The EU and the United States pulled back from the brink of a trade war this week, as President Donald Trump and European leaders agreed to open talks to lower tariffs and other trade barriers. In a joint statement, Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the talks would seek to resolve U.S. tariffs on European steel and aluminum, and that the two regions would hold off on any further tariffs for the time being.
See the full BBC story here.
India’s foreign affairs ministry said it hoped the new government of Pakistan would “work constructively” to end militancy in South Asia, in its first comments following this week’s general election in Pakistan. Cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan, who won the disputed election, has called for better ties with India.
See the full story from Reuters here.
This week Facebook announced a new policy for removing misinformation from the social media platform that is aimed at inciting or exacerbating violence. The policy tackles misleading and inaccurate information spread through the social media site that has been linked to violence in South Sudan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. U.N. investigators have reported that extremist Buddhists in Myanmar used Facebook to spread public messages in their ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
See our story on countering online hate speech here, the full Slate story on Facebook’s latest policy here.
The third round of peace talks between the Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups ended on Monday, but violence in the country continues against religious and ethnic minorities U.N. human rights investigators said. Earlier in the week, Myanmar’s 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference closed with an agreement on 14 new political, economic and environmental principles as part of the Nationwide Cease-Fire Accord.
Read the full story on Xinhua here and the UN report here.
South Sudan’s negotiating parties have postponed the signing of a “preliminary” power-sharing deal in neighboring Sudan, an official said today. South Sudan’s Information Minister Michael Makuei told state radio that the warring parties disagreed over some outstanding issues that must be resolved before inking the deal.
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