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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday offered its assistance to Spain in the wake of a deadly van attack in Barcelona’s most popular street Las Ramblas, which left at least two dead. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also said that consular assistance was being provided to Americans in the city, and urged US nationals to check in with their families. “Terrorists around the world should know — the United States and […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – The top American law enforcement official Wednesday escalated a war of words with the nation’s third largest city Chicago over its resistance to tougher immigration policies. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s comments were part of efforts to pressure “sanctuary cities” to increase cooperation with immigration enforcement or lose federal funding. Instead, Chicago last week sued the Trump administration over the funding threats. California, the most populous United States state, and the […]
ENIWA, Japan (AFP) — Some 300 Japanese and United States military personnel on Wednesday carried out live-fire artillery training in northern Japan, officials said, amid high regional tensions over North Korean missile threats. The drill, part of a 19-day exercise, came after a tense war of words between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s threats to fire missiles towards the Pacific island of Guam. Troops from Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and US Marines fired live ammunition […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The president of the main United States labor union resigned from Donald Trump’s council on manufacturing Tuesday, saying the US president’s response to violent white supremacists in Charlottesville meant he tolerated “bigotry and domestic terrorism.” “We cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement announcing his immediate resignation from the panel. “President Trump’s remarks today repudiate […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A threat by President Donald Trump to eliminate a crucial subsidy for Obamacare would sharply force up insurance costs and expand the United States deficit, an independent government study said Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office said Trump’s threat to kill his predecessor’s popular health care program by eliminating the government’s funding of “cost-sharing reductions” (CSR) for low-income Americans would force insurers to jack up premium prices by 20 percent to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday, after North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un postponed a threat to fire missiles towards the United States territory of Guam, that Washington remains ready for talks. But the top US diplomat said it would be up to Kim when such negotiations would begin, having previously insisted Pyongyang must demonstrate that it accepts it will have to give up its nuclear program. “I have no response […]
YIGO, Guam (Reuters) — There was a sense of relief throughout Guam on Tuesday (August 15), as Kim Jong Un signalled a pause in his plan to fire missiles to land in waters near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. Residents in Guam were reassured about Kim Jong Un’s change of plans, “No attack? Awesome. What else, can I say, right?” said Perez. “(If) he had decided to move on with what he had promised, […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday slammed as “disgusting” the role of white supremacists in a violent protest in Virginia and an “evil attack” against counterdemonstrators that left one woman dead, her spokesman said. In sharply worded remarks, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert expressed shock at the weekend rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists in Charlottesville. “The scenes at the right-wing extremist march were absolutely repulsive — naked racism, anti-Semitism […]
The United States deployed its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system – known as THAAD – in South Korea in 2017. The billion dollar system is intended to guard against missile threats from the nuclear-armed North. It’s based in a former golf course 250 kilometers south of Seoul. THAAD is designed to intercept and destroy short and medium-range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight. -Once radar detects the incoming threat, the target is […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea said Thursday it would complete a plan within days to launch a salvo of four intermediate-range missiles towards Guam, the US island territory in the western Pacific. It followed US President Donald Trump’s warning of “fire and fury like the world has never seen” as a war of words with the US escalates tension on the peninsula. Would the North be able to carry out such an exercise? […]
HAGATNA, United States (AFP)–Guam’s leader said Monday that “sometimes a bully can only be stopped with a punch in the nose,” in a spirited defense of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against North Korea which has the island in its crosshairs. While Trump’s critics accuse him of inflaming tensions with Pyongyang, Guam governor Eddie Calvo said he was grateful the US leader was taking a strong stance against North Korean threats against his Pacific homeland. “Everyone who grew […]
by Sébastien Blanc Agence France Presse CHARLOTTESVILLE, United States (AFP) — A pretty university town imbued with American history, Charlottesville, Virginia has been thrust into the news by right-wing extremists whose views are deeply at odds with the city’s sense of its own values. This weekend was the second time this year that white supremacists occupied the normally peaceful streets of the city of 50,000. Dozens of Ku Klux Klan members had marched there […]
