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Giant shipload of soybeans circles off China, victim of trade war with US
A shipment of soybeans worth more than $20m (£15.5m) has been bobbing aimlessly in the Pacific Ocean for a month, a casualty of the escalating trade war between China and the US.
Lingering uncertainty over the cargo’s fate offered a timely reminder of the fallout from a dispute that intensified on Wednesday, as the US president, Donald Trump, unveiled a second round of tariffs on $16bn of Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to respond in kind.
Firefighters battle to contain historic California blaze as political tensions rise
Guardian US
Haze from the largest fire in California history filled the air near the town of Clearlake on Tuesday as Jim Steele, a local supervisor, drove his pickup truck through a landscape of smoldering hillsides and charred trees to check on the homes of citizens in his district.
Rashida Tlaib set to become first Muslim woman in US Congress
Al Jazeera
Rashida Tlaib is set to become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress after comfortably winning her Democratic primary election in the US state of Michigan.
International News
Argentina's abortion campaigners brace for crucial vote
Al Jazeera
Argentina's legislators are due to vote on whether to legalise abortion amid fiercely polarised campaigns for and against the proposed bill.
Tuesday's vote comes a week after the Senate approved the text for the bill that was originally passed by Congress' lower house in June by the narrowest of margins.
EU policies to blame for higher number of deaths at sea: Amnesty
Al Jazeera
A report by Amnesty International says over 700 refugees and migrants died crossing the Mediterranean Sea in June and July this year.
This is an increase over the same period last year, despite a drop in the number of people attempting the perilous journey.