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by Michael Mathes St. Louis, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went toe to toe Sunday in their second presidential debate, clashing over crude remarks by the billionaire Republican — who vowed that if elected he would jail his opponent over her email use as a secretary of state. Here are five key highlights of the showdown: Trump dredges up Bill Clinton Donald Trump went there, big league. After holding his tongue […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — More than 20 people were buried under rubble after four houses collapsed in China on Monday, a local government and state media reported. The buildings caved in during the early hours in Wenzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the Lucheng district government said in a statement. The Xinhua news agency said on social media that an “initial estimate” was that more than 20 people had been buried. The Lucheng government […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged in Bamako on Sunday (October 9) to help Mali stabilise and develop as she began a three-nation tour in Africa her main focus being on how to stem the flow of migrants to Europe. Speaking at a joint news conference with the Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita shortly after landing, she said Mali was a country of transit for migrants, drug traffickers and people smugglers. She said it was vital […]
BADGER CREEK, NORTH EAST OF MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuters) — Wind gusts and storms lashed the Australian state of Victoria on Sunday (October 9), killing one woman and disrupting power supplies to more than 100,000 people. Roughly 120,000 homes were without power across the country’s second-most populous state and Melbourne’s International Airport closed one of two runways, causing significant delays. Falling trees injured several people, with tree branches crashing into houses causing widespread damage. “I heard […]
Ghana’s main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo launched a blistering attack on the government’s economic record on Sunday (October 9) as he released his party’s manifesto at a mass rally ahead of an election on December 7. Akufo-Addo said President John Mahama had squandered the wealth the country has amassed since it began producing oil in 2010 and is out of touch with people who have struggled economically since he came to power in 2012. “If […]
ST. LOUIS, United States (AFP) — White House hopeful Hillary Clinton backed the establishment of safe zones in Syria on Sunday, along with efforts to investigate Russia for war crimes committed in support of President Bashar al-Assad. In her second presidential debate with Republican rival Donald Trump, Clinton said she supported efforts to probe “war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
ST. LOUIS, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton on Sunday accused Russia of trying to tilt the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor with a series of email hacks. “They’re doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump,” Clinton said in a second presidential debate. In response, Trump appeared to reject findings from the intelligence community that Russia was behind the hacks, saying “maybe there is no hacking.” © 1994-2016 Agence […]
ST. LOUIS, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Sunday accused former president Bill Clinton of being “abusive to women” in a presidential debate, shattering the last vestiges of political decorum in a hypercharged campaign season. After apologizing for “locker room talk” in which he bragged about groping women, Trump said those were just words, whereas “Bill Clinton was abusive to women.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Eighteen people were killed Sunday when a van packed with five tonnes of explosives blew up in Turkey’s restive southeast, the prime minister said, in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants. The bombing, which killed 10 soldiers and eight civilians, was one of the deadliest attacks on Turkish security forces since the attempted coup of July 15 when a rogue military faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The attack […]
by Ivan Couronne ST.LOUIS, United States (AFP)– Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton head into a crucial presidential debate Sunday with the Republican’s White House campaign in chaos over his lewd boasts about groping women. With the US election less than a month away, Republican lawmakers and governors abandoned Trump in droves, despite a rare televised apology by the candidate, whose sexually aggressive remarks were caught on a hot mic in 2005. Trump himself was defiant, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Guy JACKSON Europe’s leaders have vowed no compromise on the terms of their divorce with Britain as a free-falling pound on Friday dramatically underscored the perils ahead for Prime Minister Theresa May’s government. French President Francois Hollande sent one of the strongest warnings yet that Britain will have to pay a heavy price for leaving the European Union, while European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said the bloc must be “unyielding” […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry Sheridan with Leila Macor in Jacksonville Hurricane Matthew unleashed torrential rains and up to 120 mile-an-hour winds as it hugged the Florida coast Friday, after a blast through the Caribbean that reportedly left more than 300 dead in Haiti. Matthew was downgraded to a Category Three storm early Friday by the National Hurricane Center, as its wind speed dropped slightly. But Florida still faced its most dangerous hurricane […]
