by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said he will scrap a constitutional guarantee to citizenship for anyone born on US soil in a headline-grabbing move bolstering his anti-immigration platform a week before midterm elections. The surprise announcement, in an interview with Axios released in part on Tuesday, followed the dispatch of more than 5,000 regular troops to the Mexican border, itself a highly unusual move prompted […]
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Some 1,500 protest Trump, mourn US synagogue dead
by Jennie MATTHEW Agence France Presse PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — Around 1,500 people took to the streets of Pittsburgh Tuesday to demonstrate peacefully in song against a visit by US President Donald Trump and to mourn 11 Jewish worshipers killed in a synagogue. The crowd of all ages and faiths, including many young families, children and the elderly, marched for six blocks holding signs that read “President Hate, Leave Our State!” and “Trump’s […]
Trump visits Pittsburgh synagogue after shooting, protesters cry foul
by Jennie MATTHEW Agence France Presse PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were gunned down at the weekend in an anti-Semitic attack, as more than 1,000 protesters gathered nearby to make it clear the US president was unwelcome. Carrying signs that read “President Hate, Leave Our State!” and “Trump, Renounce White Nationalism Now,” the protesters gathered near the Tree of Life synagogue where the carnage […]
US mail bomb suspect in court in Miami
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The man accused of sending mail bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump appeared Monday in Miami federal court, which is taking up his extradition to New York. Cesar Sayoc, 56, appeared before US District Judge Edwin Torres after his arrest Friday in connection with the mailing of at least 15 manila envelopes containing homemade bombs, none of which exploded. With a messy ponytail and dressed in […]
US to send over 5,000 troops to Mexico border
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Pentagon will deploy more than 5,000 soldiers to the US-Mexico border, a top general said Monday, as President Donald Trump warned a caravan of Central American migrants that the military was waiting. “By the end of the week, we will deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the southwest border,” Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, head of the US military’s Northern Command, told reporters. Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly said […]
1,000 Honduran migrants break Guatemala police cordon
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — More than a thousand Honduran migrants broke through a Guatemalan police cordon on the border with Mexico Sunday as they attempted to join a larger caravan of compatriots heading towards the United States, police and rights groups said. A group of around 1,500 Hondurans were being held back by police from the international bridge that separates the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman from the Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo. Weight […]
Trump rises above the fray — until he doesn’t
by Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — As he stepped off Air Force One headed to the latest of his raucous, near-daily election rallies, Donald Trump vowed he would “absolutely” strike a different tone following the bloodshed in Pittsburgh. Eleven members of the Pennsylvania city’s Jewish community had just been killed during morning Sabbath services, in the worst anti-Semitic attack in recent American history. But in the same breath, the president […]
America mourns 11 victims of gunman who ‘wanted Jews to die’
by Jennie MATTHEW Agence France Presse PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — A 97-year-old woman, an octogenarian couple, two brothers. Americans on Sunday learned the identities of the 11 victims of the bloody assault on a Pittsburgh synagogue — a mostly elderly group and easy targets for a shooter who said he “wanted all Jews to die.” Nine of the 11 were 65 or older, several old enough to have been children during the rise of […]
INC launches food donation drive in Vancouver as part of Worldwide Aid to Humanity event
The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) launched a food donation drive in Vancouver, Canada in conjunction with the Worldwide Aid to Humanity efforts on Sunday, October 28, 2018. The activity was done in cooperation with the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation, the INC’s charitable arm. INC members in the area donated 250 boxes of perishable items to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank, which serves approximately 26,000 people every week in 13 locations across the […]
What we know about the US synagogue shooting suspect
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The shooter in Saturday’s deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, identified by officials as local resident Robert Bowers, is to face federal charges that carry the death penalty.Here is what is known so far about the suspect, who reportedly yelled “All Jews must die!” as he launched his attack, killing 11 people and wounding six more. The suspect is in “fair condition” with multiple gunshot wounds, and is being treated […]
US synagogue suffers 20 minutes of terror
PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — Gunman Robert Bowers only needed 20 minutes to sow terror at the Tree of Life synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, where congregants had gathered peacefully for Shabbat services marking a day of rest. Shortly before 10 am (1400 GMT) the 46-year-old Bowers — who had penned virulent anti-Semitic messages on social networks — burst into the synagogue armed with an assault rifle and three handguns. Stephen Weiss, […]
Synagogue gunman kills 11 in America’s worst anti-Semitic attack
by Dustin Franz Agence France Presse PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — A heavily armed gunman opened fire during a baby-naming ceremony at a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh on Saturday, killing 11 people and injuring six in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent American history. The shooter — identified as a 46-year-old local resident named Robert Bowers — reportedly yelled “All Jews must die” as he burst into the Tree of Life synagogue, […]





