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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – Schools closed across large swathes of north India on Thursday as pollution hit hazardous levels for the third day, with growing calls for urgent government action to tackle what doctors are calling a public health emergency. Punjab’s government said it was closing all 25,000 schools in the state for the rest of the week due to the acrid air blanketing north India and parts of neighboring Pakistan. The decision came […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – US President Donald Trump decried his country’s “one-sided and unfair” trade deficit with Beijing on Thursday, but he told Chinese President Xi Jinping: “I don’t blame China.” At a signing ceremony for over $250 billion in US-Chinese business deals in Beijing, Trump said: “After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the sake of its citizens?” However, he pointed the blame at […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – China signed a $37 billion agreement on Thursday to buy 300 airplanes from US airspace giant Boeing. The deal for the single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft was among the $250 billion in agreements announced during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. (Agence France-Presse)
(Eagle News) — United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both promised greater cooperation and stronger friendship between the two countries when they met for the first time in Beijing, China. Xi and his first lady, warmly welcomed Trump who was with First Lady Melania Trump in Beijing. China’s sincere welcome for US President was marked with regal fluorish, rolling out the red carpet for Trump at the Forbidden City, […]
(Agence France Presse) — US President Donald Trump urged China and Russia on Thursday to act fast to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, warning that “time is quickly running out.” “We must act fast. And hopefully China will act faster and more effectively on this problem than anyone,” Trump said as he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. Trump thanked Xi for his efforts to restrict trade with North Korea and cut […]
by Obert Simwanza Agence France-Presse NCHELENGE, Zambia (AFP) — Recounting horrific stories of rape and murder allegedly by government soldiers, thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo have sought safety on the Zambian side of Lake Mweru. About 6,000 Congolese residents have fled across the border since late August, triggering an emergency response from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) which has struggled to provide basic food rations and shelter. DR Congo’s huge eastern region has […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Three US aircraft carriers will stage joint drills in the western Pacific for the first time in a decade, the US Navy said Thursday, as tensions in the region over North Korea reach fever pitch. The USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt will conduct “coordinated operations in international waters,” the navy said, as US President Donald Trump’s high-stakes trip through Asia takes him to China. The operation shows Washington’s “ironclad […]
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday his country does not support a military escalation in regional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, adding the region already faces enough crises. Sisi spoke at a wide ranging press conference in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh where he addressed regional disputes and his country’s efforts to tackle jihadist attacks and economic reforms. His comments came as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned Saudi […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Yemen is facing a mass famine that will affect millions of lives unless the Saudi-led coalition ends its blockade and allows aid deliveries into the country, the UN aid chief warned Wednesday. Mark Lowcock, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said that unless the borders are re-opened to aid shipments, “it will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims.” The UN official spoke […]
by Laurent Thomet Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will put their professed friendship to the test Thursday as the least popular US president in decades and the newly empowered Chinese leader hold tough talks on trade and North Korea. Trump will be treated to more pomp and ceremony on the second day of his first state visit to China, the crucial stop in his 12-day, five-nation tour of Asia. The two […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Former US president Barack Obama answered a jury summons Wednesday, arriving at a Chicago courthouse to perform the civic duty asked of all Americans. The former leader of the free world was the only juror to arrive by motorcade, however, accompanied by tight security and met with a throng of news media. As a prospective juror, Obama joined fellow citizens at the courthouse, waiting to see if they are chosen to serve on a […]
by Laurent Thomet with Jerome Cartillier in Seoul Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing Wednesday for the critical leg of his Asia tour to drum up an uncompromising, global front against the nuclear weapons ambitions of the “cruel dictatorship” in North Korea. Trump heaped more praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping before touching down in Beijing but he also used a speech in Seoul to urge China […]
