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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump took on Bill Clinton Tuesday in a new tweet attack, after the former president questioned his intelligence. In an impromptu discussion at a book store in upstate New York earlier this month, Clinton said this when asked if he thought Trump was smart: “He doesn’t know much. One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.” Clinton made the remarks […]
(Reuters) — Republican Donald Trump prevailed in the U.S. Electoral College voting on Monday (December 19) to officially win election as the next president, easily dashing long-shot hopes by a small movement of detractors hoping to block him from gaining the White House. The president-elect posted a tweet about the Electoral College vote. “We did it! thank you to all of my great supporters, we just officially won the election, (despite all of the distorted […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday squarely blamed the “slaughter” of at least nine people at a busy Holiday market in central Berlin on “Islamist terrorist.” German police have so far only described as a possible terror attack the incident in which a truck plowed through a crowd in scenes reminiscent of July’s deadly truck attack in the French city of Nice. “Our hearts and prayers are with the loved ones […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — America’s Electoral College Monday confirmed as expected Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the United States, unswayed by a last-ditch bid by die-hard opponents to bar the Republican’s path to the White House. Six weeks after his upset victory over the Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump sailed past the 270 votes needed to make his victory official, according to US media, clearing the way for him to succeed Barack […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese state media said Monday US President-elect Donald Trump’s diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the two nations, while one newspaper termed him unfit to lead a superpower. They were commenting on Trump’s response to Beijing’s seizure of a US maritime probe in international waters, a move which raised already heightened tensions between the world’s two largest military powers. A Chinese naval vessel “unlawfully” grabbed the unmanned underwater vehicle in […]
by Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Even though their chances of success are slim, many Democrats are looking at the Electoral College vote Monday as the last barrier to keep Republican Donald Trump out of the White House. When US voters cast their ballots on November 8, they did not directly elect the next president but rather 538 “electors” charged with translating their wishes into reality. Trump won a clear […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China warned Taiwan that declaring independence would be a “dead end”, state media said Wednesday, after the island’s democratically elected president phoned Donald Trump in a precedent-breaking move. Beijing’s stance of opposing and blocking “Taiwan independence splittism” is “firm and unmovable”, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman An Fengshan said at a briefing Wednesday, according to state-owned China News. “We have unshakable willpower, ample confidence, and sufficient capability,” he said. “Facts will show […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — It is known for movies about monsters, insects and children’s toys but Pixar’s latest, very human story is “a love letter to Mexico” at a time of simmering racial tension. Taking the country’s Day of the Dead festival as its theme, “Coco” will hit US theaters some 12 months after Donald Trump’s November 8 election victory on an anti-immigration ticket that enflamed Hispanic […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Rap superstar Kanye West on Tuesday delivered a surprise even in this most unusual of political years — he met President-elect Donald Trump, marking the artist’s first appearance since a reported mental breakdown. West, a rare artist and even rarer African American celebrity to voice support for Trump, said he went to discuss issues of concern to minorities with the populist leader. Trailed […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Bill Gates on Tuesday called on Donald Trump to inspire Americans to embrace innovation as John F. Kennedy once did by urging them to fly to the moon. “In the same way President Kennedy talked about the space mission and got the country behind that,” the Microsoft founder-turned-philanthropist told MSNBC, “I think whether it’s education or stopping epidemics… there can be a very upbeat message that (Trump’s) administration (is) […]
by Jean-Louis Doublet Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s pick of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state on Tuesday mirrors the case of Dick Cheney, another oil industry executive tapped for a top Republican administration post. When former president George W. Bush selected Cheney as his choice for running mate in 2000, the future vice president had spent five years as chairman and CEO of Halliburton, the world’s second-largest […]
by Becca MILFELD Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson as his nominee to be secretary of state, despite concerns on both sides of the political aisle about the oilman’s deep ties to Russia. The nomination was the one most awaited by observers at home and abroad as the 70-year-old Republican billionaire builds his cabinet before taking office on January 20 — and […]
