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Pompeo Cancels Merkel Talks Over 'Pressing Issues'

by VOA News

   U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has canceled a planned meeting
   Thursday with Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

   The State Department said the talks had to be rescheduled due to what
   it called "pressing issues," without giving further details about the
   reasoning.

   The statement said Pompeo looked forward to visiting Berlin soon and
   holding "this important set of meetings."

   It was not immediately clear if the changes in Pompeo's schedule would
   affect his planned Thursday stop in Britain and visit Friday to
   Greenland.