Libya slid into chaos after the 2011 uprising that toppled and killed dictator Moammar Gadhafi, with an array of militias, including extremist groups, carving out fiefdoms across the country and backing rival authorities. The chaos allowed IS and other extremist groups to take root, and transformed Libya into a major conduit for illegal migration to Europe.
"The Chinese military will pay very close attention to related developments, and firmly safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests".
The 275 US troops and nine aircraft that Carter said would stay in the Philippines following the Balikatan war games are the first major deployments under a bilateral defence pact finalised in January.
So far, he said, the Chinese vessels have been operating very professionally. "We've been very pleased with the interactions we've had," he said. "They are operating where they think they should, we're operating where we think we should. They generally have professional discussions over the bridge about where we are."
Under a blazing sun, as the heat index pushed past 100 degress, Carter landed on the Stennis in a Marine V-22 Osprey helicopter. He spent about two hours on the ship, watching a number of fighters shoot into the sky off the flight deck, do circles around the Stennis and then land again, roaring to a stop as their tailhook caught the arresting wire.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens but no official Saudi complicity in the Al-Qaeda attacks has been proven.
The kingdom has never been formally implicated.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly warned it could sell off several hundred billion dollars' worth of American assets if the bipartisan bill passes.
"They have been operating very professionally," Boxall said.
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In Beijing, China reacted defiantly to Thursday's announcement of the joint patrols and US deployments to the Philippines, with its defence ministry warning the military would protect the nation's territory.
"US-Philippine joint patrols in the South China Sea promote regional militarisation and undermine regional peace and stability," said a Chinese defence ministry statement released late Thursday.
Later in the massive gray ship's hangar bay, Carter said his message in making the trip is that the United States "intends to continue to play a role in keeping peace and stability in this region."
He said the only reason America's presence in the region comes up as an issue is because of China's behavior over the last year- and "that's a question of Chinese behavior."
Saudi Arabia has assigned warplanes to a US-led coalition fighting IS in Syria.
Riyadh leads a separate Arab military coalition that for 13 months has supported Yemen's government in its battle against Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels.
The rights group Amnesty International asked Obama to place human rights at the centre of his discussions. It said opposition voices in the Gulf are systematically "stifled" under the cover of national security.
This will be the second time that Carter has flown onto a carrier while it is embarked in the South China Sea. Last November, he was on the USS Theodore Roosevelt as it sailed northwest of Borneo.
That visit came just as week after a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Lassen, challenged China's claim to a 12-mile territorial limit around Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands, about 150 miles to 200 miles from where the Theodore Roosevelt was sailing Thursday.
The chaos permeating the country has also shut most of Libya's oil facilities and terminals. The Islamic State has also targeted the oil fields in its attacks, setting several ablaze. On Tuesday, the al-Waha oil field, one of the country's biggest, evacuated its workers after vehicles flying the Islamic State group's black banner were seen nearby.
US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pose for a photo prior to a meeting at the United Nations in New York ©Don Emmert (AFP)
Gulf leaders are offended by US President Barack Obama's tone and actions, particularly what they see as his reluctance to get involved in Syria and other regional problems ©Mohamed al-Bakour (AFP)
"We also (held) talks about ways in which we can hopefully resolve some of the differences and questions that have arisen about the internal politics and choices for the people of Egypt," Kerry said, alluding to the recent spat over human rights.
Kerry last month said Egypt's revival of the case against rights groups came amid "a wider backdrop of arrests and intimidation of political opposition, journalists, civil society activists and cultural figures." That drew a sharp response from Shukry, who said Egypt rejected "tutelage" over human rights from other countries.
Mohammad Shoaib, first vice president of the Libyan parliament that convenes in the east, told The Associated Press that the assembly there will meet on April 18 to decide whether to endorse Serraj's government. The unity government would be able to convene in Tripoli once it has the parliament's endorsement.The Buenos Aires Grains Exchange dropped its 2015-16 soybean crop estimate to 56 million tonnes from its previous 60-million-tonne forecast. Minutes later the agriculture ministry marked its estimate down to 57.6 million tonnes from 60.9 million tonnes.
Areas hardest hit include northern Buenos Aires, southern Cordoba, central Santa Fe and most of Entre Rios province. Drier regions are reporting strong yields, but not enough to compensate for the flood damage.
In Indonesia, Papuan pro-independence activists have been given lengthy prison terms for peacefully expressing their views, organizing rallies or raising separatist flags.
Though Indonesia's sovereignty over Papua was formalized in 1969 through a stage-managed vote, a small, poorly armed separatist movement has battled for independence ever since.
Earlier, after the breakfast at Rutte's official residence in The Hague, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi signed two memorandums of understanding with the Dutch ministers for education and infrastructure and environment aimed at intensifying cooperation in the fields of maritime industries and higher education and science.
Before flying from Manila to visit the ship, Carter emphasised the United States would support the Philippines and other allies as they faced "coercion and intimidation".
"We will continue to stand up for our safety and freedoms, for those of our friends and allies, and for the values, principles, and rules-based order that has benefited so many for so long," Carter said at a closing ceremony for annual US-Philippine war games.
An FA-18 jet fighter takes off on the USS John C. Stennis, aircraft carrier in the South China Sea on Friday, April 15, 2016. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the aircraft carrier during a trip to the region. (AP Photo/Lolita C. Baldor)
Carter stood alongside Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin as they watched U.S. Navy fighter jets launch into the vivid blue skies, about 70 nautical miles west of the island of Luzon.
