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Jesse Jackson Correspondent It is too soon to know the extent of the damage done by Hurricane Harvey. Estimates are that over a million people have been displaced. As I write this, 49 are feared dead — a number that will continue to climb. The governor of Texas estimated that his state will need “far in […]
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WASHINGTON. — Donald Trump is playing into North Korea’s hands by turning on the South, accusing it of appeasement, snubbing its leader and threatening to end their trade deal in moves that analysts say risk weakening a decades-long alliance.
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WASHINGTON, DC. — During his final moments in the Oval Office, former US President Barack Obama folded into thirds a handwritten letter to President Donald Trump, slid it into an envelope, and in neat capital letters addressed it to “Mr President.”
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TOKYO. — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or North Korea fired a missile early yesterday and it fell into the Pacific Ocean off Hokkaido after passing over the Japanese archipelago, said the Japanese government.
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Minghao Zhao Correspondent Donald Trump is running out of patience with North Korea. Using heated language, unusual for a US president, Trump recently warned that if Pyongyang threatens to attack the United States again, the US will respond with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”.
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MEXICO CITY. — US President Donald Trump’s military threat against Venezuela amid controversy over Venezuela’s creation of a National Constituent Assembly has drawn immediate condemnation among experts across Latin America.
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SEOUL. — Nuclear-armed North Korea announced a detailed plan yesterday to send a salvo of four missiles over Japan and towards the US territory of Guam, raising the stakes in a stand-off with President Donald Trump and mocking him as “bereft of reason”.
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Greg Wright Correspondent US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship.
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There is a famous scene in Shakespeare’s “Henry V” on the night before the battle of Agincourt, when the French lords speak of the inevitability of their coming victory.
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THE election of United States president Donald Trump was greeted with cautious pragmatism by a majority of African states, since he had failed to enunciate his Africa policy while campaigning. Six months on, we are beginning to understand how the Trump administration views Africa.
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WASHINGTON. – US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the maverick 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has been diagnosed with brain cancer, his office announced on Wednesday.
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PRETORIA. — Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has said that there was some good in United States President Donald Trump’s election because “the fact that America can produce a Trump in this day and age, it means Americans are as human as we are”.
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WASHINGTON. – US President Donald Trump lashed out at “sick” media reports that he held a second “undisclosed” meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a state dinner during the G20 summit in Germany, saying the press was fully aware of the high-profile event.
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Alexander Fangmann Correspondent US President Donald Trump called for “strong and swift economic actions” against the Venezuelan government on Monday, raising the implicit threat of sanctions against that country’s oil industry, which would have a devastating effect on the country’s economy.
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NEW YORK. — JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon ripped into the political gridlock in Washington.