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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A Tennessee man sentenced to death for a double murder has appealed to stop his execution by lethal injection, insisting the state should be forced to use the electric chair as he has requested. Edmund Zagorski, 63, was sentenced to death in 1984 after slitting the throats of two men who had reneged on a promise to sell him drugs. He asked to be put to death via the electric […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States will refuse any additional reconstruction assistance to war-torn Syria so long as Iranian troops are present in the country, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. “If Syria doesn’t ensure the total withdrawal of Iranian-backed troops, it will not receive one single dollar from the United States for reconstruction,” Pompeo told a pro-Israel group. © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Air Force shuttered a command-and-control center as Hurricane Michael tore into the Florida coast, a top general said Wednesday, as the military mobilized thousands of troops to help tackle the monster storm’s impact. Tyndall Air Force Base, located in Panama City on the coast of the Florida Panhandle, was fully evacuated Tuesday night, just before the Michael made landfall, said Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander of North […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Michael has strengthened to an “extremely dangerous” Category Four hurricane as it rumbles toward the Gulf Coast of Florida, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. It said the storm is now packing maximum wind gusts of 130 mph (210 kilometers), could grow even more and is expected to make landfall later in the day along the Florida Panhandle or Big Bend area as a “life-threatening event”. A storm surge of […]
by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / with Leila Macor in Miami Agence France Presse PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Michael is now forecast to slam ashore on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane, bringing a surge of up to 13 feet (four meters) in what could be the worst storm there in decades. As of late Tuesday, Michael was packing maximum sustained winds of nearly 125 miles per hour (205 kilometers) as it […]
(Eagle New) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) through its charitable arm, the Felix Y. Manalo (FYM) Foundation, recently conducted an Aid For Humanity program in Winnipeg, Canada to help poor communities there. The event was held on September 28, 2018 at the Turtle Island Recreation Center located in the North End of Winnipeg. It was witnessed by two members of Canada’s Legislative Assembly who expressed admiration for the Church’s efforts to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ivanka Trump on Tuesday tamped down the suggestion her father could be poised to tap her as UN envoy, after President Donald Trump said she would make a “dynamite” replacement — were it not for nepotism concerns. “It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that planning for his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is advanced and that “three or four locations” have been short-listed. Trump said at the White House that the meeting would “probably” not be in Singapore, where their historic first talks took place in June. The pair discussed ending the reclusive state’s nuclear weapons program and hostilities between Washington and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — New US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh dove into his new job Tuesday, shrugging off the controversy over his nomination and firing off a handful of questions at his first hearing, a case on prison reform. A handful of protesters rallied outside the court in opposition to the conservative justice, who was confirmed on Saturday by the Senate by a razor-thin margin after weeks of partisan rancor. “We will not […]
by Sebastian SMITH and Shaun TANDON Agence France Presse Nikki Haley abruptly resigned Tuesday as the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump’s often shifting national security team. Meeting Haley in the Oval Office, Trump said she had done a “fantastic job” and would stay on to the end of the year. “She told me probably six months ago,” Trump told reporters, that ‘”I want to take a […]
by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / with Leila Macor in Miami Agence France Presse PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Michael intensified Tuesday as it barreled toward the Florida coast, becoming a category 3 major storm as the governor of the southern US state warned residents to prepare immediately for a “monstrous” hit. Michael was now packing winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour) as it aimed for the Florida panhandle, the finger-shaped […]
By Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice. Kavanaugh will emerge Tuesday morning from behind the courtroom’s red velvet curtains and take his seat alongside his eight colleagues. It will be a moment that conservatives have dreamed of […]
