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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he will visit Britain and Denmark next week, days after London pleased Washington with a ban on Chinese telecom giant Huawei. SOUNDBITE
Chinese tech giant Huawei's chief legal officer Song Liuping says the firm has asked a US court to throw out US legislation that bars federal agencies from buying its products, and that the US Congress had failed to provide evidence to support its restrictions on Huawei products. SOUNDBITE
Huawei's rotating Chairman says the Chinese telecommunications giant is suing the United States for barring government agencies from buying the company's equipment and services. SOUNDBITE from Huawei press conference
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar hails a "quiet revolution" as this traditionally Catholic country votes to liberalise some of Europe's strictest abortion laws in a historic landslide referendum. SOUNDBITE
The United States says that Russia is afraid of truthful information after Moscow blocked access to dozens of European media outlets in a retaliatory move. "They are afraid of their own people hearing the truth about Russia's actions," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE