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Lexington, United States | AFP | Taking the stage in a packed Kentucky arena to the strains of America’s unofficial patriotic anthem, “God Bless the USA,” Donald Trump didn’t look like a man in trouble. Harried by impeachment proceedings, yes. Beset by foreign policy worries, yes. Accused of everything from sexual …

Washington, United States | AFP | The former US ambassador to Kiev told investigators she felt threatened by Donald Trump’s words in his call to Ukraine’s leader, in the first transcripts released Monday in the impeachment investigation against the president. As Democrats unveil a new, public phase of the probe, they …

New York, United States | AFP | A respected US writer who says Donald Trump raped her over two decades ago sued the president for defamation on Monday after he ridiculed her as “not my type.” Jean Carroll, a magazine advice columnist, filed the lawsuit in a New York court, claiming …

Washington, United States | AFP | US President Donald Trump threatened once again Sunday to withhold federal aid from California after its Democratic governor criticized his environmental policies. Over the past two weeks, fires have ravaged nearly 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares) in the sprawling western state, where firefighters on Sunday were …

Tupelo, United States | AFP | A combative US President Donald Trump told supporters in his electoral stronghold of Mississippi on Friday that a push to impeach him is driving an “angry” Republican surge ahead of 2020. “We’ve never had greater support than we have right now,” Trump claimed in front …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …