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China summons Canada envoy over detained Huawei exec: state media
China on Saturday summoned the Canadian ambassador over the “unconscionable and vile” detention of telecom giant Huawei’s chief financial officer in Vancouver, state media reported, in Beijing’s latest angry response to the hot-button case. Meng Wanzhou has been held since December 1 in Canada on an American extradition request and faces US fraud charges related to sanctions-breaking business dealings with Iran. The 46-year-old executive was arrested in Vancouver while changing planes, ratcheting up tensions between the US and China just as the countries’ leaders agreed to a truce in their trade war.
Trump Appoints State Department's Heather Nauert As U.S. Ambassador To United Nations
Photos: State funeral for former President George H.W. Bush held in Washington, D.C.
Full coverage: George H.W. Bush state funeral
George H.W. Bush's body headed to lie in state at US Capitol
Late president Bush lies in state in Washington
Bush, a decorated World War II fighter pilot and former CIA chief who served as vice president to Ronald Reagan before winning the White House, died Friday at age 94, at his home in Houston. When the rule of law needed defending in the Persian Gulf, he kept us on course,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said in the first of several eulogies. McConnell lauded Bush — who occupied the White House from 1989 to 1993 — as a patriot who steered the country as straight as he had steered his airplane.
The Latest Photos As President George H.W. Bush Lies In State
‘Fake news’ could destroy Western society, State Department official warns
Temperatures to plunge in D.C. as George H.W. Bush lies in state at Capitol Rotunda
Senators Clash with State Department over Saudi Arabia
