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SACRAMENTO, CA (Eagle News) –On Thursday evening just a few blocks from the state capitol, community members rallied together to protest what they consider as an injustice for Stephon Clark. According to protesters, Clark was an unarmed man who was shot 20 times by Sacramento Police Department. The protest blocked the path of people trying to enter the Sacramento King’s NBA Basketball Game being held at the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento. Clark, an African American […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Senate passed a $1.3 trillion federal spending bill in dramatic dark-of-night fashion early Friday, overcoming hurdles that threatened to send the government into its third shutdown of 2018. Lawmakers stared down a self-imposed deadline of midnight Friday, when federal funding was set to expire, and passed the mammoth package by a vote of 65-32, with hours to spare. It now goes to the White House to be signed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized the suspension of controversial tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from key trade partners including the European Union, the White House said. “The tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the following countries are suspended until May 1, 2018,” the White House said in a statement, listing EU members states, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea. © Agence France-Presse
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Thirteen people were killed and several injured when a fire broke out at an apartment complex in Vietnam’s southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City early Friday, authorities said. The fire in the Carina Plaza highrise building started around midnight on the lower floors of the building and soon spread to the upper floors. An official told AFP that many of the victims died of suffocation as they tried to […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The founder of the embattled Toys R Us chain of children’s stores died on Thursday, a week after the company announced the end of its operations in the United States. “There have been many sad moments for Toys R Us in recent weeks, and none more heartbreaking than today’s news about the passing of our beloved founder, Charles Lazarus, after a period of declining health,” it said in a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States formally approved defense contracts totaling more than $1 billion with Saudi Arabia on Thursday, as the kingdom’s crown prince continued his American tour. The State Department confirmed it had green-lighted a $670 million deal for anti-tank missiles, a $106 million contract for helicopter maintenance and $300 million for ground vehicle parts. An official said the deals had been in the pipeline since President Donald Trump has announced […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — The man behind a series of package bombs that terrorized Texas state capital Austin left a recorded confession expressing no remorse and describing himself as a “psychopath,” a newspaper reported Thursday. Mark Conditt, who was wanted for a series of bombings over three weeks that killed two people and injured several others, died after detonating a bomb in his car Wednesday as police closed in. Police said the 23-year-old left […]
by Douglas Gillison Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday hit China with tariffs on up to $60 billion of imports to retaliate against the “theft” of American intellectual property, ratcheting up trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. The move was swiftly denounced by Beijing, which vowed to “fight to the end” if the United States persisted in the confrontation. The latest trade action sent stocks […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump named ultra-hardline Fox News pundit and former UN ambassador John Bolton as his new national security advisor Thursday, ousting embattled army general HR McMaster. McMaster’s exit is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the White House that started with national security advisor Michael Flynn and has also included chief of staff Reince Priebus, chief strategist Steve Bannon, […]
by Adam PLOWRIGHT and Joseph SCHMID Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – An estimated 200,000 protesters took to the streets of France on Thursday in a showdown between trade unions and President Emmanuel Macron that could be decisive for his reform agenda. Seven unions representing staff in the public sector led strikes and protests, and a third of railway workers walked out to join the demonstrations against 40-year-old Macron’s bid to shake up the French state. […]
by Glenn Chapman / with Robin Millard in London Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States – A public apology by Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg failed Thursday to quell outrage over the hijacking of personal data from millions of people, as critics demanded that the social media giant go much further to protect user privacy. Speaking out for the first time about the harvesting of Facebook user data by a British firm linked to Donald Trump’s […]
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AFP) — At least six people died and several others were seriously injured in an explosion Thursday at a Czech chemical plant in the northern town of Kralupy-nad-Vltavou, fire fighters said. “We have received information about six dead and several others seriously injured,” regional fire fighter spokeswoman Vladimira Kerekova said, quoted by the CTK news agency. © Agence France-Presse
