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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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China overturns death sentence of Canadian days after Carney’s Beijing visit

China’s top court has overturned the death sentence of a Canadian national convicted of drug trafficking in a sign of a diplomatic thaw between Beijing and Ottawa.

The ruling, in a case that had strained relations between the two countries, comes days after prime minister Mark Carney travelled to China to restore trade ties with Beijing as tariff pressure from the US intensified.

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