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by Ali Noorani Agence France Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — President Hassan Rouhani warned Tuesday that Iran could abandon its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions. In a speech to parliament outlining plans for his new term, Rouhani also hit out at US counterpart Donald Trump, saying he had shown the world that Washington was “not a good partner.” Rouhani’s comments come with the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Eagle News) — The INC Inspire UK was recently launched in Battersea, London here in the United Kingdom, aiming to connect members to UK-based charities like helping families in need, cleaning the environment, and reading to children in hospitals. The project was met with much excitement by Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) members in London where it is currently being piloted, as the objective to help and care for their […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The president of the main United States labor union resigned from Donald Trump’s council on manufacturing Tuesday, saying the US president’s response to violent white supremacists in Charlottesville meant he tolerated “bigotry and domestic terrorism.” “We cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement announcing his immediate resignation from the panel. “President Trump’s remarks today repudiate […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A threat by President Donald Trump to eliminate a crucial subsidy for Obamacare would sharply force up insurance costs and expand the United States deficit, an independent government study said Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office said Trump’s threat to kill his predecessor’s popular health care program by eliminating the government’s funding of “cost-sharing reductions” (CSR) for low-income Americans would force insurers to jack up premium prices by 20 percent to […]
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine’s space agency said Tuesday that an engine type reportedly used in North Korean missiles was made at a Ukrainian factory, but solely for use in space rockets supplied to Russia. The development came after an expert report published Monday said Pyongyang’s recent rapid progress in developing a long-range missile appeared to have come after it refurbished rocket engines procured from a plant in the former Soviet Union. These could have […]
by David Harding Agence France Presse DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar’s foreign minister said Tuesday it will take a “lot of time” to rebuild any trust between sparring Gulf countries because of the region’s continuing diplomatic crisis. As the impasse between Doha and four Arab states led by Saudi Arabia entered its 11th week, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said regional relations had been transformed by the dispute. “Qatar has always been one of the […]
by Saidu Bah Agence France Presse FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AFP) — Sierra Leone’s president issued a desperate appeal for help on Tuesday, a day after flooding ravaged the country’s capital, killing more than 300 people and leaving hundreds more missing. Touring Regent, one of the worst-hit areas, President Ernest Bai Koroma fought back tears as he said the devastation was “overwhelming us.” “Entire communities have been wiped out,” Koroma said. “We need urgent support now.” […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday, after North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un postponed a threat to fire missiles towards the United States territory of Guam, that Washington remains ready for talks. But the top US diplomat said it would be up to Kim when such negotiations would begin, having previously insisted Pyongyang must demonstrate that it accepts it will have to give up its nuclear program. “I have no response […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared the country’s 50-year conflict with the FARC guerrilla group “truly over” Tuesday, with the disarming of the rebel group complete. The United Nations-supervised process concluded with the delivery of the last truckloads of weapons from areas where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) began demobilizing at the start of the year. “With the laying down of arms … the conflict is truly over and a new […]
SHAOYANG CITY, China (CCTV) — Heavy rainfall in China’s Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has claimed a total of nine lives and one missing, local authorities said Monday. The rainwater, which accumulated in Hunan’s Shaoyang City and Guangxi’s Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, has turned the two places into Asian Venice, a well-known Italian city, while locals had to paddle boats to commute between places. Continuous rainfall in central China’s Hunan since last Friday […]
VILLA DE REI MUNICIPALITY, Portugal (CCTV) — The Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME) deployed 116 military personnel and 26 vehicles on Monday to battle Portugal’s wildfire in the center of the country, according to reports. The troops came from the First and Fifth Battalion Emergency Intervention with headquarters in Madrid and Leon respectively, the Emergency Support and Intervention Regiment and the Transmission Battalion in Madrid, detailed the UME. The deployment has been carried out near […]
New Delhi, India (AFP) — India can defend itself from anyone who seeks “to act against our country,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an Independence Day speech Tuesday amid a tense standoff with Beijing over a Himalayan plateau. “Security is our top priority,” Modi said in a speech before thousands at the landmark Red Fort in New Delhi as the country marked the 70th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule. “Be it the sea […]