An FA-18 jet fighter takes off on the USS John C. Stennis, aircraft carrier in the South China Sea on Friday, April 15, 2016. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the aircraft carrier during a trip to the region. (AP Photo/Lolita C. Baldor)
Then, in a stern warning, he added: "You have no idea what will happen to the region and to Europe if this nation collapses. We do not ignore human rights, but you must know that there are evil powers that work toward giving a negative impression about what is going on in Egypt."
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report from Washington.
Infrastructure and Environment Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen said the maritime deal would help boost Indonesia's economy.
"Indonesia can create many new jobs and there are many opportunities for Dutch business," she said in a statement.
Later Friday, Widodo was visiting King Willem-Alexander at a palace in The Hague.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, greets Indonesian President Joko Widodo for an official breakfast on Friday, April 22, 2016, at Rutte¿s official residence, the Catshuis in The Hague, The Netherlands. Widodo was visiting the Netherlands to drum up trade and investment and hold bilateral meetings with government ministers.
"I think the US has had long, longstanding concerns about the way the Saudis are behaving in the region. And this president has been more vocal than any about raising that", said Frederic Wehrey, of the Middle East Programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
Also clouding this visit is congressional legislation that would potentially allow the Saudi government to be sued in American courts over the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
(AP Photo/Mike Corder)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, top left, and and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shake hands as Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, front left, and Dutch minister of infrastructure and environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen, second right, prepare to sign a memorandum of understanding on maritime cooperation between their two countries on Friday, April 22, 2016.
in The Hague, The Netherlands. Widodo was visiting the Netherlands to drum up trade and investment and hold bilateral meetings with government ministers. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS (AP) - For the second time in five months, Defense Secretary Ash Carter landed aboard a U.S.
aircraft carrier in the bitterly contested South China Sea, sending a deliberate message to China on American power in the region.
With a key Asia Pacific ally at his side, Carter's visit aboard the USS John C. Stennis underscores persistent complaints from the U.S. and its allies in the region about China's military build-up in the South China Sea. Beijing has been creating man-made islands, and equipping many with runways, fighter aircraft and other weapons.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, listens to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during their meeting at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, as he leaves following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)Paolo Gentiloni is the first European official to visit Libya since the head of the unity government arrived in Tripoli by sea late last month after a rival government backed by Islamists prevented him from landing at the airport. That government resigned a week later, but a third rival government is still based in Libya's far east.
Argentine weather helped send front-month Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures to an eight-month high above $10 a bushel this week in heavy trading volume.
The United States has recaptured some global soybean demand at a time of the year when South America usually dominates the export market. Last week China made its biggest purchase of U.S. soybeans in two months. (Additional reporting by Maximilian Heath, Karl Plume and Julie Ingwersen; Editing by James Dalgleish and Meredith Mazzilli)
The South China Sea dispute also featured in talks between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister of close U.S. ally Australia, which is trying to balance security needs with its economy's reliance on the Chinese market.
The development came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a brief visit to Cairo, meeting President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi for talks that appeared partially designed to bury a recent public spat between the two longtime allies over Egypt's human rights record.
The announcement comes after China issued an angry response to what it says are provocative plans announced Thursday that the U.S. would send troops and planes to the Philippines for more frequent rotations and will increase joint sea and air patrols with Philippine forces in the South China Sea.
However, the government still has a long way to go as it is facing mounting security and political challenges linked to difficulties in imposing its control over state institutions and militias.
The U.N. envoy to Libya Martin Kobler told reporters in Berlin on Monday that in his opinion, it's unrealistic to expect a functioning agreement between the European Union and Libya in the short term.
The lawmakers rejected an earlier attempt by Serraj to form a government.
The establishment of a unity government in Tripoli with international legitimacy would pave the way for the lifting of an arms embargo, allowing Western nations to provide weapons and other support to Libyan forces battling extremists.
(AP Photo/Michael Corder)
Activists campaigning for independence in Indonesia¿s restive West Papua province dance outside the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, Friday, April 22, 2016. The peaceful demonstration coincided with a visit to the Netherlands by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. (AP Photo/Michael Corder)
"What has happened since is a cathartic process. I sense that the Libyan people are ready for reconciliation and a government which allows them to work together," he said.
"Partly that is because they are simply tired of years of fighting each other and partly it is the galvanising effect of Daesh (IS)."
The militants have established a stronghold in Sirte - Gaddafi's home town - just across the Mediterranean from Europe, and from where they have mounted a series of suicide bombings and attacks on oil facilities.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte greets Indonesian President Joko Widodo for an official breakfast on Friday, April 22, 2016, at Rutte¿s official residence, the Catshuis in The Hague, The Netherlands. Widodo was visiting the Netherlands to drum up trade and investment and hold bilateral meetings with government ministers.
(AP Photo/Mike Corder)
Separatists from the Maluku region of Indonesia who have long lived in the Netherlands sought to speak with Widodo during his visit Friday, but said this week that the Dutch government had not responded to their request to set up a meeting.
A Dutch-based group of activists from Indonesia's restive West Papua region danced and chanted outside Parliament, although Widodo was not in Parliament at the time. The president was at a beachfront hotel giving a speech to members of the Dutch business community.
One source said that they would want to see the GNA up and running, with properly functioning ministries, before making any commitment of that nature.
"We need a functioning government running ministries to decide what they need to do. We are months and months away from any kind of decision of that kind," the source said.
Mr Hammond's arrival follows similar visits over the past week by the Italian, French and German foreign ministers, while the British ambassador also returned to Tripoli for the first time since most foreign embassies pulled out in 2014 amid safety concerns.
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt slammed the U.N. chief on Wednesday, accusing him of meddling in its affairs after Ban Ki-moon called for a fair trial for two prominent rights activists accused of illegally receiving foreign funds for their non-government organizations.
