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by Olivia Hampton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former US president George H.W. Bush was being treated for a blood infection on Tuesday after being admitted to a Texas hospital shortly after the funeral of his wife, Barbara. President Donald Trump wished the 93-year-old former president a “very speedy recovery” as he welcomed French leader Emmanuel Macron to the White House. Bush’s office said he was “responding to treatments and appears to […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called for a “new” deal with Iran Tuesday, looking beyond divisions over a landmark nuclear accord that now hangs in the balance. Trump pilloried a three-year-old agreement designed to curb Iran’s nuclear program as “insane” and “ridiculous,” despite European pleas for him not to walk away from the accord. Instead, Trump eyed a “grand bargain” […]
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — A Canadian man who apparently had a grudge against women was charged with murder Tuesday after allegedly plowing a rented van onto a crowded Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 people — an incident that shocked the nation. Police said the suspect, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, was not known to them before Monday’s carnage in Canada’s most populous city, which also left 14 people injured. Most of the […]
by Nova SAFO Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Tennessee police captured Monday the man suspected of gunning down four people at a restaurant in Nashville, America’s country music capital. Travis Reinking — who exhibited “mental instability” and was arrested last year for trying to enter the White House grounds — was captured in the early afternoon after a more than 24-hour manhunt. “A tip from the community is what led to the […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Monday said new detection tools wielded by its counterterrorism team are quickly detecting and removing extremist propaganda for the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda. The leading social network ‘took action’ on 1.9 million pieces of IS or al-Qaeda-linked content in the first three months of this year — nearly double the amount from the previous quarter, according to vice president of global policy management Monika Bickert and […]
by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France Presse TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — The crime scene seems to go on forever, a taped off stretch of street scattered with bodies under orange sheets, urban debris and a pair of abandoned shoes. Toronto police have arrived, and a suspect is under lock and key, but no one yet knows why the driver of a white rental van spread death and destruction under the warm spring sunshine. “I heard screaming, […]
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven vowed to defend their “democracy” against attacks from Vladimir Putin’s Russia on Monday in a show of solidarity from the world’s richest industrialized economies. Canada’s Chrystia Freeland, host of the Toronto talks, said Russia must pay a price for undermining Western elections, using nerve agent in an attempted assassination of a Russian double agent on British soil, and […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday kicked off a pomp-filled three-day state visit to the US at the White House — a test of whether his studied bonhomie with President Donald Trump can save the Iran nuclear deal and avoid a trans-Atlantic trade war. Before getting the full red carpet treatment at the White House — payback for wooing Trump with military parades and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former president George H.W. Bush was being treated for a blood infection on Monday, hours after laying his wife Barbara to rest, his office said. A statement stressed that Bush, 93, was responding to treatment. He was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital early Sunday, just a day after bidding a final farewell to his wife of 73 years during her funeral. Barbara Bush had died on Tuesday. The 41st president greeted […]
by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France Presse TORONTO, Canda (AFP) — A man plowed a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Canada’s biggest city Toronto on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding 16, police said. The incident took place in broad daylight around 10 miles (16 kilometers) from a conference center hosting a meeting of G7 ministers, but officials said they had no evidence of a link to the event. Police […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The psychologist behind an app that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users defended his role in the scandal Sunday, saying he “never heard a word” of opposition from the social media giant. Facebook says Aleksandr Kogan’s app, This Is Your Digital Life, was downloaded by 270,000 people and also gave Kogan access to their friends. The data was passed to British communications firm Cambridge Analytica and was used to […]
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — The Group of Seven industrialized nations presented a stern common front against Russian aggression Sunday at their foreign ministers conference in Toronto. But for all the talk of resisting the “malign activities” of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, Washington’s European partners are still concerned that President Donald Trump will tear up the Iran nuclear deal. And all the G7 partners remain anxious for clues as to how […]
