be achieved if bombs keep falling from the sky (PRIV)
(IPS, Baku)
I am honoured to pay a vi sit to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to address this Ministerial Meeting.

United Nations : "International solidarity" at Yemen donor conference (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
The international community has pledged over two billion dollars towards urgently needed humanitarian assistance to Yemen during a UN event.

Mexico : Trump begins to reverberate in Presidential elections (PRIV)
(IPS, Mexico City)
Statements by US President Donald Trump against Mexico have begun to permeate the presidential election campa ign in this Latin American country, forcing the candidates to pronounce themsel ves on the matter.

Italy : I am a migrant - integrating through Syrian "hummus" (PRIV)
(IPS, Rome)
Khaled left Syria in 2015, when his countr y was already in its fourth year of war. He is 27 years old and can clearly r emember what his life was like then in Damascus: a happy life, with a happy family, in a happy country.

Opinion : Fashion paradigm that does not pollute the planet (PRIV)
(IPS, Vancouver)
Fashion is meant to be trend y. It's fast-paced: in one season, out the next.


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