El-Sissi's government has placed restrictions on civil rights groups at a time when criticism is growing of Egypt's human rights record, particularly police abuse and what activists say their culture of torture and denial of basic rights to detainees.
El-Sissi, who has overseen a harsh crackdown against Islamists since 2013, ordered his interior minister Wednesday to swiftly bring to justice policemen behind "irresponsible" acts. However, similar past orders by el-Sissi have produced little tangible change to a police force activists say is operating with impunity.Merkel and Orban have been on opposite sides of Europe's argument over the migrant crisis. Orban opposes Merkel's attempts to have European Union countries share the refugee burden and went so far as to build a fence to seal Hungary's southern border.
A joint statement released by Kohl's office and the Hungarian Embassy stressed that Europe can only offer sanctuary to a small part of the world's refugees and that "solutions beyond Europe must be found."
It also expressed their commitment to a "politically united Europe," stressing that Orban and Kohl see no conflict with Merkel's efforts to resolve the migrant crisis.
Speaking in Berlin, Merkel sought to dispel any friction. Orban and Kohl made many points, "such as fighting the causes of flight, such as common European action, which are exactly what I consider absolutely essential and important," she said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter was also visiting an aircraft carrier Friday during a trip to the region that does not include a stop in China.
In reporting on Fan's visit, the ministry said China had completed work on five lighthouses, four of which are now operational, in the Spratlys, saying those were built to "provide a public service for the international community." Work on a weather station, ocean monitoring center, oceanographic equipment and other facilities was also "proceeding smoothly," the report said.
Eid and Bahgat appeared Wednesday before a criminal court in Cairo that was to decide whether to freeze their assets. The court ruled to postpone the case until May 23.
Eid is the founder and director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. Bahgat, founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, is now among Egypt's most prominent investigative journalists.
"If Saudi Arabia participated in terrorism, of course they should be able to be sued," Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said.
On the eve of his departure from Washington, Obama stated his opposition to the bill.
He hopes the talks in Riyadh will concentrate on the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group of Sunni extremists, and how to end the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
Mr Hammond said Britain was ready to provide training support to the fledgling administration's armed forces in their fight against Islamic State (IS) militants who have established a firm foothold in the country.
The Foreign Secretary and his entourage were driven from Tripoli airport amid tight security in a convoy of armour-protected SUVs to the heavily protected naval base where prime minister designate Fayez Serraj's government is struggling to establish its authority.
China claims virtually the entire South China Sea as its own territory and is topping the islands by piling sand and building airstrips and other infrastructure. The Philippines, Vietnam and others also claim territory controlled or claimed by China, and increased military and coast guard deployments by all sides could increase the potential for conflict.
Industry watchers say they expect other companies to also adjust their exchange participation as they put together their coverage plans for 2017. But they don't see UnitedHealth's move as the start of a mass exodus.
"I think insurers will have to become more selective in terms of which exchanges and how they participate, but by far and away I think the United move will be the biggest one this year," said Mizuho Securities Managing Director Sheryl Skolnick.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban carries flowers as he arrives for a visit to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Kohl's house in Oggersheim, Germany, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban carries flowers as he arrives for a visit to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Kohl's house in Oggersheim, Germany, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, center, speaks during a news conference with the deputy head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Ahmed Maiteeq, left, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Gentiloni arrived in Tripoli on Tuesday, marking the first visit by a European official to Libya since the head of a U.N.-backed unity government took up residence in the capital.
Insurers also have struggled in many markets to add younger consumers who don't use as much health care and could balance those more expensive patients. Insurers say they also have been hurt by expensive patients who sign up outside regular enrollment windows.
Obama watched actors perform various scenes from the tragedy, including the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from the fictional Danish prince.
The president stood in the open-air theatre watching intently, at times swaying back and forth on his feet to the music.
He clapped loudly following the show and joined actors on the stage afterwards.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban walks to the media after a visit to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Kohl's house in Oggersheim, Germany, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban talks to the media after a visit to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Kohl's house in Oggersheim, Germany, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, arrives for a visit to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Kohl's house in Oggersheim, Germany, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)UnitedHealth covered 795,000 people through the exchanges as of the end of March, or roughly 6 percent of the 12.7 million total people who signed up for 2016 coverage through the ACA's public exchanges. UnitedHealth's announcement comes after nonprofit health insurance cooperatives created by the ACA reported deep 2015 losses and as other major insurers like Aetna have questioned the viability of the exchanges, which are a key element behind the ACA's push to expand insurance coverage.
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Egypt's human rights record also figured prominently during a visit here this week by French President Francois Hollande, whose country is a key foreign backer of el-Sissi's government with multi-billion dollar investments and arms sales.
"Here, we are safeguarding 90 million people who must live," el-Sissi said in reply to a reporter's question during a joint news conference with Hollande.
Some fear the commodities market could follow a similar boom-and-bust pattern.
"Retail investors' entry into these markets has created a bubble, and we could see this collapse in the same way as we saw in the A-share market last year," said Chen Li, China strategist at Credit Suisse.
Monday's pullback was led by rebar - or reinforcing bar used in construction - on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, where turnover on a single contract last Thursday was nearly 50 percent more than the total value traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Widodo started his busy day with a working breakfast with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the signing of two pacts intensifying cooperation between their countries, before heading to a new extension to the port of Rotterdam.
Widodo's visit is the first by a leader of the former Dutch colony since Abdurraham Wahid in 2000. In 2010, then-President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono canceled a visit at the last minute amid moves by a separatist group to have him arrested for alleged human rights violations.
