Friday News Roundup - International

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Published September 27, 2019 at 10:06 AM CDT

Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire appears as a witness before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is at the center of international news this week, with a whistleblower document made public on Thursday morning.

Across the pond, Parliament is back in session, following a British Supreme Court ruling that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was unlawful.

The United States has imposed more Iran-related sanctions, looping Chinese companies into the matter this time.

We’ll dig into these big stories and several others in this week’s international Roundup.

GUESTS

Hayes Brown, Deputy World News editor, BuzzFeed News; @HayesBrown

Nancy Youssef, National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal; @nancyayoussef

Paul Danahar, Washington bureau chief of the BBC; author of “The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring”; @pdanahar

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