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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Melania Trump, the wife of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday sued two media outlets that alleged she worked as an escort in the 1990s. Filed in a Maryland court, the suit is against Mail Media, Inc. which publishes the Daily Mail Online, and Webster G. Tarpley, who publishes a blog. A Slovenian ex-model, Melania is seeking damages to the tune of $150 million. “These defendants made several […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — At least 2.6 billion people, over a third of the global population, live in parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific where Zika could gain a new foothold, researchers warned Friday, with 1.2 billion at risk in India alone. These are people who reside in as-yet unaffected parts of the world with the right climate and abundant mosquitoes for the virus to settle, spread and propagate an […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States announced a long list of fresh sanctions on Thursday aimed at Russia over its continuing support for Ukraine’s rebels and the 2014 seizure of Crimea. The new list took aim at a key unit of Bank Rossiya, often called the personal bank of Russian president Vladimir Putin, and some of Russia’s largest construction companies. It included 17 Ukrainian separatists, 11 of them officials of the government Russia […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama begins his 11th and final presidential trip to the Asia-Pacific in earnest on Friday, visiting China to nurture what has become arguably the world’s most important relationship and cementing an eight-year “pivot to Asia.” After a series of US stops outside Washington, the outgoing US president jets in to the picturesque Chinese city of Hangzhou where he will take part in his final G20 meeting. […]
PHOENIX, United States (AFP) — Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump traveled to Mexico Wednesday to tell President Enrique Pena Nieto that he will erect a border wall if elected, but controversy erupted over whether they discussed who would pay for it. The tense international trip saw Trump navigating a political tightrope just 69 days before the US presidential election, as he seeks to clarify his stance on his campaign’s signature issue: immigration. Trump spent […]
Hurricane Madeline weakened to a tropical storm on Wednesday (August 31) as it advanced toward Hawaii’s Big Island, where residents were bracing for strong winds and rain even as another storm across the country continued its path to Florida, officials said. Hawaii officials opened shelters and closed offices, schools and roads on Wednesday to prepare for Madeline, which is expected to pass just south of the Big Island. “We went through this last year, at […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday (August 31) as the first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed on the island. The event has opened another chapter in the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties and increase trade and travel with the former Cold War foe. Foxx and Rodriguez met at the Foreign Ministry in Havana. A […]
Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday (August 31) that the United States has the right to build a border wall to halt illegal immigration, but the Republican presidential candidate did not bring up his signature demand that Mexico pay for it. In an unexpected trip to a country that he has vilified for causing illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States, Trump held talks with the Mexican leader at […]
A fast-growing brush fire prompted the evacuation of roughly 700 people on Tuesday (August 30) from a mobile home park and nearby community in Southern California’s Riverside County, state fire officials said. The blaze erupted shortly before 12:30 p.m. local time and charred about 400 acres of drought-parched vegetation within three hours as flames roared through canyons and foothills in the Cherry Valley area, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles. No property losses or […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s alma mater said Monday he had plagiarized parts of his law school thesis, confirming an investigative news site’s report last week. Mexico’s Panamerican University said it had reviewed the president’s 25-year-old thesis and found five types of “treatment of the ideas of others.” They included “textual reproductions of citations without footnotes or mention in the bibliography,” it said in a statement. In other cases, Pena […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The six people who went into isolation for a year in Hawaii to help NASA plan for a mission to Mars emerged Sunday, happy to breathe fresh air and meet new people. The team was based on a barren, northern slope of Mauna Loa, living inside a dome that is 36 feet (11 meters) in diameter and 20 feet tall. French astrobiologist Cyprien Verseux said that he was “feeling […]
by Alina DIESTE BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — A historic midnight ceasefire on Sunday is set to end a 52-year-old war between the Colombian state and FARC rebels. Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have died since 1964 as rebel armies and gangs battled in the jungles in what is considered Latin America’s last major civil armed conflict. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Sunday issued the order for its fighters to observe the cease […]
