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TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — US President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Friday for the funeral of the last of its founding fathers, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. Obama is among leaders from across the world arriving for Peres’s funeral at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl national cemetery, which begins at 9:00 am (0600 GMT). © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Ivan Couronne Andrew BEATTY Hillary Clinton sought to show a steady hand and Donald Trump claimed “I told you so” Monday, as a fresh spate of terror attacks prompted markedly different tacks from the dueling White House hopefuls. Fifty days out from the presidential election, a bomb in New York, a mass stabbing in Minnesota and a New Jersey pipe blast injured dozens and put national security center-stage in the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Jennie MATTHEW Donald Trump on Wednesday restructured his campaign team for the second time in two months, fending off suggestions that his presidential run is in crisis as polls show Hillary Clinton cruising towards victory. The Republican White House nominee, who is tanking in swing states to his Democratic rival, hired a news executive from a virulently anti-Clinton website as his campaign CEO and promoted a leading Republican strategist […]
by Jennie MATTHEW NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A man spent three hours Wednesday scaling Trump Tower, the New York home and headquarters of the Republican nominee for US president, before police captured him through an open window. Live television footage showed uniformed New York police officers reaching out and grabbing the young man with curly auburn hair — dressed in grey shorts, an olive T-shirt and white cap — some three hours after […]
VIRGINIA, United States (Reuters) — U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia’s and Syria’s most recent actions have raised doubts about their commitment to a pause in the conflict Syria, where the United States is exploring options to cooperate with Russia militarily to defeat Islamic State. “I’m not confident that we can trust the Russians or Vladimir Putin, which is why we have to test whether or not we can get an actual cessation of […]
by Jerome CARTILLIER OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — US President Barack Obama warned Wednesday against isolationist tendencies in America and elsewhere, calling it “the wrong medicine” to fix legitimate concerns about globalization. While Obama did not mention Donald Trump by name, he took a clear swipe at the Republican presidential candidate’s heated anti-trade rhetoric during a “Three Amigos” summit with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. “Even if we wanted to we can’t seal ourselves off from […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama congratulated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday for clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, and planned to meet with her party rival Bernie Sanders later this week, the White House said. Obama called Clinton and Sanders and “congratulated both candidates for running inspiring campaigns that have energized Democrats, brought a new generation of Americans into the political process, and shined a spotlight on important policy ideas,” White House press […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – US Secretary of State, John Kerry, called for renewed efforts to end nuclear threats on Monday (April 11) after becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to pay respects at Hiroshima’s memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Kerry described the museum as a “gut-wrenching” reminder of the need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons. “We came here and drew from the experience of touring in […]
AFTER six years in office, US President Barack Obama sent his first ever tweet from his very own account on Twitter on Monday (May 18), quickly amassing a million followers in five hours, according to Reuters, in the latest of many White House efforts to amplify his message with social media. “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account,” Obama tweeted from his verified @POTUS account, which had more than […]
WASHINGTON, March 5 (PNA/Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama has planned US$ 3.9 trillion of budget for the 2015 fiscal year, which will be used to fund infrastructure upgrading, education and other social programs, according to the budget plan posted on the website of the White House on Tuesday. Obama has budgeted a deficit of $ 564 billion for 2015, or 3.1 percent of the estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Deficit in the next decade […]
