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‘Turkey expects justice in US, not prisoner swaps’

Bloomberg Turkey is expecting justice from the US, not a political arrangement to exchange prisoners held by each country, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said after a trip to Washington to meet with Vice President Mike Pence. “It’s not very ethical to do political bargaining on legal issues,” Yildirim said in an interview with Bloo-mberg at the Turkish consulate in New ...

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Japan’s Abe meets Taiwanese lawmaker hours after Xi warning

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting with a Taiwanese politician on Sunday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping warned him not to break with past consensus on what Beijing regards as a renegade province. Abe held a 30-minute meeting with James Soong, head of the People First Party on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ...

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Aussie lawmaker resigns over dual-citizenship fiasco

Bloomberg One of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s lawmakers resigned from parliament, saying he may be a dual citizen, leaving the government at least temporarily in minority status. John Alexander, speaking to reporters, said it’s possible he also holds British citizenship through his father. “Therefore it is my obligation that I must resign,” the 66-year-old said in Sydney. The citizenship ...

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