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Dollar slips as trade progress boosts risk assets; kiwi soars
The dollar edged lower versus its peers on Wednesday, as rising hopes of a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade talks led investors to put money into the euro and Asian currencies.
![China and the US have already slapped tariffs on more than $360bn in two-way trade [Andy Wong-AP]](https://www.today.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/13083617-324x235.jpg "China’s Xi Jinping to meet US officials as tariff deadline looms")
China’s Xi Jinping to meet US officials as tariff deadline looms
Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to meet top American officials in Beijing this week, a report said on Wednesday, as the world's two biggest economies rush to patch up their trade differences amid threats of an expanded trade war.
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China rejects Turkey criticism on Uighurs, denies poet’s death
China has hit back at claims by Turkey over its treatment of Uighur people, and denied reports a prominent poet and musician from the ethnic Muslim minority was tortured to death in prison.
Mystery buyer props up euro as bond yields fall
The euro held at a two-week low on Friday as traders nursed losses in a week of bad data that indicated an economic slowdown in Europe was spreading as trade tensions between United States and China remain high.
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President Buhari congratulates Xi Jinping on Chinese lunar new year
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping on the celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday trade talks between US and Chinese negotiators are "going well", but no deal will be finalised until he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping "in the near future".
China jails rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for ‘subversion’
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Australia calls China to treat detained Yang Hengjun ‘fairly’
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Spain to help China develop football
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North Korea’s top envoy en route to Washington
A top North Korean official left for Washington on Thursday, reports said, for talks with his US counterpart ahead of an expected summit between President Donald Trump and Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un.
US launches criminal probe of Huawei
The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, said the Department of Justice is looking into allegations of theft of trade secrets from Huawei’s US business partners, including a T-Mobile robotic device used to test smartphones.
China, Egypt agree to promote pragmatic cooperation in all fields
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special representative Yang Jiechi and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi agreed on Wednesday to promote pragmatic cooperation between the two countries in all fields, CGTN has reported.
Taiwan says won’t bow to China pressure
Taiwan will not bow to Chinese pressure, a presidential spokesperson has said, as the self-ruled island held live-fire military drills aimed at showing its ability to defend itself from Beijing's threats.
China-North Korea trade battered by UN sanctions
China’s trade with North Korea plummeted last year, data showed Monday, as harsh UN sanctions batter the nuclear-armed country’s economy.
US official says China trade talks ‘went just fine’
The United States and China concluded on Wednesday three days of extended talks to resolve their trade war, with a member of the American delegation saying negotiations “went just fine”.
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