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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Friday off the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey said, in the same region where several large tremors struck last month. The quake struck at 10:04 am local time (2304 GMT) at a depth of 33 kilometres (20 miles) some 70 kilometres west of Kirakira, the USGS said. No tsunami warning was issued. Three strong tremors were felt off Kirakira in December, although there were no reports […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his agriculture secretary, rounding out his cabinet picks. For the first time since Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s, the cabinet will feature no Hispanics, if all of Trump’s nominees are confirmed. The following is a list of key cabinet and other nominations made by Trump, who takes office on Friday. Cabinet State: Rex Tillerson, 64 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump told Americans Thursday that he will “unify” the nation after a bruising election campaign, as he prepared for his inauguration the following day at the US Capitol. “We’re going to unify our country,” Trump told a crowd of thousands in front of the Lincoln Memorial after a pre-inauguration concert. “We’re going to do things that haven’t been done for our country for many, many decades,” he added. “It’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 330 people, mostly drug offenders, a record number issued in a single day, on the eve of his departure from the White House. It is Obama’s second such measure this week, including his surprise decision to commute the sentence of transgender army private Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for 35 years for handing more than 700,000 classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Originally set […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump jetted into the US capital Thursday on the eve of the most consequential moment of his life — his inauguration as the nation’s 45th president and the setting of a four-year course of American political reform. The Republican billionaire’s arrival caps an extraordinary and improbable run for the White House that, once he takes the reins from President Barack Obama at noon […]
by Johannes MYBURGH Agence France-Presse NATAL, Brazil (AFP) – Stick-wielding inmates hurled stones and lit fires Thursday in a Brazilian jail where dozens were previously massacred, as authorities struggled to contain a spreading wave of gang violence. Police fired rubber bullets to try to separate two groups of inmates as they fought a pitched battled in the courtyard of the Alcacuz prison in the northern town of Natal, AFP reporters overlooking the facility saw. The […]
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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China and the United States can resolve any trade disputes through talks, the government said on Thursday (January 19), as a Chinese newspaper warned U.S. business could be targets for retaliation in any trade war ushered in by President-elect Donald Trump. Trump, who is sworn into office on Friday (January 20), has criticised China’s trade practices and threatened to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports. Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, Trump’s choice […]
by Yemeli ORTEGA Agence France Presse SASABE, Mexico (AFP) — Migrants trying to sneak into the United States from the parched Mexican desert have to contend with border guards’ drones overhead, poisonous snakes underfoot and human trafficking gangs at their backs. But these challenges are nothing compared to their bigger fear: that someday soon, US President-elect Donald Trump will build a wall to keep them out altogether. So before Trump takes office on Friday, they […]
https://youtu.be/5az27vleKmQ by Agence France Presse Hundreds of thousands of American forced out of their homes, the Stock Market tanking and the economy losing 700 thousand jobs a month. That was the bleak economy Barack Obama inherited as he took office in 2009. Jared Bernstein, Economist and Advisor to Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, said: “Our GDP was declining at a rate of 8 percent, which is huge. Technically you call that a nightmare, […]
DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) — Gambian President-elect Adama Barrow will be sworn into office on Gambian territory on Thursday (January 19), Senegal’s Foreign Minister Mankeur Ndiaye said on Wednesday (January 18), despite the incumbent, Yahya Jammeh, refusing to step down. “President-elect Barrow will be sworn in tomorrow on Gambian territory, he will form his government, he will name his vice-president, and the international community will join him,” he said on Senegal state television. It was not […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama vowed to speak up if Donald Trump threatens core US values and reassured Americans “we’ll be okay” Wednesday, in a political swansong after eight years as president. During his final press conference and public appearance before Trump’s inauguration on Friday, the 55-year-old said he was stepping back but would return to the political breach in extremis. “I want to do some writing, […]
