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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on "free nations" to triumph over the threat of what he says is a "new tyranny" from China in a speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says G7 countries believe that the Chinese government is conducting an "intentional disinformation campaign" over the coronavirus. SOUNDBITE
"All nations, including Iran, should tell the truth about the coronavirus and cooperate with international aid organizations," says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a news conference at the State Department in Washington. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for China to step up prosecutions over fentanyl as he praises recent measures to curb precursor chemicals to the painkiller behind a deadly US addiction epidemic. SOUNDBITE
The head of the International Energy Agency urges the United States and China to put aside their 'tensions' and align on climate change, warning in an interview that geopolitical fractures risked holding back the clean energy transition. Speaking at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Fatih Birol told AFP that these international rifts, partly stoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are “becoming more and more pronounced”. SOUNDBITE