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TORONTO, Canada (Reuters) — Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor moved their trash-talking extravaganza north to Canada on Wednesday (July 12) on the second stop of their four city fight promotion. Thousands of fans attended the raucous event at Ontario Place. Mayweather taunted McGregor by toying with the Irish flag while McGregor hurled obscenities at the Mayweather family and had some left over for the fight promoter, Showtime, whom he accused of turning off his microphone […]
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 […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Hundreds of people held a vigil on Wednesday evening for the victims of the London tower block inferno, as anger simmers over the official reaction and the ongoing investigation. Four weeks after a devastating fire ripped through Grenfell Tower in West London, mourners lit candles in an area filled with pictures, flowers and hand-written notes of remembrance. “I know people who have been lost, I know people who have lost […]
by Alfons Luna Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II sought to sweep differences with Spain aside on Wednesday as she hosted a banquet for the country’s King Felipe VI, just hours after he called for a deal on the status of Gibraltar. “With such a remarkable shared history, it is inevitable that there are matters on which we have not always seen eye to eye. “But the strength of our […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – An undersea earthquake off the coast of North Korea was not caused by a nuclear test, the South’s media reported Thursday. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck about 190 kilometers (120 miles) south-east of the reclusive state’s third largest city, Chongjin, in the early hours of Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. North Korea has staged five nuclear tests — including two last year — and has made a significant […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – American Airlines said Wednesday it is ending its codeshare relationships with Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways as part of its push against government subsidies of Middle Eastern carriers. American notified Doha-based Qatar Airways and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad of its decision on June 29 to end the “codeshare” partnership — the sharing of a flight by two carriers. Maintaining the program “no longer (makes) sense for us,” an American […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Worldwide shipments of personal computers continued to slump in the recently ended quarter but showed signs of stabilizing, according to figures released Wednesday by market trackers. Preliminary estimates released by Gartner indicated that 61.1 million PCs were shipped in the second quarter of this year in a 4.3 percent decline from the same period a year earlier. An IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computer Device Tracker report put the figure […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters)– Recording star Kid Rock, an outspoken supporter of Republican President Donald Trump, hinted in a website and through social media messages on Wednesday (June 12) that he intends to run for the United States Senate in 2018. The 46-year-old Michigan native drew attention on Twitter and his Facebook page to a “Kid Rock ’18 for U.S. Senate” website, featuring a photo of the goateed singer-songwriter seated in a star-spangled chair in […]
WASHINGTON D.C. (Reuters) — United States President Donald Trump headed to Paris on Wednesday (July 12) to meet French President Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders will seek to work together on Syria and countering terrorism while avoiding the thorny issues that have divided them. Trump and Macron — both political newcomers who scored upset victories in their presidential elections — have taken very different positions in areas such as climate change and trade. Macron invited […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) – United States President Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that he has a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the two met for more than two hours in Hamburg last week. “People said, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t get along.’ Well, who are the people that are saying that? I think we get along very, very well,” Trump told evangelical leader Pat Robertson on the Christian Broadcasting Network. […]
by Paul Handley Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) – High-flying criminal lawyer Christopher Wray took a big step Wednesday toward becoming the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as he told lawmakers he would resign rather than bow to political interference. Nominated by Donald Trump after the president fired FBI chief James Comey in May, Wray told a confirmation hearing he would be ready to step down as head of the […]
by Ljubomir Milasin / Sabine Wibaux Agence France-Presse Italy’s Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni criticized fellow European Union nations on Wednesday for leaving his country to grapple with the migrant crisis, despite pledges made by France and Germany. Gentiloni met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Trieste before an annual Western Balkans summit. Italy took in more than 3,500 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya in just the past few […]
