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CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama wiped away tears as he paid tribute to his teenage daughters and to Michelle Obama, his “best friend,” at the emotional close of a farewell address in his adoptive city of Chicago Tuesday. “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, girl of the south side, for the past 25 years, you have not only been my wife and mother of my children, you have been my best friend,” Obama told the […]
(Eagle News) — Outgoing US President Barack Obama declared his belief in a democratic America that will champion US values of freedom, equality and respect for all humanity even after he leaves the Oval Office. Obama, in an emotional farewell speech in his hometown of Chicago, said he thinks that the American people did quite well in the past eight years and urged his audience to believe in their power to change the world […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama addressed America and the world for the final time as president Tuesday, in a speech that was both a tearful goodbye and a call to arms. Capping his eight years in the White House, Obama returned to his adoptive hometown of Chicago to recast his “yes we can” campaign credo as “yes we did.” Listing landmarks of his presidency — from […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama warned in a farewell address to the nation on Tuesday that to deny the reality of global warming amounted to a betrayal of generations to come. “We can and should argue about the best approach to solve the problem,” he told the crowd in Chicago. “But to simply deny the problem, not only betrays future generations, it betrays the essential spirit of this country, the essential […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that the United States faces a stern test of its democracy, in a speech to the nation that was both a fond goodbye and a call to arms. Capping his eight years in office, Obama returned to his adoptive hometown of Chicago to recast his “yes we can” campaign credo as “yes we did.” He also called on supporters to pick up the torch and forge […]
(Eagle News) — “You made me a better president and you made me a better man.” This was the statement of outgoing US President Barack Obama as he started his farewell speech in Chicago The outgoing President stressed the power of faith and the power of democracy, no matter how contentious it is in America. In his speech, Obama assured the “peaceful transfer of power” to the new US President elect Donald Trump, as he […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — In farewell address, Obama says US now ‘a better, stronger place’ © 1994-2017 Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Marine Corps said Tuesday it has sent a squadron of F-35B fighter jets to Japan, marking the first operational overseas deployment for the controversial aircraft that is under scrutiny from President-elect Donald Trump. The deployment of the 10 planes to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on Honshu Island marks a major milestone for the F-35, which has been bedeviled by technical glitches and soaring cost overruns. With a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US military would not necessarily shoot down a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile, should the country’s leader try to test one, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said in a New Year’s speech that the country was “in the final stages of test-launching the intercontinental ballistic missile.” Carter, whose two-year run as Pentagon chief will come to an end when President Barack Obama leaves […]
by Jason Ryan Agence France Presse CHARLESTON, United States (AFP) — A US jury on Tuesday sentenced Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who gunned down nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church, to death over the June 2015 massacre. Roof, 22, was convicted last month of 33 federal charges — including hate crimes resulting in death — in connection with the carnage at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston. […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Barack Obama closes the book on his presidency Tuesday, with a farewell speech in Chicago that will try to lift supporters shaken by Donald Trump’s shock election. Obama’s last trip on Air Force One will be a pilgrimage to his adoptive hometown, where he will address a sell-out crowd not far from where he delivered his victory speech eight years ago. “For Michelle and me, […]
