INTERNATIONAL NEWS

*Apology demands from Trump:_*
👉🏽The organisation representing African countries has demanded that 🇺🇸US President Donald Trump apologise after he reportedly called nations on the continent "shitholes".
👉🏽The group's mission in Washington DC expressed its "shock, dismay and outrage" and said the Trump administration misunderstood Africans.
👉🏽He has been backed by two Republicans who were at the White House meeting, but Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said Mr Trump called African countries "shitholes" several times and used "racist" language.
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*_🇮🇷Iran:✍🏽extended:_*
👉🏽🇺🇸US President Donald Trump says he is extending sanctions relief for 🇮🇷Iran one last time so 🇪🇺Europe and the 🇺🇸US can fix the nuclear deal's "terrible flaws".
👉🏽The waiver he will sign suspends 🇺🇸US sanctions on 🇮🇷Iran for another 120 days.
👉🏽The White House wants 🇪🇺EU signatories to agree permanent restrictions on 🇮🇷Iran's uranium enrichment.
👉🏽Under the current deal they are set to expire in 2025.
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*_🇸🇦Saudi Arabia:🧕spectate:_*
👉🏽🇸🇦Saudi Arabia has for the first time allowed women to spectate at a football match, part of an easing of strict rules on gender separation by the ultra-conservative Muslim country.
👉🏽Women fans filed into a stadium in the city of Jeddah on Friday, through family gates into family seating.
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*_🇨🇱Chile:⛪vandalism:_*
👉🏽Several churches in 🇨🇱Chile have been attacked or vandalised ahead of a visit by Pope Francis next week.
👉🏽Three churches in the capital Santiago were damaged by fire bombs. Some flyers left behind warned that the next one was for the Pope.
👉🏽But at another church south of the capital,a pamphlet used a phrase that refers to activism in the indigenous Mapuche territory.
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*_🇨🇦Canada:🏤bldg dispute:_*
👉🏽A historical building in the 🇺🇸US has become the subject of an international dispute after it was swept away to a 🇨🇦Canadian island during a blizzard.
👉🏽McCurdy's Smoke house in Lubec, Maine, is the last traditional herring facility in the 🇺🇸US and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
👉🏽But last week's "bomb cyclone" tore one of the five buildings from its pylons and floated it to a 🇨🇦Canadian island.
👉🏽A fight over its remains created tensions between 🇨🇦Canada and the 🇺🇸US.
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*_🇺🇸US:😡ambassador quit:_*
👉🏽The 🇺🇸US ambassador to 🇵🇦Panama has quit because he says he is no longer able to serve under President Donald Trump.
👉🏽John Feeley, a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, said he was "honour-bound" to resign.
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*_🇫🇷France:😌charges dropped:_*
👉🏽🇫🇷French authorities have dropped all terrorism charges against 🇱🇧Lebanese-🇨🇦Canadian professor Hassan Diab in the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing.
👉🏽He was charged with first-degree murder in connection to the bombing that killed four people and injured 40.
👉🏽He was arrested in 🇨🇦Canada in 2008 and extradited to 🇫🇷France in 2014. He spent three years in prison.
👉🏽Mr Diab, 64, has always maintained his innocence and says he was in 🇱🇧Lebanon at the time of the attack.
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