World News Hits on Thursday

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Trump mocks Kirsten Gillibrand as she exits 2020 race

President Trump had some fun at the expense of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., after she announced on Tuesday that she was withdrawing from the 2020 presidential race, suggesting that she was the candidate he'd feared most. (Fox News)

The Queen Can’t Stop Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan, but the British People Might

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Standing meetings are very much in vogue these days, but they weren’t invented by trendy tech companies. (The Daily Beast)

Alabama Republicans are urging Rep. Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress

Alabama's Republican Party is calling for its congressional delegation to have Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman lawmaker, prominent progressive and one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress, removed from the House of Representatives.(US Today)

Palestinian Harvard freshman, 17, allegedly blocked from entering US over friends' social media posts

Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student living in Lebanon had big plans to study medicine this fall at Harvard University but claims he was blocked from entering America because of his friends' social media posts. (Fox News)

South Korea's fertility rate falls to record low

People in South Korea are having fewer babies and that's a problem.

The country's total fertility rate last year fell to its lowest since records began, the government said on Wednesday. (CNN)

Trump is smashing the rules of global trade while Congress stays silent

President Donald Trump's bizarre instability was on full display at the G7 Summit in France this weekend. When asked whether he had second thoughts about the recent escalation of the trade war with China, he first answered affirmatively, leading to headlines around the world that Trump had softened his position on China. Hours later, his aide clarified that Trump regretted that he hadn't raised tariffs on Chinese goods even higher ( CNN)

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Chinese troop movement into Hong Kong prompts unease

Chinese military vehicles have been seen moving across the border into Hong Kong, in what the military said were regular troop movements, as fears rose that the city could see a Beijing-led crackdown after months of political unrest. (The Guardian)

Worst of wildfires still to come’ despite Brazil claiming crisis is under control

The fires raging in the Brazilian Amazon are likely to intensify over the coming weeks, a leading environmental expert has warned, despite government claims the situation had been controlled. (The Guardian)

Putin Calls for Rise in Incomes, Stronger Economic Growth

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday described Russia's economic growth as insufficient, telling the head of the Central Bank and top government officials to come up with ways to boost real-income growth. (Moscow Times)

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Iran's foreign minister urges Japan not to join U.S. coalition, source says

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif showed opposition to Japan’s possible participation in a U.S. coalition to patrol the Strait of Hormuz when he met Wednesday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Yokohama, a diplomatic source said. (Japan Times)