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A trade war between the US and China is now officially underway after President Trump imposed fresh tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese goods.
Beijing is expected to respond, and world markets are watching the situation nervously.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Football stadiums in Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Sochi and Samara are preparing to host their last games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. After a two day break, the competition resumes today, with Uruguay taking on France, and Brazil facing Belgium. Jessica King has more from Moscow.
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The Kremlin says it's "disturbing" to hear the news of another poisoning incident in the UK.
A Russian Presidential Spokesman said repeated use of poisonous substances in Europe is a source of concern. Jessica King has more from Moscow.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she's deeply disturbed at the poisoning of a couple in Wiltshire by the nerve agent Novichok, the same poison that was used in an assasination attempt on a Russian double agent and his daughter nearby four months earlier.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter took weeks to recover from the poisoning which occured in nearby Salisbury. UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed the British couple who are in their mid-40s came into contact with the chemical substance in a separate area to those which were decontaminated following the Skripal attack.
Mr Javid said Russia had questions to answer following the new poisoning. Prime Minister Theresa May said the police would be making every effort to find those responsible.
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British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has called on Russia to come forward and explain what has happened, following the poisoning of a couple in Amesbury, Wiltshire, with the nerve agent Novichok.
He said the working assumption is that the couple came into contact with the substance outside of the areas which were cordoned off in nearby Salisbury, when former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the same nerve agent in March of this year.
While tests have not confirmed the nerve agent came from the same batch, police are investigating the theory that the couple, who are British citizens and in their mid-40s, came into contact with some residue from the initial poison.
UK health authorities have warned people in the area not to pick up unknown objects .
In a statement to the House of Commons Savid Javid said the use of chemical weapons was barbaric and unacceptable and that Moscow had questions to answer.
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The Home Secretary sought to reassure people that the original decontamination process had been successful.
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52 mostly Sudanese asylum seekers from the «Lifeline » , an NGO ship that docked last week in Malta after being refused by Italy, arrived in Paris on Thursday morning.
France says the decision to welcome them shows the country is doing its bit to help take in migrants crossing the Mediterranean - but it has not offered to let any NGO ships carrying migrants dock in French ports.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.
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British police are investigating how a couple - both now critically ill - came into contact with the same deadly Novichok nerve agent used against a former Russian spy and his daughter.