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by Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse PEARL HARBOR, United States (AFP) — The leaders of war-time enemies America and Japan made a poignant joint pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor Tuesday, issuing symbolic declarations about the power of reconciliation and warning against the drumbeat of conflict. Seventy-five years after Japanese fighter pilots brought the fires of war to idyllic Hawaii and dragged the United States into World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered his “sincere […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry will offer a “comprehensive vision” of how to revive the Israel-Palestinian peace process in a major speech on Wednesday. President Barack Obama’s administration, including Kerry, is to leave office in four weeks and last week gravely offended Israel by failing to veto a critical UN resolution. But US officials said they plan to keep pushing both Israel and the Palestinian leadership to take concrete […]
PEARL HARBOR, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned against the “urge to demonize those who are different” as he hosted the leader of foe-turned-ally Japan for a solemn visit to Pearl Harbor. Obama, who will leave office next month, also hailed the alliance between the two nations, saying it had “never been stronger.” In remarks that echoed with history and America’s current hypercharged politics, Obama told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo […]
MICHIGAN, United States (AFP) — A giant sinkhole formed underneath a house in Fraser, Michigan on Saturday (December 24) forcing families to interrupt their Holiday plans and evacuate the neighborhood. Signs of damage could be seen to the bottom half of the house’s exterior brick wall as the house slowly settled into the hollow ground underneath its foundation. “The bricks fall from the side of the house. We saw the separation at the front of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama says he could have been reelected for a third term and that the nation still largely embraces his political vision despite last month’s election of Donald Trump to succeed him. The US leader’s remarks were made in an interview posted on the podcast “The Axe Files,” produced by CNN and the University of Chicago. Obama, who winds up his second and final term in office in just […]
HONOLULU, United States (AFP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Hawaii on Monday ahead of a symbolic meeting with President Barack Obama at the site of the Pearl Harbor attack. Japanese leaders have visited Pearl Harbor before, but Abe will be the first to go to the US Arizona Memorial, the wreck where 1,177 US personnel died. Tuesday’s visit comes 75 years after Japan’s December 1941 attack on the base of the US […]
PALM BEACH, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday released what he said was a “very nice” letter from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin calling for a thaw in ties between the rival powers. Relations between Washington and Moscow are at their worst since the end of the Cold War, and President Barack Obama has imposed sanctions over Russia’s interventions in Syria and Ukraine. But Trump, who takes office on January 20, called […]
by Stephanie Griffith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than just a trusted adviser, Kellyanne Conway earned the nickname “Trump Whisperer” on the US presidential campaign trail for an uncanny ability to soothe and soften the brash real estate magnate. Conway on Thursday was rewarded for her gifts — and her political acumen as driver of Donald Trump’s successful campaign strategy — with an influential White House post as counselor to the […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A prototype vaccine for Ebola may be “up to 100 percent effective” in protecting against the deadly virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. If all goes well, the vaccine could become available in 2018 under a fast-track approval process, it said. In a major clinical trial, nearly 6,000 people in Guinea were given the test vaccine last year, at the tail end of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he had asked Boeing to provide a price estimate for a new F-18 fighter jet, after bemoaning the soaring costs of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter. “Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!” Trump tweeted. His message came the day after he met with some of the […]
by Thomas Watkins Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — America must massively boost its nuclear capability until the “world comes to its senses,” President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday, hours after a similar vow by Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Trump made the statement on Twitter, without providing details or context, a day after meeting a group of Pentagon top brass, and shortly after Putin called for Russia to reinforce its own nuclear capabilities. “The United […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named billionaire Carl Icahn, a vocal critic of what he calls government over regulation, to serve as a special adviser to overhaul “strangling regulations.” He also tapped Peter Navarro, an outspoken China critic, to head the White House National Trade Council, a new office that will oversee trade and industrial policy, in the latest sign he is moving ahead with plans to overhaul US economic […]
