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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican former US president George W. Bush will attend the inauguration of Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Washington on January 20, his chief of staff said Tuesday. “President and Mrs. Bush look forward to returning to the Capitol for the swearing in of President Biden and Vice President Harris,” Freddy Ford tweeted. “Witnessing the peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of our democracy that never gets old,” […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will address a rally of his supporters Wednesday in Washington, called in protest at the certification by Congress of Joe Biden’s election victory. “I will be speaking at the SAVE AMERICA RALLY tomorrow on the Ellipse at 11AM Eastern (1600 GMT),” tweeted the Republican, who refuses to concede defeat two months after the November vote. “Arrive early,” Trump urged — promising “BIG CROWDS!” […]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — A Mexican fisherman has died after his vessel collided with a boat of the US conservation group Sea Shepherd in a sanctuary for the endangered vaquita porpoise, an official said Monday. The fisherman was hospitalized on December 31 in the northwestern city of Mexicali with serious injuries including hip and pelvic fractures, regional health chief Alonso Perez told AFP. A second fisherman is in a stable condition, he said. According to […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — An array of prominent US business executives on Monday called for Congress to certify Joe Biden as the new US president, writing in a joint letter that it is time “to move forward.” The letter, signed by more than 170 executives in industries ranging from finance and sports to technology and media, condemned any attempt to thwart the certification process as “counter to the essential tenets of our […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — The US has granted Iraq a three-month extension to a sanctions waiver allowing it to import Iranian gas, an Iraqi official told AFP Monday. The move represents a welcome reprieve for a country that relies heavily on its neighbour for energy supplies. Iraq buys gas and electricity from Iran to supply about a third of its power sector, worn down by years of conflict and poor maintenance and unable to meet […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Nancy Pelosi, the only woman to serve as US Speaker of the House, was narrowly re-elected to the position Sunday in a deeply divided new Congress that convened in the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Pelosi, 80, faced a scare when five fellow Democrats defected and voted “present” or for someone else during the floor vote. But the woman who is third in line to the presidency secured […]
by Chris Stein and Heather Scott WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Despite a drop in weekly jobless claims, the US economy is far from healed after a year in which tens of millions of people lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, many of whom remain out of work. New filings for unemployment benefits last week dropped below 800,000 for the first time in a month, the Labor Department reported Thursday, but experts say […]
by Ben Sheppard WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has recorded more than 20 million cases of Covid-19, Johns Hopkins University said Friday in its real-time tally, as the New Year brought another grim milestone underlining the country’s struggle to quell the virus. The US has so far registered 20,007,149 cases and 346,408 deaths in the pandemic, the Baltimore-based university said, making it the country with by far the highest official number of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than 3,900 people died of Covid-19 in the US Wednesday, according to a count released by Johns Hopkins University, a new daily record for fatalities from the virus. The Baltimore-based university said 3,927 people had died of the coronavirus in the 24 hours before 8.30 pm (0130 GMT Thursday) in the US, the worst-hit country in the world, while 189,671 new cases had been recorded. That brought the […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that the United States as well as other countries which recently reported the presence of the more infectious COVID-19 strain will be included in the temporary travel ban as part of the precautionary measure against the new SARS-CoV-2 variant. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said as a matter of policy, the US should be included in the travel ban where foreign travelers coming from countries confirmed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Jobless Americans who risked not receiving unemployment aid this week due to President Donald Trump’s delay in signing off on it will indeed receive the money, the Labor Department said on Tuesday. Congress in March expanded the US unemployment safety net as the coronavirus pandemic struck, creating the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) for freelancers and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) for the long-term unemployed but only funding them until […]
by Shaun Tandon with James Pheby in London and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A worrying new variant of Covid-19 was detected for the first time Tuesday in the United States and Latin America as President-elect Joe Biden vowed he will significantly ramp up a fledging vaccination drive. The new strain, which first emerged in the UK, pushed Britain to a new daily record of coronavirus infections and led […]
