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World news in one minute: Find out what happened around the world on 26 May

Associated Press Friday, 27 May 2016, 08:41 Last update: about 9 years ago

JAPAN-G7 SUMMIT — The leaders of the Group of Seven rich economies end a summit by issued an action plan for countering terrorism and other risks to peace and global growth, including the massive flows of refugees and migrants fleeing conflict and poverty on Europe's shores. 

OBAMA-HIROSHIMA — Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Barack Obama will become the first American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of Hiroshima.

CHINA-ALIBABA-ANTI-COUNTERFEIT GROUP — An anti-counterfeiting group went from calling for Alibaba to be blacklisted to counting it among its "strongest partners" in a few short years. The Chinese corporate giant won — and ultimately lost— a friend in Washington using legal methods long deployed by corporate America: money and influence. 

JAPAN-SKOREA-PLANE FIRE — An engine fire broke out on a Korean Air jet about to take off from a Tokyo, and some people may have been injured. SENT: 180 words, photos.

AUSTRALIA-DONALD TRUMP — Australia's opposition leader described some of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's views as "barking mad," breaking a longstanding Australian convention of avoiding taking sides in U.S. political contests.

 

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