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by Frankie TAGGART Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Johnny Depp apologized Friday for joking about President Donald Trump being assassinated, as his remarks to a music festival audience triggered an angry backlash. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star made the off-color comments late Thursday at the Glastonbury Festival in southwest England, telling the crowd it had “been a while” since an actor had assassinated a president. The comments drew a stern […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — The chief executive of embattled United Airlines unequivocally apologized Tuesday for an incident in which a passenger was dragged off a plane, and promised a “thorough review” of the airline’s practices. The apology came after mounting criticism of the carrier’s actions stemming from a Sunday flight, when a passenger was dragged off a plane and bloodied in the process. The US Department of Transportation promised to investigate the incident. “I […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for “insensitive” remarks during a press briefing in which he asserted that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people. “Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive comment about the Holocaust and there is no comparison,” Spicer told CNN. “For that I apologize. It was a mistake to do that.” © Agence France-Presse
by André VIOLLAZ UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday apologized for the first time to the people of Haiti for the role played by the world body’s peacekeepers in sparking a devastating cholera epidemic in the country. “On behalf of the United Nations, I want to say very clearly we apologize to the Haitian people,” he said three times — in Haitian Creole, French and English — to […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday (October 4) evening visited the Beit Yaacov Synagogue, a Jewish community synagogue, in Makati City to personally apologize for his statements on the Holocaust last week, saying it was never his intention to disrespect the Jewish people. The Jewish community gathering in the Makati City synagogue was to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah or the 2016 Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah is one of the most important holidays in […]
