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Taiwan Trade Minister John Chen-Chung Deng speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at Willard Hotel's Café du Parc, in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Taiwan trade chief warns against 'unnecessary fear' of China
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press
Wed,05/03/23-11:11PM , 250 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan's chief trade representative says his country's semiconductor makers will expand production in the U.S. as much as they can afford to do so, but he insists Taiwan remains an ideal place for that production and other U.S.
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This image provided by Dr. Mohamed Eisa shows Dr. Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman, a Sudan-born American citizen, left, posing for a photo with Dr. Mohamed Eisa. Sulieman was the second American killed in Sudan after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum and turned the capital city into a war zone. (Mohamed Eisa via AP)

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A powerhouse US doctor slain in Sudan, 'killed for nothing'
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press
Sun,04/30/23-12:09PM , 451 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting engulfed Sudan’s capital.
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Lawmakers in a new House select committee on China from left, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., committee Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., gather for a tabletop war game exercise in the House Ways and Means Committee room on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Washington. The exercise examined American diplomatic, economic and military options if the U.S. and China were ever to reach the brink of war over Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own. (AP Photo/Ellen Knickmeyer)

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Lawmakers war-game conflict with China, hoping to deter one
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press
Sat,04/22/23-7:42AM , 259 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s April 22, 2027, and 72 hours into a first-strike Chinese attack on Taiwan and the
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In this photo provided by Ibrahim Almadi, Saad Ibrahim Almadi sits in a restaurant in an unidentified place, in the United States, on August 2021. Saudi Arabia has freed the Saudi-American citizen it had imprisoned more than a year over his old tweets critical of the kingdom’s crown prince. (Ibrahim Almadi via AP)

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Saudi Arabia frees American imprisoned over critical tweets
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press
Mon,03/20/23-9:15PM , 248 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 72-year-old American imprisoned more than a year in Saudi Arabia over tweets critical of the Saudi crown prince was back with family members in Riyadh on Tuesday, but it remained unclear whether the kingdom would drop a travel ban to allow him to return home to Florida.
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