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China Daily | Updated: 2018-10-17 07:03

United States

Mattis' job is '100 percent' safe

Amid speculation that he may soon be replaced, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said President Donald Trump told him he supports the retired Marine general"100 percent". The assertion came just days after Trump mused on national television about Mattis leaving his post. Mattis said Trump gave him this assurance during a phone call while Mattis was flying from Washington to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Tuesday. A few hours earlier, Mattis told reporters traveling with him that he and Trump had never discussed the possibility of him leaving the Pentagon job.

Trump won't relax Turkey sanctions

US President Donald Trump has denied the possibility of relaxing sanctions against Turkey over the release of US pastor Andrew Brunson. Speaking to the media at the White House before departing to Florida, Trump said: "That was not part of the deal". "We had no deal with Turkey. We don't make deal - any deals for hostages or prisoners," he said. A court in Turkey's Izmir on Friday afternoon sentenced the 50-year-old pastor to jail for three years, one month and 15 days over terror-related charges, but set him free as he had been jailed since December 2016.

Middle East

Australia considers moving embassy

Australia has raised the prospect of following the United States by relocating its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a policy shift that critics described on Tuesday as a desperate grab for domestic political gain to win a crucial by-election. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the idea was suggested to him by a former ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, who is a candidate for the ruling conservative Liberal Party in a by-election on Saturday in a Sydney electorate with a large Jewish population.

France

New record set for auctioned wine

A rare bottle of French Burgundy has set a new world record for a single bottle of wine of any size after fetching $558,000 at Sotheby's auction. The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti auctioned on Saturday is more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000. Another bottle of the same wine fetched $496,000. Both bottles broke the previous record for the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold, which is a three-liter bottle of 1945 Mouton-Rothschild sold for $310,000 in 2007, CNBC reported.

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