The most traded Shanghai rebar contract closed 0.3 percent lower at 2,643 yuan a tonne on Monday. The benchmark soybean contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange dropped 1.6 percent to 3,702 yuan a tonne.
The benchmark rebar futures contract had seen around 303 billion yuan ($47 billion) in trade value by Thursday's close, based on a record 111.8 million tonnes changing hands, based on the settlement price of 2,708 yuan per tonne.
The rally in some futures continued, with steelmaking raw materials coking coal and coke surging by their 6 percent limit, though analysts warn the fundamentals for the underlying commodities remain weak.
"We want to make a statement to the Dutch government that they should not only discuss economic interests (with Widodo), but also human rights violations," demonstrator Raki Ap said.
"We want a referendum on self-determination like recent votes in Catalonia and Scotland," he added.
In admonishing the U.N. chief, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said that comments made by Ban were "attempts to intimidate the Egyptian judiciary and influence its work."
A spokesman for Ban said in a statement late Tuesday that he was "following closely" the government's legal case against NGOs over the foreign funds issue and that the two activists - Gamal Eid and Hossam Bahgat - should "benefit from all due process and fair trial standards."
It would probably make the situation worse rather than better."
While it was "formally" the case that no decisions have been made on deployment, Mr Blunt said: "These things are choreographed so that as soon as everything was in place and it appeared it was falling into place, the Government of National Accord would say 'Please help' and the next thing you know people would have been identified and would then be on their way.
"We've always had good and constructive discussions but our position is that all claimants, all claimants, should settle disputes peacefully and in accordance with international law," Turnbull told reporters in Beijing on Friday, a day after his meeting with Li.
"What's new is not an American carrier in this region. What's new is the context of tension which exists, which we want to reduce," he said.
Rear Adm. Ronald Boxall, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 3, told reporters that the Stennis and the ships in the carrier's strike group "regularly have a (Chinese) ship or two operating with us or near us."
Orban's visit coincided with the publication in Hungarian of an essay on Europe by Kohl with a new foreword from the ex-chancellor. In that, Kohl states that "Europe cannot become the new home for millions of people in need worldwide" and that unilateral decisions, "as well-founded as they may seem on an individual basis," must become a thing of the past.Saudi-US ties are founded on an exchange of oil for security.
"The Saudis are frustrated. They have the impression, probably rightly so, that the White House does not really understand their concern of the Iranian threat", said Lori Plotkin Boghardt, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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HHS says 39 health insurers left a marketplace for 2016 coverage while 40 entered one.
Spokesman Ben Wakana said the government expected insurers to enter and leave exchanges in their early years, and they have confidence that the new marketplace "will continue to thrive for years ahead."
Health insurers have faced several challenges in building their exchange business. Their initial wave of customers generated higher-than-normal claims in part because some of the uninsured had not used the health care system for years and were waiting for coverage to help pay for needed care.
TRIOPLI, Libya (AP) - Italy's foreign minister arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday in a show of support for a U.N.-backed unity government that Western nations hope can unite the oil-rich country and lead the fight against a powerful Islamic State affiliate.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, front left, and Dutch minister of infrastructure and environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen sign a memorandum of understanding on maritime cooperation between their two countries as Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte look on Friday, April 22, 2016.
in The Hague, The Netherlands. Widodo was visiting the Netherlands to drum up trade and investment and hold bilateral meetings with government ministers. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
"I think there's reason to believe we'll still have quite a few competitors in a lot of the areas where we had them last year," said Gary Claxton, a vice president with the Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care issues.
Nearly 9 in 10 people who had coverage in 2015 had a choice of three or more insurers when they shopped for 2016 plans on a federally run exchange, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which noted that the exchanges saw plenty of insurer turnover for 2016 too.
We are also going to a cemetery, the sea. So many people died there ... this is what is in my heart as I make this trip."
With Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Francis will visit Moria, a sprawling, fenced complex holding more than 3,000 refugees.
"This is an island which has lifted all the weight of Europe upon its shoulders," Tsipras told Francis at Lesbos airport, where a red carpet was rolled out for the pontiff's arrival.
Late Thursday, the Defense Ministry said that Beijing would "resolutely defend" its sovereignty and maritime interests while accusing the Philippines and U.S. of militarizing the region and harboring a "Cold War mentality" by strengthening their alliance.
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Aid organisations say queues for food are long, and people often wait for an hour or more.
Saturday's encounter with refugees would be 'no frills' and the religious leaders would eat the same food as everyone else at the camp, an official at the camp told Reuters.
Greek media reported Saturday's fare would be risotto and mushrooms and olives, and halva, a sweetbread made with sesame and honey. (Writing by Michele Kambas; Editing by Mark Potter)
The committee's Conservative chairman Crispin Blunt told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "The concept was of 6,000 troops going into Tripoli to occupy the airport and provide training for Libyans there.
"We were not wildly impressed with that concept of operations, because although it would be an attempt to train Libyans, it would inevitably be seen as a Western intervention and it's very likely they would spend most of their time defending themselves from attacks from various militia and Islamic State, rather than providing effective training.
Harvesting this season is nearly 30 percent slower than in the 2014-15 crop year, the exchange said in its weekly crop report. Farmers have parked their harvesting combines across much of the Pampas, waiting for soils to dry out enough to support their 30-tonne weight.
China's top two commodities bourses - the Dalian Commodity Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange - raised transaction costs on some futures products from Monday in a bid to restore calm.
Shanghai rebar steel futures are up more than 50 percent so far in 2016 after six straight years of losses, while Dalian iron ore futures have risen more than 60 percent.
