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Women's movement demand an end to unrestricted oil drilling and mining on indigenous lands and action on violence against land defenders in first meeting with president Lenin Moreno

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he spoke with Donald Trump on Wednesday morning about the potential impact of federal policies on New York, during his first meeting with the president - elect.

While speaking at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington D.C., United States, Kim disclosed that in his very first meeting with President Buhari, the latter specifically asked him to shift the bank's focus to the north, which he said the bank had done.

Sotomayor, who graduated from Yale in 1979, also described her first meeting with President Obama last spring.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to have his first meeting with President Donald Trump on April 6 - 7.

Not exact matches

Kim Jong Un also became the first North Korean leader to ever cross over to South Korean soil before meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae - In for a number of closed - door meetings.

In a wide - ranging interview with ABC, Comey also recalled the first time he met President Trump, what it was like to tell him about the Steele dossier, and his reaction to getting fired.

It happened months after the president first met with Comey and asked for his loyalty — and requested that the FBI drop its investigation into then - national security adviser Michael Flynn.

France doesn't see the need to enter into a trade round with the U.S., Le Mair said, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron — who met with Trump this week in Washington — «has been very clear with President Trump during the state visit... First of all we are waiting for an exemption for the EU from the American tariffs.»

In March, Kim visited Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking Kim's first meeting with a world leader since he assumed power in 2011.

In contrast, the first visit by a foreign leader at his Mar - a-Lago estate was a friendly weekend of meetings, dinners and golf that suggested the new president was willing to invest time in developing close personal relationships with leaders he feels he can work with.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, midway through their first day of meetings with one another since the former took office in January.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

March 9 (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S. - North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S. - North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in what would be the first face - to - face encounter between the two countries» leaders and potentially mark a major breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

Within two days, the Musallams met with the brand president and began filling out the paperwork for their first location.

President Donald Trump discussed trade, tax reform and immigration with some of the nation's top CEOs on Friday in the first meeting of his business council at the White House.

His comments were the first he has made publicly since The New York Times published a bombshell story on Tuesday that said James Comey, the FBI director whom Trump fired last week, kept memos of his meetings with Trump and had documented one in which the president said he hoped Comey would let go of the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.

Two weeks after his first post election meeting with CEOs, President Barack Obama is bringing another group of chief executives to the executive mansion, and this time it will include one of the highest ranking CEOs on Wall Street: Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs.

First, Pence announced that he would be visiting more than a month ago, leading Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to declare that he would not meet with the vice pPresident Mahmoud Abbas to declare that he would not meet with the vice presidentpresident.

The very first meeting that the President - elect held with a world leader, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is prompting further criticism — even alarm.

When you meet with a lender, you should know your credit score and if there are any errors on your credit report, said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of retail lending at First Internet Bank.

Later, speaking during a meeting with law enforcement officials at the Broward County sheriff's office, the president thanked first responders for what he called an «incredible job,» according to a White House press pool report.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

I'm also encouraged by his first one - on - one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ahead of a meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, expected to be held by early June, North Korea expressed a serious intent to make its first summit with the United States a success, with Washington urging Pyongyang to give up all its nuclear weapons.

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank was among the business leaders that met with President Donald Trump in the White House on the new Commander in Chief's first weekday in the Oval Office.

The visit was organized with the support of the Honourable Daniel Lang, Senator for Yukon and included meetings with Council of Yukon First Nation's Grand Chief, Peter Johnson; Council of Yukon First Nations; Commissioner Doug Phillips; Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis; Representatives from the Yukon Government; Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessemt Board; Yukon Energy Corporation; Interim President of Yukon College and business leaders from the Yukon Chamber of Mines; Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce; Yukon Chamber of Commerce; the Yukon First Nation Chamber of Commerce and Klondike Placer Miners» Association.

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by Ash The 14th of September saw the first London Meet Up for the NEM platform and, with the attendance of NEM foundation Vice President Jeff McDonald having attracted over 50 attendees and an...

Reportedly close to Trump, Farage was the first British politician to meet with the then - president - elect after the November election and has since come out in full support of his more controversial policies, including the «extreme vetting» of refugees.

June 9, 2007 — Meets with U.S. President George W. Bush at the Vatican, the first meeting between the two.

For the first time since Pope Francis has been the leader of the Catholic Church, he is meeting with President Obama.

The move came as Franklin and Billy Graham met with Mitt Romney, who was campaigning to be the first Mormon president, shortly before Election Day.

Chesterton's claim to be a Zionist may seem eccentric to us: but, again, it is hardly anti-Semitic: nor was it unusual (there was at the time a well - established tradition of Christian Zionism, of which A.J. Balfour is the most obvious example): it is why a group of Zionists invited Chesterton to Palestine, where he met and had a day - long discussion with Chaim Weizmann, later the first President of Israel, whoas a result became an admirer of Chesterton: Weizmann would certainly have sniffed out an anti-Semite if Chesterton had actually been one.

I know that the President is busily engaged in these days with the highest affairs of state, chairing a session of the UN Security Council (a first, I believe, for an American President) and then heading off tomorrow to a meeting of the G - 20 in Pittsburgh, Pa..

Religion News Service: Black Southern Baptists try to keep expectations in check for first black SBC president With the Southern Baptist Convention poised to elect its first African - American president at its meeting next week in New Orleans, the mostly black congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astonished.

Your first meeting is with a Vice President in charge of programming — a tasteless thug who was once a network salesman.

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates President and CEO Ted Baseler notes, «With Chateau Ste. Michelle as our first pearl, over the years we have developed or acquired other wineries that meet our high standards of quality and whose wines are distinctive.

The School Nutrition Foundation had a meeting with our first - timers this morning, led by SNF Chair and former SNA President Dora Rivas.

Hours before news broke that Ivanka Trump had sought and received a secret meeting with Planned Parenthood's President Cecile Richards in January, Richards criticized the first daughter for her continued silence on women's health care.

Down in D.C., President Donald Trump is scheduled this afternoon to meet with I - 85 bridge first responders before heading to West Palm Beach, Florida and Mar - a-Lago.

The president first met with the Speaker before meeting the Senate President for about 40 minupresident first met with the Speaker before meeting the Senate President for about 40 minuPresident for about 40 minutes each.

These talks will represent the first time ever that a sitting US president has met with a North Korean leader.

High - April 13th: Adams kicks off public meetings - Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams kicks off the first of his Six Counties public meetings with a tough speech in Derry's Guild Hall.

It appeared to be good news at first because the meeting with President Obama and Congressional leaders was «very constructive,» and could yield an agreement in the next 24 hours.

His visit - the first ever by a British prime minister - saw him meet president Thein Sein to encourage him in the country's fragile moves towards democracy, before his meeting with pro-democracy icon Ms Suu Kyi.

Announcing the facility at a meeting with the First Lady and her delegation of women Ghanaian business leaders and entrepreneurs, the President of CBMIE, Mr Chen Yongxin said the facility was made available to Ghana because the country is a preferred destination to do business in Africa and has tremendous confidence in the government of Ghana to improve on the living conditions of the people through the 1D1F initiative.

In the modern surroundings of Belfast's Lyric Theatre, our joint patrons HRH Queen Elizabeth II and Irish president, Michael D. Higgins, met with Northern Ireland's first and deputy first minister, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness.