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by Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Trump administration’s new rules for a US visa program widely used for technology workers are getting cautious praise from Silicon Valley amid surging demand for high-skill employees. The H-1B visa program, which admits some 85,000 foreign nationals each year, will give higher priority to people with post-graduate degrees from US universities, under a final rule published in January by the Department of Homeland […]
by Claire Lee with Olivia Hampton in Washington Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — There was still some hard work to be done ahead of the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a Washington envoy said Saturday after three days of talks in Pyongyang. Stephen Biegun, the US Special Representative for North Korea, said preparatory talks had been productive, but more dialogue was needed ahead […]
CUCUTA, Colombia (AFP) — Trucks carrying desperately-needed US humanitarian aid arrived at the Venezuelan border on Wednesday, AFP reporters said. Several vehicles loaded with food and medicines rumbled into a collection center on the Colombian side of the Tienditas border bridge, which remains blocked by Venezuelan troops. President Nicolas Maduro has refused foreign aid shipments, saying they would open the way for US military intervention to depose him. His opposition rival Juan Guaido says up […]
CALGARY, Canada (Eagle News) — The historic Enoch Sales house in Calgary’s Victoria Park was destroyed by an early morning fire on Saturday, February 2, 2019. Built in 1904 by merchant Enoch Samuel Sales, this Victorian Mansion is one of the last pre-WWI homes in the area and had significant heritage value. (Eagle News Service)
Below is the full transcript of US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address which he delivered before the US House of Representatives on Monday night, February 5 (February 6 Manila time): Thank you very much Madam Speaker, Vice President, members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States. And my fellow Americans. We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential, as we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump urged Americans to come together Tuesday in a State of the Union speech seeking to turn the page on two years of divisive turmoil and transform him into a bipartisan national leader. “We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution — and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good,” Trump told Congress and a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban were making headway as he voiced cautious hope for a negotiated end to America’s longest war. “My administration is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban,” Trump said in his annual State of the Union address to Congress, weighing “a possible political solution to this long and bloody conflict.” © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would hold his long-awaited second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. “If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea,” Trump said in his annual State of the Union address to Congress. © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to get his disputed border wall built despite Democratic opposition, even as he urged Congress to “work together” and forge a deal on border security. “I’ll get it built,” Trump said in his State of the Union speech. “Simply put, walls work and walls save lives. So let’s work together, compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America safe,” he said, just 10 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Congress that Washington’s aggressive trade negotiations with Beijing would mean an end to China’s alleged “theft” of US jobs and wealth. In his annual State of the Union address, Trump also called on China to make the kind of far-reaching “structural” changes to industrial policy that analysts say Beijing is likely to resist. The world’s two largest economies have 24 days left in a three-month truce […]
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AFP) — Around 1,700 migrants traveling by caravan reached the US-Mexican border Tuesday, just as President Donald Trump prepared to give a major speech certain to include calls for his long-sought wall. The Central American migrants, mostly Hondurans, arrived in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. The local mayor, Claudio Bres Garza, said the city would welcome “all those who behave themselves,” after Coahuila’s Governor […]
Donald Trump took a swipe Tuesday at the ongoing probe of the president’s possible connections to Russia, saying during his State of the Union address that “ridiculous partisan investigations” could slow down America’s economic growth. “An economic miracle is taking place in the United States, and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations,” Trump said during his speech. “If there is going to be peace and legislation, […]