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Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, was scheduled to spend about six hours on the small Aegean island. Based on his schedule, he was to meet 250 refugees and have lunch with eight of them.
They are among more than a million people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa who have streamed into Europe since last year in the continent's biggest migration crisis since World War Two.
Jordan has accepted more than 630,000 Syrian refugees registered with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Most of them are living in poverty outside the refugee camps, according to human rights groups.
Actors from a company that embarked on a two-year Hamlet world tour in 2014, playing to more than 100,000 people in 197 countries, put on a special performance for the president.
US President Barack Obama shakes hands with actors after watching part of Shakespeare's Hamlet while touring the Globe Theatre in London, on April 23, 2016 ©Jim Watson (AFP)
He also made clear that such a mission - which could be based in another country in the region - would not require a Commons vote which was only needed for combat operations.
"That does not extend to non-combat missions," he said.
While it is believed that a small number of special forces troops are already in the country, British sources have played down suggestions the UK is about to deploy a 1,000-strong training mission as part of a 6,000 strong international assistance force.
Lebanon, home to four million people, hosts more than one million Syrian refugees. France hosts more than 10,000.
Hollande landed in Beirut on Saturday for meetings with Lebanese officials and announced 100 million euros ($113 million) in assistance to the small Mediterranean country over the next three years.
He was to leave Lebanon on Sunday afternoon for Egypt and to eventually travel on to Jordan.
Hundreds of people have died making the short but precarious crossing from Turkey to the Lesbos shores in inflatable dinghies in the past year, and the island is full of unmarked graves.
"This is a trip that is a bit different than the others ... this is a trip marked by sadness," Francis told reporters on the aeroplane taking him to Lesbos.
"We are going to encounter the greatest humanitarian catastrophe since World War Two. We will see many people who are suffering, who don't know where to go, who had to flee.
In Cairo, Hollande is expected to discuss with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi both the political crisis in Egypt's western neighbour Libya and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
His visit to Jordan on Tuesday will take him to the Prince Hassan air base, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Amman.
French aircraft taking part in the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State jihadist group in Iraq and Syria are stationed at the base.
China has constructed the islands on reefs in the Spratlys archipelago, which are close to the Philippines and Malaysia, as well as airstrips capable of accommodating military aircraft.
China in 2012 also took control of a rich fishing shoal just 220 kilometres (135 miles) from the main Philippine landmass. The shoal is 650 kilometres from China's nearest major landmass.
Saudis reacted with outrage to comments by Obama published in the April edition of US magazine The Atlantic.
He said the Saudis need to "share" the Middle East with their Iranian foes, saying that competition between Riyadh and Tehran has helped to feed proxy wars and chaos in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Obama spoke of "free riders", suggesting that certain states had not assumed their share of responsibility for regional security."It is a message to the region that the US intends to continue to play a role in keeping peace and stability in this region," Carter told reporters aboard the warship, a nuclear-powered carrier that can carry about 75 planes and helicopters.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (L) accompanied by Philipine vice-chief of staff Lieutenant General Glorioso Miranda (R) review an honour guard at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon city, on April 15, 2016 ©Ted Aljibe (AFP)
"During the last seven days soy harvesting was at a standstill in the central agricultural region. This inactivity was due to the abundant rains that fell over the last week," the exchange said. "Only small harvesting advances were seen in northern and southern parts of the farm belt."
Vorachit told his Vietnamese host, General-Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, that it was a great honor to visit Vietnam on his first overseas trip to meet Vietnam's leaders who are "extremely close and trustworthy friends" of Laos.
Riyadh and its neighbours fear the US-supported international deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme will embolden the country, which they accuse of interference throughout the Middle East.
Mustafa Alani, a senior adviser to the Gulf Research Center, said Obama's presidency has been "100 percent negative" for the region, a legacy of "keeping his distance".
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Tuesday that it expects to lose $650 million this year on its exchange business, up from its previous projection for $525 million. The insurer lost $475 million in 2015. CEO Stephen Hemsley told analysts during a Tuesday morning conference call that his company will not carry into 2017 financial exposure from the exchanges, which represent a small slice of its overall business.
He later spoke to several hundred sailors in the hangar bay, including one who asked why the U.S. allows China to participate in the large annual military exercise in the Asia Pacific. Carter said the U.S. wants to work together with China, and added that Beijing should not isolate itself.
Following his talks in Tripoli, Mr Hammond headed off to Luxembourg for a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers to discuss the situation in Libya - including a video conference with Mr Serraj.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee last week accused Mr Hammond of being "less than candid" about the prospect of British troops being sent to Libya following a visit to Tunisia during which they were told as many as 1,000 could join a 6,000-strong international assistance mission.
But the U.S. military presence also reinforces Carter's assertion that America will continue to fly and sail throughout the region, despite China's claims of sovereignty over the vast South China Sea.
China's Foreign Ministry already issued a statement criticizing increased U.S. military support for the Philippines, saying Thursday that, "military exchanges by relevant countries should not target third parties, much less support a few countries in challenging China's sovereignty and security, inciting regional contradictions and sabotaging regional peace and stability."
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang on Friday blamed the United States' deploying extra forces to the Asia-Pacific for any rise in tensions in the region.
Disputed claims in the South China Sea ©Adrian LEUNG, Gal ROMA (AFP)
A rainbow forms over the bow of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis ©Ignacio D. Perez (US Navy/AFP/File)
The case against Eid and Bahgat is part of a wider legal drive by authorities against NGOs over the issue of foreign funding. The legal proceedings began in 2011, became dormant for a few years, but were recently revived.
This week, authorities began separate legal proceedings to freeze the assets of four other rights activists in what appears to be an escalation in the face of the growing criticism abroad.
