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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — France warned Friday that Syria’s government had reached a “point of no return” by using chemical weapons and vowed to confront the “intolerable threat” of such attacks to global security. French Ambassador Francois Delattre told a Security Council meeting that world powers must respond to the threat of repeated use of toxic gas as a weapon in Syria’s war. By “deciding once again to use chemical weapons” in the […]
UNITED STATES (AFP) — A quick series of US, French and British air strikes in Syria were designed to send a “clear message” to President Bashar al-Assad and stop his chemical weapons program, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. The Pentagon chief stressed the strikes were carefully calibrated to provide a strong response to a suspected chemical attack, but avoid pulling the West into Syria’s civil war. “The targets tonight again were specifically […]
by Andrew Beatty / with AFP correspondents in Damascus © Agence France-Presse UNITED STATES (AFP) — The United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of punitive strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime on Saturday in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks that President Donald Trump branded the “crimes of a monster.” As Trump embarked on a White House address to announce the action — taken in defiance of Russia’s threat to respond — […]
GOLDSBORO, NC (Eagle News) — Smoke pours into the sky as authorities respond to a fire reported near Martin Luther King Highway in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The fire is causing major traffic delays in the area and, according to reports of local residents, is said to be burning at the Eastern Aluminium Supply building. (Eagle News Service, Bernadette Raguini, EBC Washington D.C. Bureau)
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump accused Friday the FBI director he fired, James Comey, of leaking classified information, saying he should be prosecuted for lying to Congress under oath. In a new memoir due to hit the bookshelves Tuesday, Comey said Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about everything. “James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in […]
by Adel Zaanoun Agence France Presse GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Clashes erupted as thousands gathered for a third consecutive Friday of mass protests along Gaza’s border with Israel after violence in which Israeli forces have killed 33 Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others. Limited clashes between stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli soldiers took place in at least two areas along the border, AFP reporters said, with larger protests expected after Friday Muslim prayers. At […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Thousands of Islamist fighters and their relatives left the Syrian town of Douma they once controlled as the last evacuations from Eastern Ghouta continued Friday, a monitor said. The fighters from the Jaish al-Islam group left overnight and thousands of civilians onboard 85 buses that took them to areas of northern Syria still held by rebels. The evacuations are part of a deal brokered by Damascus’s Russian ally to re-establish regime control […]
by Paul Handley and Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to become Washington’s top diplomat pledged Thursday to work with US allies to strengthen the Iran deal and played down fears he is bent on regime change in North Korea. Mike Pompeo, the outgoing director of the Central Intelligence Agency, disavowed his reputation as a “war hawk” and an anti-Muslim hardliner as he sought to woo support […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse Former FBI director James Comey says in a new book that President Donald Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him, and lied about everything. According to excerpts of the book leaked by US media on Thursday, Trump was also obsessed with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired by Trump urinated […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — The Gulf crisis, which has seen Qatar isolated by Saudi Arabia and its allies, is not on the table at the upcoming meeting of Arab League states, Riyadh’s foreign minister said Thursday. “The solution of Qatar will be within the GCC,” or the six-state Gulf Cooperation Council, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told reporters in Riyadh ahead of the Arab Summit. He was responding to an AFP question on whether the […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US House Speaker Paul Ryan’s shock retirement announcement marks the latest victory in a populist, anti-establishment revolution that brought its champion Donald Trump to power and is remaking the Republican Party. Whether that spells longterm GOP success in policymaking, diplomacy and at the ballot box remains unclear. Trumpism is ascendant in Washington but is a permanent Republican shift away from conservative orthodoxy and the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday the US could re-enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership if it could get a “better” deal. The decision would mark an abrupt about-face for a president who had campaigned against the deal and swiftly withdrew from it after taking office last year. “Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama,” he wrote in a late night tweet. “We […]
