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Washington – President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday and announced plans to relocate the US Embassy there, a move expected to inflame tensions in the region and unsettle the prospects for peace.
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Joseph Kishore Correspondent The Trump administration is escalating its incendiary threats against North Korea in the wake of the test last week of an intercontinental ballistic missile reportedly capable of reaching the east coast of the United States.
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CARACAS. – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday that the country will launch its own cryptocurrency, called the “Petro,” which will be backed by the country’s vast natural resource reserves.
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Patrick Martin Correspondent One year ago today, on November 8, 2016, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the US presidential election. Despite losing the popular vote by nearly three million, Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College by means of narrow victories in the industrial states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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PARIS. – US President Donald Trump is not among the around 100 heads of state and government invited to next month’s climate summit in Paris, a French presidential aide said Tuesday.
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Margaret Kimberley Correspondent The desire to be affirmed by American society has dangerous consequences for black people. This pernicious dynamic creates the inclination to worship any black face in a high place or to defend questionable activity. The death of special forces Sergeant La David Johnson in Niger is a case in point. Donald Trump’s racism […]
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Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter— Zimbabwe and other developing countries that will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) have called on the United States of America to respect the Paris Agreement and work with the rest of the world in addressing climate change. Nations are currently torn between welcoming and berating Washington’s envoys to the talks […]
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Barely concealed divisions in the Trump administration over foreign policy were again exposed this week. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was forced to address a well-sourced NBC report that he called Trump “a moron” at a meeting at the Pentagon of top Trump officials in July and was on the verge of resigning.
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Andrea Lobo Correspondent In anticipation to his scheduled visit to the island today, President Donald Trump sent a barrage of tweets throughout the weekend from his luxury golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, which essentially blamed Puerto Ricans for the suffering they are facing. After San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz criticised the administration’s response — comparing […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village in the land of mink, honey and dust or Guruve, elders with cotton tuft hair say US President Donald Trump is playing Hitler incarnate. If not stopped, he will implement his crazy ideas, including razing some countries from mother earth. Well, that is very dangerous. He is very, very dangerous.
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John Pilger Correspondent ONE of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will inspire our country to […]
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WASHINGTON. — US President Donald Trump yesterday urged fans to boycott National Football League games to pressure the league to fire or suspend players who show disrespect for “Flag and Country.”
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From Munyaradzi Huni in New York, US President Mugabe has said the world is “embarrassed, if not frightened” by what appears to be a return of the biblical Goliath in reference to US President Donald Trump, whose speech at the 72nd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly seemed to threaten other nations.
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SEOUL. – North Korea vowed yesterday to accelerate its weapons programmes in response to the “evil” sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council following its latest and most powerful nuclear test.
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Bill Van Auken Correspondent The sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed more than 2 900 people in the United States were marked once again on Monday with ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Centre’s demolished Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania where one of four hijacked planes […]