OTTAWA -- Multinational enterprises, which are playing an important role in the Canadian economy, were responsible for 32.7 percent of Canada's total gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017 and employed 23.2 percent of the total workforce in the country, said Statistics Canada Monday.

Multinational enterprises, which account for less than 1 percent of all enterprises in Canada, contributed over four-fifths to Canada's total merchandise exports and imports in 2017, according to official data. (Multinational Enterprises-Canada)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. government will no longer consider Israel's West Bank settlements "inconsistent" with the international law, a move that may further dim the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Pompeo said in a press conference that the decision, which reversed the Obama administration's position on the issue, had been made based on the "reality on the ground." (US-Israel-West Bank Settlements)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Some 10.23 million people in Afghanistan suffer "severe acute food insecurity" and around one third of the Afghan population requires urgent humanitarian action from August to October, a UN food security report said Monday.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a coalition of UN agencies and other partners, classified food insecurity in five distinct phases from phase 1 (minimal/none) to phase 5 (catastrophic/famine). (UN-Afghanistan-Food Insecurity)

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ADDIS ABABA -- The African Union (AU) and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on stronger cooperation in improving Africa's public health sector.

The agreement was signed by AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus on Monday as part of Faki's two-day working visit to Geneva, Switzerland, the AU said in a statement. (AU-WHO-Cooperation) Enditem

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