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United States President Donald Trump will prioritize issues in the Korean peninsula, especially North Korea’s nuclear threat, in his visit to China. President Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. China is hoping that the US can provide a guide to solve the Korean peninsula problem. President Donald Trump will visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines from Nov. 5 to Nov. 14 — his first official visit to Asia as the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Three people were fatally shot at a Walmart store in Colorado on Wednesday evening, police said, in a country that is struggling with frequent deadly gun violence. There are “(3) confirmed dead,” the Thornton Police Department said on Twitter, raising an earlier toll after a woman whom it earlier announced was transported from the scene died. “There is currently NO one in custody,” said the department, appealing for “anyone with […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the man suspected of killing eight people in a New York City truck rampage to be put to death. “NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!” Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to the Islamic State jihadist group (Agence France-Presse).
by Veronique DUPONT Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Blockbuster director Brett Ratner and the head of news at American radio station NPR were drawn into Hollywood’s widening sexual misconduct scandal Wednesday as more women came forward with stories of abuse. Actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn have accused Ratner of sexual harassment, the Los Angeles Times reported, as A-lister Kevin Spacey faced fresh accusations over his own conduct with young actors. Henstridge […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Eight people died when an assailant acting in the name of the Islamic State group drove a pickup truck along a New York City bike path Tuesday in the city’s worst terror attacks since September 11, 2001. The following is an outline of what is known so far about the attack. – What happened – Shortly after 3 pm, a man identified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29 and […]
by Jennie MATTHEW / Thomas Urbain in Paterson Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – The Uzbek immigrant behind New York’s worst attack in 16 years confessed to acting in the name of the Islamic State group and “felt good” about the killings, having planned an assault for a year, investigators said Wednesday. The shocking details emerged after federal agents questioned Sayfullo Saipov in a Manhattan hospital, injured with a police bullet to the abdomen after […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States government on Wednesday approved a $1.1 billion deal to service Qatar’s F-15 fighter jets despite the diplomatic stand-off between the Gulf emirate and its neighbors. Qatar, home to one of the largest US military bases in the Middle East, is locked in a bitter dispute with Washington’s other Arab allies in the region, led by Saudi Arabia. US President Donald Trump took Riyadh’s side in June when Saudi Arabia, […]
by Thomas Urbain Agence France-Presse United States (AFP) — The largely Muslim neighborhood where the New York terrorist suspect lived for little over a year seethed with anger Wednesday, furious that the Uzbek had besmirched their hard-working immigrant community. “They should hang him!” snapped the manager of a launderette near the two-storey brick building where Sayfullo Saipov lived with his wife and children in the New Jersey town of Paterson. “If you come to the US, it’s […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov spent weeks planning to conduct an attack in the name of the Islamic State group, police said Wednesday, after eight people were killed in New York’s worst attack since September 11, 2001. Authorities say Saipov, an Uzbek immigrant who moved to America in 2010, used a rented pickup truck to mow down pedestrians and cyclists along a mile-long stretch of a bike path on Lower’s […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A pickup driver ploughed a truck into cyclists and pedestrians in New York on Tuesday, killing eight people in the first deadly “act of terror” in the city since September 11, 2001. Vehicles have previously been used as weapons of terror, often by supporters of the Islamic State (IS) group, attacking nations in the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Barcelona’s Las Ramblas On August 17, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump will not be going to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean peninsula when he visits South Korea next week, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The decision to skip the DMZ at a time of high tensions with nuclear-armed North Korea was attributed to time constraints. “The president is not going to visit the DMZ, there is not enough time in the schedule,” the official said. […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Republicans have delayed unveiling the Donald Trump-backed tax overhaul until Thursday, signaling potential trouble ahead as congressional leadership struggles to lock in support for the historic but controversial effort. Congressional aides late Tuesday confirmed that the roll-out, originally slated for Wednesday, had been pushed back as GOP negotiators continued to hammer out a deal. Lawmakers want additional time to study the measure, which […]
