Trump: Canada, Mexico being ‘very difficult’ on NAFTA
Trump: Canada, Mexico being ‘very difficult’ on NAFTA
WASHINGTON
President Donald Trump is accusing Canada and Mexico of being “very difficult” at the negotiating table over the North American Free Trade Agreement, and threatening anew to terminate the deal.
Trump tweeted Sunday morning that NAFTA is the “worst trade deal ever made.”
Trump said at a rally last week in Phoenix that he would “end up probably terminating” NAFTA “at some point.”
The U.S., Mexico and Canada began formal negotiations earlier this month to rework the 23-year-old trade pact that Trump blames for hundreds of thousands of lost U.S. factory jobs.
The second round of the NAFTA renegotiation is scheduled to begin Friday in Mexico City.
Ex-rebels try hand at politics with new party
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
After more than five decades of battle in Colombia’s jungles, the nation’s largest rebel movement initiated the launch of its political party Sunday at a concrete convention center in the capital, vowing to upend the country’s traditional conservatism with the creation of an alternative leftist coalition.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia will transform into a political party under a new, still-to-be-announced name as part of a historic peace deal signed last year. The accords guarantee the ex-combatants 10 seats in Congress and the same funding the state provides to the nation’s 13 other political parties, in addition to a half-million dollars in funding to begin a think tank to develop their political ideology.
2nd man arrested in Buckingham incident
LONDON
London police arrested a second man Sunday in connection with a suspect who drove up to a police van not far from Buckingham Palace then reached for a 4-foot sword, an incident detectives called a terrorism attempt.
Scotland Yard said three officers were slightly injured when they confronted the 26-year-old man who purportedly drove at the police van then stopped in a restricted area outside the gates of Queen Elizabeth II’s London residence Friday night. The officers used tear gas to incapacitate the man and arrested him at the scene.
Police said a second suspect, a 30-year-old man, was detained Sunday in west London on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
8 mountain climbers die in Alps accidents
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Eight mountain climbers have died in different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
The Austrian Red Cross said five mountain climbers died Sunday in the Austrian Alps in Wildgerlostal on Mount Gabler, east of Innsbruck, and a sixth climber was severely injured, the Austrian news agency APA reported.
Three Italian mountain climbers also died this weekend, two of them Sunday after falling into a crevasse in the Italian Alps. The Italian news agency ANSA said one of the crevasse victims was rescued in grave condition, but later died.
Leaders: 1,000+ dead in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone’s capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said Sunday during services honoring the disaster’s victims.
The government had earlier put the death toll for the Aug. 14 mudslide at 450 dead, while rescuers and aid groups warned that many of the more than 600 people missing would likely not survive.
Hundreds of burials have taken place, while rescue and recovery efforts have continued through rain that could bring fresh tragedy due to unsafe housing conditions.
Associated Press