London, United Kingdom | AFP | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office has defended his Brexit deal with the EU, after US President Donald Trump warned it would make it impossible for the two nations to strike a future trade agreement. The president, whose impeachment in the US has moved a …
Read More »Egypt, Ethiopia to meet in Washington over Nile dam
Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Egypt’s foreign minister confirmed Tuesday that his country would take part in mediated talks in Washington next month over a controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia “will meet in the United States on 6 November… to break the deadlock in …
Read More »Trump confirms death of Islamic State group chief Baghdadi in US raid
Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump said Sunday that the Islamic State group’s elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed, dying “like a dog” in a daring nighttime raid by US special forces in northwest Syria. Trump told the nation in a televised White House address that …
Read More »Republicans introduce measure knocking Trump impeachment effort
Washington, United States | AFP | US Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced a resolution that condemns the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, arguing that the process examining the president is illegitimate. The measure is the party’s latest effort to attack the undertaking of the Democrat-led probe, even as administration witnesses …
Read More »Trump arrested if he shot someone? No says lawyer, yes says mayor
New York, United States | AFP | Donald Trump’s lawyers have claimed the president could shoot somebody on New York’s Fifth Avenue and get away with it. The city’s mayor disagrees. “If anybody shoots someone they get arrested. I don’t care if it’s the President of the United States or anybody …
Read More »Kanye West claims will one day be US president
New York, United States | AFP | Rapper Kanye West on Thursday said he one day would helm the Oval Office, a left-field suggestion made during a lengthy interview that touched on subjects from porn to Donald Trump. Hours before the long-anticipated, much-delayed release of his purported gospel album, the 42-year-old artist told Zane Lowe …
Read More »Republicans storm secure impeachment deposition, delay testimony
Washington, United States | AFP | Furious about being left out of the Donald Trump impeachment process, US congressional Republicans stormed a closed-door witness deposition and refused to leave for several hours in an escalation of the showdown over the investigation of the president. More than two dozen lawmakers barged into …
Read More »Trump says ‘phase 1’ China trade pact on track for November
Washington, United States | AFP | US President Donald Trump on Monday said progress in developing the text of a partial trade pact with China means he will likely be able to sign it next month. Trump remains upbeat on the chances Beijing and Washington will seal the mini-deal he announced …
Read More »Trump says he’s most promoted person ‘ever’
Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump on Monday said his much-criticized attempt to stage the G7 at one of his golf courses was not intended to promote his business brand, arguing he’s too famous to “need promotion.” “They say, ‘Oh, you get promotion.’ You don’t think I get enough promotion? I get …
Read More »Hillary Clinton posts parody Kennedy letter mocking Trump
Washington, United States | AFP | Hillary Clinton on Sunday posted a joke letter on Twitter supposedly sent by John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, written in the excitable style of US President Donald Trump’s recent letter to Turkey. The parody letter, originally from ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” …
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