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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 […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — The following is a selection of reaction on Twitter to New York billionaire Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday accepting the Republican Party nomination for president: Bernie Sanders, former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination @BernieSanders Trump: “I alone can fix this.” Is this guy running for president or dictator? Laura Ingraham, conservative host of the Laura Ingraham Show @IngrahamAngle This is @realDonaldTrump broadening the base of the GOP. The inner […]
by Jennie MATTHEW CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Ivanka Trump stepped out as a potent surrogate for her father on Thursday promising he would be a compassionate leader who would fight for women’s rights and affordable childcare. The 34-year-old businesswoman and mother of three, a loyal fixture on her dad’s campaign trail, introduced the 70-year-old mogul as he accepted the Republican nomination for president that few imagined ever possible. “My father not only has the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton fired off a icy rebuke Thursday to her rival Donald Trump after he savaged her record upon accepting the Republican nomination for president, telling him: “We are better than this.” Clinton’s one-line tweet came midway through a sweeping acceptance speech in which Trump attacked the Democratic former secretary of state for a legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Republican nominee for US president Donald Trump told party delegates Thursday that his foreign policy would put Americans first if he is elected to the White House in November. “The most important difference between our plan and that of our opponents, is that our plan will put America First. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” he said. “The American people will come first once again,” he said. © 1994-2016 […]
by Andrew BEATTY CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump will promise fearful Americans that “safety will be restored” if he is elected president, as he accepts the Republican Party’s White House nomination Thursday. “I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end,” Trump will say, according to prepared remarks. In a speech that evokes recent racially-tinged shootings and seemingly indiscriminate […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Thursday warned the Donald Trump-fronted US Republican Party against making “groundless accusations” after it accused Beijing of cultural genocide and said its economy was based on piracy. The GOP said in its 2016 platform that Beijing made “a preposterous claim to the entire South China Sea”, adding that “cultural genocide continues” in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. “The currency is manipulated, our technology is stolen and intellectual property […]
REUTERS — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacted on Wednesday (July 20) after U.S. Senator Ted Cruz cold reception at the Republican National Convention. “Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn’t honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal,” Trump Tweeted after Cruz got jeered during his speech at the convention as it became clear he would not endorse his former rival. Cruz […]
by Michael Mathes Jennie Matthew CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Vanquished presidential challenger Ted Cruz stunned the Republican National Convention Wednesday by thumbing his nose at Donald Trump, refusing to endorse the party’s 2016 nominee and urging Americans to “vote their conscience.” Cruz received a standing ovation as he took the stage, but cheers turned to boos when it became clear the US senator from Texas did not come to Cleveland to back his former […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Indiana Governor Mike Pence accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination at a tumultuous party convention in Cleveland Wednesday, describing his running mate Donald Trump as a “good man.” “I am deeply humbled by your confidence,” Pence told delegates, still reeling from a night of high drama and political infighting over Trump’s anointment as the party’s White House candidate. Pence, 57, said he “joined this campaign in a heartbeat” because Republicans […]
by Brigitte DUSSEAU CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — They demand her imprisonment, paint her as above the law, and warn her election would trigger the Apocalypse — the Republican National Convention’s collective hatred of Hillary Clinton has proven an intoxicating unifier. Republicans may be split over whether to support Donald Trump, the brash billionaire whom the Republican Party elevated to its presidential nominee on Tuesday, and who has consistently blasted Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.” But […]
by Ivan Couronne CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Ted Cruz was addressing a crowd on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Wednesday when he was upstaged by Donald Trump yet again. Thanking his supporters more than two months after he withdrew from the primaries — his White House bid felled by Trump — the Texas senator was speaking in an open-air restaurant on Lake Erie a few miles (kilometers) from the […]
