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by Gina DOGGETT Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) –President Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump marked France’s national day together on Friday at a military parade which clearly delighted the US leader and showcased warming relations between the two men. But the day was tinged with mourning, coming a year on from a jihadist massacre that claimed 86 lives in the southern city of Nice, where Macron led remembrances after the Paris ceremonies. Trump was […]
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) — After a long and fierce battle that finally led to the liberation of Mosul, Iraqi forces have started clearing up the war-torn city which has been reduced into a wasteland of rubble after months of brutal fighting. The Old City, Mosul’s historical heart, has been among the hardest hit areas by the house-to-house fighting backed by airstrikes, artillery and heavy machine guns used to uproot the Islamic State (IS) militants, who […]
LONDON, England (AFP) — Five acid attacks took place in London late on Thursday night (July 13), local media reported. According to reports, the attacks began at 22.25 local time (21.25 GMT) when two men riding a moped threw a corrosive substance at another man riding another in Hackney before stealing his vehicle. Similar attacks were then reported in other areas of north-east London. Local media reported that detectives were treating the incidents as linked, […]
by Becky Davis Agence France Presse SHENYANG, China (AFP) — China faced international calls Friday to free the widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo after global condemnation over the Communist regime’s refusal to grant the democracy champion’s dying wish to leave the country. The United States and the European Union urged President Xi Jinping’s government to let Liu’s widow, the poet Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since 2010, leave the country. Chinese […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — A fleet of Chinese warships led by China’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, conducted a training exercise aimed at testing the operational readiness of the naval vessels and the carrier-based fighter jets upon arrival in an unidentified sea area on Thursday. The drill, which also involved the destroyers Jinan and Yinchuan and the frigate Yantai, focused on examining the fleet’s combat deployment, reconnaissance and early-warning systems, as well as air maneuvers of […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain baked in a record-breaking heatwave on Thursday which was blamed for the death of a road crew worker and is suspected of leaving another man in critical condition. The 54-year-old male victim died of suspected heatstroke late Wednesday while laying asphalt near the town of Moron de la Frontera in the southwestern province of Seville, emergency services said. Temperatures reached 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) in Moron de la Frontera […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump is willing to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House, but not yet, according to official remarks released on Thursday. During a conversation aboard Air Force One flying into Paris, Trump said he was willing to engage the Russian leader despite controversy over the country’s involvement in the 2016 US election. Asked whether he would invite Putin, Trump said he would “at the right […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known activists who fled to the United States, charged Thursday that Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo was “deliberately killed” by the country’s rulers, urging the international community to maintain pressure on Beijing. Liu, a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 who was jailed in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” with his Charter 08 manifesto calling for democratic reforms, died Thursday at […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea on Thursday, officials said, but no Pacific-wide tsunami warning was issued. The tremor hit at a depth of 46 kilometers (28 miles) near the sparsely-populated New Ireland region, 110 kilometers southeast of the town Kokopo, the United States Geological Survey said. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center ruled out a widespread tsunami and Geoscience Australia estimated any damage would only be within a […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s first-half trade with North Korea rose 10.5 percent year-on-year, Chinese officials said Thursday, as the United States urges Beijing to apply economic pressure on its neighbor. Customs administration spokesman Huang Songping said exports to the hermit nation rose 29.1 percent in the first six months of the year, although imports were down 13.2 percent. © Agence France-Presse
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held talks Wednesday with four Arab states boycotting Qatar as part of a round of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at resolving the regional crisis. Tillerson flew into Saudi Arabia where he met King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose country leads a four-state alliance that has cut ties with Qatar over accusations it supports extremism. The US, a longtime ally of […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emerged from the Sao Paulo residence of his Lula Institute on Thursday (July 12), with allies rallying around the ex-president to profess what he said was his innocence. The ruling marked a stunning fall for Lula, one of the country’s most popular politicians, and a serious blow to his chances of a political comeback. The former union leader, who won global praise […]
