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Iranian president says talks possible only if Washington shows "respect" - Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 29, 2019. Official President website/Handout via REUTERS

DUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday suggested Iran may be willing to hold talks if the United States showed it respect, but said Tehran would not be pressured into negotiations, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Iran and the United States have been drawn into starker confrontation in the past month, a year after Washington pulled out of a deal between Iran and global powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear program in return for lifting international sanctions.

Washington re-imposed sanctions last year and ratchetted them up in May, ordering all countries to halt imports of Iranian oil. In recent weeks it has also hinted at military confrontation, saying it was sending extra forces to the Middle East to respond to an Iranian threat.

U.S. President Donald Trump says the 2015 nuclear deal was not strong enough and he wants to force Iran to negotiate a new agreement. Some U.S. officials have spoken of the possibility of new talks.

Trump said on Monday: “It (Iran) has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership... We aren’t looking for regime change - I just want to make that clear.”

Fars news agency quoted Rouhani as saying: “We are for logic and talks if (the other side) sits respectfully at the negotiating table and follows international regulations, not if it issues an order to negotiate.”

Iran’s top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday Iran would not negotiate with Washington. Rouhani had previously signaled talks might be possible if sanctions were lifted.

In Saturday’s speech to a group of Iranian athletes, Rouhani noted Trump’s recent remarks and suggested they were a climb-down from statements last year that encouraged regime change in Iran.

“The same enemy which declared its aim last year to destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran today explicitly states that it does not want to do anything to (our) system,” Rouhani said. “If we remain hopeful in the war with America, we will win.”

Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Toby Chopra and Peter Graff

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2019-06-01 19:03:04Z
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Mount Etna erupts in Italy, spewing ash and lava - CBS News

Catania, Sicily — Mount Etna, the largest of Italy's three active volcanoes, is spewing ash and lava once again, but officials say the activity is taking place at its summit and does not pose a risk to people and towns. Etna began a new phase of eruptions on Thursday as two new cracks in the volcano opened up, sending lava down its flank.

Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) noted that prior activity took place before the eruption, with a series of seismic events occurring in the weeks leading up to two fissures opening on Mount Etna's New Southeast Crater.

APTOPIX Italy Etna Volcano — In this photo taken on Thursday, May 30, 2019 and made available Friday, May 31, 2019 Mount Etna volcano spews lava during an eruption. Mount Etna in Sicily has roared back into spectacular volcanic action from Thursday morning, sending up plumes of ash and spewing lava. Salvatore Allegra / AP

Eugenio Privitera, Catania's INGV director, says this eruption is taking place at Etna's summit and does not pose risks to residents. But he says visitors to Etna must stay away from the summit for their own safety.

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Northern lava flow reached a distance of more than 1 mile while southern lava flow reached nearly double that distance, reports INGV.

The volcano previously erupted in December. That eruption was linked to an earthquake which caused injuries and extensive damage to buildings on and near the volcano's slopes.

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2019-06-01 17:33:14Z
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Pentagon Report Slams China for Pursuing ‘Predatory Economics’ - Bloomberg

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2019-06-01 17:03:37Z
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Pentagon Report Slams China for Pursuing ‘Predatory Economics’ - Bloomberg

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2019-06-01 16:35:24Z
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President Trump Backs Boris Johnson in U.K. Leadership Race Before State Visit - TIME

Trump Backs Johnson in U.K. Leadership Race | Time

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2019-06-01 15:05:10Z
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What Are Mexico's Biggest Exports to the United States? - The New York Times

It’s not just avocados.

President Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on Mexican imports could affect prices for cars, televisions, clothing, alcohol and the fuel that Mexico regularly sends to the United States.

The tax, which is meant to take effect on June 10, would start at 5 percent and “gradually increase” unless the flow of undocumented immigrants across the United States border is stemmed, Mr. Trump said Thursday while announcing the tariff on Twitter. It could rise to 25 percent.

Several business groups — including corn growers, pork producers and retailers — pushed back. The United States Chamber of Commerce called it “exactly the wrong move.” The head of the National Association of Manufacturers said it was a “Molotov cocktail of policy.”

Mr. Trump also recently threatened to close the border entirely, jeopardizing nearly $1.7 billion in products and services that traverse it each day. Many items are made in Mexico using materials or parts first produced in the United States. And no country supplies the United States with more agricultural products.

Mexico, the United States’ largest trading partner, delivered $346.5 billion in goods to its northern neighbor last year, according to the Census Bureau. American exports to Mexico totaled $265 billion.

Here are just some of the Mexican imports Mr. Trump’s tariff could hit.

$115.8 billion in autos, accessories and parts

The automotive industry’s manufacturing apparatus sprawls across North America, with supply chains working in concert on both sides of the border. Companies such as General Motors and Fiat Chrysler make passenger cars, trucks, buses, vehicle accessories and production components in Mexico.

The Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, which represents auto parts makers, said on Friday that Mr. Trump’s tariff threat came as the industry was struggling with uncertainty and weakening sales. It “only serves to increase this anxiety and unease, and to further undermine American businesses’ stability and job growth,” the group said.

