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The Trump administration is imposing a host of new sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of a former British spy, after months of discussion about how to respond to the March attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

BEIJING (AP) — China's export growth accelerated in July, showing little impact from a U.S. tariff hike in a spiraling dispute over technology. Sales to the United States rose 13.3 percent over a year earlier.

The Turkish Lira reached a record low against the dollar on Aug. 6, after the Trump administration said it was reviewing Turkey's duty-free access to the United States market, a move that could affect $1.66 billion of Turkish imports.

The Trump administration on Friday launched a review of Turkey's duty-free access to U.S. markets under the Generalized System of Preferences after Ankara imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in response to American steel and aluminum tariffs.

The White House is announcing that the Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor who is being tried on espionage and terror-related charges.

The Trump administration is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran's expansion in the region, according to U.S. and Arab officials.

Speaking in Washington after meetings with senior US officials, Dacic said that Serbia should "seize the moment."

The Pristina-based Albanian language newspaper reported this citing unnamed diplomatic sources, and added that "there is a possibility that Trump agreed about this with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their recent summit in Helsinki."

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday not to threaten the United States or face the consequences, hours after Rouhani told Trump that hostile policies toward Tehran could lead to "the mother of all wars."

"I am grateful to the Americans for the fact that, I think, for the first time since the establishment of the Trump administration - they want to hear us," Vucic said in Ankara on Monday after attending the inauguration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and added: