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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York prosecutors are subpoenaing each Catholic diocese in the state as part of investigations into clerical abuse after at least 1,000 victims were recently identified in neighboring Pennsylvania. All eight Catholic dioceses have either been or are in the process of being subpoenaed by New York’s state attorney general, confirmed Dennis Poust, spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference. There are an estimated seven million Catholics across […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump praised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday for reportedly expressing faith in him. “Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims ‘unwavering faith in President Trump.’ Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Kim restated his commitment to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula Thursday. South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong delivered a letter Wednesday to Kim from […]
by John BIERS Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Marco Saavedra had just graduated from college in 2011 three years after the global financial crisis erupted and just as the Occupy Wall Street movement was picking up steam. Like many in his generation, Saavedra faced slim pickings for jobs after college, a fate that has left millennials with a wealth gap that economists fear they won’t ever recover. It has also left […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump left the door open Wednesday to meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly — even as the United States ramps up the pressure on a regime it accuses of destabilizing the Middle East. “It’s possible, anything is possible,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the possibility of a face-to-face with Rouhani during the gathering later […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Ten people on board a 14-hour Emirates flight from Dubai were taken to hospital in New York on Wednesday after US health authorities mobilized to meet the jet ferrying sick passengers. Images of the double-decker A380 aircraft isolated on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport were broadcast by US media, which reported that the plane had been quarantined. Pictures posted on social media showed ambulances lined up […]
by Paul HANDLEY / Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top members of Donald Trump’s administration are so alarmed by the president’s “erratic” and “amoral” behavior that they are actively working to undermine him, an anonymous senior official wrote in The New York Times Wednesday. Trump immediately slammed as “gutless” the unsigned op-ed — published a day after excerpts from bombshell book claiming that White House staff were constantly battling to […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A revamped continental trade deal must include a dispute resolution mechanism, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, pushing back on US demands to get rid of binational panels to challenge anti-dumping and countervailing duties. “We’ve said from the very beginning that we need a dispute resolution mechanism like Chapter 19 and we will hold firm on that,” Trudeau said in Vancouver on the eve of the resumption of talks […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Gordon gained strength as it moved steadily toward the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, on track to make landfall just east of New Orleans with hurricane force winds. Authorities declared a state of emergency in the “Big Easy” — devastated in 2005 by mega Hurricane Katrina — as well as in Mississippi, and encouraged people living outside its levee system to evacuate voluntarily. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemala President Jimmy Morales ordered the head of a United Nations anti-corruption commission be blocked from entering the Central American country just four days after shutting down the mission. The UN’s International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala had been investigating corruption in the country but its mandate was ended by Morales on Friday. The government said in a statement that it considers Colombian Ivan Velasquez “a person acting against […]
by W.G. Dunlop Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US military plans to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad’s lack of “decisive actions” in support of American strategy in the region, the Pentagon said Saturday. The US has been pushing Pakistan to crack down on militant safe havens in the country, and announced a freeze on aid at the beginning of the year that an official said […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Chinese e-commerce billionaire Liu Qiangdong — also known as Richard Liu — was briefly arrested in the midwestern US city of Minneapolis over allegations of criminal sexual conduct, authorities said. Records from Hennepin County Jail showed Liu, founder and CEO of Chinese online retail giant JD.com, was arrested over the misconduct allegations late Friday night and released Saturday afternoon. The Minneapolis Police Department said the investigation remained active and […]
https://youtu.be/LqFIVfPvTBU United States groups representing survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests called Thursday on the Vatican to publish a list of clerics accused of sexual assault, even as they pressed the US Department of Justice to “do something about this.” The calls came after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to Washington, dropped an 11-page bombshell letter on Saturday accusing Pope Francis of ignoring sexual abuse allegations against prominent US […]
