The United States has a high level of income polarization, the article said, noting that the size of its middle class continues to shrink, while its poverty rates remain high.
The United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese authorities have recommended the termination of UNAMID at the end of its current mandate, namely Dec. 31, 2020, followed by a six-month period of drawdown and liquidation thereafter, Lacroix told the Security Council in a briefing.
The UK was "very excited" to see such developments and welcomed the Shanghai-London stock connect, which could be in operation by the end of the year, McGuinness said, hailing it as an innovative way to bring two-way investment opportunities. The successful operation of it will make "a good model for others to follow".
The UK side, which adheres to multilateralism, looks forward to a greater role from China in the international economic system and is willing to step up bilateral cooperation on international and regional affairs, he added.
The US Federal Trade Commission says 35,000 victims of robocall scams in 2018 lost about million. Among 1.4 billion fraud reports last year, more than one-third involved impostor scams, and government scams cost the US nearly 8 million in total, according to the agency.
The Tuesday summit started with a one-on-one session between the two leaders, accompanied by only translators, and was followed by an expanded session with the attendance of advisers and then a working lunch.
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The US Commerce Department released its final ruling on Nov 13 on the anti-dumping and countervailing investigations against plywood imported from China, setting a 183.36 percent dumping margin and a subsidy range for Chinese companies of between 22.98 percent and 194.90 percent. A dumping margin is the amount by which the normal value is determined to exceed the export price of merchandise.
The US-South Korea joint war games, which were denounced by the DPRK as a rehearsal for northward invasion, would last till the end of this month.
The US has threatened to revoke the city's preferential trading status.
The UN does not have its own military force; it depends on contributions from Member States. As of March 31, 2014, 122 countries contributed military and police personnel to UN peacekeeping, according to UN statistics.