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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Air Force said Thursday it is ready to receive its first KC-46A Pegasus tankers, a new type of aerial refueler that still needs to undergo costly technical fixes. Based on the airframe of the 767 jet liner, Boeing’s tanker will eventually replace many of the Air Force’s aging line of KC-135 tankers, which were manufactured during the Cold War. The KC-46 has suffered technical setbacks, delays and cost […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is cutting emergency federal aid sent to help California after devastating wildfires unless the Democratic-led state gets its “act together.” “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forrest fires that, with proper Forrest Management, would never happen,” Trump tweeted, initially misspelling the word forest before repeating the tweet with the word corrected. “Unless they get their act together, which […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Illegal border crossings into the United States continued at a high pace in December, with more than 50,000 people detained for a third straight month as the number of families illegally entering surged, US Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. With the US government in its third week of a shutdown as President Trump demands that Congress fund the construction of hundreds of miles of new wall on the border, […]
by Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS Agence France Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged Mexicans Wednesday not to panic as gasoline shortages spread across the country, caused by a crackdown on fuel theft that risks backfiring badly. The president says the shortages were triggered by his administration’s decision to temporarily close some of state oil company Pemex’s pipelines — part of his bid to wipe out rampant fuel theft that cost […]
by Carole LANDRY Agence France Presse UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The year 2019 started off at the United Nations with Somalia brazenly kicking out the UN envoy, followed soon after by Guatemala ditching a UN-sponsored anti-corruption commission. After a tough year that saw the United States, the UN’s top financial backer, cut funding, pull out of the Human Rights Council and scrap UN-backed agreements, the United Nations is taking more hard hits. Some […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of holding Americans “hostage” by refusing to strike a deal to fund shuttered government agencies, and using fear mongering to justify his demand for his much-hyped border wall. “President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis, and must re-open the government,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in a curt rebuttal to Trump’s address to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump repeated his demand Tuesday for $5.7 billion to fund a wall on the border with Mexico, describing a “growing crisis” of illegal immigration hurting millions of Americans. In his first ever televised Oval Office address, the president stopped short of calling for a much-touted state of emergency, instead appealing to the need to slash the cost of the illegal drug trade, which he put at $500 billion […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The situation along the US border with Mexico is a “growing crisis,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday, stressing that uncontrolled illegal immigration is hurting millions of Americans. “There is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border,” the president said in a rare live Oval Office address to the nation, adding that every day US Customs and Border Patrol agents “encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump will tell Americans in a prime-time speech Tuesday that the US-Mexico border is in “crisis” and Congress must approve construction of a wall to end a government shutdown now in its 18th day. After weeks of lashing out at Democratic opponents, mostly via Twitter and impromptu press conferences, Trump will deploy the presidency’s biggest PR gun: a formal address to the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – “Aquaman” left other movies in its wake in North American box offices this weekend, taking in $31 million, final figures by industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday. The DC super-hero film, in its third week out, has now taken in a global total of $941 million. That makes it the biggest Warner Bros. comic-book film since “The Dark Knight Rises” earned more than $1 billion in 2012, according to Variety’s […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump denounced China’s “arbitrary detention” of two Canadians during a telephone call Monday, officials said. “The prime minister thanked the president for the strong statements of support by the United States in response to the arbitrary detention of two Canadians in China,” Trudeau’s office said in a statement. “The two leaders agreed to continue to seek their release.” China last month detained […]
by Douglas Gillison Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced Monday he would step down next month, more than three years before his current term was due to expire. The decision is likely to give US President Donald Trump decisive influence over the next leadership of the institution although Washington’s control over the 189-member global development lender has faced mounting criticism. “It has been a great honor to […]
