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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Iran should be allowed to keep selling oil and urged dialogue as he rejected a US push to isolate the clerical regime. Speaking to reporters after addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Macron said that Iranian sales would bring down the price of oil — a professed concern of US President Donald Trump. “It would be good for the price of oil […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of trying to topple his government Tuesday as he poured cold water on the idea of resuming talks with Washington after its pullout from an international nuclear accord. “It is ironic that the US government does not even conceal its plan for overthrowing the same government it invites to talks,” Rouhani said in a speech at the United Nations […]
PERIBAN, Mexico (AFP) — Residents from a Mexican village try to clean damaged streets and houses after at least five people died and nine are missing following heavy rain and a river flooding. https://youtu.be/34GVWkx3OwU
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States saw a 0.2 percent fall in overall violent crime in 2017, returning to a long-term trend of decline after two years of increases, according to data published by the FBI on Monday. The bureau recorded almost 1.25 million cases of violent crime in 2017, which included nearly 18,000 homicides, or a murder rate of 5.3 for every 100,000 inhabitants in its report, “Crime in the United States, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh rejected Monday fresh accusations of sexual assault when he was young and said he would not withdraw from consideration for the high court. “These are smears, pure and simple,” he said in a statement. “I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process.” He charged the allegations that he assaulted women more than three decades ago were part of an unfounded […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States pledged $185 million Monday to help Rohingya refugees who fled an army crackdown in Myanmar last year and are sheltering in camps in Bangladesh. US Ambassador Nikki Haley announced the new funding for food, water, health care and other critical aid during a ministerial meeting on the crisis in Myanmar, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. The UN, along […]
by Anne BEADE Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — While the US takes aim at China, Canada and Mexico over perceived trade imbalances, Japan has kept a low profile, hoping Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s friendship with golf buddy Donald Trump will keep Tokyo out of the firing line. But as Abe and Trump prepare to hold talks that will touch on trade frictions, there are signs Japan could be next in the US president’s […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for the Supreme Court, The New Yorker said Sunday. Senate Democrats are investigating the bombshell claim by Deborah Ramirez, 53, who says Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a college party at Yale University in the 1980s, thrust his genitals in her face and caused her to touch them without […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US immigrants who get public benefits like food stamps or housing vouchers could be denied green cards, under a new proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump came to power pledging to make immigration to the United States more difficult, and reduce the number of people allowed to stay in the country. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Saturday that under the proposed rule change, being a current or […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that US officials should either support President Donald Trump or quit after a report that the Justice Department’s Number Two discussed ways to remove Trump over mental incompetence. The New York Times reported last week that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had suggested secretly recording Trump to set the stage for pursuing the US Constitution’s 25th Amendment, which provides for […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A Catholic priest on the run for more than 25 years has been arrested in Morocco and extradited to the United States to face charges that he sexually assaulted a young boy in the 1990s, federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday. Arthur Perrault, now 80 years old, stands accused of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 12 on several occasions in 1991 and […]
ABERDEEN, United States (AFP) — A woman opened fire with a handgun at the warehouse where she worked in the US state of Maryland on Thursday, killing three people and injuring another three before committing suicide, the county sheriff said. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler did not identify the suspect but said she was 26 years old and a temporary employee at the distribution center for the Rite Aid drugstore chain in Aberdeen, Maryland. “We […]