China claims nearly all of the strategically vital sea, even waters close to its Southeast Asian neighbours, and has in recent years created the islands in an effort to assert what it insists are its sovereign rights.
The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims to parts of the sea, which is home to some of the world's most important shipping lanes and is believed to sit atop vast oil reserves.
BERLIN (AP) - Hungary's prime minister, one of the strongest European critics of Germany's approach to the migrant crisis, made a politically charged visit Tuesday to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl - Angela Merkel's predecessor and one-time mentor.
Beijing and Washington have repeatedly traded accusations over who is responsible for raising tensions in the South China Sea, with the U.S. citing China's island-building project and efforts to block other claimants from parts of the crucial waterway, through which passes more than $5 trillion in global trade passes each year.
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Activists campaigning for independence in Indonesia¿s restive West Papua province dance outside the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, Friday, April 22, 2016. The peaceful demonstration coincided with a visit to the Netherlands by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte greets Indonesian President Joko Widodo for an official breakfast on Friday, April 22, 2016, at Rutte¿s official residence, the Catshuis in The Hague, The Netherlands. Widodo was visiting the Netherlands to drum up trade and investment and hold bilateral meetings with government ministers.
They will gather in an atmosphere of bitterness with regional leaders offended by Obama's tone and actions, particularly what they see as his reluctance to get involved in Syria and other regional problems, as well as his tilt towards Iran.
The Sunni Gulf monarchies are worried after the lifting this year of international sanctions against their regional rival, Shiite Iran.
They recited a poem in Arabic and gave Hollande pictures they had drawn.
"You will be the messengers of peace... France's children are thinking of you a lot," Hollande told them.
He met with the UN refugee agency's Lebanon representative Mireille Girard, who said difficult living conditions were forcing young Syrian children into child labour.
The afternoon forum and book signing were open to the public.
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LESBOS, Greece, April 25 (Reuters) - Queen Rania of Jordan met refugees at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday in a visit to highlight the plight of people she said had "seen unspeakable horror and experienced unthinkable tragedy".
During Gadhafi's rule, Libya produced 1.6 million barrels per day. That plunged as low as 200,000 in 2014 and had slowly been building back up to about 430,000 last year. But since an IS attack on oil storage tanks in January, production has dropped again to about 350,000 barrels a day.
At a joint press conference, the Foreign Secretary announced that the UK was committing £10 million in further assistance for the fledgling government of national accord (GNA).
The package includes £1.8 million for counter-terrorism operations and £1.5 million for combating the people traffickers smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean into Europe.
The precarious nature of Mr Serraj's putative new government was underlined when his team were forced to sail into Tripoli when they arrived in March as the authority controlling the capital refused to allow them into its airspace.
"There's every indication there are British troops in the form of special forces already on the ground. The actions of French special forces have been very widely reported. Ours appear to be slightly more media-allergic, thank goodness, but there's no doubt that there are operations happening there against Islamic State, as there ought to be."
It's still too early to get a definite feel for how many choices consumers will have next fall when they start shopping for 2017 coverage. So far, UnitedHealth has decided to stay in exchanges in Virginia and Nevada but leave Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, and Oklahoma.
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China's Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange will also raise the margin on some futures contracts, including cotton, from Tuesday.
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Viktor Orban traveled to Kohl's home in southwestern Germany for what was described as a private visit between friends. Still, it has been widely interpreted in Germany as a swipe by Kohl at Merkel over her relatively liberal approach to welcoming refugees.
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At the latest count, some 8,000 refugees and migrants on Greece's islands could be returned to Turkey if their asylum applications are rejected.
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Western nations now hope that a unity government led by Fayez Serraj, a little-known technocrat, can bring Libya together and combat a local IS branch that has seized the central city of Sirte.
"We are strongly committed to support the new government and the presidency council," Gentiloni said after meeting with Serraj, adding that "many of my colleagues" will visit Libya "in the near future."
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond during his visit to Tripoli, Libya
The success of the UN-brokered plan depends upon the new government of national accord (GNA) being able to rally the support of the warring militias who have plunged the country into chaos.
However, Mr Hammond said he believed that after five years of conflict following the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by rebels backed by British and French-led air strikes, there was now a weariness with conflict and an eagerness for peace.
Kerry, who toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum, called its haunting displays "gut-wrenching" and said everyone should visit.
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Fan Changlong, one of the vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission which controls China's military, went "recently" to see soldiers based there and inspecting building work, the ministry said in a short statement.
The deal has been criticised by human rights groups and the UNHCR, which say Turkey is not a safe country for refugees and who question whether the deal is legal or moral.
"This is a crisis about human beings, not about borders and barriers. It is about human dignity, not about deals," Rania said.
Part of the U.S.-led coalition that is bombing Syria, Jordan has long been praised for helping refugees and has been a big beneficiary of foreign aid as a result.BEIJING (AP) - China's second-ranking general recently visited the country's man-made islands in the South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said Friday, underscoring China's defiance in the face of calls by the U.S.
and others to cease construction work that they say is raising tensions in the region.
According to the brief statement, Gen. Fan Changlong led a group of military commanders to the Spratly island group to visit troops and observe construction work. The statement didn't say when and where Fan, a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission that controls the People's Liberation Army, visited.
It did not say which islands or reefs he had visited.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in Manila he will visit a U.S. aircraft carrier transiting the South China Sea on Friday, a move likely to upset China, which has been increasingly asserting its territorial claims. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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"This is a World Cup based on labour exploitation," said Amnesty's Mustafa Qadri.
