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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he wants the next president of the country to be as firm as he is in stopping corruption in government. Duterte said this during Thursday’s (Jan. 14) inauguration of the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 project which he said would hopefully ease the “horrendous traffic congestion” in the Philippine capital. The 75-year old Philippine leader said that he wanted to leave a legacy of infrastructure projects that would […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has now tested negative for coronavirus after a positive test that saw him cancel all public engagements, his office said Tuesday, two weeks before an election he is set to win. The 72-year-old head of state had returned an “asymptomatic” positive test, officials said Monday, and he went into isolation in the presidential palace in Lisbon. However, according to the latest statement, the result […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has tested positive for coronavirus and cancelled all public engagements, his office announced late Monday just two weeks before a presidential election he is expected to win. The 72-year-old head of state was “asymptomatic” and isolating in the presidential palace in Lisbon, his office said in a statement. Last Wednesday, he had spent a few hours in “administrative isolation” after a member of his […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Burundi’s former president Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71, relatives said Friday, just weeks after he resigned as the African Union’s special envoy to Mali and the Sahel. Buyoya, who was credited with helping push democracy in the small African country but was accused of involvement in his successor’s assassination, was hospitalised in Mali’s capital Bamako on Wednesday, a family member told AFP. […]
by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Long a mere formality, a vote on Monday by members of the Electoral College to formally recognize Joe Biden as the next US president has taken on unusual import this year with Donald Trump stubbornly refusing to admit defeat. The results of the November 3 vote have been certified by each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia; the Democrat won with […]
by Luis Jaime CISNEROS Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s President Manuel Merino resigned Sunday, just five days after taking office, sparking celebrations in the capital Lima following street protests against him and the ousting of his popular predecessor. Merino, 59, stepped down shortly after a crisis session of Congress called on him to quit power before 6:00 pm (2300 GMT) or face censure. “I want to let the whole country know […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House is planning for President Donald Trump to serve a second term despite his reelection loss, a top official said Friday. “We are moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term,” the outgoing president’s trade advisor Peter Navarro said on Fox Business Network. Trump has yet to concede nearly a week after US media announced that his […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s Congress on Monday voted to try again to impeach President Martin Vizcarra for alleged “moral incapacity” after he survived a first attempt weeks ago, setting a date of November 9 for him to defend himself. “The motion to vacate the presidency of the republic has been admitted,” said the first vice president of Congress, Luis Valdez. The trial, for alleged acts of corruption in 2014 when Vizcarra was governor […]
by Chris Lefkow Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Deprived of his beloved campaign trail for 10 days by Covid-19, President Donald Trump took center stage again Monday in Florida, vowing that he is in “great shape” with 22 days to go until he faces Joe Biden in the election. “I went through it and now they say I’m immune,” Trump told a cheering crowd in Sanford, near Orlando, few of whom […]
by Sebastian Smith and Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said he hopes to resume campaigning Saturday after receiving a green light from his doctor, even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to unveil plans to probe the president’s capacity to govern after contracting Covid-19. With just 26 days until the November 3 election, Washington’s top Democrat took the extraordinary step of proposing a commission to […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he had offered to resign from the presidency because he is already exhausted and had realized that he cannot stop corruption. “Ewan ko kung sabihin ko ito sa inyo, I offered to resign as president. Kasi nagsasawa na ako. In my years of government, wala ng katapusang ito,” President Duterte said in his address to the nation on Monday night, Sept. 28. He however did not give […]
by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate BAMAKO, Mali (AFP) — Mali’s president said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed” early Wednesday, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the fragile West African nation. Rebel soldiers detained Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base in the town of Kati, near the capital Bamako, which […]
