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Colombia: Tens of thousands march in third strike against president

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Roughly 40,000 Colombians took to the streets to decry a wide range of grievances with right-wing President Ivan Duque. The third set of nationwide protests were largely peaceful.

Trump cuts short Nato summit after fellow leaders’ hot-mic video

US president cancels press conference after video captured group of leaders apparently ridiculing him

A furious Donald Trump cut short his attendance at the Nato summit in London after a group of leaders, including Boris Johnson, was caught on video ridiculing the US president at Buckingham Palace for staging lengthy press conferences.

The notoriously thin-skinned Trump cancelled a planned press conference and branded the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, “two-faced” after he was revealed on video leading the laughter at Trump’s expense together with other US allies.

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What’s the joke? Mugged off Trump sulks his way through Nato summit | John Crace

US president ditches 70 years of Nato diplomacy and opts for some good old-fashioned name-calling

It’s war. The summit that was meant to celebrate Nato’s 70th anniversary as one of the greatest peacetime alliances in history ended in open hostility. Had it gone on for another day, nukes might have been fired. Donald Trump stomped off from the golf resort just outside Watford in a huff, cancelling his scheduled press conference. For the first time in living memory, the US president was lost for words – even the usual ones that mixed lies with unintelligibility.

There again, the writing had rather been on the wall long before the summit had even started. Having previously slagged off Nato at every opportunity, Trump had now become outraged that other countries were taking the US for granted and not paying their fair share. Emmanuel Macron had declared the organisation brain dead. President Erdoğan had started buying arms off the Russians.

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U.S. solar group says Trump tariffs killing jobs; White House says ‘fake news’

One-note-Johnnys killing US and enriching Trump as he secretly bets against US. The U.S. solar industry warned on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s tariffs on imported panels will cost the United States 62,000 jobs and $19 billion (£14.81 billion) in investment, an estimate the White House dismissed as “fake news”.

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