International
Trump insists US will build a wall and Mexico will reimburse it
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to forge ahead with plans for a wall on the southern US border after taking office, and said Mexico would reimburse the United States for the cost. “I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico, which we’ll start immediately after we get to office, but I don’t want to wait,” Trump told a news conference. “We’re going […]
Deny and deflect: Trump comes out swinging
by Jennie MATTHEW Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Donald Trump was combative and in control at his first news conference in months on Wednesday, sticking to his campaign formula — boasting of his successes, cracking jokes and slamming media he considers hostile. Journalists sat elbow to elbow, knee to knee in the crowded marble lobby of Trump Tower, clamoring with question after question nine days before the Republican is sworn in as the […]
Lakers Lose Big to Blazers After Abysmal Second Half
By Kenneth Cruz, Eagle News Sports, Los Angeles Bureau Assisted by: Jaina Pallasigui LOS ANGELES, USA — (Eagle News) — There’s cold and then there’s ice cold. The Lakers (15-27) could not find a way to score in the second half, which resulted in a blowout by the visiting Portland Trailblazers (17-23) and a final score of 108-87. The Lakers led throughout the entire first half but returned in the third quarter not able to buy a […]
China ship enters strait, Taiwan warns against ‘panic’
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — China’s only aircraft carrier has entered the Taiwan Strait in a highly symbolic show of strength, but Taiwan insisted Wednesday there was no need for panic even as tensions boil over the island’s diplomatic status. Beijing has upped its military drills near the island in recent weeks after being incensed by a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen to US president-elect Donald Trump, and by a subsequent transit stop […]
N. Korea has plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs: S. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea now has enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear bombs, South Korea said Wednesday, a week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. The isolated communist state, which has carried out five nuclear tests and numerous missile launches, is thought to be planning a nuclear push in 2017 as it seeks to develop a weapons system capable of hitting the US mainland. […]
Japan plans to have new emperor in 2019: media
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan is planning for Emperor Akihito to retire and be replaced by his eldest son on January 1, 2019, reports said Wednesday, as the country works on a legal framework for its first abdication in 200 years. Akihito, 83, expressed a desire in August to abdicate after nearly three decades on the Chrysanthemum Throne, citing his advancing age and weakening health. Major national newspapers — the Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi and Nikkei […]
Obama tears up during tribute to Michelle, daughters
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama wiped away tears as he paid tribute to his teenage daughters and to Michelle Obama, his “best friend,” at the emotional close of a farewell address in his adoptive city of Chicago Tuesday. “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, girl of the south side, for the past 25 years, you have not only been my wife and mother of my children, you have been my best friend,” Obama told the […]
“Yes we can, yes we did,” says US President Obama as he maintains his belief in democratic America
(Eagle News) — Outgoing US President Barack Obama declared his belief in a democratic America that will champion US values of freedom, equality and respect for all humanity even after he leaves the Oval Office. Obama, in an emotional farewell speech in his hometown of Chicago, said he thinks that the American people did quite well in the past eight years and urged his audience to believe in their power to change the world […]
Obama says ‘yes we did’ in farewell address
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama addressed America and the world for the final time as president Tuesday, in a speech that was both a tearful goodbye and a call to arms. Capping his eight years in the White House, Obama returned to his adoptive hometown of Chicago to recast his “yes we can” campaign credo as “yes we did.” Listing landmarks of his presidency — from […]
News in photo: US President Obama makes his farewell speech
Obama warns denying climate change ‘betrays future generations’
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama warned in a farewell address to the nation on Tuesday that to deny the reality of global warming amounted to a betrayal of generations to come. “We can and should argue about the best approach to solve the problem,” he told the crowd in Chicago. “But to simply deny the problem, not only betrays future generations, it betrays the essential spirit of this country, the essential […]
