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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — CIA director Mike Pompeo offered assurances Sunday there was “nothing imminent” in the US standoff with nuclear-armed North Korea but said he wouldn’t be surprised if Pyongyang conducted another missile test. Pompeo’s remarks cap a week in which US President Donald Trump vowed “fire and fury” if North Korea continued to threaten the United States with nuclear weapons, and Pyongyang countered by announcing plans to test-launch missiles toward Guam. […]
OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) — Seventeen people have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack on a restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, the government said Monday. “The attack claimed 17 victims, their nationalities are yet to be confirmed, and eight injured,” according to a government statement, a copy of which was sent to AFP.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — The United States “will not stand by as Venezuela crumbles,” Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday, but he emphasized a peaceful path even as he stood by President Donald Trump’s startling warning that US military action remained a possibility. “We have many options for Venezuela, but the president also remains confident that working with all of our allies across Latin America we can achieve a peaceable solution,” Pence said in a news conference alongside […]
BIRATNAGAR, Nepal (Reuters) — Torrential rain battered Nepal on Sunday (August 13), causing widespread flooding and landslides and raising the death toll from three days of severe weather to at least 49 people, according to officials. The toll could go higher as three dozen people were reported missing and another 17 were injured. Biratnagar airport was flooded on Saturday (August 12) and people were seen evacuating heavily flooded areas of eastern Nepal such as Siraha […]
by Jerome Cartillier with Brian Knowlton in Washington Agence France-Presse BEDMINSTER, United States (AFP) – The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump’s initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups. A woman died and 19 people were injured in the city of Charlottesville when a car plowed into a crowd […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) – The head of Egypt’s railway authority resigned Sunday after 41 people were killed in a train crash, the prime minister’s office said. A statement said that Transportation Minister Hisham Arafat had accepted the resignation of Medhat Shousha. Arafat “affirmed the investigations are ongoing to reveal the causes of the trains’ collision,” according to the statement. Egypt’s latest train disaster saw two trains collide on the Cairo-Alexandria mainline on Friday, leading to […]
CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) – United States Vice President Mike Pence met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his cabinet at the Presidential House in Cartagena upon his arrival to the South American country on Sunday (August 13). Colombia is the first leg of Pence’s Latin American trip that will also include stops in Argentina, Chile and Panama. Pence’s regional tour comes amid a sudden escalation of tensions between Washington and Caracas after President Donald […]
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) – Contestants in Moscow’s Red Bull Flugtag competition were ready to crash and get wet on Sunday (August 13) with hand-made aircrafts in a variety of shapes from a goblin bolt thrower to human brain plummeting into a river in Moscow. Flugtag means “flight day” in German, but all of these craft ultimately splash into the waters below. Teams built their flying machines with three criteria in mind: how far it will […]
(Reuters) U.S. authorities will investigate on Sunday the violence stemming from a white nationalist rally a day earlier that killed one person, injured more than 30, and challenged U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership. The unrest in the southern college town presented Trump with a domestic crisis, with many on both left and right criticizing him for waiting too long to address it and then, when he did so, failing to explicitly condemn the white-supremacist marchers […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island Sumatra on Sunday but there was no tsunami risk, seismologists said as panicked residents fled their homes. The quake hit at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles) at 10:08 am (0308 GMT) 73 kilometers west of Bengkulu, according to the United States Geological Survey. “The earthquake was quite strong and shallow, it was felt all the way to Padang, West Sumatra, […]
by Brian Knowlton, with Yanan Wang in Beijing WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump and his French counterpart pledged Saturday to work to denuclearize North Korea, but Trump again invoked the grim possibility of “military measures” if other steps should fail. Trump’s latest warning came amid a flurry of international calls — from China, the North’s key ally, as well as Russia, Germany, Britain and the United Nations — for the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –United States President Donald Trump will sign a memorandum Monday that could lead to sanctions against China over its intellectual property practices, administration officials said Saturday. Trump will direct US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine whether any Chinese laws, policies or practices discriminate against or harm American innovators and technology companies, the officials said. If so, Lighthizer would have “broad powers” to seek remedial action. The officials, who spoke on […]
