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PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — Vanquished White House hopeful Bernie Sanders on Monday told a riven and lively Democratic convention that his rival Hillary Clinton must become the next US president. To cheers and some boos, Sanders said that “based on her ideas and her leadership,” Clinton was a better choice than Donald Trump and “must become the next president of the United States.” “The choice is not even close,” he said. “This election is […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — US President Barack Obama’s half-brother said Tuesday he was going to vote for Republican candidate Donald Trump in this year’s American election, saying he felt let down his sibling’s neglect of his Kenyan family. Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father he barely knew, who left the family home and the US when the future president was two years old. “This Trump guy is a […]
PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — US First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday told the Democratic convention in Philadelphia that Hillary Clinton was the one candidate ready to be president, as she poured scorn on Donald Trump’s behavior and temperament. “In this election, there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton,” […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least 19 people were killed in Japan when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage at a care centre for the mentally disabled early Tuesday, officials said. Another 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously, in the attack in Sagamihara city, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo, a local fire department spokesman said. A 26-year-old man who said he was a former employee of the centre later turned himself in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Some 15 people died and 45 were injured at a care center for the disabled in Japan Tuesday when a former employee went on a knife rampage before turning himself in to police, officials and media said. The attack began when the man, aged in his 20s, entered the facility in the early hours of the morning, police said. He later appeared at a nearby police station and admitted to officers: […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — At least two people are dead and 14 others wounded in a shooting overnight at a nightclub in Florida, US broadcaster NBC reported Monday. Police said the incident occurred at the Club Blu in Fort Myers, local NBC affiliate WBBH reported. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
Southeast Asian foreign ministers met with their Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Monday (July 25) in an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China ministerial meeting in the Laotian capital. The meeting was the first since the U.N.-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration handed an emphatic legal victory to the Philippines in the dispute this month. The ruling by the court in The Hague denied China’s sweeping claims in the strategic seaway, through which more than $5 […]
China’s state councillor Yang Jiechi met U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Beijing on Monday (July 25). Yang and Rice shook hands before sitting down for talks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Both sides said they would like to deepen cooperation between China and the United States, and looked forward to the G20 summit in Hangzhou this September. Rice is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day […]
by Pierre ROCHICCIOLI Bertrand PINON PARIS, France (AFP) — A fresh crisis hit France’s government Sunday when a senior policewoman claimed the interior ministry pressured her to alter a report into security at the Nice fireworks display where 84 were killed when a man rammed a lorry into the crowd. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve — whose account of police deployments on the night of July 14 celebrations has already faced questions — has been the […]
A 27-year-old Syrian man who had been denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday (July 24) when a bomb he was carrying exploded outside a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, a Bavarian state official told a news conference, according to a website. Bavaria Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the man had tried to commit suicide twice before. It was unclear if he had planned to commit suicide or “take others with him […]
North Korea opened a zoo and nature museum in Pyongyang on Sunday (July 24). Video provided to Reuters by the North’s official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, showed North Korean students and officials, including the state’s premier Pak Pong Ju and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Choe Thae Bok, attending the opening ceremony of the central zoo and nature museum. In the footage, North Korean visitors […]
Firefighters struggled on Sunday morning (July 24) to contain a fast-spreading wildfire that has killed at least one person, destroyed 18 homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the drought-stricken canyons north of Los Angeles, officials said. The so-called Sand Fire grew overnight to 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares), or more than 34 square miles, fueled by high winds and parched conditions after years of drought. It is threatening a string of small communities near Santa […]
