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Takaichi said Trump himself called her and gave her a detailed account of his recent meeting with Xi, First Post reported.

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The conversation came just days after Takaichi and Trump met in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, making it their second leader-level contact within a week.

The timing is significant for Tokyo, which has been closely watching the direction of US-China relations. Xi’s three-day Washington visit ended with agreements on tariffs, trade cooperation and artificial intelligence, while Trump described the talks as a major step forward.

According to Takaichi’s account, the latest call focused on a range of issues involving China, including economic and national security concerns. She said the two leaders confirmed their commitment to working together.

The conversation comes at a time when Japan is seeking to ensure that its interests remain part of the US strategy towards Beijing.

Analysts have noted that Japan has been watching the Trump-Xi relationship closely, particularly over the possibility of agreements that could affect regional security or economic issues.

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Vice President Han Zheng did not mention the US by name in his remarks. The US has launched a pressure campaign on ​Cuba that has largely blocked oil from reaching the island. The US war on Iran started with ​US-Israeli strikes in February, Reuters reported.

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The comments stood in sharp contrast to the bonhomie on display earlier ⁠this week at the White House, where President Donald Trump feted Chinese leader Xi Jinping with military flyovers and ​at a lavish state dinner.

“Major countries should have special responsibilities for safeguarding international peace and security, and they should take ​the lead in complying with the rules, upholding rule of law, and doing what’s right,” Han said.

“China holds that the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected.”

Trump warned Xi against providing support to Iran during the ​Washington talks and received assurances that China would not do so, the US ambassador to China said on Friday.

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The body was found on Saturday morning and identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening, BBC reported.

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The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out the possibility that there was a serial killer on the loose, noting similarities across the 10 deaths in Ekurhuleni, as well as another in Soweto.

The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country, which has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world.

The latest body was discovered at a cemetery in the Tembisa neighbourhood north-east of central Johannesburg.

Police issued a statement a short while later saying crime scene investigators were at the scene gathering evidence. Officials have yet to publicly identify the victim.

The woman’s friend told national broadcaster SABC that she recognised her friend’s clothes from the previous night when shown a picture of the body.

“I don’t know what I’m going to say to her children,” she said while wiping away tears. “It’s painful.”

Gauteng Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni said that, at this early stage in the investigation, it was too soon to say whether the woman’s death was linked to the others.
He told reporters that the other bodies shared a “similar victimology” that indicated a shared “modus operandi” of killing, which would allow police to determine whether this latest death was linked to the others.

“For now, it’s not something which we can overrule to say there’s a serial killer, but we cannot conclusively indicate as such,” Lt Gen Mthombeni said.

South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates – with 5,427 people murdered between April and June this year alone.

But it is the nature of the recent killings around Johannesburg that has left many women there reeling from the growing death toll.

The 10 other bodies have been found in similar circumstances to one another since July. Most of them were found in Kempton Park, one neighbourhood over from Tembisa.

Many of the bodies were those of young women and almost all had suffered extreme violence prior to their deaths.

The deaths have placed pressure on the national government less than a year after ministers declared gender-based violence a national disaster.

While South African police statistics do not differentiate victims by gender, the South African Human Rights Commission said last week that 569 women were killed and 1,052 others survived attempted murder between April and June this year.
Three men appeared in court earlier this week accused of being involved in one of the nine murders, with police working to track down others who may have been involved.

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Images of Maricarmen Abascal being carried from her Madrid flat on a stretcher on Wednesday after police broke down her door have thrust Spain’s housing crisis back into the spotlight ahead of a general election due in 2027, France24 reported.

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Protesters chanted slogans and held banners calling for measures to curb rising housing costs and make evictions more difficult as they marched through central Madrid.

“You could be the next Maricarmen,” read one banner.

Demonstrator Enrique Ortega de Miguel, a 38-year-old graphic designer who lives with his mother, said the housing market in Spain was “impossible”.

“It is a struggle to find a place you can afford, then you live in fear of being forced out,” he said.

Government authorities put the turnout at around 25,000, while organisers of the protest said 300,000 people participated.

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President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Friday the extradition of Geovany Andres Rojas, who is accused of leading an organisation formed by previous members of the FARC rebel group, Al Jazeera reported.

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“You don’t build peace by protecting narco-terrorists like this bandit,” de la Espriella said after he personally oversaw Rojas’s transfer to the US. “I ask US authorities … that he cannot negotiate deals that will leave his crimes unpunished.”

De la Espriella’s left-wing predecessor, Gustavo Petro, shielded Rojas from extradition in order to use him as a mediator in talks between the government and armed and criminal groups, which Petro sought to rein in through negotiations rather than military confrontation.

The far-right president has tossed out that approach, promising to crack down on groups that split off from the former FARC rebel group following a peace deal with the government in 2016. Many of those groups have jostled for control over lucrative drug routes and illicit industries.

Rojas, also known as “the Spider”, was flown to California and placed in the custody of federal agents. He allegedly served as the commander and spokesperson of Comandos de la Frontera, a group associated with cocaine trafficking in the Colombian province of Putumayo that borders Ecuador and Peru.

He will face drug trafficking and terrorism charges in the US, which has sought to expand military operations across Latin America under the pretext of combating crime and drug trafficking during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

Colombia’s new president has aligned himself closely with those efforts, scrapping peace talks and launching military operations against armed groups since taking office in August.

The New York Times reported that de la Espriella, a former defence lawyer, was previously investigated by US authorities over his ties to powerful drug traffickers, but never charged, and defended politicians linked to right-wing paramilitaries.

Rights groups have warned that a return to militarised confrontation could lead to rights abuses by government forces and an escalation in violence, but many Colombians have expressed support for a harder hand against criminal groups whose operations have often led to violence and mass displacement of civilians.

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