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SAN FRACISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday rejected the idea that bogus stories shared at the social network paved a path of victory for President-elect Donald Trump. “The idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way I think is a pretty crazy idea,” Zuckerberg said during an on-stage chat at a Technonomy technology trends conference in California. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — One of President-elect Donald Trump’s most divisive promises — to ban Muslims from entering America — disappeared from his campaign website before reappearing on Thursday. Trump’s campaign staff told US media that text of the pledge, posted in December following terror attacks in San Bernardino, California, vanished because of a technical glitch. It reappeared after journalists questioned the disappearance. “The website was temporarily redirecting all specific press release pages to […]
by Katia Dolmadjian and Gina Doggett Paris, France (AFP) – A year after jihadists sowed terror in Paris, killing 130 people, the City of Light is struggling to restore its lustre as fearful tourists stay away in droves. In the Paris area alone, tourism revenue is expected to plunge by 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) this year. “We haven’t recovered,” the tourism chief for the Paris region, Frederic Valletoux, told AFP. “The impact is lasting […]
https://youtu.be/qvK04Hi7cKs Thousands of protesters rally across the United States expressing shock and anger over Donald Trump’s election, vowing to oppose divisive views they say helped the Republican billionaire win the presidency.
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York commuters are venting anger and frustration over Donald Trump’s shock victory by indulging in collective therapy — writing messages on Post-it notes and sticking them on a subway wall. “Am I the only one who is scared?” “I need a hug” and “I am angry” number among the thousands of messages written on multicolored squares of paper fixed to a tiled wall in a tunnel at Union […]
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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Hundreds of people, many of them students who skipped classes, staged fresh protests on Thursday in several US cities in anger at Donald Trump’s election as president. Some 1,000 students, most of them high schoolers, marched through San Francisco’s financial district toward City Hall chanting “Not my president!” and blocking traffic. “We are protesting because we want to stand up for our rights and we deserve […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Iran nuclear deal would fall apart if a US administration walked away from it, as President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to do, the State Department said Thursday. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani had argued on Wednesday that the deal — which saw world powers lift sanctions on Tehran in return for controls on its nuclear program — has been enshrined in international law. The outgoing US administration is proud of […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — US president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday invited British Prime Minister Theresa May to visit him “as soon as possible” as they held their first conversation since his election, Downing Street said. The pair reaffirmed the “very special” relationship between their two countries, while May emphasised their “long history of shared values” and of standing together “when it counts the most”, her office said. Congratulating Trump on his shock win in […]
by Andrew Beatty WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama and Donald Trump on Thursday put past animosity aside during a 90-minute White House meeting designed to quell fears about the health of the world’s pre-eminent democracy. As protests against the Republican property mogul’s shock election rumbled across US cities and world capitals contended with a suddenly uncertain world order, Obama and Trump vowed to carry out a smooth transition of power. After a nasty campaign […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Thursday warned the incoming Donald Trump administration will have to deal with a “nuclear state”, saying Washington’s push for denuclearisation was an “outdated illusion”. “If there is anything the Obama administration has done… it has put the security of the US mainland in the greatest danger,” said an editorial carried by the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun. “It has burdened the new administration with the difficulty of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to meet US president-elect Donald Trump next week in New York, officials said Thursday, after phone talks between the two following the billionaire’s shock election win. Abe and Trump spoke for about 20 minutes and tentatively set a date of November 17 for the meeting, just before Abe goes to Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, a Japanese foreign ministry official told AFP. […]
