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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday approved a contract to sell Saudi Arabia 180 self-propelled artillery systems for $1.31 billion, in the latest stage of perhaps the world’s biggest arms deal. When US President Donald Trump visited Riyadh last year he boasted that the desert kingdom would spend $110 billion on US equipment and the howitzer contract is one more step towards that goal. Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s justice minister on Thursday accused Facebook of unethical behavior and said the social media giant should face a strong European response over a huge data leak involving millions of more users than initially thought. “Facebook is a network of intransparency,” Katarina Barley said. “Ethical convictions have fallen victim to commercial interests.” She called for “a clear reaction from European countries” over the company’s misuse of private information. Some 310,000 […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Officials from North and South Korea discussed protocol headaches and other logistics of a rare summit later this month, which will see Kim Jong Un become the first North Korean leader to set foot in the South since the end of the Korean War. Kim and the South’s president Moon Jae-in are due to meet on April 27 at the South’s side of the demilitarized zone for the landmark inter-Korean […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will pay an official visit to France on Monday and Tuesday, the French presidency confirmed Thursday. The 32-year-old prince, who is the Gulf kingdom’s de facto political leader, will meet President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to discuss “a new strategic partnership”, with a particular focus on investment in renewable energy and the digital economy, Macron’s office said. © Agence France-Presse
by Thomas WATKINS / with Sofia MISELEM in Matias Romero, Mexico Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the National Guard to deploy to America’s southern border, ratcheting up pressure on Mexico and taking another step in his quest to clamp down on illegal immigration. Trump’s latest border move came the same day as a caravan of Central American migrants — whose trek across Mexico had infuriated […]
by Raziye Akkoc and Maria Panina Agence France Presse ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — The presidents of Iran, Turkey, and Russia vowed to work for a lasting ceasefire after over seven years of civil war in Syria, following a summit aimed at boosting both peace prospects and also their influence in the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin reaffirmed their commitment to cooperating for “the achievement of a lasting […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — NATO does not want a new arms race with Russia, the alliance’s secretary general said Wednesday amid heightened tensions following an ex-spy’s poisoning in England. “We don’t want a new arms race, so we are focused on how can we respond” in a “firm strong predictable, but also measured and defensive, way,” Jens Stoltenberg told reporters alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. “We don’t want a new Cold War,” he […]
by Damian Wroclavsky with Sebastian Smith in Rio de Janeiro © Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s former president and current election frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looked increasingly likely to face prison Wednesday after a key judge on the divided Supreme Court voted against allowing him to delay a sentence for corruption. After more than five hours of deliberations, the Supreme Court justices had voted 5-1 in favor of denying Lula his request […]
by Veronique Dupont / with Nova Safo in Chicago © Agence France-Presse OKLAHOMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Students joined teachers in Oklahoma City Wednesday for a third day of protests demanding that state lawmakers increase funding for public schools after years of budget cuts. “We the students of Oklahoma are with you for as long as this strike takes,” student Cameron Olbert told a rally outside the state capitol, epicenter of a demonstration that […]
by Douglas Gillison © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The escalating confrontation between Washington and Beijing inched closer to all-out trade war on Wednesday after China threatened retaliation against key US exports. Beijing unveiled plans for painful import duties targeting politically-sensitive US exports, including soybeans, aircraft and autos, to retaliate against looming US tariffs on more than 1,000 Chinese goods. Wall Street opened sharply lower but investors apparently later decided their fears might […]
by Glenn Chapman / with Paul Handley in Washington © Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Police said Wednesday they had been alerted that the Iran-born animal rights activist who shot three people before killing herself at YouTube’s California headquarters, was believed to have a vendetta against the online giant. The father of Nasim Najafi Aghdam informed police in the Silicon Valley hub of Mountain View that she had gone missing from her […]
by Dave Clark / with Andrew Beatty © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s White House vowed Wednesday that the US mission in Syria would come to a “rapid end” but failed to put a timetable on an eventual withdrawal. Just days after Trump shocked aides and allies by declaring that the 2,000 troops would come home soon, US officials moved to scotch talk of a precipitous pullout. The decision will […]
