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Jordan's King Abdullah II, center, arrives in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Egyptian, Jordanian and Iraqi leaders meet in Baghdad

Jun. 27, 2021 11:25 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2020, file photo, Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives to attend a cabinet meeting of senior government ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO in London. Raab is heading to Southeast Asia Monday, June 21, 2021, on start a three-nation trip as London looks to promote closer ties and trade with the region following its exit from the European Union. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP, File)
British FM heads to Southeast Asia looking for closer ties

By David Rising Jun. 21, 2021 06:20 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's global COVID-19 vaccination efforts ahead of the G-7 summit, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in St. Ives, England. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Biden, Johnson strike warm tone in first meeting

By Jonathan Lemire, Aamer Madhani And Jill Lawless Jun. 10, 2021 04:52 AM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 file photo, frozen vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are taken out to thaw, at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium. Envoys from World Trade Organization member nations are taking up a proposal to ease patents and other intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines to help developing countries fight the pandemic, an idea backed by the Biden administration but opposed in other wealthy countries with strong pharmaceutical industries. On the table for a two-day meeting of a WTO panel opening Tuesday June 8, 2021, is a revised proposal presented by India and South Africa for a temporary IP waiver on coronavirus vaccines. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
WTO to intensify talks on easing access to COVID-19 vaccines

By Jamey Keaten Jun. 09, 2021 08:54 AM EDT

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the Perth US Asia Centre in Perth, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The World Trade Organization should penalize "bad behavior when it occurs," Morrison said ahead of a Group of Seven leaders' meeting in Britain where he hopes to garner international support in a trade dispute with China. (Stefan Gosatti/AAP Image via AP)
Australia says WTO should punish Chinese economic coercion

By Rod Mcguirk Jun. 09, 2021 06:11 AM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2019, file photo, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, front left, speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump, front right, after a group photo at a NATO leaders meeting at The Grove hotel and resort in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. For most of America’s allies, Biden is a relief. Trump often sowed chaos, accusing the NATO military alliance of leeching off the United States, insulting the European Union and storming out of a G-7 summit in Canada in 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Biden to get warm welcome from relieved but wary allies

By Jill Lawless Jun. 08, 2021 06:48 AM EDT

Non-EU member Norway reaches post-Brexit trade deal with UK

By Jan M. Olsen Jun. 04, 2021 09:14 AM EDT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Non-European Union member Norway said Friday it has reached a post-Brexit trade deal with its greatest trading partner, Britain,...

Customers wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus look at the American bicycle brand at a retail shop in Beijing on March 2, 2021. U.S. and Chinese trade envoys talked by phone Thursday, May 27, 2021 for the first time since President Joe Biden took office, but the two sides gave no sign when negotiations on ending their tariff war might restart. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
US, Chinese trade war envoys talk; no sign of negotiations

May. 26, 2021 10:51 PM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Porto, Portugal, Saturday, May 8, 2021. On Saturday, EU leaders held an online summit with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, covering trade, climate change and help with India's COVID-19 surge. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira)
EU, India try again to clinch trade deal, sidelining China

By Barry Hatton May. 08, 2021 11:15 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European Council President Charles Michel, left, wait for the start of the opening ceremony at an EU summit at the Alfandega do Porto Congress Center in Porto, Portugal, Friday, May 7, 2021. European Union leaders meet for a summit in Portugal on Friday, sending a signal they see the threat from COVID-19 on their continent as waning amid a quickening vaccine rollout. Their talks hope to repair some of the damage the coronavirus has caused in the bloc, in such areas as welfare and employment. (Tiago Petinga, Pool via AP)
EU leaders attend summit in person for 1st time this year

By Barry Hatton May. 07, 2021 02:21 AM EDT

Tanzania's new president on two-day state visit to Kenya

By Tom Odula May. 04, 2021 12:46 PM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is on a two-day state visit to Kenya aimed at improving trade relations between the two East...

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a Welsh flag face mask during a visit to Barry Island, Wales, as part of the Welsh Conservative Party's Senedd election campaign, Monday, May 3, 2021. (Matthew Horwood/PA via AP)
UK announces plan for 'quantum leap' in relations with India

By Danica Kirka And Sylvia Hui May. 04, 2021 05:33 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement during the second day of a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
EU lawmakers approve post-Brexit trade treaty

By Samuel Petrequin Apr. 28, 2021 03:29 AM EDT

Head of the Task Force for Relations with the UK Michel Barnier speaks during a debate on the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement during the second day of a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
European Parliament set to greenlight post-Brexit trade deal

By Samuel Petrequin Apr. 27, 2021 05:05 AM EDT

In this photo released by Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, right, talks with her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif during their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)
Iran, Indonesia foreign ministers discuss trade, economy

By Edna Tarigan Apr. 19, 2021 07:53 AM EDT

Nationalist youths gesture towards a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain's exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Northern Ireland leaders seek calm after violence escalates

By Peter Morrison And Jill Lawless Apr. 08, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 1996, file photo President Clinton talks in the Rose Garden of the White House prior to signing legislation overhauling America's welfare system. (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite, File)
Path from Clinton to Biden takes U-turn on debt, trade, more

By Josh Boak Mar. 28, 2021 07:46 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2019, file photo, packs of frozen beef imported from the U.S. are sold at a supermarket in Tokyo. Imported American beef in Japan has proved so popular it's topped the annual limits called “safeguards,” and the U.S. Meat Export Federation on Thursday, March 18, 2021 urged Tokyo to raise the threshold. Japan's import limit for American beef of 242,000 metric tons was reached in early March, and so tariffs will be raised from 25.8% to 38.5% for a month, starting Thursday through April 16, 2021. The banner at top reads: "Emergency import from America." (Kyodo News via AP, File)
Japan raises tariffs on US beef after hitting import limit

By Yuri Kageyama Mar. 17, 2021 10:49 PM EDT

New Director-General of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, center, speaks between WTO Deputy Directors-General Alan Wolff, left, and Karl Brauner upon her arrival at the WTO headquarters to takes office in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 1, 2021. Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes the reins of the WTO amid hope she will infuse the beleaguered body with fresh momentum to address towering challenges and a pandemic-fuelled global economic crisis. (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Keystone via AP)
In 1st day on job, new WTO chief pushes for fisheries deal

By Jamey Keaten Mar. 01, 2021 02:56 AM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala during a panel discussion "The Post-2015 Goals: Inspiring a New Generation to Act", the fifth annual Associated Press debate, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 to head the World Trade Organization as it seeks to to resolve disagreements over how it decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs. Okonjo-Iweala was appointed as director-general of the leading international trade body by representatives of the 164 member countries, according to a statement from the body. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)
Okonjo-Iweala is 1st woman, African to lead world trade body

By David Mchugh Feb. 15, 2021 09:42 AM EST