Qatar, which has insisted it was committed to the welfare of the workers, dismissed the Amnesty report as a "misleading picture".
Infantino arrived Wednesday from a two-day visit to Moscow, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin and gave an overall positive assessment of the state of preparations for Russia's 2018 World Cup.
The head of football's world governing body told Putin that he had seen "progress" in Russia's preparations to host the tournament and praised the government for its work, Russian news agencies reported.
Earlier in the day on Friday, Carter spoke at the closing ceremony for a joint U.S.-Philippines combat exercise called Balikatan or shoulder-to-shoulder.
He said the U.S. "will continue to stand up for our safety and freedoms" and those of America's friends and allies. And he said the U.S. is committed to insuring that the Asia Pacific remains a region where every can rise and prosper.
By Philip Pullella and Karolina Tagaris
LESBOS, Greece April 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday, turning the world's attention to the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis which has claimed hundreds of lives in the past year.
"The unity government right now exists only no paper," he said, the German news agency DPA reported. He added that it had very little ability to conduct negotiations at the moment.
Tripoli militias largely support Serraj but here are no plans yet to integrate them into a unified army and police - a task that Libya's successive transitional governments have failed in.
Greek state TV reported Francis was planning to take ten refugees back with him to the Vatican, eight of them Syrians.
Aid organisations have described conditions at Moria, a disused army camp, as appalling.
Journalists have no access to the facility on a hillside just outside Lesbos's main town of Mytiline, but aid workers said walls were whitewashed, a sewer system fixed and several dozen migrants at the overcrowded facility were transferred to another camp, which the pope will not visit.
Meteorologists expect the rains to decrease in intensity for the rest of this month, with fair weather forecast for May.
But intense rains earlier this month have already taken a toll, with fields in the wettest areas swamped in knee-high water. Argentina is the world's top exporter of soymeal livestock feed and its No. 3 supplier of raw beans.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino listens to the Russian president during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 20, 2016 ©Alexander Nemenov (Pool/AFP/File)
In a 51-page report released last month, Amnesty International said that Qatar World Cup stadium workers have suffered abuse and been subjected to forced labour.
The London-based watchdog specifically mentioned the Khalifa stadium where it said labourers, mostly from Bangladesh, India and Nepal, were lied to over their salaries, went unpaid for months and were housed in squalid accommodation.
"You're doing a great job," he told Spottiswoode.
The Globe was rebuilt close to its original site and stages authentic period performances of plays by Shakespeare and others.
The theatre's artistic director Dominic Dromgoole said it was "an honour" to host the president -- whose 2008 campaign slogan, he added, had inspired the Hamlet world tour.
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"It is impossible to really understand the magnitude of the crisis until you come face to face with it," Rania told journalists after speaking with refugee women in the camp.
"These people have gone from suffering to suffering and the one thing I keep hearing time and again is that if they had a choice they would be back in their homes; that this was a last resort."
In Washington, a White House official said no decision has been made.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denied the visit was being arranged and declined further comment. Diplomatic protocol means any announcement should come from the U.S. side.
"It is not true that a visit to Hiroshima by President Obama is being arranged between the United States and Japan," Suga told a regular news conference.
"The schedule of the U.S. president is a matter for the United States to decide. The (Japanese) government will refrain from comment."
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TOKYO, April 22 (Reuters) - The United States will propose that President Barack Obama visits Hiroshima, Japan's Nikkei newspaper said on Friday, in what would be the first visit by an incumbent U.S.
president to the city devastated by a U.S. nuclear attack 71 years ago.
Citing an unidentified senior U.S. government official, the business daily said Washington planned to propose to Tokyo a visit by the president on May 27, at the end of a Group of Seven (G7) summit hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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That compares with around 209 billion yuan of trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange the same day.
Li said transaction volumes in the Shanghai, Dalian and Zhengzhou futures markets have tripled since last year for some commodities, leading to a big disconnect between futures and physical prices.
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Laos, a poor, landlocked country with a population of just 7 million, will have a higher-than-usual profile this year because it is its turn to hold the annual chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as the organization grapples with territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea.
Infantino toured the Khalifa International Stadium, a main World Cup venue which will also host the 2019 World Athletics Championships, said the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy.
The visit comes as controversy has swirled over Qatar's hosting of the World Cup with rights groups harshly criticising labour laws in the energy-rich Gulf country which relies on mainly foreign labourers.
"At the end of an extraordinary journey all around the world, it is great to return home to the Globe and to be able to perform a few scenes and to be welcomed back by President Barack Obama," said Dromgoole.
"The spirit of 'Yes we can' has informed the entire tour and it's an honour to meet the man who coined the phrase, and who exemplifies its spirit."
More than 4,000 refugees and migrants are living on Lesbos, most of them behind the barbed wire fence of a disused military camp.
About 850 people, mostly families, live in Kara Tepe, a municipality-managed site from which 12 refugees were flown out by Pope Francis last week after he visited the island.
Rania had been invited by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid agency which has installed showers, toilets, laundry facilities and lights at the site.
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)
But while Mr Serraj has been able to rally support from the Tripoli militias and the municipal councils of western Libya, a rival administration in the eastern city of Tobruk has so far refused to recognise the GNA.
The Europeans meanwhile are looking to the GNA to allow the EU's Operation Sophia against people traffickers to extend its naval patrols into Libyan territorial waters.
The move follows the effective closure of the migrant trail through Turkey and Greece, prompting fears of a new influx trying to reach Europe via Libya.