$36.6 billion in computers, TVs and video tech

Electronics manufacturing is a global enterprise, with components often bouncing from continent to continent before reaching consumers. Mexico is a popular stopping point for assembly. The country is the second-largest exporter of computers behind China, and the United States is by far the largest recipient of the machines, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The value of computer exports to the United States quadrupled in a decade to $24.9 billion; exports of computer accessories alone were worth $2.5 billion last year, according to the Census Bureau.

GoPro said recently that most of its cameras bound for the American market would be produced in Guadalajara by the latter half of the year. Universal Electronics also announced plans to move production of its remote controls for North American customers to Mexico from China. Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant known for assembling iPhones for Apple and PlayStations for Sony, has multiple Mexican facilities.

$5.2 billion in alcohol

Mexico is the largest exporter of beer to the United States, with more than 360 million cases of Mexican beer entering the country by the end of the year, according to the Beer Institute, an American trade group. Most of that alcohol is made using barley and hops grown in the United States, the group said on Friday, adding that “the last thing we need is more hardship imposed on the beer industry and American beer drinkers.”

The tariff would increase the cost to beer importers by $12.5 million in June, potentially reaching $984 million per year at the maximum tariff rate, according to the group.

Shares of Constellation Brands, which makes its Corona and Modelo beers in Mexico, fell nearly 6 percent on Friday. Tequila brands such as Jose Cuervo and Casamigos, which counts the actor George Clooney as a co-founder and was purchased by Diageo, could also suffer.

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2019-06-01 13:01:46Z
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President Trump says he was shocked by Meghan Markle's 'nasty' comment about him - Fox News

President Donald Trump has revealed his shock at Meghan Markle’s “nasty” comments about him — but believes she will make a great American princess.

The US leader can expect a lavish welcome from the Queen, Charles and Harry at Buckingham Palace on Monday.

Speaking to The Sun in the Oval Office, Trump told of his great honor at meeting the 93-year-old monarch again, and how he’s ready to lock horns with the Prince of Wales on climate change.

Relations with Meghan are believed to be much frostier — yet Trump was generous in his praise for the new mom.

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Officially she will miss next week’s functions while on maternity with three-week-old son Archie. But it is thought she and Trump are being kept apart to avoid an embarrassing confrontation.

LA-born Meghan, 37, accused him of being “misogynistic” and “divisive” during his 2016 presidential campaign. The ex-"Suits" actress also pledged to vote for his rival Hillary Clinton.

Told of Meghan’s barbs by The Sun, Trump insisted it was the first time he’d heard them. He said: “I didn’t know that. What can I say? I didn’t know that she was nasty.”

When told Meghan had threatened to leave for Canada if he won in 2016, he countered: “A lot of people are moving here (to the US).”

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He also revealed that he had no idea that he wouldn’t be meeting Meghan on his three-day state visit to the UK. He said: “I didn’t know that. I hope she is OK.”

Rather than hit back at Meghan in his customary fashion, the President seemed willing to mend fences — while saying she can flourish in her new role. He predicted she will make “a very good” American princess.

On her joining the Royal Family, he added: “It is nice, and I am sure she will do excellently. She will be very good. I hope she does (succeed).”

Meghan detailed why she didn’t like Trump in a 2016 interview on US talk show, "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore." She said: “It’s really the moment I go. We film 'Suits' in Toronto and I might just stay in Canada.

“Yes, of course, Trump is divisive, think about female voters alone, right?" she said. “I think it was in 2012 the Republican Party lost the female vote by 12 points."

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“That is a huge number and with as misogynistic as Trump is, and so vocal about it, that is a huge chunk of it.”

She added: “You’re not just voting for a woman if it’s Hillary (Clinton). Yes, you’re voting because she’s a woman, but certainly, because Trump has made it easy to see that you don’t really want that kind of world that he’s painting.”

Trump, who will be joined on his trip by First Lady Melania, 49, is also ready to talk environmental issues with Charles over tea next week.

The Prince is expected to tackle the President on his controversial decision to pull America out of the Paris climate change agreement last year.

Trump told The Sun of the encounter: “I have met Charles before. I like Charles. I think that’s very good. We will be talking. I can say we have among the cleanest climate in the world right now."

“Our air and water are doing very well. We hope other countries can do so well. You know, it is a big atmosphere and frankly if one country is going to be bad and other countries going to be good, the country that is good gets penalized. Which is unfair.”

In a sign at how deeply Trump values the honor of his state visit and being hosted by the Queen, he is bringing all four of his grown-up children and their spouses to share the experience.

And he wants Ivanka, Tiffany, Eric, and Donald Jr to hold a “next generation” meeting with Princes William and Harry. The President said: “I think my children will be meeting them. It would be nice.”

He explained: “I am bringing some of the family. They are going to be there and we will be greatly honored by the trip. It will be great seeing the Queen for the second time."

“We had a very good talk the first one. We had a lot of interesting things to say. It really was a great visit. My mother also loved the Queen.”

This article originally appeared in The Sun.

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2019-06-01 12:58:27Z
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