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BEIJING, China (AFP) — Top US and Chinese officials held phone talks Tuesday to discuss the next steps in trade negotiations, Chinese state media said, as the White House said no date has been set for a summit. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spoke with Beijing’s top economic official Liu He over the phone to discuss “key issues” on trade, the official news agency Xinhua reported. The top negotiators also […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — An oil tanker and a fishing boat collided Tuesday morning off Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, police said, sinking the fishing vessel. Thirteen people on the oil tanker — thought to be everyone on board — were found safe, a police spokeswoman told AFP. Police said they were still looking for possible missing people from the fishing boat. The size of the vessels involved in the collision — which took place […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — The sentencing of Australian Cardinal George Pell for child sex crimes will be broadcast live Wednesday in a rare move by the local judiciary, which had kept his trial under wraps for months with a draconian gag order. Pell, the most senior Catholic clergyman ever found guilty of child sex abuse, faces a maximum 50 years in prison for assaulting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996-97. The 77-year-old Australian […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Flags flew at half-staff at the United Nations on Monday after 21 UN employees were killed in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said marked a “sad day” for the world body. Guterres led delegates at the opening of the annual gathering on women’s rights at the General Assembly in observing a moment of silence in honor of the victims. “A global tragedy has hit close […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A jaguar that attacked a woman at a US zoo after she jumped a barrier to take a selfie with the animal will not be put down, officials said. “We can promise you nothing will happen to our jaguar,” the Wildlife World Zoo in Arizona tweeted on Saturday. “She’s a wild animal and there were proper barriers in place to keep our guests safe – not a wild animals […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A top US envoy said Monday Washington’s goal is the complete denuclearization of North Korea by the end of Donald Trump’s first term, insisting it will not settle for incremental disarmament. “We are not going to do denuclearization incrementally,” said Stephen Biegun, the special US envoy for North Korea. While stressing he was not bound by an artificial calendar, Biegun said the administration wanted to accomplish the complete and verified […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Floods caused by torrential rain in and around Brazil’s financial hub Sao Paulo killed 12 people and hurt six others overnight, firefighters said Monday. In the town of Riberao Pires on the periphery of the country’s most populated city, four members of one family died and another two were injured when a house collapsed around midnight. Another landslide killed one person in Embu das Artes, while three neighbors drowned in […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government on Monday secured a three-part package of changes from the EU to the terms of its withdrawal deal, hoping to win over sceptical MPs. As May sealed the deal in Strasbourg with EU leaders, her de facto deputy, David Lidington, updated parliament in London on the plans. “This evening in Strasbourg the prime minister… (has) secured legally binding changes that strengthen and improve the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US federal aviation authorities said Monday they will order Boeing to modify its 737 MAX 8 aircraft, including anti-stalling software and maneuvering system updates, after two of the planes crashed in five months. The Federal Aviation Administration told international civil aviation authorities that it “anticipates mandating these design changes… no later than April,” although it did not ground the fleet. Boeing is also set to update its training requirements […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, America’s most powerful Democrat, said in remarks published Monday that she does not support impeaching Donald Trump, arguing the Republican president is “just not worth it.” “I’m not for impeachment,” Pelosi told The Washington Post in a wide-ranging interview, the strongest signal yet that the Democratic leadership is deeply hesitant about taking such an explosive step to remove a sitting president. “Impeachment is so divisive to […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro extended the closure of shools and businesses for another 24 hours on Monday due to the ongoing electricity blackout, Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said. It’s the second time Maduro has prolonged the closure, which was first announced after the massive power cut hit late on Thursday afternoon. © Agence France-Presse
by Luc OLINGA NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Following Sunday’s crash in Ethiopia of another Boeing 737 MAX 8, the second accident in five months, the flagship US manufacturer faces fresh questions about the planes’ airworthiness. But are US authorities likely to ground these planes, a cash cow for the aerospace giant? American officials face a difficult task in reassuring the flying public, as passengers take to social media, saying they are afraid to […]
