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World markets dive as Trump sparks trade, North Korea worries

Global stocks sank Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with talks that are aimed at averting a trade war with China. Equities were also dented by poor eurozone economic data, and as Trump cast doubt on a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump (is) continuing to drive uncertainty over global trade,” said analyst Joshua Mahony at trading firm IG. “European markets are following their Asian counterparts lower, as a pessimistic tone from Trump is compounded by downbeat economic data,” he added. Markets had surged Monday after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said they had agreed to pull back from imposing threatened tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, and continue talks on a variety of trade issues. However, Trump has declared that he was “not satisfied” with the status of the talks, fuelling worries that the world’s top two economies could still slug out an economically pain
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How to uninstall XAMPP ?.

Are you in need of uninstalling XAMPP 1.7.7 to fix some problems? Are you looking for an effective solution to completely uninstall it and thoroughly delete all of its files out of your PC? No worry! This page provides detailed instructions on how to completely uninstall XAMPP 1.7.7. Possible problems when you uninstall XAMPP 1.7.7 * XAMPP 1.7.7 is not listed in Programs and Features. * You do not have sufficient access to uninstall XAMPP 1.7.7. * A file required for this uninstallation to complete could not be run. * An error has occurred. Not all of the files were successfully uninstalled. * Another process that is using the file stops XAMPP 1.7.7 being uninstalled. * Files and folders of XAMPP 1.7.7 can be found in the hard disk after the uninstallation. XAMPP 1.7.7 cannot be uninstalled due to many other problems. An incomplete uninstallation of XAMPP 1.7.7 may also cause many problems. So, it's really important to completely uninstall XAMPP 1.7.7 and remove all of its f
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Polish president ‘sorry’ for Jewish persecution in 1968.

Polish President Andrzej Duda (R) and Adam Michnik, former oppositionist and chief editor of Gazeta Wyborcza attend a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of student protests, at the Warsaw University in Warsaw on March 8, 2018. Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday, March 8, 2018, apologised to Jews chased out of the country 50 years ago during the communist regime’s anti-Semitic campaign. / AFP PHOTO / REPORTER / Andrzej IWANCZUK / Poland OUT Poland’s president on Thursday apologised to Jews chased out of the country 50 years ago during the communist regime’s anti-Semitic campaign, as Warsaw faces criticism over its new Holocaust law. “The free and independent Poland of today, my generation, is not responsible and does not need to apologise. But… to those who were driven out then… I’d like to say please forgive the Republic, Poles, the Poland of that time for having carried out such a shameful act,” Andrzej Duda said. The 50th anniversary of the anti-Semitic campaig
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World Bank warns Trump to be ‘careful’ on tariffs.

Kristalina Georgieva speaks during her solemn undertaking before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg on December 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS The chief executive of the World Bank urged US President Donald Trump on Thursday to be “careful” before imposing controversial steel and aluminium tariffs, warning that they could affect global trade. Kristalina Georgieva said Trump should “assess the implications” before going ahead with a plan that has sparked fears of a trade war with China and Europe and spooked world markets. The Bulgarian former EU commissioner said that her message to Trump, who is expected to sign off on the tariffs later Wednesday, was to make a “careful assessment before taking any further step”. “If you take a step for a reason then you need to project on a couple of steps for the implications,” Georgieva told a small group of media outlets including AFP in Brussels. “Assess what are the implications and then advise abo
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Africa, US move on from ‘shithole’ remarks as Tillerson starts tour.

Washington's top diplomat began his first Africa tour Thursday by meeting with the African Union chief, who said the continent had moved on from a reported insult by President Donald Trump. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and AU commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat discussed security and counter-terrorism, trade and development, corruption and conflict in an hour-long meeting at the continental body's headquarters in the Ethiopian capital. But looming over the meeting was Trump's alleged description of African nations as "shithole countries" in January, which forced the president to pen a letter reaffirming his commitment to the continent. Faki, however, insisted the slur was now in the past. "I received a letter written by President Trump to myself and I shared that with other African leaders. I believe this incident is of the past," he said. Tillerson's five-nation Africa tour -- to include Djibouti, Kenya, Chad and Nigeria
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Mosque, shops attacked in anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan police said petrol bombs were hurled at a mosque on Thursday as hundreds of troops patrolled a troubled central district where anti-Muslim violence has left three people dead. Muslim-owned businesses were set on fire and vandalised in several parts of Sri Lanka, police said, days after an island-wide state of emergency was imposed to curb riots in Kandy. Police announced 85 people had been arrested for rioting in the hill district, including the leader of a radical Sinhalese Buddhist group known for agitating against Muslims. “We have arrested 10 key suspects, including Amith Weerasinghe, who orchestrated and led these attacks,” police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera told reporters in Colombo, adding that another 75 were detained. Armoured vehicles and heavily-armed troops guarded Kandy, the epicentre of the violence where internet services remain suspended and an evening curfew is in place. The government ordered the internet blackout after police discovered
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France to ‘name and shame’ companies that pay women less.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday marked International Women’s Day with a pledge to “name and shame” companies that pay women less than men for the same work. On a visit to a Paris-based property management firm hailed as a model of gender equality, he announced plans to “drastically” increase inspections of companies to ensure they complied with a law requiring equal pay for equal work. “We will put in place a ‘name and shame’ system to make public (the names of) companies that least respect the law,” said Macron, who has made tackling sexism a key priority. “No one wants to be bottom of the class on this issue,” he said. The World Economic Forum last year ranked France 11th out of 144 countries for gender equality but a dismal 129th for wage equality for similar work. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced plans to get tough on companies that pay women less. Under a package of workplace reforms to be finalised next month, wage scree
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