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The US State Department thanks Beijing for allowing detained US soldier Travis King to leave North Korea through Chinese territory. "We thank Sweden and the People's Republic of China for their assistance in facilitating that transfer," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visit Ukrainian troops receiving military training at a camp in Dorset, southern England. IMAGES
US State Department spokesman Ned Price warns Armenian armed forces not to "intervene in domestic politics" after Armenia's elected prime minister accused the military of attempting a coup. SOUNDBITE
"We stand with the people of Burma who are now peacefully taking to the streets to exercise their universal rights," says US State Department spokesman Ned Price during a news briefing in Washington, using the former name for Myanmar. SOUNDBITE
Jack Ma's Chinese online marketplace Alibaba surged as much as 7% in Wednesday trades. According to Business Insider, the bump came on the news that Americans wouldn't be banned from investing in the e-commerce behemoth. Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent were among a number of Chinese-based companies being eyed by the US Defense Department. The DOD has a list of firms that it believes support China's military, intelligence, and security services. Chinese telecom stocks like China Mobile had been added to the Defense Department list, and trading in the US-listed stock shuttered on Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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