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A senior Kurdish commander says his forces will accept a five-day suspension of fighting with Kurdish soldiers in northern Syria. The pause in hostility was announced after talks in Ankara between the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the U.S vice president Mike Pence. Mazloum Kobani of the Kurdish-led Syrian democratic forces said the agreement will be limited to the area between the towns of Ras al-Ayin and Tal Abyad. Turkish forces crossed into the region last week.

The acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has acknowledged that military aide was withheld from Ukraine in an effort to put pressure on the government there. He said the aim was to encourage Kiev to investigate what he called "Corruption by democrats" in the 2016 U.S presidential election.

The British prime minister Boris Johnson says he's convinced that the British parliament will back his new Brexit deal. After the E.U leaders gave their unanimous backing, he urged the MPs to get Britain out of the EU at the end of the month by voting for the deal during a parliamentary session on Saturday.

The head of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva has welcomed the progress in trade talks between the U.S and China, but she warned that more needed to be done to resolve the issues of dividing them. The economists estimate that new tariffs in tax will knock about $700 billion of the world economy next year.

It has been announced next year's G7 summit will be held in a golf club in Florida, owned by president Trump. A White House official denied that Mr. Trump will profit from it.

The Cuban ballet dancer Alicia Alonso has died at the age of 98. In the 1930s, she worked in American musicals before eventually becoming the director of Cuban national ballet. She was renowned for the stylized beauty of her choreography and dance artistry.

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