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PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama on Monday made the case for Hillary Clinton at a huge rally in Philadelphia uniting the Democratic Party’s two power families, telling voters to “reject fear and choose hope” on Election Day. “I’m betting that the wisdom and decency and generosity of the American people will once again win the day and that is a bet that I have never, ever lost,” Obama said to tens of […]
PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — About 40,000 people flooded Independence Mall in Philadelphia on Monday for Hillary Clinton’s rally with her husband Bill, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at her side, a campaign aide said. Rockers Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi were also on the program for the event in the City of Brotherly Love, the next-to-last rally on the Democratic White House hopeful’s agenda for her final day of campaigning. The attendance […]
by Ivan Couronne / with Michael Mathes in Raleigh, North Carolina GRAND RAPIDS, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday gave US voters a stark choice as their brutal White House battle neared its end — between her vision of unity and his promise to take back power from Washington’s corrupt elites. On the final day of a presidential campaign that has left a bemused world looking on in concern for […]
by Michael Mathes with Jennie Matthew in Manchester, New Hampshire RALEIGH, United States (AFP) — Striding onto the stage in the waning hours of an exhilarating and extraordinary 511-day election campaign, Republican Donald Trump sounded as if he wasn’t quite ready for his American roadshow to end. And if he wins the White House on Tuesday, it won’t. Exhausted as he must be, having hop-scotched to campaign stops in a dozen cities in two days, Trump […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) – At least 25 soldiers died in weekend fighting between rival Puntland and Galmudug regional forces in the divided Somali town of Galkayo, military officials on both sides said Monday. “We have lost 12 men and there are more than 10 wounded,” said Puntland commander Jumale Jama Takar, while his Galmudug counterpart Abdirahman Qoje said: “We have lost 13 soldiers and nearly 20 others wounded.” The commanders blamed each other for starting […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Jim MANNION Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched into the frenzied final day of their historic fight for the White House Monday, with blow-out rallies in the handful of swing states that will decide who leads the United States. Clinton, the front-running Democrat, aimed to nail down her narrow lead with stops in three battleground states, as President Barack Obama covers for her elsewhere before they join up at […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) – by Majeda El-Batsh An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian teenager Monday to 12 years in prison for the stabbing of two Israelis, one of the most high-profile attacks in a recent wave of violence. Ahmed Manasra, 14, was earlier found guilty of the attempted murder of a 20-year-old and a 12-year-old boy in the Jewish settlement neighbourhood of Pisgat Zeev in annexed east Jerusalem. He was 13 at the time of […]
by Marlowe HOOD MARRAKESH, Morocco (AFP) — Under an ominous shadow cast by the US presidential election, the world’s nations gather in Morocco Monday to flesh out a landmark climate deal that promises to save humanity from itself. The just-activated Paris Agreement, inked in the French capital last December, is the first treaty binding all countries, rich and poor, to halt global warming, caused mainly by the burning of coal, oil and gas. “It is […]
MARRAKESH, MOROCCO (Reuters) — Representatives from almost 200 nations will assemble in Marrakesh, Morocco on Monday (November 7) for talks on implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The Paris Agreement, designed to start in 2020, entered into force on Friday (November 4) a month after reaching key ratification thresholds. On Sunday (November 6), the United Nations said 100 parties – 99 countries and the European Union – had formally joined the accord. The […]
by Michael Mathes LEEBURG, United States (AFP) — Five campaign stops in five states in a single frenzied day. An FBI bombshell announcement. Painful delays. And supporters both jittery and exuberant about Election Day, desperate to hear from their outsider hero. Republican Donald Trump careened into the final 48 hours of a toxic and bruising US presidential campaign Sunday, shifting into overdrive his effort to flip Democratic states as he battles Hillary Clinton for the […]
China’s parliament passed an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law on Monday (November 7), the official Xinhua news agency reported, which amounts to Beijing’s most direct intervention in the territory’s legal system since the 1997 handover to Chinese rule. The ruling is expected to bar two activist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong. The prospect of the ruling had sparked protests in the former British territory that returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The […]
by Brigitte DUSSEAU WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Even if, as most polls predict, he loses Tuesday’s US presidential election, Donald Trump’s populist charge will leave its mark on the American body politic. The 70-year-old billionaire tycoon is the Republican flag-bearer even though part of the Grand Old Party’s establishment has rejected him, and others are voting for him while holding their noses. But Trump has managed to craft his own political brand, building a […]
