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Elder Bush out of intensive care, wife Barbara released

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Former US President George H.W. Bush has been transferred from intensive care and could be released from the hospital Friday or over the weekend, doctors said on Monday. His wife and former first lady Barbara Bush was discharged from the hospital, Bush physicians Amy Mynderse and Clint Doerr said. The former first couple was admitted to Houston Methodist hospital on Wednesday. The 41st president, who is 92, was suffering from bacterial pneumonia, while Barbara Bush, 91, had […]

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Trump advisor reassures Canada not to fear US trade intentions

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A senior economic advisor for US President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet on Monday that Canada should not fear the trade intentions of the new American administration. Speaking at a retreat in Calgary to map out Ottawa’s demands in a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Trump advisor Stephen Schwarzman said Canadians should not be “enormously worried” about the protectionist rhetoric coming out […]

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Chile fires cause ‘worst forestry disaster’ in its history

by Miguel SANCHEZ Agence France Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Vast woodland fires in the center and south of Chile have caused “the biggest forestry disaster in our history,” President Michelle Bachelet said Monday, canceling a trip abroad to supervise the emergency. A total of 130 square kilometers (500 square miles) have been charred, mainly in sparsely populated rural areas, according to the National Emergency Office. Although most of 150 fires that broke out this […]

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Trump moves to withdraw from TPP trade pact

by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump moved Monday to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, making good on a pledge to scrap a deal he denounced as a “job killer” and a “rape” of US interests. Embarking on his first full week in office, the 45th US president began rolling out his policy agenda after a tumultuous first weekend for his administration by signing a […]

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Trump vows to ‘start renegotiating’ NAFTA with Mexico, Canada

  WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES (AFP) — US President Donald Trump pledged Sunday to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement in upcoming talks with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. “We’re meeting with the prime minister of Canada and we will be meeting with the president of Mexico, who I know, and we’re going to start some negotiations having to do with NAFTA,” Trump said while addressing White House staff on his second full […]

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Gasoline protests pick up in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — Mexicans once again protested over gasoline price hikes Sunday (January 22) in the so-called “gasolinazo.” The march in Mexico City was joined by other rallies in at least 12 states. Thousands participated, according to Mexican media reports. Since January 1, when the government hiked gasoline prices by 14 to 20 percent, protests have broken out throughout the country. Thousands held posters against the increase in prices and chanted for Pena […]

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Severe storms flatten houses in Texas

SCOTTSVILLE, TEXAS United States (Reuters) — Residents in Scottsville, Texas were recovering on Sunday (January 22) from severe storms and high winds that damaged dozens of properties, downed trees and toppled power lines. The national weather service was determining whether the storms met classifications for tornado status. Scottsville resident Earnest Marshall described the strong winds sweeping through his home. “The house shifted three times… I covered my head” adding his house was “tore up” after […]

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Over two million join US women’s marches against Trump: organizers

https://youtu.be/YR05zUwdo5c LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — More than two million people flooded the streets of US cities on Saturday in a peaceful day of women-led protests a day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, according to estimates from march organizers. At the main “Women’s March on Washington” organizers told AFP they estimated the turnout at half a million, with huge crowds joining sister marches around the country — and tens of thousands more […]

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‘Girl Power!’ Anti-Trump demonstrators swarm DC streets

w by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Perched atop a high metal fence to escape the crush of a massive crowd, Erica Orr surveyed the sea of pink-clad women that had converged on downtown Washington and shook her head in pride and disbelief. “It’s an indescribable feeling,” the 20-year-old college student from Michigan said of finding herself on Saturday in the midst of one of the largest demonstrations in recent memory in the […]

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On day one, Trump blasts media over inaugural crowd count

https://youtu.be/Mzkb1gHt8-A   WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump Saturday accused the media of downplaying the turnout at his inauguration by focusing on empty spots on Washington’s National Mall, insisting against all evidence that he drew 1.5 million people. “I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people,” he told CIA staff during a visit to the agency’s headquarters on his first full […]

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Mexico drug lord ‘El Chapo’ pleads not guilty in U.S. court

NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — Drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman appeared in a U.S. court on Friday (January 20) after his surprise extradition from Mexico and pleaded not guilty to charges that he ran the world’s largest drug-trafficking organization during a decades-long criminal career. El Chapo (Spanish for “Shorty”), who twice made dramatic escapes from Mexican prisons and was one of the world’s most wanted drug lords, was accompanied by two court-appointed lawyers […]

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Mexicans build makeshift wall around US embassy in Trump protest

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — Protesters in Mexico City used boxes to build a makeshift wall outside the US embassy on Friday (January 20) to protest plans from US President Donald Trump to build a border wall. He has vowed to move fast on construction which he claims its southern neighbor will pay for. But protesters in Mexico disagreed. “We are against the construction of the wall and we’re marching because the Mexican government has […]

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