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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump will fly Saturday to California to meet victims of wildfires that have killed at least 59 people and destroyed the homes of thousands, the White House said Thursday. At least 300 people are still missing and the death toll is expected to rise as recovery teams conduct house-to-house searches amid the wreckage of the sprawling blazes in northern and southern California. Trump will “meet with individuals impacted […]
By Javier Tovar Agence France-Presse PARADISE, CA (AFP) — California authorities were taking DNA samples from relatives on Thursday to help identify victims of the western US state’s deadly wildfires and seeking to track down some 300 missing persons. At least 59 deaths have been reported so far from the sprawling blazes in northern and southern California and the toll is expected to rise as body recovery teams with sniffer dogs conduct house-to-house searches. Fifty-six […]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — The bulk of the migrant caravan crossing Mexico began arriving Thursday at the US border, as around 800 Central Americans reached the city of Tijuana aboard 22 buses after more than a month on the road. “We’ve finally reached Tijuana. I can’t wait to see the border. It’s been a never-ending journey, but God brought us here,” said Carmen Soto, a Honduran migrant traveling with her two young children. More than […]
by Javier TOVAR Agence France-Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on Wednesday as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing. Most of those unaccounted for are from the Butte County town of Paradise, in northern California, which was virtually erased from the map by the so-called “Camp Fire” blaze that erupted last week. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told journalists […]
by Javier Tovar Agence France Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — Firefighters backed by air tankers and helicopters battled California’s raging wildfires for a seventh day on Wednesday as the authorities in the worst-hit county released a list of over 100 missing people. Most of those unaccounted for are from the Butte County town of Paradise, which was virtually erased from the map by the so-called “Camp Fire” blaze. Paradise, a town of around 26,000 […]
by Rob Lever and Charlotte Plantive Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump’s effort to revoke a CNN correspondent’s credentials went to court Wednesday, in a hearing that saw the channel backed by media groups — including arch-rival Fox News — who said the case was a matter of press freedom. Lawyers for CNN and the White House — which said it had a broad right to restrict access to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday that the military operation to harden the US-Mexico frontier was clearly necessary, as he visited troops deployed on the controversial mission. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment in the build-up to last week’s midterm elections, with critics assailing the move as a costly political stunt to mobilize his conservative base. According to Mattis, some 5,900 troops are now at the border. The mission could […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — A French government spokesman on Wednesday accused US President Donald Trump of a lack of “common decency” for attacking his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Twitter on the third anniversary of a jihadist massacre in Paris. Asked to react to Trump’s tweets mocking Macron’s low poll numbers and lashing his defense proposals, spokesman Benjamin Griveaux told reporters: “Yesterday was November 13 when we commemorate the murder of 130 citizens three years […]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — Hundreds more migrants reached the US-Mexico border Wednesday, their numbers swelling as the main body of a much larger caravan of Central Americans followed behind them at an accelerated pace through Mexico. Even as US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis traveled to the border to visit the thousands of troops President Donald Trump has deployed there, a new group of around 350 migrants arrived in the northern city of Tijuana, across […]
by Laurent Banguet Agence France-Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — Thousands of firefighters battled blazes in northern and southern California on Tuesday as body recovery teams searched the remains of houses and charred cars for victims of the deadliest wildfires in the history of the US state. At least 44 deaths have been reported so far from the late-season wildfires and with hundreds of people unaccounted for the toll is likely to rise. Most of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan and the United States will negotiate a bilateral trade agreement that will serve as a “model” for other countries, US Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday in Tokyo. Speaking after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he reiterated Washington’s position that US businesses have faced unfair obstacles in Japan. “The United States has had a trade imbalance with Japan for too long. American products and services too often face […]
PARADISE, United States (AFP) — A devastating blaze in northern California has become the deadliest wildfire in the history of the state, with 42 people killed, a sheriff said Monday. “As of today, an additional 13 human remains have been recovered, which brings the total number to 42,” Sheriff Kory Honea told a news conference. After originally saying it was the deadliest wildland fire in US history, Honea clarified that it was the deadliest ever […]