A member of a ceremonial guard for Indonesian President Joko Widodo has his headwear straightened ahead of Widodo¿s arrival for an official breakfast with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday, April 22, 2016, at Rutte¿s official residence, the Catshuis in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Widodo was visiting the Netherlands to drum up trade and investment and hold bilateral meetings with government ministers. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
Activists campaigning for independence in Indonesia¿s restive West Papua province dance outside the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, Friday, April 22, 2016. The peaceful demonstration coincided with a visit to the Netherlands by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
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William Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday leads the global celebrations to mark four centuries since his death, with star-studded plays, concerts and parades.
Focal points for the celebrations include Shakespeare's family home in Stratford, where it is assumed he was born in 1564, and the Holy Trinity Church, where he was buried.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said during a visit to the city this month that Obama wanted to travel there, although he did not know if the president's schedule when he visited Japan for the May 26-27 summit would allow him to.
Hiroshima bombing survivors, and other residents, have said they hope for progress in ridding the world of nuclear weapons, rather than an apology, if Obama makes the historic visit.
Hopes for Obama's visit to Hiroshima were raised after a speech in April 2009 in Prague when he called for a world without nuclear weapons. He later said he would be honoured to visit the two cities that suffered nuclear attack.
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, right, speaks during a news conference with Ahmed Maiteeq deputy head of the Libyan Presidential Council, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Gentiloni arrived in Tripoli on Tuesday, marking the first visit by a European official to Libya since the head of a U.N.-backed unity government took up residence in the capital.
French President Francois Hollande (L) meets with a Syrian family at Dalhamiyeh refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on April 17, 2016 ©Stephane De Sakutin (AFP)
"They (Syrian children) don't want violence. They want to learn and go home, join their families, their country," he said.
About 15 Syrian schoolchildren greeted the French president as he entered the large communal tent used as their makeshift school.
And on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said that, "Before the U.S. returned to the Asia Pacific region, relevant countries had sought to control the disputes and handle the conflicts through friendly negotiations, despite the disputes having existed for over four decades."
He told reporters during a press conference that if the U.S. wants a peaceful solution to disputes, "I hope it can practice what it has preached, and that their actions can really help to peacefully solve the disputes."
The Affordable Care Act is a main target of opposition Republicans seeking to dismantle it.
UnitedHealth announced Tuesday better-than-expected financial results for the first quarter. Revenue surged 24.3 percent from a year ago to $45 billion and net income grew 15.4 percent to $3 billion.
Shares of the Dow member gained 1.7 percent to $129.98 in afternoon trade.Carter's trip to the USS John C. Stennis was the latest effort by the United States to show its commitment to maintaining security in the hotly contested waters, where China has rattled nerves by building artificial islands on islets and reefs claimed by some of its Southeast Asian neighbours.
UnitedHealth said it would drop out of most of the state exchanges for individual insurance policies created under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, because the policies are not profitable.
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The French leader travelled to an informal settlement in Lebanon's Bekaa valley that is home to some 600 Syrian refugees, mostly women and children.
"I just visited a camp the likes of which are all over Lebanon," Hollande told reporters after spending nearly an hour in the Al-Dalhamiyah camp.
But the White House has emphasised the strength of an alliance that has endured more than 70 years, seeking to minimise the frictions.
"There have always been complexities in the US-Saudi relationship. There's been a core to that relationship in which we cooperate on shared interests like counterterrorism," said Ben Rhodes, a close adviser to Obama, who is in the final months of his mandate.
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The Philippines is one of several countries that have overlapping land claims with China. The U.S. has said it does not take a position on the claims, but wants them settled legally.
But Carter's visit to the Philippines this week, and Gazmin's presence on the carrier sent a more pointed message of solidarity.
The visit to the Stennis comes a day after Carter announced new military aid to Philippines that spurred protests from China.
The pact allows US forces to rotate soldiers and military hardware through the Philippines, an important part of American efforts to expand its military presence throughout the Asia-Pacific.
US forces will initially have access to five Philippine military bases, including two close to the hotspot areas of the South China Sea.
Philippine Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin on Thursday said he hoped the US efforts would "deter uncalled-for action by the Chinese".
A U.S. warplane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year. Nagasaki was bombed on Aug. 9, 1945, and Japan surrendered six days later.
A presidential visit would be controversial in the United States if it were seen as an apology.
A majority of Americans view the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as justified to end the war and save U.S lives. The vast majority of Japanese think the bombings were unjustified.
"If I compliment Russia it doesn't mean that as of today or tomorrow Russia can sit down and wait until summer of 2018," he told reporters.
The bidding process for the tournament, as well as that of Qatar's 2022 World Cup, has come under scrutiny as part of twin Swiss and US corruption investigations into FIFA's practices.
Infantino is expected to hold a news conference on Friday as he wraps up his visit to Qatar.
FIFA has said in the past that it is aware of "the risks" faced by workers in Qatar, adding the World Cup was a "catalyst for significant change".
"The first message should be that the Libyan people and the Libyan government should be the one leading the activity against Daesh," Gentiloni said, using an Arabic language acronym for the militant group. "We are ready to cooperate," he added.
He said diplomats are discussing the reopening of missions in the capital, which were shuttered in 2014 amid heavy fighting between rival militias. Those battles left Tripoli in the hands of the Islamist-backed authorities and forced the internationally recognized government to relocate to the east.
Su Hao, an international relations expert at Beijing's China Foreign Affairs University, said that Beijing anticipates the U.S. will eventually launch joint patrols with other nations to further challenge China's position in the South China Sea
"The U.S. has been taking all kinds of actions to provoke China, forcing it to take counter-actions that will result in an escalation of the situation," Su told The Associated Press.
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On the Dalian exchange, the most-traded iron ore contract rose by its 6 percent daily limit on Wednesday and Thursday.
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