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UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The United States on Wednesday voiced skepticism about calls for talks with North Korea, saying leader Kim Jong-Un was behaving irrationally and would likely not respond to diplomatic advances. “We are not dealing with a rational person,” US Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launches. In a reference to China, which is calling for a return […]
by Paul HANDLEY / Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington’s fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools. A CIA spokeswoman would not confirm the authenticity of the materials published a day earlier by WikiLeaks, which said they were leaked from the spy agency’s […]
by Roland JACKSON Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom – Britain’s economy will grow far stronger than expected this year, finance minister Philip Hammond said in a budget update Wednesday, as the government prepares to trigger Brexit. Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to activate Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty in the next three weeks, sparking a painful two-year divorce process — and tense talks over the terms of Britain’s departure from the […]
by Tony Gamal-Gabriel with Delil Souleiman in Manbij Agence France-Presse MOSUL, Iraq – Iraqi forces worked to clear bombs and flush out any remaining jihadists in retaken areas of west Mosul Wednesday to set the stage for an offensive against the Old City. Supported by US-led air strikes, the forces have made steady progress in their battle to seize Iraq’s second city from the Islamic State group, announcing the recapture of three more areas on […]
by Emal HAIDARY Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Explosions and gunfire rattled Kabul’s diplomatic district Wednesday when insurgents dressed as doctors stormed Afghanistan’s largest military hospital, officials said, as growing insecurity besets the war-battered country. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the ongoing assault on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital, but it comes as the Taliban ramp up attacks even before the official start of their annual spring offensive. At least three people were so […]
(Eagle News Service, Africa Bureau) — The church organization which sent 35,000 food packs to the Zambian capital of Lusaka for distribution to the poor residents there had issued a statement condoling with the victims of the March 6 incident and vowing to continue to help the poor residents in the area. “Our hearts go out to those who lost their lives and were injured in Lusaka, as well as their loved ones. We are […]
(Eagle News Sevice, Africa Bureau) —Zambia’s United Party for National Development leader Hakainde Hichilema said he is attributing the stampede that occurred at the Olympic Youth Development Center on Monday morning (March 6) to high levels of poverty and hunger in the country. Hichilema said that what happened at the OYDC was a clear indication of the extreme hunger suffered by the Zambian people. “It is with a heavy heart that we wish to […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday called on North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the US and South Korea halting military wargames, to avoid what it called a “head-on collision.” “To defuse the looming crisis on the (Korean) peninsula, China proposes that as a first step, the DPRK may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the halt of the large-scale US-ROK exercises,” Foreign Minister Wang […]
by Fulya OZERKAN Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — The top generals of the Turkish, Russian and US military met Tuesday in a bid to step up coordination in Syria and avoid clashes between rival forces in the fight against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. The meeting between Turkish Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford and Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov appears to […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife set off a social media firestorm Tuesday, the eve of International Women’s Day, by suggesting that men should be celebrated too. “As we mark International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate the boys and men in our lives who encourage us to be who we truly are, who treat girls & women with respect,” Sophie Gregoire Trudeau wrote on her Instagram account. She posted a photo of […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Embattled French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon received an interest-free, undeclared loan of 50,000 euros ($53,000) from a billionaire friend in 2013, according to the Canard Enchaine weekly. The conservative candidate “did not deem it necessary” to report the loan from Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere to a state transparency watchdog, the weekly said in its edition to appear Wednesday. The investigative and satirical newspaper, the source of the fake jobs scandal that […]
by Carsten HAUPTMEIER wih Frank ZELLER in Berlin Agence France Presse WURZBURG, Germany (AFP) — Facebook clinched victory Tuesday in a German court case brought by a Syrian refugee whose selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel had made him the target of racist trolls. The court ruled that the US social media giant was not obliged to actively search out and delete defamatory posts, like those that had falsely linked the claimant to Islamist attacks and […]
