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by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to stick by ally Saudi Arabia even while admitting that de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have been behind the brutal murder of a dissident journalist. “It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event –- maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” Trump said in a statement. “We may […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump expressed sadness Saturday at the devastation caused by fires in a California town, but persisted in his controversial claim that forest mismanagement is responsible for the tragedy which has left 76 dead and more than 1,000 listed as missing. “This is very sad,” Trump said after surveying the remains of Paradise, where nearly the only people out on the road were […]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — The bulk of the migrant caravan crossing Mexico began arriving Thursday at the US border, as around 800 Central Americans reached the city of Tijuana aboard 22 buses after more than a month on the road. “We’ve finally reached Tijuana. I can’t wait to see the border. It’s been a never-ending journey, but God brought us here,” said Carmen Soto, a Honduran migrant traveling with her two young children. More than […]
by Rob Lever and Charlotte Plantive Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump’s effort to revoke a CNN correspondent’s credentials went to court Wednesday, in a hearing that saw the channel backed by media groups — including arch-rival Fox News — who said the case was a matter of press freedom. Lawyers for CNN and the White House — which said it had a broad right to restrict access to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump will meet on Saturday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on the sidelines of World War I commemoration ceremonies. The two leaders were to discuss notably “the situation in Syria” and “the threat posed by Iran,” a White House official said Wednesday on condition of anonymity. The tete-a-tete is the only bilateral meeting slated for Trump’s Paris trip, according to the official. The US […]
by Thomas URBAIN Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s largely Democrat-voting hometown woke up Wednesday breathing a sigh of relief, pleased there were now checks on the president’s power but under few illusions that the political future of America would be any less divided. Having spent two years in denial that the anti-immigration Manhattan tycoon had won top office, many New Yorkers were in a better mood after Tuesday’s midterm […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump called Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday to congratulate the far-right candidate on winning Brazil’s presidency, the White House said. “President Trump called President-elect Bolsonaro of Brazil this evening to congratulate him and the Brazilian people on today’s elections,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “Both expressed a strong commitment to work side-by-side to improve the lives of the people of the United States and […]
by Eleonore Sens / with Jerome Cartillier in Washington Agence France Presse HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — “Big Night in Texas!” Donald Trump promised in his Monday morning tweet. Ted Cruz hopes it is as well. The US leader arrived in the Lone Star State in the evening to give a shot in the arm to the Senate campaign of Cruz, his fiercest rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Wearing black cowboy boots, […]
PANAMA, Panama (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived Thursday in Panama at the start of a tour of the Central American region that President Donald Trump blames for an “onslaught” of US-bound migrants. Pompeo, who will head to Mexico on Friday, had talks in Panama City with President Juan Carlos Varela and Foreign Minister Isabel Saint Malo, who is also vice-president. There were no statements after the meeting that lasted less than […]
by Saul LOEB Agence France Presse PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Monday met with victims of Hurricane Michael in devastated areas of Florida and Georgia but again cast doubt on the scientific consensus that climate change is caused by human activity. Flying in the Marine One presidential helicopter over Florida’s Mexico Beach, one of the towns worst hit by the Category 4 storm, Trump surveyed uprooted trees and rows of […]
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) — Central bank rate hikes were a “necessary development”, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Thursday, a day after Donald Trump sent global markets tumbling by calling Fed increases “crazy”. “It is clearly a necessary development for those economies that are showing much improved growth, inflation that is picking up… unemployment that is extremely low,” Lagarde told a press briefing at the IMF’s annual meeting in Bali. “It’s inevitable that […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded Saudi Arabia provide answers over the disappearance of respected journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whom Turkish officials suspect was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Trump administration sharply upped the pressure, reversing an initially low key response after Washington Post contributor Khashoggi vanished on October 2. Trump said he had talked “more than once” and “at […]
