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by Dave Clark and Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump promised a top-to-bottom overhaul of US foreign policy Wednesday to put “America first” and make its allies pay up. In a major foreign policy speech short on specifics that left Washington experts scratching their heads, Trump warned that Europe and Asia may have to defend themselves. He vowed to tear up trade deals, retool NATO to oppose migration […]
GUATEMALA CITY,Guatemala (AFP) — A collapsing pile of refuse in a landfill in Guatemala’s capital on Wednesday killed four people picking through the trash and injured 15 others, emergency officials said. Eight of the people hurt were treated at the scene, the city’s main dumping ground for garbage, while the remainder were taken to hospital, a spokesman for Guatemala’s national disaster reduction agency, David de Leon, told AFP. The municipality said in a statement that […]
WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — Longtime Chinese human rights champion and former political prisoner Harry Wu, who advocated on behalf of those in brutal forced labor camps, has died at age 79, according to his research foundation. Wu died Tuesday morning while vacationing in Honduras with friends, the Laogai Research Foundation said in a statement. He founded the organization in 1992 to analyze and raise awareness about China’s “laogai” or forced labor detention centers, which began […]
by Laurent THOMET MEXICO CITY,Mexico (AFP) — The foreign experts came to Mexico in March 2015 with the daunting task of helping investigators solve the mysterious disappearance of 43 students. A year later, the five experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights are going home without an answer for the desperate parents of the young men missing since September 2014. But they leave behind a blistering account of the government’s investigation — a report […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The US is looking into whether free Android mobile software is giving an unfair advantage to other Google offerings such as its search engine, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staffers have met with companies in recent months about concerns that Alphabet-owned Google is abusing the dominant position of Android software for powering smartphones or tablets, according to the Journal. Concerns at issue are similar […]
Billionaire Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday scored a clean sweep in the latest presidential primaries held in five key states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton won four out of five contests, with her rival Bernie Sanders taking only Rhode Island, according to network projections. Here are the key upcoming political dates, from the final primaries to the national party conventions in July, the presidential debates and the […]
WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — Here is a list of the US states and territories won by each of the five remaining Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in the 2016 White House nominating contests held since February 1: DEMOCRATIC PARTY Forty-three contests have been held to date, including in Pennsylvania and the four other primaries on Tuesday. A total of 2,383 delegates are needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination, including the so-called “super-delegates,” who have […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday scored her fourth primary win of the night over rival Bernie Sanders in Connecticut, US networks projected. Clinton — the former secretary of state, first lady and US senator — also won nominating contests in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, according to US networks. Sanders won in Rhode Island. On the Republican side, frontrunner Donald Trump swept all five primaries on Tuesday in […]
WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump said Tuesday he now considers himself the “presumptive nominee” after sweeping the day’s five primaries in northeastern states. “This was, to me, our biggest night,” Trump said after winning the nominating contests in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. “I consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely. Senator (Ted) Cruz and Governor (John) Kasich should get out of the race. They have no paths. We […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Bernie Sanders on Tuesday won the Democratic presidential primary in Rhode Island, US networks projected — a victory that prevents rival Hillary Clinton from a clean sweep in the night’s five nominating contests. Clinton is the projected winner of the primaries in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The contest in Connecticut was so far too close to call. On the Republican side, frontrunner Donald Trump swept all five primaries in the […]
WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday scored her third primary win of the night over rival Bernie Sanders in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, US networks projected. Clinton — the former secretary of state, first lady and US senator — also won in Maryland and Delaware, according to US networks. The nominating contests in Connecticut and Rhode Island were still up for grabs. On the Republican side, frontrunner […]
https://youtu.be/SnETfFwTZFU Credit: Fred Garet Katherine Spencer / AFP Videographics / AFP (AFP) — The long road to the White House involves several key steps. Each state holds elections to choose delegates for the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, where each party names their presidential candidate. Pre-selection of a candidate involves either: -a caucus, which is a local meeting organised by each party -or a primary, which is a state-wide vote where candidates are directly elected […]
